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JANUARY 28, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Viral Marketing > 7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos 7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos by Tamar Weinberg on January 28, 2010 Share In the past few years, video has come a long way. It shows the power of mashup.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

by Tamar Weinberg on January 19, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Samir Balwani , the founder of Training Social , a resource for those interested in social media training. Techipedia readers can use code Tamar for a 15% limited time discount when registering. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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JULY 15, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Marketing > 7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins 7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins by Tamar Weinberg on July 15, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Frank Lee. What they want is concise, interesting, and most importantly, intelligible content.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Right now, you’ll find the likes of Tamar , Jonathan , Lisa and Rebecca in my feed reader, and consequently, in that box. He’s also a huge fan of Tamar and very thankful to have her offer him this opportunity. Deliver smart, innovative, to the point content that provides genuine value.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

If you take a look at any one of their four accounts , you’ll notice one thing: they’re not using Twitter to converse but to broadcast. 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.

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JUNE 3, 2010

If you’re not following the conversation regularly, your customers might just flock to your competitors instead. Reply Tamar Weinberg June 3, 2010 at 10:25 am Thanks Ronen. Reply Sarah June 3, 2010 at 10:36 am Thanks for this great post, Tamar! My son just turned one (time flies, doesn’t it?) Silence can hurt you.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Brian explains that “conversations are happening and it is up to me to either be part of them or not.&# Reply Tamar Weinberg March 4, 2010 at 4:55 pm You know what’s funny? Reply Bsimi March 4, 2010 at 11:11 am Tamar, You have proven where our success is generated. love the roger smith. It’s fun!

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JUNE 18, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Social Media > Plutter Kite: The Ultimate Micro-Blogging Service Plutter Kite: The Ultimate Micro-Blogging Service by Tamar Weinberg on June 18, 2008 Share This is a guest post from Samir Balwani of Internet Marketing blog Left the Box.com.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

Epic Change merely starts with Twitter; the conversations are then moved offline and interested parties are sent the phone number to the organization’s headquarters so that they can discuss how to help with one of the staff members in terms of getting involved to make a difference. But Twitter is the tip of the iceberg. Answers Yahoo!

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Of course, if you know them and can actually have lengthy conversations with the person day after day, that obviously means your relationship has made it to the next level.) Reply Tamar Weinberg December 8, 2009 at 10:51 am LinkedIn gives you email addresses; Twitter is different in the sense that the email addresses are not visible.

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MARCH 4, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Business , Websites > You Can Learn a Great Deal from a 17-Year-Old You Can Learn a Great Deal from a 17-Year-Old by Tamar Weinberg on March 12, 2007 Share I must have first heard of Quizlet through Lifehacker. You might find a use!!!

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DECEMBER 9, 2007

Every conversation shifted to Twitter, as folks recognized that they can brand themselves and their businesses through a Twitter identity. Good content and copywriting will win over new readers and customers. December 9, 2007 at 5:43 pm Great to finally meet you in person, Tamar! And where the hell were you? Take that, Becs!

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JULY 21, 2009

Social media, quite simply, relates to the usage of content created by easily accessible publishing technologies (social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter, photo publishing sites such as Flickr, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo) that is generated by the hundreds of millions of consumers utilizing these technologies.

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APRIL 2, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Completely Random , Personal , Web Design > Techipedia Redesign is Finally Live Techipedia Redesign is Finally Live by Tamar Weinberg on April 2, 2008 Share After months (and I mean months) of planning, the blog redesign for techipedia is finally live.

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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. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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MAY 28, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Business , Marketing , Social Media > Social Media Strategy from A to Z Social Media Strategy from A to Z by Tamar Weinberg on May 28, 2010 Share Social media might be old. These are conversations, not broadcasts. Be responsive.

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MARCH 31, 2008

Tagged as: 4x4 , 4x4 meme , meme , social media { 7 comments… read them below or add one } Chris Kieff March 31, 2008 at 8:59 am Tamar, Thanks for the link love and the response. I tag Tamar to answer four more questions (different ones). Reply Tamar Weinberg March 31, 2008 at 6:34 pm You are naughty, Jason! Answers Yahoo!

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JANUARY 12, 2010

by Tamar Weinberg on December 19, 2007 Share How do you leverage different social networks? The only Random person (hence 0%) is another girl named Tamar Weinberg. Reply Jon Kelly December 19, 2007 at 10:52 am Ok, Tamar. Thank you Reply Tamar Weinberg December 19, 2007 at 10:57 am Yuvi, yes, Excel. Thanks to you.

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AUGUST 27, 2008

by Tamar Weinberg on August 27, 2008 Share While I prepare to relocate (I’m moving next week!), While some argue that StumbleUpon traffic is targeted, the broad nature of content categories and misclassification of content means this is rarely the case. It is all relative to the content and the site.

