Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 11, 2011

About Us What’s a Maverick? It’s called the YouTube Creator Institute. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

What functionalities do you think WordPress, vBulletin, and other common platforms need to be able to better develop communities? Beyond the core of people who want to demonstrate their expertise in a niche by blogging, will blogging continue to grow, or will community-oriented sites become more popular? Again, super post!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

How to automatically store your bookmarks in Gmail (Gmail + del.icio.us + Yahoo Alerts). I scan 275 RSS feeds in Google Reader and I use dozens of bookmarklets and shortcuts to help me manage it all. The Toolbar then automatically feeds it into a new message. and automatically feed these into your Gmail database?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Informational Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Answers Yahoo! Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

You never know until you check out their feed. By studying their feed, you can learn a lot more about how important social media is to them. You can subscribe to your friends’ feeds, but you’ll easily drown in the frequency of updates. What can you learn about me? Perhaps they’re insomniacs.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I’m sure that if iTunes actually included the customer in its feed, and if other Apple departments followed suit, there would be a whole lot more followers and satisfied customers. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It’s certainly not unthinkable that someone will import your RSS feed into another website without ever gaining any permission to do so. The thing I like about RSS feeds is that if someone wants to share it, he can. E.g. I read formula1 news on [link] instead of f1 feeds. Again, I kid.)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Right now, you’ll find the likes of Tamar , Jonathan , Lisa and Rebecca in my feed reader, and consequently, in that box. Social media is about building relationships and so many “experts&# are not great communicators. Love your book “The New Community Rules&# girl! Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Blogging Experiment November 2, 2007 at 10:02 am How Do You Feed MediaSnackers? BTW – I’ve really been interacting with the Digg community more and more. It really is about being a part of the community. Answers Yahoo! Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009). It scares me.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. Digg is social news; Diigo is social bookmarking (which is lumped in with delicious). 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 17, 2010

Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. &# That last one might be the most honest of the three, since asking a Community Manager whether they tweet for a living is like asking a construction worker if they cat-call for a living, or a doctor if he asks people to say “ah!&# for a living.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

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! &# question a hundred times. Thankfully, now I am.)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

I contacted the agency handling Justin Nozuka yesterday – fans were spammed for over 15 hrs with the same message both on Facbook and Twitter, with dates for a gig that had already happened and many were so cheesed off like me, that they hid his feed. Answers Yahoo! Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

I needed to differentiate Digg from social media because they actually are part of a distinctive community (and as you know, I’m very passionate about Digg so it really did deserve its own category). I get fixated on one community and ditch the last, yet I still have my profiles on them and they usually get outdated within minutes.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 1, 2010

You can see how many people are subscribing to your RSS feed and from which sources, and if you use the new Google Analytics integration, you can see how many clicks each individual post is getting from feed readers. Delicious Do you ever find a cool article or resource online and wish you had an easy way to save it?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Google is undoubtedly huge and they could simply shrug their members off like Digg does to its much smaller userbase, but instead they engage the community and that’s why Google is such a positive brand. It’s their community of choice and that’s fine. I don’t know yet if it changes my feelings at all.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

As a top Digg submitter, it worked like this: at first, people noticed my heavy community involvement and my participation , and consequently, my submitted stories easily front-paged. The community had to react. There’s no real community in Digg. Most other sites you belong to probably have a bigger sense of community.

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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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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

. * The Core Philosophy: Google Reader is a database and a feed reader. Continually add tons of feeds in organized, methodical way. The Core Philosophy: Google Reader is a database and a feed reader. The Core Philosophy: Google Reader is a database and a feed reader. Lifehacker covers all of this here.

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Viper Chill

MAY 6, 2010

I went from having over 150 blogs in my feed reader in the last few years to just 12, purely because I was seeing the same content over, and over (and over) again. Delcious Popular Page Similar to StumbleUpon, Delicious has it’s own popular page which you can sort by tags which are related to your industry.

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Viper Chill

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor. If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing! If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!"

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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). Give them a reason to want to communicate.

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ProBlogger

JULY 29, 2011

That something could be that they are connected everywhere with 50 different social accounts—Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, Google, Yahoo Buzz, Reddit, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, etc. They come across as unselfish “community bloggers.&# Social Engineers are very popular. Copy [space] bloggers are actually terrible.

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Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Including Yahoo and Bing, that’s around 100,000 people per month searching for this term. If you’re sick of all the slimy marketers out there and want to get updates from someone who is actually going to show – for free – how they make money, then make sure you subscribe to the RSS feed. I love your post.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Here they learn about social media tools like RSS, Delicious, podcasting, videocasting, blogs, wikis, and yes, even Twitter. Since then, the students have formed their own vibrant community on Twitter. Alternately, you can just subscribe to a "best of" RSS feed here. Extra extra credit would be the use of Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

A few weeks ago, jwz posted a great piece on how to access Facebook via a feed reader. I now have status updates in my feed, and finally, I can see both happy and sad news. So many people use LinkedIn this way; I’d be surprised if less than 90% of LinkedIn’s community didn’t. It’s not.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

But with all other social networks, there are rules of engagement that are determined by the community. More information and tips for usage can be read in The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. It shows that you have a vested financial interest in Yahoo News. This is not a real example, readers.) Still stuck?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing. Socialmention.com is basically a social search engine, if the business name is unique it can be a good option.

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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. Those feed items people like get pushed to other users.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Yahoo, too. link] Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps | Social Media Marketing | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert « Netcrema – creme de la social news via digg + delicious + stumpleupon + reddit [.] Yahoo, too. I have subscribed to your rss feed as well. Because tools will change.

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Bare Feet Studios

MARCH 1, 2009

Why have secret judges when you can have the community on the internet get engaged, give you more page views, and do the judging for you? “Share&# these days means using web plug-ins to tell your friends on Facebook, Digg, Yahoo Buzz or save to your own Delicious bookmarks! The contest rules page is very last century.

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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. I DO own one for ORM, but I’ve left it as a news feed. I started following people who wrote or commented on the SEO blogs to develop my own Twitter community. Call them cliques if you will. Many don’t overlap.

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Twitter Sports Microblogging HootSuite 205

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Thanks to books like The New Community Rules , written by yours truly, Engage , Social Media 101 , and others, social media marketing is, for the time being, going to still be on people’s minds as they discover this bright and sunny marketing opportunity. And get your account started and active immediately.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Can you please share your Twitter feeds on LinkedIn? Also, you should consider sharing your Twitter feeds and Facebook updates on your blog’s sidebar. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Answers Yahoo! And that was the UK.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Her blog, Kommein , covers blogging, business, community management, social media, and more. Her latest posts include Nonsensical , Community Networking Meme , and Beware the Devil’s Hug. Her blog, Successful Blog , has a LOT of content and covers analysis, branding, business, community, motivation, writing, and more.

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Viper Chill

DECEMBER 21, 2009

I’ve been interviewed about marketing using guest posts over 10 times, I’m mentioned on the homepage of a guest posting community and I’ve written far more of them than I care to remember. This, of course, is why so many bloggers care about their feed count. More on this later).

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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. Want another tip on how to write well? Read a lot. Tips on self-improvement?

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