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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 11, 2008

Nearly four months later, the social features appear to be here to stay. As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

Twitter has major problems with uptimes, Plurk is missing some major features, and Brightkite is having issues with Verizon. But they all shy away from implementing features that worked, from other services. Threaded Comments – one of the largest feature missing out on Twitter was the ability to actually respond to someone.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

Some even boast high rankings and good sized communities. I met him on StumbleUpon over a year ago and he is one of those kids who never ceases to amaze me; he totally understands social media and his 22 Reasons for You to Blog was even featured in my annual Best Posts of 2009 roundup. What Advice Can You Give to New Bloggers?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Social Media > Thoughts on Digg’s Latest Features: Thumbs Up Thoughts on Digg’s Latest Features: Thumbs Up by Tamar Weinberg on December 17, 2007 Share When I was at Pubcon last week, Digg launched its highly anticipated images section.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Social media experts realise that you can’t control what people say about you online, but you can continue to focus on putting out your best work possible, whatever your medium can be. Social media is about building relationships and so many “experts&# are not great communicators. I take it everywhere I go!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

My uncle knows a young girl from his community, a recent college graduate, who is looking for a social media job. Facebook is a social network and its intended purpose is online networking. Those featured in the book weren’t exactly strangers. When she found out I was his niece, she became ecstatic.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Peace, Jackie Reply Al June 30, 2010 at 12:49 pm This post was also featured on our Education Blog, here is a link to it: [link] Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Be sure to wrap all code in <code></code> tags. 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

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Effectively, they’re porting their press release information to the wide open, and perhaps going a little more granular by featuring content specific to elements of iTunes. First, I’m going to say kudos to Apple for trying involve themselves in the world of social media. I’m going to stop there, though.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

They are also the most likely to pass the word along to their circle of friends, family, and acquaintances (a prerequisite to “going viral” within social channels). However, if your website and email messages don’t call attention to these features you’ve lost out on the opportunity to reach these folks and make these things happen.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. Niche network: Sphinn : In the red corner we have Sphinn – a social news network dedicated purely to online marketing news and discussion. Subsequently, Sphinn is perhaps the most relevant niche social network on the web.

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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. 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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Perhaps this is the fault of FriendFeed’s realtime feature. I guess it’s a “social&# problem. 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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Comcast did it early, and Frank Eliason today (who, by the way, is featured in the book I wrote) is really the role model for excellent customer service using online technologies. 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

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

The point is that consumers now have a more potent aggregate power: someone with a problem can now reach others with the same problem faster, build a community around this shared problem easily, and mobilize lots of people behind the common cause more efficiently. That’s what’s new: a significant leap in efficiency.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

blog with FeedBurner Social Media Release Criticism: Nine Points to Consider Social Media – Digg, MySpace,YouTube – Web 2.0 blog with FeedBurner Social Media Release Criticism: Nine Points to Consider Social Media – Digg, MySpace,YouTube – Web 2.0 Use wp_list_categories() instead.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media (Louis Gray): Mike Fruchter writes an awesome blog post on Louis Gray’s blog about how to get involved in social media, from branding to blogging to Twitter to community. Marketing on the Social Web: A Few Key Ingredients (Michael Fruchter): I love the graphic.

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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. It also reminds you that Facebook is one of their social destinations on the web, but that you might be interested in their YouTube page. Give them a reason to want to communicate. I know I would.)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

You can do a photo essays or present a gallery of images that you or your graphic designers have Photoshopped–and you can feature tutorials on how to make the best out of your photography/graphic design skills. Images Images work in all shapes and sizes. The possibilities are endless, but the creative images take the cake.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Tweet Spinner Feature Set Tweet Spinner features four main features. Sadly, this feature has become necessary, and TweetSpinner helps you maintain anti-spam rules to weed out the junk. This is a subscriber-only feature and occurs every four hours. Profile Rotator Here’s another great feature of Tweet Spinner.

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Likeable

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Social media is an important marketing tool, but for many people—including the disabled community—it can also offer access to a unique support system and accessible information and resources. Here are just a few of our favorite social media accessibility features. lives with some type of disability.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2009

What about benefiting the blog you hope to be featured on? If you genuinely believe that there are specific blogs that you want to involve yourself in or that your company should be featured in, you need to spend more than 5 minutes crafting a pitch as to why you or your company is good enough for the job. Listen first, people!

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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. i like digg because its different and i hope that difference doesnt erode with these new features.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

After using both Plurk and Twitter pretty heavily, I’ve come to the conclusion that Plurk is best at its features for community-building, whereas Twitter succeeds more with its interface that bolsters information-sharing. Both of these features continue to support my argument that Twitter is not Plurk, nor is Plurk a new Twitter.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

The scope of marketing needs to be broadened in view of the new dynamics that have employees, customers and prospects engaged in conversations – horizontally, peer to peer, in some cases even in co-opetition situations. 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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Twitter is one of the largest social networking sites, featuring users from various walks of lives. Twitter has a wide range of benefits from communicating with friends and families to building a brand for your business. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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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

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

JANUARY 12, 2010

Industry and social media connections are further broken into additional categories, as seen in the charts below. Consider the difference between my friendship circle in 2007 (graph featured below). These are friends who have no direct ties to the industry, but in using social networks, we’ve formed close bonds and friendships.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

A number of large web development discussion communities host contest areas, including NamePros , v7 Network , and Webmaster Talk. The software development community -- especially the open source community -- has long used "bounties" to help lure developers to certain tasks. Crowdsourcing , Features , Trends. social news.

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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. Until then, there will be users who take but can’t give back to the community. Still stuck?

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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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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

He recently told me that every week they have a mini-presentation on one aspect of social media (past topics included ethics, social networks, and social bookmarking). Since then, the students have formed their own vibrant community on Twitter. Features , Social Web , Trends. social networking.

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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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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Somebody who has probably had a great time at college using Facebook and finds the features on LinkedIn to be relatively primitive and well, kind of boring. I used the Questions & Answers feature to get answers to two real world questions. LinkedIn clearly needs to develop this feature more. Features , Social Networks , Trends.

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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. Be observant! Did your room just light up?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. comprehensive social media marketing training there is.

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