Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Here’s a screenshot of a story that became popular with a whopping 235 Diggs. It was taken the night of January 28, 2008 (approximately 11PM EST): While Digg typically allowed stories to hit the front page within 80-120 votes (the latter being more rare than normal), it’s now requiring almost double the number.

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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. Their commitment to social media : Are they dabblers in social media or serious aficionados?

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Plaxo Picasa StumbleUpon Netvibes 103

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. This kid is awesome.) Become a del.icio.us

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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

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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SEO Social Media Marketing Reputation 162

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. Social news is about reciprocal relationships. Submitting a story to a social news site that is completely off-topic. Can we say spam?

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Handbook Social Media Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

Here’s how I do it : I read and review hundreds — thousands — of articles yearly, on all Internet Marketing topics from SEO to social media to general entrepreneurship (new for 2010!), also gathering intelligence via their rankings on top social sites and by stumbling upon new items in my feed reader.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Tagged as: blogs , college , forums , law school , seminars , social media , vbulletin , wordpress { 2 trackbacks } What Can I Do For You, Commentators? Dana Lookadoo December 3, 2008 at 8:36 pm Gab, LinkedIn launched new apps at the end of October, including sharing of books through Amazon, WordPress blog feeds, etc.

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Social Media Class Forums Microblogging 189

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

In other words, I can check someone’s Friendfeed page and get any information I want about them, including when they are actively engaged in social media activities and how much of a priority social media is to them in their online habits and information consumption.

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Content Privacy StumbleUpon Digg 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

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 Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

Not everyone has accounts on the social sites you’re asking for votes on. And if you’re using StumbleUpon to solicit votes on Digg, do you think Digg doesn’t notice? If your content isn’t good enough to succeed on those social networks on their own, StumbleUpon isn’t going to help you.

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StumbleUpon Digg Social Networking Review 181

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

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 Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Apple Twitter Forums Policies 154

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

We have embarassing pictures in Google Maps , videos about the death of an innocent man in the hands of a “competent&# cop , and even Yelp reviews that can damage your personal reputation , never mind your business. If a company wants to have a stellar reputation today , they better think about giving good customer service.

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Social Media Strategy Marketing Vimeo 153

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

I now have status updates in my feed, and finally, I can see both happy and sad news. Digg is now part of social media and will be explained in the final chart. Let’s look at the industry and social media subcategories. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

If your colors are green and white, use those colors all over your social profiles. Integration Audit Am I integrating my social media profiles? When you integrate your profiles, you help build the relationships you have already started on each social site. Am I integrating offline marketing with my social profiles?

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Questions Social Media How To Postrank 277

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Whether it’s Flickr , StumbleUpon , Digg , del.icio.us , Twitter , Facebook , Sphinn , LinkedIn , blogs , blogs , more blogs , and even more blogs , you can find me looking for the most pertinent content that aligns with my interests. Tagged as: media snackers , social media , web 2.0 { 6 trackbacks } Media, Mm Mm Good!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

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. Who was he, I wondered, and was he credible? So I hopped on Twitter for a sneak into his daily activities.

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Social Media Klout Influencer Feed 251

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

In my case, I have particularly taken a liking to the News Feed. 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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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

blog with FeedBurner Social Media Release Criticism: Nine Points to Consider Social Media – Digg, MySpace,YouTube – Web 2.0 blog with FeedBurner Social Media Release Criticism: Nine Points to Consider Social Media – Digg, MySpace,YouTube – Web 2.0 Javo’s last blog post.

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List Social Media StumbleUpon Blogosphere 85

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I’ve personally taken this concept so far that I now have a pretty new box at the end of most blog posts which highlights other bloggers that I enjoy. 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

MARCH 10, 2008

Google and Microsoft are going after social networks and some people feel aren’t monetizable. Do they feel they’re getting their money’s worth (especially because sites like Digg and MySpace may not be)? Lacy : It’s interesting that you compare the News Feed and Beacon. Our mission is connecting people.

