Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Then the comments come in, and a conversation takes place. The admin (Professor Macdonald) / moderator (students teaching the class on a given day) create categories of conversation, which are analogous to deciding on forum names/topics and sticky threads. (In Non-sticky threads can be pushed down by threads with newer comments.)

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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? Three cheers for them! page views SEO ROI — 1.2

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

There you have it: seven viral video characteristics that start the conversations and get the wheels turning. Do you mean conversions? This might be via power players on social networks (eg, this story is moving on Sphinn) or even national TV (Susan Boyle’s video was a recording of a popular TV show).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. Yes “Social media is all about making changes&#.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. 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

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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

Plurk introduced a comment system which helps create a conversational feel. So marking a conversation or message, to be found easily later, should be one of the first features implemented. All this communication and web socializing takes too much time (even if it is fun).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

Once funding goes in, it almost always follows that the site creators distance themselves from the “politics&# of the site (especially with a growing community), instead hiring “worker bees&# to partake in conversation (if at all) on their behalf. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 9, 2007

First, some educational takeaways: Social media is the “new&# medium for businesses to communicate with consumers in a way that is interesting to them. Every conversation shifted to Twitter, as folks recognized that they can brand themselves and their businesses through a Twitter identity.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. 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

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

The internet and technology ownership has changed everything: digital TV, mobile phones, iPods, weblogs, instant messaging, [and] social networking. Young people of the new WWW generation snuck in whenever, wherever, and on whatever they like. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

It’s awesome people can promote knowing trick in the book about facebook and twitter, but do they know how to read the subtext of a situation and really get in someones world in a conversation. 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 15, 2010

They’re designed to be chatty – as if you were having a conversation with a friend. In the long run, you can achieve phenomenal readership and conversion. Most people would go for the easy path that is to stuff keywords in the writing for search engine and over look the importance to write great content for the readers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. 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

APRIL 2, 2008

It will be a conversation starter! Reply mark April 3, 2008 at 5:46 pm Hey Tamar – new site looks great! 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

If you’re not following the conversation regularly, your customers might just flock to your competitors instead. This is especially true of other social networks, especially ones where you were originally untrusted. I turned off the posts on Buzz mostly for the issue that Google doesn’t truncate the posts.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

It’s about building relationships, spending time on the networks, and having regular conversations with the people you want to connect with who you will value for more than just helping move the needle and getting to the bottom line. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Companies are still challenged with whether they *should* get involved in the conversation. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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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.&# 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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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.

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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. Be responsive.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Exploring the Royal Caribbean Promotional Marketing Strategy by Tamar Weinberg on March 12, 2009 Share My husband Brian , who knows firsthand how much I eat, drink, and sleep social media, pointed me to an interesting critique by ExpertCruiser on a 2007 social media marketing campaign by Royal Caribbean.

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Companies are at the stage that they cannot afford to sit idly by and be passive in social media. The time has come for companies to be part of the conversation. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! I’d like to put in my $0.02

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Branding is a result of many things including your blog, your social network profile, your online resume, and how good you are at reputation management, to name a few. Lesson # 5 Use Social Networks. Id add another point: Learn to use social media monitoring tools to follow conversations across the entire eco-system.

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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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Despite the fact that Facebook has the most customizable privacy settings of all social networks (though we could argue with their effectiveness in a whole other post), people don’t like maintaining a “business&# identity on the same profile as their “personal&# (fun?) People use both networks as a free-for-all.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Reem Abeidoh , Social Media Strategist : A social media marketer provides strategic online recommendations based on the client’s business goals and intensive research. To participate in the conversation, marketers will need to be able to have and provide greater access to decision makers – speed of response is crucial.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

The easiest way to find these people is to find the communities that your users frequently visit, be it forums, Twitter, or other social networks. get Twitter mentions of your brand via RSS or email) or use a service like Backtype (backtype.com) to see comments across blogs and other social media sites (such as FriendFeed).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. This is a huge challenge for someone who wants to sell their product using social media. Does social media convert?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 27, 2009

In the end, the bond between those immersed in the social media sphere is a bond that exists nowhere else. I really try to get to know these people who I converse with online. Reply Nick Stamoulis August 12, 2009 at 9:38 am The power of social marketing has surprised many. Meet them, if I may. That was a good post!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

This method is smart because it helps build interest on another platform and drives conversions directly on their home base. Disclosure: I helped plant the social media seeds for rushIMPRINT.) Aggregate Your Other Social Streams If you’re only on Facebook, this step isn’t for you. If so, don’t.

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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?

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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Your best bet is to consider an integrated marketing plan that consists of social media and other marketing tactics, because the act of just being nice to people online won’t bring you conversions. People Want More If the chart above is any indication, it’s without question that social media has grown by leaps and bounds.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Reply jeanette okwu April 8, 2010 at 3:10 pm great thoughts, but here come the hard part: business owners, entrepreneurs and other big cheeses think that social media brings overnight success to their brands just by setting up a bunch of social network accounts. It is nice to see people having an honest conversation.

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