Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Despite the title of the post, having worked as the social media manager for Fortune 500 companies, and a lot of knowledge here being totally personal, I do not think of myself as an expert. Right now, you’ll find the likes of Tamar , Jonathan , Lisa and Rebecca in my feed reader, and consequently, in that box.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. The community had to react.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Tagged as: media snackers , social media , web 2.0 { 6 trackbacks } Media, Mm Mm Good! Blogging Experiment November 2, 2007 at 10:02 am How Do You Feed MediaSnackers? And you have completely turned me around in terms of the social media news sites, so it’s great to hear your opinion. His friends are just the same.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Done correctly, social media is about developing meaningful relationships with customers and prospective customers in their natural habitat. You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate.

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Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 22, 2011

As tomorrow is an historic day – The Australian and other news.com sites move behind the paywall – what WILL we pay for, what SHOULD we pay for and what OTHER revenues streams are being missed by News.com refusal to build online communities around their content? The Function of News in Community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

In fact, you’re likely spotting the shift; instead of companies posting their URLs on television commercials, they’re asking their followers to join them on Facebook. If you are officially representing your company, you’d want to create an Official Page. Give them a reason to want to communicate.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Social media connections are those I know through a variety of online forums, the blogosphere, Twitter, and the like (but I generally don’t befriend someone immediately; I still give it time). Granted, some companies use MySpace quite efficiently , but I feel that it targets a different demographic.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Give to your community. Customer Service.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Can you describe what your company does in 120 characters or less? Social media is about people, not logos. If you’re a small company, congratulations, this should be pretty easy. If you’re a big company, how can you act small again? Social media strategy consulting details here. What’s the Point?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2010

A well known news outlet contacted me a few weeks ago asking for advice on building visibility to her articles that were submitted to a social news site where I help moderate. There’s more to be done, such as listening to your community and actually speaking amongst them (and not just at them).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

A lot of the focus as of late is how we as a company has grown. Facebook helps people connect and communicate more efficiently. We’re not the only ones [enabling such communication] but a lot of people are using our tools, especially in places like Colombia. As a company? Way to get that news before me!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Weve written about a number of companies that employ crowdsourcing to produce their product or service here on ReadWriteWeb, but in this post well specifically look at companies that allow you to leverage the crowd to get something done. Fixya is a question and answer community, in which people ask and answer technical support queries.

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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

MARCH 10, 2010

. “I am a relatively new internet marketer trying to break into the industry,&# he wrote. “What are good companies to target? Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. Should I learn a specific skillset?&# Word travels.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

With Twitter being so incredibly large and vast, there are different types of mini-communities. Better yet, having multiple employees at your company engage in Twitter can also help further your company goals. I DO own one for ORM, but I’ve left it as a news feed. Call them cliques if you will. Transparency.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Lesson # 5 Use Social Networks. Be it MySpace or Facebook or whatever network works for your target demographic, companies and individuals interested in maintaining their personal brand need to establish and maintain a presence on social networks - especially if youre looking to connect with the younger crowd. social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

Your strategies must employ content creation, community management, local/maps optimization, among others. How many of these new tactics have you adopted? 5 Lessons Fortune 500 Companies Can Teach You About Blogging : Some Fortune 500 blogs are really great. Hire a company or check out this guide for how to DIY.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

By putting effort into the writing process, you reap the benefits of a community that supports you because you lift them through your words. Bloggers who focus on a niche and tackle it are highly respected among their peers and within their communities. Social media? Want another tip on how to write well? Read a lot.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

At the end of the day, though, we ALL have families to feed. I had a former supervisor tell us on the first day of a sales job, “Yes, our company helps people and we do it very well. This post didn’t seem to fit with your ethos, but it did prompt me to buy “the new community rules&# on kindle.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. Here’s how I do it : I read and review hundreds — thousands — of articles yearly, on all Internet Marketing topics from SEO to social media to general entrepreneurship (new for 2010!),

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

If your colors are green and white, use those colors all over your social profiles. Integration Audit Am I integrating my social media profiles? Can you please share your Twitter feeds on LinkedIn? When you integrate your profiles, you help build the relationships you have already started on each social site.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2009

It should also, at the same time, be something familiar to other Facebook users, as this is what they will see in their News feeds as their friends become fans or you post updates. It can be a pain to have to re-create a new Page and re-establish months of work building your Page if you get it wrong early on.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Streaming only your blog’s RSS feed on Twitter. (If Using your Twitter feed as a chat room for conversations that are exclusive in nature and not as a broadcast medium. As a friend recently said to me, “I’m tired of my Twitter feed being a [private] conversation between person X, person Y, and person Z.&#

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Buffer Social

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Work with the algorithm It’s no secret that pretty much all social media algorithms take into account consistency when calculating which content to promote, meaning the more you share, the more likely your account will be shown in your followers’ feeds. It’s also a good way to build community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In 2006, social media was building steam in the United States. With the rise of Facebook’s popularity, the launch of Twitter, and the surge of influence from social news sites like Digg, social media looked to be a great breeding ground for marketers to make their mark. I barely use Twitter for social media myself.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

There was a hostage situation at the parent company, Discovery Communications, on the first of the month. The three hostages are fortunately safe, and business resumed as usual for Discovery Communications staffers. However, many of those companies are still gripping onto the traditional roles of an earlier era.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

It takes a community to build a community. So much of building a community requires understanding people and engaging with them. Now you may wonder, “ How do we build a community? Senior Analyst at Forrester ( @TomGrantForr ) “You don’t build a community. According to Tom Grant , Ph.D, You expand it.”

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

Despite the fact that he had over 50,000 Twitter followers, his entire feed was a broadcast. Meanwhile, I’ve been working on building out a social media strategic plan for a really interesting company. However, following their home Twitter feed was really difficult. Will you even pay attention to your home feed?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

For example, I write a lot about AOL, and after the recent layoffs, I wrote how the entire mobile advertising team took a voluntary buyout and quit the company. Now, a couple weeks later, a PR rep came to me and said, hey a lot of those people are joining this one company (that I rep), would you like to learn more?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

4 Reasons Many Big Brands Downplay SEO : Why aren’t all Fortune 500 companies engaging in SEO? Scared of Social Media? Jill Whalen has been active on forums and online communities for 10 years now. But “social media marketing expert?&# How Does a Company Dip its Toes in the Conversation? :

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

A regularly updated Fan Page brings greater awareness Community Page : What if you love something but you have no direct affiliation with the product/service, can’t find the official page, and worse, discover the page doesn’t even exist? Community Pages are the most annoying thing Facebook has given us , but I see their point.

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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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Kikolani

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Social Media / Social Networking. How to Better Manage Your Twitter Relationships – Discover how this Twitter management tool can quickly and effectively help you build an engaged community of influencers and brand advocates. The social media party fouls. Online Baby Shower Update. It’s almost here!

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Viper Chill

APRIL 25, 2012

Why feed counts mean absolutely nothing (and never really have). Mashable – still trailing far behind TechCrunch in feed subscriber numbers – began to overtake them in traffic figures. The community choose the ‘news’, and that just what the community want to see.

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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. After all, this time, they’re not complaining about news feeds.

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