Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

There are at least ten characteristics off the top of my head that make blogs and bloggers successful. Here are some key ideas and takeways — as well as inspirational bloggers you might want to follow — who can help you realize that dream. Eloquence My three favorite bloggers are Brian Solis , Lisa Barone , and Adam Singer.

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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! I train on social media marketing and blogging.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Publishing, consulting and regular life all kind of merge on the web and it is sometimes hard to know which hat you have on. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Social Media Network Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2010

Social networks like Facebook and others. Social news / bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, technorati, dig and others. Optionally use this Widget installer to add this link to your blogger blog. Powered by Blogger. The various points of influence are: Traditional/mainstream websites. This is what you will see.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Fede Alvarez published a small film to YouTube a few weeks ago, and it landed him a $30 million movie deal. To be sure, though, solicit feedback from a group of trusted peers not directly involved in your company or marketing objectives before going ahead with publishing the video, since you need an unbiased opinion.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. This is a huge challenge for someone who wants to sell their product using social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

However, the lack of follow-through was unsettling enough that I am publishing this post. It’s not advisable for me to publish this post without rereading and seeing if there’s anything I need to edit. Every time I publish a post, I proofread it at least a dozen times. Say you’re sorry.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

Here are ten tips that will help you on your journey: Discover your brand A lot of people are rushing to get on social networks, and are forgetting to fill out their profiles, or what their purpose of participation is. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

With permission, I am publishing the unedited version here. But with social media marketing, it doesn’t have to be. The only investment in the act of marketing on the social web is time and energy. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 22, 2010

Also, with real time search engines, you don’t have to be a user of any social network to benefit from the data and information, so anyone can use these tools from day one. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Digg is the social media network of tech geeks, and the Digg statistics should not be too surprising: 39% of Diggers publish their own blog. A few weeks later, a surprising blog post was published that outed the marketing firm and hosting company that sponsored the particular study.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. Their commitment to social media : Are they dabblers in social media or serious aficionados?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

I have long taken the Robert Scoble approach and published my email and phone number. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

Now, I’m networking with bloggers. I remember trying to convince my peers in the past to sign up to social networks and it was never an easy task. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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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. He is also the author of Trust Agents and Social Media 101.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

How to Integrate Social Media into Product Marketing (Social Computing Magazine): This is a nice detailed guide on how you can market products via social media. Sending products to bloggers helps too!) The Complete Guide to Video Blogging (Mashable): Ever wanted to be a video blogger? Soren Gordhamer shows you how.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

Some of my favorite quotes (as liveblogged ) were quite memorable and include (with emphasis being mine): Q: Where ads are published, what would you trust more? 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! In reality, it was quite eye-opening (and funny).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Top 29 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic) : Andy Hagans consistently updates this list with some great resources that aren’t necessarily being tapped into by many folks, but maybe it’s time for things to change. Reddit Tips from the Top Dog on Reddit (Social News Watch): How do you become a top user on Reddit?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

A lot of the major content producers like publishing groups have too much overhead to compete on price with bloggers etc and there’s too many places to get the same content so they can’t differentiate. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

At this point, beyond your deepest darkest secrets that you don’t publish online, there may be nothing necessarily left (or at least required) for people to create a whole profile about you. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 2, 2008

Do following things: 1) Create new page via WordPRess control panel with page title “Search Results&# and paste the code of Googles Search result code text box. 2) Publish that page. ‘ABC’ is the page id of NEW Search result page, which you have created in WordPress) 5)Save the file.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Social media, quite simply, relates to the usage of content created by easily accessible publishing technologies (social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter, photo publishing sites such as Flickr, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo) that is generated by the hundreds of millions of consumers utilizing these technologies.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

However, you need to articulate to your client or marketing teams that social media is not just about participating on Twitter and Facebook. It doesn’t end after you hit “publish.&# In other words, don’t show up in the social space only when you need a hand. Blogs must be marketed in order to be successful.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Top 10 Reasons Why Great Content Fails on Social Media : In case you’re still emphasizing submissions on social sites, here’s why your content … uh, appears to suck. How to Commit Social Media Suicide : Some people don’t get social media. What Suggestions Would You Offer a Beginning Blogger? :

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

A few months ago, a big named blogger called out another “expert&# for writing an eBook that included a blog post from this blogger without attribution and completely verbatim. I’m glad you see that my use of it is not about fully automating your accounts, but more to not miss posts by favorite bloggers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. Social news is about reciprocal relationships. Submitting a story to a social news site that is completely off-topic. Excess converts to spam.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Whether or not it’s my choice — and in book publishing, there are other parties involved beyond just the writer — it’s just the wrong question to ask. It also happens to us Z-list bloggers as well. They left the CD in Europe. The dog ate the CD. Their husband took the CD to his work. You get the idea.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Reply Robert Berkman February 22, 2008 at 3:17 pm You might be interested in a book on this topic–just published literally today(!)–The Reply Manuel Viloria February 24, 2008 at 3:34 am How about an arrow from the blogger that leads directly to Newspapers or to TV? Reply steve February 22, 2008 at 11:34 am Well said!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

This is just one occasion, on a daily basis, I see business friends of mine use their personal accounts as publishing mechanisms at a rate of around 95% of their posts, while they do have their own fan pages just for that purpose. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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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.&# This is exactly the process of the Royal Caribbean marketing team, a move that in 2007 was seen as virtually unheard of. mentality there.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Reply Tamar Weinberg December 16, 2009 at 11:09 am Suyong, I think having a personal brand is a GREAT thing, but I don’t think that’s ammunition enough to actually say you’re a social media expert. Are you going to publish it and leave it there? What about a piece of linkbait? Someone needs to do the marketing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

At the same time, the concept of “free&# is empowering individuals to become publishers, as any individual can now harness free software online to create his/her little on place on the web. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

I like to think of this as “Schrodinger’s Blogger&# , referring to the famous thought experiment which explains to us the rather odd concept of the quantum state, in which an event exists only as a waveform of possibilities (1 or 0) until it is observed, and that the act of observation changes the outcome of the experiment.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

Reply Chris Myles April 29, 2010 at 8:04 pm I meant the new process that allows people to turn their own web pages and use those new like social plugins to build “fan page&# like connections , show activity and recommendations , send updates and get facebook analytics about your own domains facebook usage.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I have a couple set up for books that I work for the publishing company. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Looking forward win!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Don’t wait until you need a story published, or until you want to be used as a source. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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