Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As someone who does public relations for companies, I’m sure you carefully pick your bloggers for the pitch. Bloggers have to weed out the crap and PR pros need to find the right people for the job. The job of someone who does blogger outreach can be difficult. We both have difficult jobs. That’s just fine.

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And some bloggers have a naturally terse writing style, whereas others like to dig deep and give lots of examples. Twitter, for instance, is often described as a “microblogging” platform. Gizmodo is a good example, with very frequent news / time-sensitive posts. Now that I look back on that, it seems pretty silly.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

The only similarity is a 140 character limit for posts — so Plurk is essentially a microblogging platform. Plurk: Real Nested Conversations Brought to the Microblogging Platform A few days ago, I noticed via Twitter search tool Summize that Aaron Brazell had been talking about me on his Twitter stream.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

And read these tips on how to become a great blogger. There’s a lot of potential, of course, and it looks mighty appealing, but setting goals is advisable as well. Here are tips on becoming an influential blogger. Your success as a blogger and promoter really comes from offering value to your audience.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

This turns bloggers sour, thinking that everyone in public relations or blogger outreach is just a spammer. It’s time consuming to look at which bloggers to target, read posts, and then write a personal message to the blogger along with the actual pitch. However, if you want really good coverage, you’ll do it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Some examples follow: What are Your Chances of Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse? Examples include: Instant Domain Search (with its AJAX glory) Website Monitoring Tests Think about it this way: MyBlogLog has a widget , statistics, and a community. Quiz yourself on relationships or just random trivia and see how well you score.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

favorite bloggers loves using big words, but I realize that I spend 3-4 times longer on this blogger’s posts than I do on all other posts because of the verbosity and complexity of the prose. To be a great blogger you’ve got to think like a reader…Thanks! What’s a good example of this?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Of course, there are also Twitter users who started out solely online, but even those users had a status that mattered. For example, here is a recent tweet taken from Ashton Kutcher’s twitter profile: “ @problogger bummer I’ll be there 1 week too early.&#

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Take my husband’s grandfather as an example. These examples above illustrate a typical usability question faced by Facebook users (well, except for Grandpa). I also consider bloggers who have forged real-life relationships with me to have connected via social media. It’s not. maybe time for a 2nd secret account.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

Of course, as the site gets bigger it’s tough to keep up on everything that happens, but that’s a worthwhile tradeoff for me. May there be more of you in the future, those people that follow your example. That means actually using the site for my homework and being very candid on the Quizlet blog about direction and ideas.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

The big language barrier still exists, for example, when you refer to Java (“not coffee, not the island, but the programming language!&# ) Semantic search : webmasters may not spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to describe what things mean since there’s no motivation for them to do so. Maybe that’s a bad example.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

&# The question was purposely left open-ended; I wasn’t necessarily seeking out attention in the form of a product pitch, despite the fact that many of those asked are prominent bloggers. Chris Brogan Chris Brogan is a blogger and president of New Marketing Labs. And of course a snail mail letter is likely to at least get opened.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

The article has examples of how social media worked too. How to Make Social Media Work for Non-Consumer Brands (Mashable): This is a good B2B social media article which is chock full of examples. David Armano suggests to study out the candidate first; they shouldn’t just be focused on Twitter, for example.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

For example, your website, without a doubt, needs SEO. Bloggers already give a substantial amount of their time, so asking for more is just wrong. Bloggers in social media don’t owe anyone else anything, nor do any other bloggers who provide expertise, for that matter. Because we can never actually be experts.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

At the end of the day, we know most people are active on social networks because they have some reason for being there (be it to make a sale or to establish authority, for example), but through your regular interactions, you need to recognize that these are byproducts of your genuine and authentic involvement. “Day 1 was all it took.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

As an example, if you’re a business who predominantly focuses on IT infrastructure solutions but recently was involved in a tremendous Thanksgiving initiative through your local food bank, you certainly are within your right (and should) tell people about it. Let me use a good example that’s relevant to me: Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Something I forgot to mention in the article is that I tracked the number of comments and “likes&# on friendfeed, and compared them to my analytics information over the course of a month. The examples you gave of people copying full text of a story somewhere else is in the very slim minority from my experience.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Share the 10OFF discount code for everyone, for example. Of course, you can also just use a Facebook application for that. Of course, there’s also the potential to encourage community interaction within Facebook using the Facebook page as that home base. What if you want to offer 10% off? Buy something, get something.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Of course, if you want to build awareness of your site and then some through social media, yes, SEO and social media should be treated as the same. I think you can struggle in either SEO or social media if you haven’t built up clients and are beginning from only a few assorted examples of work you’ve done for yourself.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

By removing this account, and I’d imagine dozens of others, Facebook set an example, but four years later, name abuse is running rampant on the service. Sadly enough, most people don’t know that their content is public; a wonderful example is seen below. Of course not.

