Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Don’t make your social media efforts half-assed. Don’t check in on Twitter and Facebook once or twice a week and only for 10 minutes. I understand that some people may have other responsibilities on top of social media. If you’re going to engage in social media, do it! Yeah, most of us do.

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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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

Your Facebook Fan page will have 0 fans. That’s not really convincing social proof. Then, when you’re joining a community for the first time, you’ll need to study the users and slowly build relationships with them. MrBabyMan , Digg’s top user, was an unknown once. He is going online today.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

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. Reply Mrunal March 5, 2010 at 1:27 am Its so true, be social, be real and dont try to sell. Exactly right.

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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. Your Facebook Page should be created under your primary Facebook login.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

Thirdly, get social and join social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon to connect with people and make friends! Social media is also a great way to promote your blog posts. A longitudinal study would be fun. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Reply Linda February 14, 2008 at 11:36 pm I posted this on Digg. I have started a group on Facebook called Warning! Reply KJR December 13, 2008 at 9:52 am Sorry that Facebook Group should be: Warning! Good job for putting up with the dumb ass people who rant rather than study the facts. It’s well worth the read.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

I’ve already stated that I love apps built on the Digg API , and anyone with some programing know-how can build an excellent web-based or standalone utility. 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

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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Hiring for Social Media How to Evaluate Social Media Street Cred (Logic+Emotion): Do you know if that person is able to handle a social media marketing initiative? David Armano suggests to study out the candidate first; they shouldn’t just be focused on Twitter, for example. Are Your Facebook Fans Truly Engaged?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media. Social media. Whether youre socializing on Facebook , updating Twitter , or just adding a new bookmark to Ma.gnolia , social media has become an integral part of our daily lives. Think of it as Facebook for bloggers (well, before Facebook was for everyone.)

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. What other social media fallacies do you have? You are indeed the perfect case study. You are indeed the perfect case study.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? Social Media Strategy Worksheet from Jay Baer at Convince and Convert As a social media consultant, I specialize in helping companies create and implement social media strategy. Sessions start October 5.

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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. Facebook Ads: Will They Work for You? (SEO

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Because social media is so interactive, it can constantly shift and change; therefore, a savvy marketer needs to be extremely familiar with the community and know how each social media website audience is different from the next. Also, one story on the Digg home page does not an expert make.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

However, comScore, the leading internet marketing research firm recently did a study on Kontera In-Text ads and found among other things, that we’re actually one of the least disruptive ad formats. 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

AUGUST 18, 2009

Study those blogs to grasp the blog’s culture and why (or what criteria is used) to cover a specific product or service. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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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.

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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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

It’s why Zappos is always the big Twitter brand awareness case study. I am a new starter – still learning and studying social media so any help would be great. In the “real&# non-online world, we have different social circles that never or rarely intersect. or “What’s happening?&#

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

The leader of a nonprofit (that is doing great things) asked me for some social media advice. I got sucked into HOURS of consulting to show him the basics of Facebook (he was a tech luddite) and he argued with me for much of it. Why would someone pay money to work my facebook? After I was done, I said “never again!&#

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

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. I actually also found out that PayPal was being accepted via Facebook through Jeremiah and not through the regular blogs I read that cover the social space/tech industry. Reply Jay G.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

I spent time on AOL as remote staff, growing my connections online (and some interestingly would later become colleagues) until I dropped AOL entirely to focus on my studies. Today, Facebook or MySpace will help you locate lost family or reunite with old friends. That was almost a decade ago.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

, also gathering intelligence via their rankings on top social sites and by stumbling upon new items in my feed reader. Since I can’t read everything written by the Internet Marketing community, I ask my Twitter and Facebook followers for their own recommendations. Social Media (and Beyond): Small Business.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Top 10 Reasons Why Great Content Fails on Social Media : In case you’re still emphasizing submissions on social sites, here’s why your content … uh, appears to suck. How to Commit Social Media Suicide : Some people don’t get social media. Personally, I think Digg will ban you when you get popular.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Around that time, though, I noticed that TLC was promoting Foursquare as Facebook within their TV programs. I elected instead to go to their Facebook account with the hopes that perhaps my luck would be better there. What about their Facebook wall? Again, Facebook was eventually cleaned up.) And I waited. I was wrong.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

Create your own marketing system I recommend that people take a portion of their day to learn as much as they can about what people are saying about them, as well as review competitor and partner activities, and peruse industry trends and case studies. You won’t be able to scale your brand on fifty social networks.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2007

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > MySpace and Facebook: A Social Class Divide? MySpace and Facebook: A Social Class Divide? by Tamar Weinberg on June 26, 2007 Share A recent study performed by Ph.D.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 25, 2012

A lot has changed from the days when Digg was the only share button people used on their posts and – besides going directly to a website – RSS was the most common way to consume blog content. This transition happened most notably in parallel with the rise of Twitter and Facebook as platforms to share content.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

Meanwhile, I’ve been working on building out a social media strategic plan for a really interesting company. Their social media efforts were spearheaded by a guy who looks like a nice dude, but after studying his personal Twitter feed, it was almost the same kind of thing: the process was almost wholly automated.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Hopefully, if you’ve followed the right books, blogs, and people, you’ll be armed with pretty decent case studies and pretty decent material to embark on your own journey. No, building your personal brand in social media does not count. In social media marketing, the assets are missing. Or they need to find you.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2008

New Contests, Sweepstakes,& Free Stuff Listings December 18, 2008 at 12:57 pm People amaze me! plus i’m in law school and i’m sure I can share this stuff with other kids in my class to help us relax from all that studying! Studies hard every day. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 20, 2012

Headlines are constantly streaming throughout the internet on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Digg, Delicious and all of the rest of the social media, social bookmarking and social news sites. Compelling headlines (and pictures) drive sales and readership.

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