Proactive Report

MAY 24, 2012

You need to find people or groups who already love and support your brand and would be delighted to forward your message. But in most cases a brand ambassador is likely to be someone with a decent following online, either on their blog, Facebook, Twitter or other social news sites like Digg , Reddit or StumbleUpon.

Brands 101

Brands Klout StumbleUpon Digg 101

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

That doesn’t typically fly elsewhere (Facebook will kill the account), but Times Square on Friendster required 2 accounts at the time because I maxed out on the initial 500 person limit. The High Point: Facebook In 2004, I joined Facebook and my behavior changed drastically. I had many friends just like that.

MySpace 114

MySpace LinkedIn Facebook Social Networking 114

ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

In fact, a blog is just a tool for publishing and conversing online. The good news is, all blog software automatically provide this feature out of the box. Social media. Bloggers often hold contests or group projects to encourage others to blog about certain topics. Use social media as micro-blogging platforms.

Marketing 35

Marketing Blogger Forums Syndication 35

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Then the comments come in, and a conversation takes place. Typically, a fair portion of the class involves group work and some interactive elements — we’ve had discussions, card games, Jeopardy, chart-making, a range of Montessori activities, videos, song-writing and much more. I see this seminar as a forum.

Social Media 189

Social Media Class Forums Microblogging 189

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In the post, I shared my don’ts of social networks, and to that point, I added the following rule for LinkedIn: Gathering all the email addresses of users you are connected to — even locating email addresses of LinkedIn Group managers — and utilizing this mailing list to promote your own company or service off-site.

Newsletter 144

Newsletter Handbook Virtual World LinkedIn 144

ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

In fact, a blog is just a tool for publishing and conversing online. The good news is, all blog software automatically provide this feature out of the box. Social media. Bloggers often hold contests or group projects to encourage others to blog about certain topics. Use social media as micro-blogging platforms.

How To 26

How To Marketing Blogger Forums 26

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

After all, Facebook could eat the web. 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 use a Facebook Group. Therefore, it’s a force to be reckoned with.

Facebook 279

Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

There you have it: seven viral video characteristics that start the conversations and get the wheels turning. To be sure, though, solicit feedback from a group of trusted peers not directly involved in your company or marketing objectives before going ahead with publishing the video, since you need an unbiased opinion.

Video 236

Video Flash Mob YouTube MySpace 236

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. So the question arose – was social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together?

Social Media 100

Social Media StumbleUpon SEO ROI 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

This is no less true for the world of social networks. Networks like Digg, FriendFeed, and Facebook are seeing huge growths in value, but the little guys, the ones actually providing the meat and potatoes for those operations, rarely see a nickel. This new world is an evolution of the Web and it cannot be undone.

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Aggregator Content Digg Posterous 151

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. In fact, most of them had already left.

Digg 100

Digg Sites News API 100

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. By studying their feed, you can learn a lot more about how important social media is to them.

Plaxo 103

Plaxo Picasa StumbleUpon Netvibes 103

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Media is optional It doesn’t matter what the demographics of your customers are. Your company needs to be part of that conversation. And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. What other social media fallacies do you have? Leave a comment please.

Social Media 149

Social Media Strategy Consultant Web 2.0 149

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? It looked like a great one, and my best intentions of attending were abruptly detoured in the chase for new biz. Social Media 101 Explained by the Best Fishing Analogy EVER =-. Sessions start October 5.

Social Media 167

Social Media Strategy Consultant Conference 167

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Perhaps this is a “take heed&# call to community participants who engage on the social web, but while ExpertCruiser warns its readers that this is a scummy practice, in reality, scouring social sites for mentions of your product, service, and even your competitors is nothing new.

Brands 133

Brands Message Boards Travel Forums 133

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Young people of the new WWW generation snuck in whenever, wherever, and on whatever they like. Everything is multi: multi-screens, multi-channeled, multi-conversations, and multitasking. Totally connected groups are average sharers, creating as much as they can consume and using free sites to display it all. Of course I do.

Meme 100

Meme Digg Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. As a side point, Google is a bigger beast and it has tens or hundreds of staff members visiting forums and moderating groups to ensure that the user experience is a good one. Time will only tell.

Digg 100

Digg Social Media Upcoming Ustream 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Brian explains that “conversations are happening and it is up to me to either be part of them or not.&# Today, it appears every retail or business concern says ‘follow us on Twitter’ or ‘be our friend on Facebook.’ They go out of their way to welcome any social media-initiated guests in person.

Hotels 245

Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Personal , Social Media > Want to Friend Me on Facebook? Please Use My Public Page or LinkedIn Instead Want to Friend Me on Facebook? There really aren’t 350 million members on Facebook. identity.

