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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Social Media: Getting Started Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if You Don’t Want to (A Smart Bear): Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) makes a compelling argument into why social media must be considered, even if you have no interest in it. The article has examples of how social media worked too.

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Kikolani

APRIL 13, 2010

It is amazing the kind of relationship you can build with your community simply by following and listening to your readers. And if your multi-author blog does not have a list like the Famous Bloggers Twitter List , now might be the time to create one to help build community between your bloggers to help boost sharing and promotion.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

Social media is fueled by passion, and too many companies try to take elements of their company that aren’t passion-worthy, and attempt to build a social media program around it. Place making social media (Foursquare, Gowalla, et al) will continue to gain traction over the next 18 months. That's all.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

I know that there are some foursquare haters out there, but for me its about helping my favorite Chinese place out. I know that there are some foursquare haters out there, but for me its about helping my favorite Chinese place out. What's great about your taxi guy is that he is his proactive helpfulness. It's a win, win, win.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Consumers are using social media (especially Twitter) as a 1-800 line, and agencies should be helping their clients answer the social telephone by setting up listening posts and protocols, and trying marketing to customer service in real-time.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 7, 2010

Now, I’m not suggesting Foursquare will ever approach Twitter’s level of ubiquity, much less Facebook’s. Because Foursquare makes very little sense unless you’re in a physical location like a store, restaurant, etc. At least it is for me.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 22, 2010

Let’s look at a few examples of companies that have done this successfully: Yelp’s Elite Squad: Yelp operates a social networking, user review, and local search website for members to post reviews and get user feedback on local businesses and restaurants.

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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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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2010

This program is being produced by Mike Stelzner, who runs the successful Social Media Examiner site (where I write monthly).

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 8, 2010

Opportunities Via Geography Recently, I was in downtown Flagstaff (where I live) and used Foursquare to check-in at a local restaurant. That type of rifle shot, competitive marketing would be unthinkable in the “real world&# , but it happens every minute of every day on Foursquare. That’s the Opportunity Economy at work.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter success requires an understanding of the unique rhythms and cadences of the community, and a give first, get later mentality that is a bit counterintuitive at first. link] larrythewineguy Seems to me you wouldn't put all your eggs into any one basket, Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare or any of them. What’s Happening?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

It’s making social content sharing more fun. Ask a newly-minted Foursquare mayor how they feel about it. Of these trends, the biggest is the embedding of services into online infrastructure, because the line of demarcation between your website and our social networks is going to get very fuzzy over the next few years.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Flowtown allows you to take email addresses (like the people subscribed to my newsletter) and determine in which social networks they are active. I’ve tried Foursquare , too. Also check out Gist [link] – helps with seeing the connection between your various social networks in a dashboard setting.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The three hostages are fortunately safe, and business resumed as usual for Discovery Communications staffers. Around that time, though, I noticed that TLC was promoting Foursquare as Facebook within their TV programs. In fact, the screenshot above with all the spam shows that that Foursquare status update was nowhere to be found.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 4, 2010

2) Kara is right, social media is still relatively new. Companies are getting that they need to listen and engage with customers on social networks. I've learned exponentially from the honest and frank comments about a brand that are often only revealed in online forums and social networks. That’s step 1.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 22, 2010

If you’re considering “social media&# as a way to build loyalty among your existing customers, moving them from a relationship rooted in transactions to a symbiotic relationship anchored in advocacy, there are dual alternatives: 4. link] [link] Carrie Bond RT @markwschaefer: RT @jaybaer: Is Social Media Too Big For Its Britches?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Because of its original simple use (communication!) and its restricted access, people had no need to use any other names on the Mark Zuckerberg-created social network. It’s how social networks are intended to be used. Still, it puts Facebook ahead of MySpace. Heck, most of you get it.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Succeeding on the social Web requires daily participation. Whether it’s brand reputation management, PR and influencer outreach, customer service and social CRM, interacting with fans on a brand community, or just creating content that builds thought leadership – it all takes time.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The feeling of community, and “we’re all in this together&# is slipping away. Location, Location, Location The biggest story of the event was the widespread usage of presence services foursquare and Gowalla. Bigger Isn’t Necessarily Better If registration climbs again, SXSW organizers will have a real dilemma.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 16, 2010

It's a new way to use social media from a sales standpoint that is being overlooked.

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