Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Many people stay to themselves, failing to participate in the community and to build rapport with others in the same field. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009). Answers Yahoo!

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Strategy: it isn’t just the tools you’ll be using, but also establishing goals for what you’d like to achieve in social media, and allocating time and resources to do the job. Social Bookmarking (Delicious, Diigo, Bmaccess; the distinction from social news sites is s bit blurry). Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

With social media, an abundance of resources are at your fingertips. Just do it while giving back to the community as well. Have you read The New Community Rules ? I don’t really do it — it doesn’t jive with me and the messages don’t really resonate with my community — but the options are out there.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

When contrasted with the StumbleUpon model, the FriendFeeds and Diggs of the world seem to have the process backwards. Wouldn’t the most logical approach be creating a metric that counts a resources popularity by the number of people who actually click on the link, as opposed to click a “like&# button? Answers Yahoo!

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Kikolani

JUNE 15, 2010

If you own a blog that has multiple authors, regular contributors, or regular guest bloggers , here are seven ways a private blog group can be utilized for helping strengthen the blog and its community as a whole. StumbleUpon*. Delicious*. Announcements. This should be the most obvious and important use of a private blog group.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 21, 2010

You are here: ViperChill » Social Media » Getting Mass Traffic from StumbleUpon: A Definitive Guide Getting Mass Traffic from StumbleUpon: A Definitive Guide Written by Glen, this post has 83 Comments Many bloggers end up having a love-hate relationship with StumbleUpon.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

On my blog I talked about how time and money often elude us when those resources aren’t directly applied to our priorities. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Viper Chill

APRIL 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. Pageviews Month 4 saw a huge amount of traffic from StumbleUpon hence the uneven growth. The site is starting to see the kind of numbers I would expect it to have which is excellent.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

And every year, I hand pick the best articles that I’ve read and compile them in a resource that I hope will last a long time. I painstakingly go through these resources with the hopes that these posts will serve as references for you in years to come. Here’s my list for 2008. Here’s 2007. Here’s 2006.

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Viper Chill

JULY 5, 2010

The only traffic source which dropped was StumbleUpon, so really the site is still growing nicely in channels like search and direct traffic. Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor. You could say that we prefer signal over noise.

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 1, 2010

ViperChill has been ‘relaunched’ now for 2 and a half months and the community has grown by over 1,000 subscribers in this time which amazes me. If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" You could say that we prefer signal over noise.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

and StumbleUpon 51 Comments. and StumbleUpon. If you’re utilizing Delicious and StumbleUpon correctly, both later in this article, all the important stuff will come back to you. StumbleUpon is a valuable tool as a reader or a blogger. Getting the Most Out of StumbleUpon. . > Outsourcing Life.

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Viper Chill

MAY 3, 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 enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" You could say that we prefer signal over noise. To our success in May!

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Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Blogging Tips for Beginners ( Link ) This is a resource post which combines all of the top blog posts on Problogger which offer advice for beginner bloggers. If so, consider putting them all in one resource which provides massive value. With over 5,000 blog posts to choose from, I was curious to see exactly what those top posts were.

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 12, 2010

In the b2b world, thought leadership content is key, but this can take different forms depending on your resources and style: blogs are the most common media , but video, podcasting, online presentations and articles are other ways to share information and education with prospects. Share it on StumbleUpon. Share this on Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Lists also take a great deal of research, and the return is typically a resource that people will turn to time and time again. 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. Thanks for the great ideas and resources.

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Viper Chill

MAY 6, 2010

StumbleUpon Buzz A little known feature of StumbleUpon is their popular (buzz) pages for different subjects. These pages show the most viewed articles that the StumbleUpon audience voted for and enjoyed. While StumbleUpon shows the pages with the most thumbs up, Delicious shows posts with the most saves (bookmarks).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The community of del.icio.us allows you to find some of the best resources on the Internet without having to trudge through all of the junk. Desktop Shortcut for Delicious. It almost reminds me a bit of StumbleUpon. Read her articles on 50 EssentialGTD Resources , How to Have a 46 Hour Day , Do You Need.

