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 I get fixated on one community and ditch the last, yet I still have my profiles on them and they usually get outdated within minutes.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

Some even boast high rankings and good sized communities. Now 13 and 10 (note: Ani’s URL is private; she is 10, after all!) It took me 6 months to acquire a good amount of traffic and cultivate a community on my blog and the same goes for any new blogger. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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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! Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

The only similarity is a 140 character limit for posts — so Plurk is essentially a microblogging platform. Plurk: Real Nested Conversations Brought to the Microblogging Platform A few days ago, I noticed via Twitter search tool Summize that Aaron Brazell had been talking about me on his Twitter stream.

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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. Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline. After all, Facebook could eat the web.

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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. It’s good to know that there are ways to bring Facebook community closer together. Think again!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

You can also choose a very aggressive spam filtering method that will consider any DM with a URL as spam. You might also want to see that they are future upstanding members of the community. Tweet content: URLs. If a high percentage of the user’s Tweets are filled with URLs, you might not have an interest.

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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. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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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

JUNE 16, 2010

You could also add your social media profile URLs on your business cards, in your catalogues, on your flyers, etc. Another way you can integrate is using your social profile URLs as your website when leaving comments. Kwame Boame is a marketing consultant who blogs about brand communication on his blog, Sociatic.

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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? Did I miss anything?

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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. btw, mind using full URLs in the future and not shortened ones?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2008

Weezer shows that they understand the community of addicted internet users. The URL is still there, but embedding was disabled: [link] I think they should realize that they got social media right until they removed embedding. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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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

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

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Reply Farghana December 3, 2009 at 8:02 am I just wanted to know how do i get my page URL as this [link] I get it to be as [link] Can someone please help me with this?! Reply Devin Mason December 3, 2009 at 10:25 am Farghana, As long as you have 25 fans on your page you can change the vanity URL. great post HOPE I WIN!!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

I became a big fan of playing games (bingo especially) at a little hub on AOL called RabbitJack’s Casino , which was considered a unique community within the AOL borders with a close-knit group of people from all walks of life. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

A search engine optimization expert is usually focused on changing URL structure, optimizing title tags, and making code tweaks to a website to make sure the search engines find the site and the pages contained therein. 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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I posted to Flickr and tried my best to bring it to their attention. First, their default landing tab featured an inactive promotion (which has since been pulled after I wrote yet another tweet that pointed to a Flickr screenshot of the ended promotion ). And I waited. Five days later, their Twitter account remained silent.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

The Sexy Girls of Tech and Politics: The Unbeatable Trio (NxE): Find what the community likes and pander to them for the best kind of traffic exposure on social sites. Engaging the community and building a well-designed website are also important elements. I actually overlooked his Twitter guide (do you have a URL for it?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

For example, Tamar Weinberg is the community manager for Mashable, and she has written for Lifehacker.com and other mega blogs. Join other communities When you’re first starting off, or even if you already have a large platform, you should participate in communities that already exist.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

It’s important to understand the communities you contribute to and to understand the rules of the sites that you target. FriendFeed is a service but it’s also a community. Conclusion Remember that social media communities are real relationships, real conversations, and as such, they should be treated like they are real.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Include the URL to your post. It’s sad to see families impacted by the bad econmic times, but it’s heartening to see people helping each other and having a greater sense of community and charity. 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

JULY 30, 2010

I personally have been a victim of duplicate submissions (from the same exact URL) at least four times — and the bottom line to the end user is that it sucks. As the original submitter, Graham’s Digg submission had a unique URL: [link]. The URL now is dead. The emphasis is obviously mine.

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