Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

Where are the people most likely to buy your products and services? Establishing a social media strategy will help you see where potential customers are hanging out. Through social media, you can find out what online communities your existing customers belong to.

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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. Excellent point.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

It makes me wonder if I’m sending my requests to a wall (or for your tech geeks, /dev/null) or if people really work for Apple (outside their marketing and engineering departments). Social media is exactly that: “social.&# If you don’t buy the extended warranty it costs you just to call and try to get help.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

I remember taking classes, buying flashcards , and doing whatever it took to have a decent understanding of large words to score well on the SAT. What amazes me is that Andrew, with no idea of where this was headed, took the initiative to build an extremely successful community. They’re Quizlet’s biggest asset.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 27, 2009

In the end, the bond between those immersed in the social media sphere is a bond that exists nowhere else. Being different and not buying into all the bells and whistles of self love (destruction in some cases) will only harm you in the long run. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Business sites – These sites are the crux of the internet – realize it or not they are most of the sites that try to sell, sell, sell to you whatever they thing you should buy. 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 10, 2010

Anyone who knows a good search engine optimization expert knows that keyword stuffing is not an approved tactic. A search engine optimization expert is usually focused on changing URL structure, optimizing title tags, and making code tweaks to a website to make sure the search engines find the site and the pages contained therein.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Search Engine Optimization , Social Media > The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks? The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Maybe you’ve set up a blog to run AdSense and earn money from the search engines. That doesn’t mean they can’t be search engine friendly too. A peppering of keywords here and there will help your blog be more visible to search engines. My mentor taught me to write the blog post for human first then to the search engine.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Since the Digg submission of my story was already buried , I sincerely hope that Digg listens to what their community members have to say. By trying to make Digg more social, it really became less social. Michael via Twitter ) [Today is] the day that Digg died. All of the usability issues and obvious screw ups are killing me.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Do you always tell people to “buy now”, “buy before midnight”, “For the first 300 people”, etc? What you should do is to be insightful, insightful, insightful… and then “New price reduction on our favorite product, “X”. This is something that can be used as a quick checklist for social media effectiveness. Thanks, Kwame.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

I had graduated college the previous year, so many of my classmates seemed to have “moved on&# from the social sites of my time (all of which have dissolved). But over the past few months, the Facebook community has become a huge success and is continuing to flourish, and my classmates are slowly beginning to join the network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Twitter, he says, “became my way of talking with a community of people.&# He explains that “Twitter allowed me to be social without having to be IRL.&# When I want to book, I just DM them and ask for the ‘social media rate.’ More importantly, they’ve created a go-to place or space for community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

Patience is required in building a community, seeing real results with monetization and building traffic. Some people are able to build a community but fail at monetizing their blogs. Some also build traffic but fail to build a community. We’re also offering new publishers a $50 bonus if they get at least 25,000 U.S.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Despite this, social media marketing is much more difficult than search engine optimization. The Quest for Knowledge What exactly does it take to become a search engine optimization expert or a social media marketing expert? In both of these aspects of search engine marketing, you begin by learning.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer? What skills, though, do successful social media marketers have that put these individuals above the average (or addicted) social media user, and better yet, above the traditional marketer? That said, such a broad determination means you can be a social media marketer and not know it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

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 Buzz YouTube Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

As for the sessions I liveblogged, there were eleven in total (see the Search Engine Roundtable’s SMX West coverage for details). Monier suggests that it could be flawed, however, as in describing a “diamond:&# what if a baseball enthusiast chooses to buy his wife a nice piece of jewelry? Check out my Flickr photostream.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) : The SEO Success Pyramid : Matt McGee talks about the process of making great websites. Online SEO Tools: The Ultimate Collection : At Search Engine Journal, Ann Smarty has compiled a list of the most valuable tools to perform SEO analysis. Every post is a winner! What is the Definition of SEO?

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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

MARCH 24, 2010

They know that I actually care about my community and that they’re not an audience. He currently serves as the community guy at Building 43. Matt Cutts Matt Cutts is a blogger and Principal Engineer at Google, where he heads Google’s Webspam team. He also founded Search Engine Watch. They understand brevity.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. Spam engineer guy Matt Cutts has his own blog where he talks about his personal life and all things Google. It’s their community of choice and that’s fine.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Social Media > 7 Truths About Social Media Marketing 7 Truths About Social Media Marketing by Tamar Weinberg on April 8, 2010 Share Even though social media isn’t new to many of us, the world is waking up to this new shiny toy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

Reply Dennis June 29, 2008 at 11:58 pm I hear Google made an offer to buy Plutter Kite for $6.4B! Add health records and Social Security #s to Plutter Kite, and Google will double their offer. The main thing that seems missing from Plurk is the community and visibility a lot of other sites have attracted. Thank you for that!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

Both wanted to create a Facebook community to connect users to each other. Colleges have Resident Assistants who adhere to the same rules as the students, and they live among their students so they’re very much part of that community. Reply Greg Davies aka cGt2099 November 7, 2007 at 9:44 pm Right on, Tamar.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

With 1,200 users terminated at once, I’m not sure people can easily buy that. 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

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline. Let it be posted on every social platform of choice and then watch as it seeds through other communities (which is likely to happen and shows that your marketing is viral). Buy something, get something.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

The reason is that people didn’t have aggregate power: they were individual voices that a news channel or a company can choose to ignore. The only effective feedback mechanism was the free market: people choose to buy something else, if the option existed. That’s what’s new: a significant leap in efficiency.

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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. Specially, dealing with starting a cart and posting items buy using PayPal. If you don’t mind.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2009

He was incredibly giving and made huge sacrifices for his community, his wife, his children, his grandchildren, and even his great-granddaughter who was born the week after he was admitted to the hospital for the last time. Back then, Queens had no large Jewish community but the new residents had determination to set up a synagogue.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

That’s not really convincing social proof. Then, when you’re joining a community for the first time, you’ll need to study the users and slowly build relationships with them. But, like good Social Media community members, I’m thrilled to be able to help my parents out and give back as well!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

With the initiative for Facebook to be open and to empower businesses to host pages that celebrate their business, offering deals and giving the community the ability to converse directly with the business or entity these pages represent, you forgot about accountability. And now there are Community Pages! Who the heck needs it?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Their goal is to send press pitches, not to buy ads on your site. If a blogger outreach consultant or social media agency emails you a story pitch, read their signature. Most PR people aren’t in a position to buy ads. I’ve written 1886 blog posts for Search Engine Roundtable and a couple dozen for Macgasm.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

When dealing with emotions, psychology, anthropology, sociology, among other disciplines, you’re bound to make “mistakes&# as you attempt to understand demographics and communities and learn about who will be receptive to what. But … well, he’s done with social media, essentially. He’s not alone.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

And it doesn’t help for marketing — at least not the social kind. If I wanted to shout it out, I’d buy a billboard over the Strip in Las Vegas. People are flocking to sites like Twitter and Facebook and other communities because they are online communities where they can learn from and hang out with their peers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

My solution has been to respond with a note that the publisher doesn’t allow me to distribute that material (that’s true) and suggest that they buy a copy of the book that includes a CD. Reply Carri Bugbee July 30, 2010 at 5:00 am Todd, can I buy you lunch and pick your brain??? You get the idea. Yet people always ask!)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

We’re not the only ones [enabling such communication] but a lot of people are using our tools, especially in places like Colombia. We’re not trying to build new communities; we’re allowing people to communicate with people they already know. In terms of community, we think about it as a personal thing.

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