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. Perhaps this is the fault of FriendFeed’s realtime feature.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 11, 2008

Nearly four months later, the social features appear to be here to stay. As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face. But are they secure?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

It’s about time that I bring the dialogue here since it’s evident that I’m already starting to grow fond of the brand new social network. The Early Adopter Appeal Mixx is a new social news site that went into private beta a mere two months ago. And for that reason, you should join–now. Will it Mixx?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

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. First, I’m going to say kudos to Apple for trying involve themselves in the world of social media. I’m going to stop there, though.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

They are also the most likely to pass the word along to their circle of friends, family, and acquaintances (a prerequisite to “going viral” within social channels). However, if your website and email messages don’t call attention to these features you’ve lost out on the opportunity to reach these folks and make these things happen.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Social Media > Thoughts on Digg’s Latest Features: Thumbs Up Thoughts on Digg’s Latest Features: Thumbs Up by Tamar Weinberg on December 17, 2007 Share When I was at Pubcon last week, Digg launched its highly anticipated images section.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Social media experts realise that you can’t control what people say about you online, but you can continue to focus on putting out your best work possible, whatever your medium can be. I am absolutely tired of all the profiles with “Social Media Expert&#. Tamar, looking forward to featuring you soon!

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The Way of the Web

DECEMBER 22, 2009

December 22nd, 2009 · View Comments Having read up on the features of WordPress 2.9 TheWayoftheWeb will continue as a personal commentary/memory aid/guide to social networks, marketing, mobile, videogames, technology and the media industry. Tags: Blogging blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners:

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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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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Before rolling out ANY type of social media application, whether it’s blogs, or a wiki, or microblogging, make sure that you do an assessment of your user culture first. Yammer is a microblogging application similar to Twitter, only it’s focused on businesses. Are they rewarded or punished for collaborating?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

I met him on StumbleUpon over a year ago and he is one of those kids who never ceases to amaze me; he totally understands social media and his 22 Reasons for You to Blog was even featured in my annual Best Posts of 2009 roundup. Thank you very much for the feature! Reply Sean June 10, 2010 at 8:29 pm Hey thanks for featuring me!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Comcast did it early, and Frank Eliason today (who, by the way, is featured in the book I wrote) is really the role model for excellent customer service using online technologies. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us That’s not to say it should only be done on Twitter though.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. and social media sphere.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

For example, when someone posted a video parody on YouTube, it was featured in local Philippine television. 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 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?)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Twitter is one of the largest social networking sites, featuring users from various walks of lives. Your Status Matters Twitter is not just any kind of social networking site. Here is what I found in his bio “ www.BieberFever.com Request my single SOMEBODY TO LOVE featuring USHER!!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Social Media isn’t only Social Networks. Do the same thing for your social networks, and your other interactions. If a customer calls in to thank you personally, follow up with an appreciative email. Make their experience with you as sweet as possible. Sometimes it’s plain-old personal communication.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Tweet Spinner Feature Set Tweet Spinner features four main features. Sadly, this feature has become necessary, and TweetSpinner helps you maintain anti-spam rules to weed out the junk. This is a subscriber-only feature and occurs every four hours. Profile Rotator Here’s another great feature of Tweet Spinner.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

It also reminds you that Facebook is one of their social destinations on the web, but that you might be interested in their YouTube page. Their YouTube page, ironically, only features a playlist of videos that they love but does not show any videos made by themselves, such as the process of making a Peanut Butter Cup. I know I would.)

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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

AUGUST 18, 2009

What about benefiting the blog you hope to be featured on? If you genuinely believe that there are specific blogs that you want to involve yourself in or that your company should be featured in, you need to spend more than 5 minutes crafting a pitch as to why you or your company is good enough for the job.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

You can do a photo essays or present a gallery of images that you or your graphic designers have Photoshopped–and you can feature tutorials on how to make the best out of your photography/graphic design skills. I work with the Social Network Team at my job, so your advice comes in handy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

But with all other social networks, there are rules of engagement that are determined by the community. More information and tips for usage can be read in The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. StumbleUpon is different from many other social sites in that it works via a toolbar installation on your browser.

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Josh S Peters

JANUARY 25, 2009

Social Networks Active Rain – A social network for real estate professionals to gather and tell their war stories, start conversations, get advice, and connect with each other. Twitter – More of a microblogging site its quite like a small social network where you can meet and communicate with people.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Reply Jonha April 14, 2010 at 7:25 pm Hi Tamar, Social media is fun as it is interactive but once abused, or if you spend too much time on it, it will really get a little too routine and boring. It is something that always amaze me when I am talking about social application. Thanks for commenting. Have you seen this video ?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Kelly via Pownce ) i am sick and tired of social networks and i really dont want messages and friend lists and about me stuff. i like digg because its different and i hope that difference doesnt erode with these new features. social networking site. I will say that I enjoy the fan feature.

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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. social conversation tools (FriendFeed, and maybe you could even lump in Disqus and the like with it).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

Additionally, because we feature an exclusive ad inventory from some of the biggest brands in the world including Blackberry, L’Oreal, Dominos Pizza, National Geographical, and Microsoft our ads are actively of interest to site visitors. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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The Way of the Web

JANUARY 10, 2010

Indeed if you manage to find the actual Click section of the BBC website , there are already features on many of the big CES gadgets on video, and an interview with Steve Ballmer. It’s something I come across every day with the sheer weight of microblogging stories I could cover on 140char.com if I had infinite time available.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We are working on updating Seesmic Windows and it will address a number of features that all Seesmic users have pointed out. Although I’m not a big fan of microblogging, I will admit that it has becoming more and more useful as the pace of technology and business becomes faster. It’s worth taking the time to understand.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

but I was an early adopter of social networks from when I first opened my 3.5″ On the other hand, my first ever interaction on AOL was with someone who was separated from my social network by only one degree. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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ProBlogger

MAY 6, 2012

The three biggest points of difference that you need to understand about Tumblr are: the social networking aspects of Tumblr. how to use the “on-site” features of Tumblr to grow your blog. Tumblr’s social networking aspects. Utilizing Tumblr’s on-site features. Sound familiar?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2008

For something with audio as it’s main feature, recording on a noisy street isn’t ideal. 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 At least I thought so. I know I’m not alone.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

You can use Google Alerts or Social Mention’s alert feature. I prefer Social Mention because they are more thorough than Google. What social media site gives me the most traffic? According to your web analytics, what social media site gets you more traffic? Great questions! Thanks for commenting.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

Some said we lost our innocence in the Kaycee Nicole scandal, but there still exists a vast network of potential support out here in the social networks, and from time to time scammers succeed in tapping into this resource. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

If there’s one recurring theme that I feature here on Techipedia, it’s the fact that social media marketing relates to dealings with other individuals. Social Media is More than Just Twitter and Facebook >> This is absolutely right. There’s no shortage of opportunity to connect with the right people.

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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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