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MAY 6, 2012

I also started to receive a ton of emails from former Posterous users asking me if the Tumblr platform was right for them (or whether WordPress or Blogger was a better choice). Examples include the Time Magazine Tumblr blog, the National Post Tumblr , and the LIFE Tumblr. create an easy-to-navigate and high-converting blog design.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

To take two examples: people complain about an issue to an important newspaper prompting them to push the issue into the mainstream, or if a TV station covers an event, that becomes an important topic. A great example, one that recently affected me: A mobile phone manufacturer, called HTC, released a phone that had sub-par video performance.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

What I needed was a crash course on corporate social media tips so I did what any self respecting geek would do and typed it into Google. How Companies Use Twitter to Bolster Their Brands From BusinessWeek: Good article that is part of Business Week’s CEO Guide to Microblogging. I know my way around the popular sites.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

What I needed was a crash course on corporate social media tips so I did what any self respecting geek would do and typed it into Google. How Companies Use Twitter to Bolster Their Brands From BusinessWeek: Good article that is part of Business Week’s CEO Guide to Microblogging. I know my way around the popular sites.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

I was fortunate to have the help of James Duthie, a serial guest blogger from Online Marketing Banter , a blog on social media, marketing, and more.? One parameter you didn’t mention of course is the number of visits. Would Be interesting to see and filter out areas for example US and Non-US traffic.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

The issue, of course, is engagement. News consumption, of course, is just one of the things Twitter is used for. The downside of this, of course, is that social news is dictated by the wisdom of the crowds, and enough people need to deem it newsworthy to actually be considered news. It’s like any other news medium.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

This is not a real example, readers.) If you can’t diversify the sources you send from, at least do us a favor and don’t do it so frequently. Reply Gerald Weber January 26, 2010 at 10:49 am Thanks a lot for using me as an example in this post. It shows that you have a vested financial interest in Yahoo News.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 11, 2008

I don’t want anyone but the intended recipient to see shouts, for example. Reply Jay Adelson January 11, 2008 at 2:22 pm Tamar, Of course, we’re happy to work with you… I’ll get you some email addrs offline. Right now, you can see all mine regardless of being logged in or out.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

I asked several social media consultants, bloggers, marketers, search engine optimizers, and social media addicts about what they considered to be essential skills and characteristics of the most efficient and results-driven social media consultants. For example, what plays well on Digg versus what plays well on Propeller.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

A List of Social Media Marketing Examples : Peter Kim has an exhaustive list of companies engaging in social media. How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business : This recent post on Copyblogger quotes how many businesses has found success with the microblogging service. What Suggestions Would You Offer a Beginning Blogger? :

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

StumbleUpon – A Blogger’s Best Friend (Newest on the Net): A beginner article from Fred Peters about how to use StumbleUpon to gain traffic to your sites. For example, Rule #1 is “Thou Shalt Be Honest.&# 10 Brilliant Examples of LinkBait (WebGeek): Scott Allen shows how tools are great linkbait.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Of course, you’ll still need to look once you’re there, do outreach, and perform whatever else it takes to build a loyal following.) Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg April 14, 2010 at 9:02 am 5 Great (Chick) Bloggers and What They Do Best April 19, 2010 at 12:48 am 7??????????? Affiliate marketing, for example, comes to mind.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Of course, it doesn’t increase the chances that I’ll ever use their business again, but that’s all they mostly get from me. I’ve made several product and service inquiries directed to customer service/support departments of companies in the past, and the fact is that sometimes they don’t respond.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

That is, of course, if your friends are using Twitter. As an example, let’s take a look at Robert Scoble’s FriendFeed (click the image for a larger view): In this screenshot, Robert utilized both Google Reader and Twitter, and the comments spread to his feed where an ongoing discussion ensued.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

There are exceptions to the rule, of course, and there always will be. It also happens to us Z-list bloggers as well. The problem has been growing for about 20 years as more and more products and services have become commoditized–and Google is the ultimate example with free search. Of course. We all are.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may need a refresher course on social media etiquette — and perhaps real-life etiquette also. Considering the above example, I pose a question on Facebook etiquette: Is it appropriate to let these requests sit in pending mode or to reject the friends outright?? on Twitter.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Only recently, however, this story has become widely critiqued, with bloggers calling the practice a “vicious … royal mess&# that “crossed the line.&# I have seen these programs work but I sometimes wonder if it’s worth all the effort considering the possible fall-out, as seen in your example. mentality there.

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