Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Many educators in successful schools are involved in their schools professional learning community and perhaps they even collaborate with other schools in the district, city, state, country or beyond, but Innovative Educators also have personal learning networks (PLNs) enabling them to connect with other learners around the globe.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Social media rocks because it’s one of the most amazing tools for “free&# market research. The letter “C&# could be a lot of things, like “content,&# “consistency,&# and “community,&# but customer service is a big part of the evolution of social media. Give to your community. Customer Service.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Tagged as: community , connections , facebook , facebook pages , genuine , linkedin , Personal , personal branding , privacy , relationships , social media { 4 trackbacks } Twitter and Facebook: What Does Google Think? Linkedin is not an open networking tool and casual use of it devalues the system and your network within it.

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Proactive Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You need to be able to use blogs, microblogs, social networks, RSS feeds and other tools to connect internal stakeholders as well as reach out to, and build a community with, your customers and other external audiences. Companies are fast realizing that personal use of these tools does not equate to expertise.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

These new “Internet Marketers&# take Twitter by storm, using automated Twitter tools in abundance that give them the true appearance of expertise. It’s a great tool, but it’s not one you’d exclusively want to dedicate your Twitter efforts to. Who was he, I wondered, and was he credible?

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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

JUNE 16, 2010

If you haven’t already, get measurement tools to measure all your social activities. Some tools you can use are Social Mention , Trackur , and PostRank. PostRank is becoming one of my favorite tools. 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

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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

While the problem doesn’t solely lie on the shoulders of the developers who have been implementing the tools in these web applications, the responsibility for accurately monitoring true interest in submissions does. Just like it’s not uncommon for someone to click the “Digg&# button on Digg without ever visiting the site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

FriendFeed is just another tool to let the world know who you really are on top of Facebook and LinkedIn (and perhaps your blogs). 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

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. What can you learn about me? Their schedules : Are your friends voting up a story on Mixx at 4 in the morning?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

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. Face it (no pun intended), Facebook is the ultimate stalker tool. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009). Facebook lets you spy.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

However, no matter how fantastic your material is, you’re not going to get far with any senior leader unless you have an understanding of these tools yourself. I won’t stop preaching that social media isn’t about the tools. I’m going to show them how the tools can make a difference in their day.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Reply Robert February 2, 2010 at 6:27 pm You had me when you put more focus on communicating than the tools. Made me laugh when I compared it back to Roberts comment about focus on communicating rather than tools. Social media is about building relationships and so many “experts&# are not great communicators.

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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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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Even the tools that bloggers consider decidedly blog-focused, like WordPress, are used increasingly on news and other content sites. Blogging is about content and community. And the information they communicate tends to be less time-relevant than that on blogs or news sites. Bloggers may be hobbyists or corporate CEOs.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Building an Effective Business Profile on Twitter From TwiTip: As the popularity of micro-blogging continues to grow, it’s going to become a tool used by advertisers and marketers. Social Media Starter Pack From Chris Brogan: Advice on the most important social media tools you’ll want to use when getting started in social media.

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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. You can build followers to these accounts through Twitter tools such as Tweet Spinner. I started following people who wrote or commented on the SEO blogs to develop my own Twitter community. Call them cliques if you will.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Building an Effective Business Profile on Twitter From TwiTip: As the popularity of micro-blogging continues to grow, it’s going to become a tool used by advertisers and marketers. Social Media Starter Pack From Chris Brogan: Advice on the most important social media tools you’ll want to use when getting started in social media.

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Twist Image

OCTOBER 23, 2012

But, in the world of the real-time Web, mobile devices, Twitter , Facebook updates, YouTube videos and the like, what once was a brand's most powerful tool to communicate directly with consumers, suddenly becomes its worst nightmare. communications. corporate communication. crisis communication. global community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

After all, Facebook was a tool that college students were using before it was open to the public, and some still use it as a purely personal and not a professional tool. It’s important to understand the communities you contribute to and to understand the rules of the sites that you target. Was it something you said?

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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

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). LinkedIn is a industry tool. I started with LinkedIn and while it is a great tool like you said, Facebook is way more fun.

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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. If you keep at it, that number will double and triple, but you must keep at it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Facebook is a great tool for marketing your business , but only if you use it correctly. 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?

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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

MARCH 10, 2008

Zuckerberg: The internet is a great platform for overall communication, but there need to be specific tools. We’re not the only ones [enabling such communication] but a lot of people are using our tools, especially in places like Colombia. The community can determine if something is being too aggressive.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

Twitter is also a tool to get feedback, to network, to take notes, to market your product, to communicate with customers, to set up meetings, and to find prospects — among other things. StumbleUpon is still a great tool that I use almost equally as often as I use Digg and Twitter. The issue, of course, is engagement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. He also offers high quality tools, many of which are free. SEOmoz PRO : SEOmoz PRO features a rich library of informative guides, a myriad of tools, and a strong active and close-knit community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

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. Tools of the SEO Trade : There are a lot of tools out there that make search engine optimization simpler. He illustrates this in a graphical pyramid. Not excess.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

The initial sentiment was highly negative , and most concluded that the algorithm will penalize users who care much about the community and use it regularly. Both Kevin and Jay say that we should give the community the benefit of the doubt. Then the community “won.&# I think they know how valuable the community is.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Conclusion As you can see, a Facebook Page is a powerful tool that you can use to enhance and strengthen your brand naturally using the tools Facebook provides. Be sure to leverage this tool, customize it, and make it work to get your brand in front of as many people and their friends as possible.

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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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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. Participate in my site’s community. Do good, positive things for the community. For instance, I rarely talk about software.) They understand brevity. Do something interesting.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2009

If you have the mindset to make Facebook a professional tool, you certainly can turn it into one. 7 Ways to Use StumbleUpon as a Discovery Tool (Dipping into the Blogpond): One of the most important elements of StumbleUpon discovery is one that nobody talks about (and one I intended to write about awhile ago). Rae explains all.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

I love what I do and I especially love helping people learn to build their businesses online and turning them on to all the wonderful collaboration tools that have become our mastermind playground. How many businesses out there expect to see any return from their marketing and communication efforts if they invest nothing?

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