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Viper Chill

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Top Referring Websites Here are the top referring traffic sources for the month of August: Direct: 15,253 Google (organic): 6,284 StumbleUpon: 5,136 News.YCombinator.com: 4,858 Lifehacker.com: 3,380 Google.com: 1,712 Twitter.com: 1,328 Smartpassiveincome.com: 828 Facebook.com: 763 Retireat21.com:

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

These scenarios come to fruition in spontaneous communities, on social networks, and other self-service tools – all thanks to the availability of low cost technology and access to the world wide web. You can also not use the tools correctly or not behave appropriately within communities around the tools and market poorly.

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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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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. Here’s a starter guide on using Stumble discovery to get some great ideas.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

By May 18 , the MetaFilter community dared to ask the same, very unpopular questions Becky and some of her friends had been asking for months. This happened last week on the tightly knit community on Plurk, which has a unique and friendly atmosphere as Tamar described a few weeks ago.

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Josh S Peters

AUGUST 17, 2009

Resources: Grow Bigger Ears in 10 Minutes (about listening, not growing body parts) The picture perfect ideal customer How to Find Statistics on Social Media eMarketer Participate After you’ve done your research and spent sometime listening you’ll have to create a profile (or flesh out the one used for research) on those sites.

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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. Fake Steve Jobs ), and being a vault of resources (e.g. Bloggers who focus on a niche and tackle it are highly respected among their peers and within their communities. Read a lot.

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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. It should be about growing the community, not cutting new people off while they learn the ropes.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 26, 2010

That means setting aside time to answer community questions, point people to resources, and find ways to be useful to your audience – whether that’s educating or simply entertaining them. The great thing about Twitter is that anyone can sign up and easily find his “community.&# Use Twitter as your company office hours.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Even though there is a cost for entry for some of the best resources, the solutions were highly worthwhile, I explained. The instruction I gave her and resources I provided, though, were ignored. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 4, 2010

In order to really leverage sites like Facebook, Twitter and Stumbleupon, at least for a blog, I think you really just need to focus on writing the best content you can, which is what I will continue to do. 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

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

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

With Twitter being so incredibly large and vast, there are different types of mini-communities. I started following people who wrote or commented on the SEO blogs to develop my own Twitter community. Communicating and getting to know people is WAY more important to me than impressing anyone or becoming known as an expert resource.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

In other words, they don’t give a damn about the community and they seemed to have moved on — perhaps completely. Instead, since they weren’t, we are left to our own devices and seek alternative methods (which are not the right avenues of communication, but what do you do when the proper roads lead you to a dead end?).

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I of course like seeing the traffic go up, but I’m more focused on building a community than seeing some nice spikes in my Google Analytics account. If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" You could say that we prefer signal over noise.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 3, 2010

Overall Traffic Visits : 19,777 Pageviews : 37,173 Avg time on Site : 3 mins 06 seconds The traffic has taken a large dip from last month, purely because StumbleUpon sent 22,000 visitors in January and just 1,600 in February. I’m curious if you are an active StumbleUpon user yourself, and how valuable you find SU traffic to be.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

I’m torn, however, because I know that I learned from the help of others (whether it was actual coaching or pointing me towards resources) so I want to give back. I set aside a couple of hours/products/resources/etc each month to be donated as needed to people that come along. Bad news for everybody. You usually do.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Again, it comes back to the question of being misleading or downright devious – by not counting brand value in their calculations they pretend that this is all in the spirit of giving and that I should be happy to donate my time/resources to help them. My focus with this blog has always been community. Answers Yahoo!

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Viper Chill

JUNE 1, 2010

Most of the growth did not just come from StumbleUpon but there was a huge increase in search engine traffic as well. Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor. People in the Third Tribe are great users of stumbleupon, and twitter at least.

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