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Web 2.0 MySpace Applications Microsoft 104

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Social media connections are those I know through a variety of online forums, the blogosphere, Twitter, and the like (but I generally don’t befriend someone immediately; I still give it time). Digg I blindly accept friend requests and rarely if ever pay attention to “shouts&#. I don’t pretend to be interesting.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

This is especially true of other social networks, especially ones where you were originally untrusted. MrBabyMan , Digg’s top user, was an unknown once. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! &# question a hundred times.

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Social Media Marketing Digg Consultant 221

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

That’s really all I’m asking Reply Lori September 16, 2010 at 3:04 pm If TLC has so much spam to combat in so many social media arenas, why not just choose the setting on FB to only let people post to the “Just Others&# page and not to the main page? Regarding the spam issue, yes, I totally understand.

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Social Media Foursquare Marketing Flickr 217

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. Word travels. You can do better.

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Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Yes, Twitter and Facebook and Digg and other niche sites cost nothing to join, making social media a relatively free marketing option. Social Media is Often Permanent Everything you do and say online can be used against you. A good tip: think about it as a reputation tattoo. It’s not cheap in your time investment.

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Social Media Marketing Policies Sysomos 268

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Reply jimmy41687 June 25, 2010 at 6:57 am Well we all think that facebook is a social site but thats no true vcz e all know that facebook is controlled by cia and every bit of you information is stored in the facebook so we guys so be more carefull of wht we are doing Reply Tamar Weinberg June 25, 2010 at 9:19 am Um, thanks.

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Facebook SEO Policies Groups 268

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

After all, every interaction shows up on the Fan’s news feed. This is basic News Feed Optimization. look how much tweaking it is taking to make it work on their part: are you my fan – do you like me, what info has to show up in the news feed etc. and (3) the length of time since the action was done.

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Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

I selected influencers in all different “walks of life&# and areas of influence, from the blogosphere to the power users of Digg to founders of successful startups and authors of bestselling books. Andrew Sorcini Andrew Sorcini is also known as Mr. Baby Man and is Digg’s #1 User. He also founded Search Engine Watch.

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Influencer How To Press Release Blogger 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I DO own one for ORM, but I’ve left it as a news feed. I think that would make more sense to tweet under my other persona rather than @tamar, since people come to follow @tamar for my business/social media insights. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Twitter Sports Microblogging HootSuite 205

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

After all, this time, they’re not complaining about news feeds. For my own take on why Community Pages shouldn’t have been introduced, see the article I wrote for Reputation Online: [link] Reply aaronaut April 28, 2010 at 2:05 pm love it, love it, love it. I do not want to “disable” the news feed. Hear me out.

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Facebook Issues MySpace Privacy 277

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

It should also, at the same time, be something familiar to other Facebook users, as this is what they will see in their News feeds as their friends become fans or you post updates. It can be a pain to have to re-create a new Page and re-establish months of work building your Page if you get it wrong early on. Seems to work well.

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Facebook How To Applications URL 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

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 Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Blogosphere Blogger Comments Tips 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

Gabrielle then (claiming someone helped her) set up a ChipIn account, which was promoted on Digg and StumbleUpon by Lilly’s very close friend, DaveJazzHound. The main one: give to reputable non-profit groups and *steer* individuals towards these groups when in need. People hustling others on social media for a couple of dollars.

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Social Media StumbleUpon Communities MySpace 104

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Get Co-Workers Involved Online You absolutely have to get other people in the company involved in your Social Media efforts. It’s an imperative part of your job to not only control and monitor your company’s reputation, but to create it to begin with.

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Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

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. Features , Social Web , Trends. classroom , education , gen y , opml , social media. social networking. social media. social news.

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Class Social Media Web 2.0 Wiki 274

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Whether they be costs, regulations, social or anything else, newcomers must to overcome certain hurdles before they can open their doors or become successful. Once you do open a business you have to build a reputation. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Social media is by definition slow.

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Social Media Strategy Consultant Web 2.0 151