Facebook 233

Facebook LinkedIn Social Networking Microblogging 233

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. Conversation Agent): How do you want to use Twitter? It’s really not that hard!

Marketing 265

Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Anyone can visit online meeting places like Digg and Reddit and promote the voices and opinions of others, and anyone can mobilize a group of people around a common cause on Facebook or elsewhere. Companies are at the stage that they cannot afford to sit idly by and be passive in social media. I’d like to put in my $0.02

Social Media 105

Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

That’s why you need to paint a picture that’s more meaningful and encompasses what “social media&# as a label really is. Some of us have been thrust into social media simply because the online landscape showed potential for online conversations. These are conversations, not broadcasts. Engagement.

Social Media 278

Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Marketers love Facebook. The best place you can place your brand on Facebook is through a Facebook Page (that’s with a capital “P&# , not to be confused with your personal Profile). Facebook Pages do not allow background images like Twitter, Myspace, and other services. This applies to Pages as well.

Facebook 279

Facebook How To Applications URL 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

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. Therefore, I suppose the nested conversations and time-line layout make complete sense. and social media sphere.

Twitter 199

Twitter Microblogging MySpace Comparison 199

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. Some communities are very open to marketers being there and contributing to the conversation.

Social Media 163

Social Media Marketing Consultant Communities 163

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

So you tweet and facebook for a living! So I challenged myself to create a list of 10 responsibilities of the Community Manager that extend beyond the realm of Facebook and Twitter (and yes, even blogging). Your sales people are on Facebook half the day, and your receptionist tweets way too much during work.

Communities 237

Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

Koka Sexton

MARCH 11, 2014

Increasing sales by getting social. Most people will be using Facebook , Twitter or LinkedIn and small companies can take advantage.It’s rubbish that social isn’t about sales, he says. LinkedIn Groups – Your Secret Weapon For Sales Success [Infographic]. Daily LinkedIn Checklist For Your Sales Reps.

LinkedIn 104

LinkedIn Hubspot Team News 104

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

It’s not enough to be insular and focus on your groups of friends. You may find people who are surfing outside your social circle who might be potentially interested in your products. At business networking events, try to get to know people outside your group of trusted colleagues. You never know who you might meet.

Twitter 205

Twitter Sports Microblogging HootSuite 205

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

The newsletter, which was sent within the first week of the month, would include new research findings from surveys conducted by research groups such as the Pew Research Center, new discoveries from a marketing firm’s eye tracking study, or data that was recently culled across a multitude of SEO agency case study reports.

Marketing 264

Marketing SEO Case Study Small Business 264

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. What are the most popular sites in these age groups?

Marketing 144

Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

I explicitly had this conversation with this guy this morning… and I got the sense that he was overly generous. The leader of a nonprofit (that is doing great things) asked me for some social media advice. It usually ends the conversation right there. Tamar Weinberg July 29, 2010 at 5:14 pm I hear that.

Products 267

Products Consultant Price Social Media 267

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

A quick and handy way to get a snapshot of the “social media rank&# of any website. Metrics include traffic stats from Alexa, Compete and Quantcast; backlinks and results by search engine; backlinks and mentions on the major social news sites and more. Share this on Facebook. BackUpMyTweets. Share this on Bebo.

Tools 188

Tools Social Media Radian6 CoTweet 188

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google. So it is not a surprise to me that LinkedIn is seeing easily the highest growth rate among social networking sites. 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. ReadWriteTalk.

LinkedIn 109

LinkedIn Google Directory API 109

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Over the next few months, I received multiple invites to various groups on Facebook and messages imploring me to participate in activities in which I had no interest. All social media etiquette rules were not heeded to. “I am a relatively new internet marketer trying to break into the industry,&# he wrote.

Marketing 240

Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

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). A great example is how he provided a deep matrix into Google Buzz, Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter just a few days after Buzz was launched.

Blogosphere 278

Blogosphere Blogger Comments Tips 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Facebook, originally known as thefacebook.com, was a service that connected college students to their classmates and to friends in other universities. I’ve briefly touched upon a huge pet peeve of mine in my social media etiquette handbook , saying that you should use your real name and not represent anyone (or anything) else.

Facebook 268

Facebook SEO Policies Groups 268

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

In fact, before Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook came out into the open, they dimmed the lights, pumped up the volume, and introduced Mark with some catchy Daft Punk tunes. Sarah Lacy: Facebook is playing a strong role throughout the world. Facebook helps people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Web 2.0 104

Web 2.0 MySpace Applications Microsoft 104