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MAY 19, 2008

There’s a bottom line: it’s a lot harder to sweep your mistakes under the rug, especially as a company in a world of conversing markets. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009). © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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MAY 9, 2008

It was harder for the good stories to bubble to the top even though most people who would have voted on this content endorsed the content and trusted the submitter (which isn’t exactly easy on Digg). Reply Tamar Weinberg May 9, 2008 at 8:43 am You can still do that with karma points and not rankings.

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MARCH 12, 2009

zaifmand (Dror Zaifman) says: @tamar In my opinion brand evangelism is not a bad thing at all. AdamBroitman (Adam Broitman) says: @tamar why would brand evangelism be a bad thing? TimMoore (Tim Moore) says: @tamar dinner certificate? chiropractic (Planet Chiropractic) says: @tamar I think it’s a good thing.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2008

But it makes another thing clear: unless Digg acknowledges that its users are valuable assets to the company’s growth, Digg is not going anywhere , because if it does, there will be new people on staff who will have to control the flow of the conversation in their favor. I would ask some philosophical questions, however.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

by Tamar Weinberg on February 22, 2008 Share This is a guest post from Pierre Far, who recently launched a very cool program called Social Alerter which notifies you as soon as your website has a solid chance of hitting the Digg or del.icio.us The time has come for companies to be part of the conversation. tamar… better?

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JANUARY 5, 2009

It’s not only about the algorithm but on understanding how SU can be used for content discovery and sharing. StumbleUpon Networking: How to Easily Share Content and Build Relationships (Dosh Dosh): The concept of sharing on StumbleUpon is obvious and it’s built-in for a reason.

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MAY 5, 2010

In short, you’ll need to install the Static FBML app, add a custom tab, and learn the language, which is very similar to HTML, to create content that is appealing to your customers and prospects. This method is smart because it helps build interest on another platform and drives conversions directly on their home base.

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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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JANUARY 5, 2010

But more than that, Mike’s post explains that social media is really about using social channels appropriately to communicate and converse — and as an extension of that, you might just end up being able to sell something. And like last year, I have a gift for you. Every year, I read hundreds (thousands?) So what are they to do?

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JULY 29, 2010

A few high profile folks have even called my readers lucky for getting great content without any up front monetary commitment. (If If you want great beginner social media content behind a pay wall, check out Exploring Social Media , a project I am working on with Jason Falls and some other great minds.) Leaders are accessible.

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APRIL 14, 2010

by Tamar Weinberg on April 14, 2010 Share For most, social media is new and fun. Nobody wants to have to to a minority that seems to be unhappy with the content you’ve spent hours upon hours writing. I’m still reading content every day — even the stuff I already know — to consistently grow.

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JULY 1, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Industry News > Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them by Tamar Weinberg on July 1, 2010 Share Inspired by my recent post on How Young is Too Young? ,

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I consider my current @tamar network, though, either quite knowledgeable or clueless and inactive (as in the case of my family — I still love them but they’re not the target audience for my Twitter account , which is rather social-media focused). I promote good content. Enter a second Twitter account. I promote friends.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Consistency If you want your blog to be recognized as a household name, you better be consistent at providing quality content on a regular basis. Bloggers like Valeria Maltoni of Conversation Agent , who don’t have a team of bloggers at arm’s length, offer content on a very regular basis (in Valeria’s case, 6 days a week).

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JULY 8, 2008

by Tamar Weinberg on July 8, 2008 Share With many individuals finding great success with social media (and as an aside, a basic understanding of search engine optimization ), they immediately consider themselves social media marketers and consultants (as well as seasoned SEOs) and offer to sell their promotional services. Others aren’t.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Please Use My Public Page or LinkedIn Instead by Tamar Weinberg on January 12, 2010 Share Here’s a truism that Facebook PR is not sure how to readily admit. Reply Tamar Weinberg January 12, 2010 at 12:46 pm Hey Joel – Woohoo! Please Use My Public Page or LinkedIn Instead Want to Friend Me on Facebook? It’s not.

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MARCH 17, 2010

So if you’re spending $200 a day on your Social Media campaign, and let’s say your product is $100 worth per item, let’s say you’re bringing 100 people to the website, and your Google Analytics shows a 15% conversion rate to a warm lead, and a 15% conversion rate of warm leads to paying clients purchasing one item.

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JULY 27, 2009

Reply Tamar Weinberg July 27, 2009 at 4:44 pm Chris Jones: I argue that we do. we met on StumbleUpon… i agree with Tamar that “online interactions can translate into something incredibly powerful offline.&# I really try to get to know these people who I converse with online. See you around Tamar!

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