Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Apple has no such protocol in place, and at this point, there is no engagement. If you’re considering social media marketing for your business, no matter what size your company is, listening and engagement is key. Reply Louis Halpern December 1, 2009 at 6:17 am Brands should engage with their audience.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Get a handbook of style and learn how to communicate with properly constructed sentences. As a localization expert involved in Social Media Marketing I often observe real culture clashes. Even if you have mastered essential material that helps you support your own brand, you sabotage yourself when you neither speak nor write correctly.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Social news / bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, technorati, dig and others. Microblogs e.g. Twitter. Increase positive perceptions of brand by creating opportunities to listen to and engage with consumers. Engage in more effective public relations by understanding who the real influencers are. Thanks for sharing!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

By engaging the wedding party and having them dance down the aisle spontaneously, people watching the resultant video really felt the momentum. Genuine You don’t always have to engage in expensive video production to promote your wares, nor as the marketer do you have to create the video yourself. They got excited. They laughed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

In that way, I wish Quizlet, an online application to make learning vocabulary fun and engaging, was available back when I needed it. I remember taking classes, buying flashcards , and doing whatever it took to have a decent understanding of large words to score well on the SAT.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

You can’t take your first driving class on the highway without learning how to drive on local streets beforehand. Introduce yourself, engage in the community, and let them learn about your brand. But don’t jump into a 12 foot pool without learning how to swim first. Get acquainted with them and with their customers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The issue, of course, is engagement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

But while you’re likely part of the small group of professionals who understand that the rules of engagement do not change when we cross over to the virtual world, there’s an ocean of people who easily think that access to an email address or a “send message&# form is an opportunity.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I get the same e-mails, only they are about getting a #1 ranking in Google Reply Ian February 2, 2010 at 10:59 am This post is a prime example of how to be a true social media expert. Promote others heavily and let those less willing to work their arse off worry about labels like “Social Media Expert&#. Cheesy but true.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Often, the turning point for me on FF is when I post something and there’s no engagement, thereby reinforcing the thought that FriendFeed is a self-serving (good for FF, bad for us) platform that doesn’t ever benefit the content creator. They don’t care about really engaging with the content. And why only 4?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. Niche network: Sphinn : In the red corner we have Sphinn – a social news network dedicated purely to online marketing news and discussion. Subsequently, Sphinn is perhaps the most relevant niche social network on the web.

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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. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Tell people how to find you and give them a history. Here’s how to create a memorable Facebook Fan Page via FBML. As a result, engagement goes up as the page appears very active. Therefore, beyond letting them have control, grab the mic regularly (a few times per week and daily if possible) and engage your community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

I guess it’s assumed in social spaces that when s/he initiates the friend request, you can comment on anything on their Facebook wall or tweet back at them about something personal or even comment on a photo. If either parter is using social media professionally and you’re not, respect their need to do so and keep your distance.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

The attention economy is playing tug of war with our minds and we need to figure out what we want, when we want it, and how we want it. But before I engaged in so many social media spheres, I certainly wasn’t as well-rounded as I was prior to my participation. I would say that you need to find out what works for you.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

So instead of sticking your fingers in your ears and ignoring it (at your own peril), better to engage with those people and make them feel “felt&# and heard. Amazing how you can sway opinions… Reply Barry Welford July 21, 2009 at 12:40 pm Great post, Tamar, that covers all the points.

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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. There was only one occasion when the users were able to make a lasting impression on the social news site. Unfortunately, they simply don’t seem to know how to.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Keep building more valuable content and engage in marketing this content. Now I’m realizing how to effectively get my “voice&# out there. Can you share your path how to discover that? 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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JANUARY 12, 2010

March 2, 2008 at 11:42 am 8 Networking Tips To Engaging Business Relationships « DeansGuide August 21, 2008 at 1:23 pm The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook: The Most Egregious Sins on Social Media Sites, Exposed  techipedia | tamar weinberg December 10, 2008 at 9:02 am A Few Excellent Posts of the Day | StepForth Web Marketing Inc.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

At the end of the day, we know most people are active on social networks because they have some reason for being there (be it to make a sale or to establish authority, for example), but through your regular interactions, you need to recognize that these are byproducts of your genuine and authentic involvement. izmantot soci?los « Tur?t

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

by Tamar Weinberg on February 22, 2008 Share This is a guest post from Pierre Far, who recently launched a very cool program called Social Alerter which notifies you as soon as your website has a solid chance of hitting the Digg or del.icio.us We have all engaged in debates over the past few years about social media. If so, how?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

And read these tips on how to become a great blogger. The letter “C&# could be a lot of things, like “content,&# “consistency,&# and “community,&# but customer service is a big part of the evolution of social media. Engagement. Engagement requires regular interaction between you and others.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Perhaps this is a fact that her agency overlooked, so as a good friend, I told her that it would be in her best interest to learn about approved tactics through the many free blogs , to engage in acceptable and informative (though not free) SEO training , and to read the best SEO book/training program (aff).

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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. Good thing he proposes how to fix them also!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Please Use My Public Page or LinkedIn Instead by Tamar Weinberg on January 12, 2010 Share Here’s a truism that Facebook PR is not sure how to readily admit. That’s not how I want to use the network, and that’s why I won’t accept your friend request. There really aren’t 350 million members on Facebook.

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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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Scroll down to the end of the post for details on how to win. Update : Dave Dugdale of RentVine.com has graciously provided a video tutorial on how to create a “Fanbook page&# (it has a nice ring to it, right?). He’s volunteered to give away a copy of his recent book, FBML Essentials , to two readers. Thanks Dave!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

But with social media marketing, it doesn’t have to be. The only investment in the act of marketing on the social web is time and energy. Thankfully, you don’t have to go at social media marketing alone.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Public safety comes first but reputation management is something the company may want to engage in. What if a new formula is developed that does not have the same side effects? They should pull it until they figure out how to fix their product. If the issue is resolved they should move forward to clean things up.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I’ve seen internet marketers who sell products designed to help accounts gain hundreds of followers, which defeats the process of engaging an audience with outstanding content. That’s the model that works best for bloggers, and it works the same for social media too. Thanks so much for commenting!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 27, 2009

link] Reply Rubab July 28, 2009 at 11:13 pm Me and my fiance met on Internet in May and got engaged in June and hopefully will get marry in Nov. In conclusion I wrote an article about meeting clients… a little different take since most have been wonderful but every once in a while there is the Ahole in the crowd.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Better yet, having multiple employees at your company engage in Twitter can also help further your company goals. There are a few obstacles you will face if you engage in this tactic, but they’re nothing too difficult to address. It’s hard enough to manage one Twitter account, so how could you possibly handle a second one?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

I asked several social media consultants, bloggers, marketers, search engine optimizers, and social media addicts about what they considered to be essential skills and characteristics of the most efficient and results-driven social media consultants. They love ideas and news. They love sharing ideas and news.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Tweet Spinner actually lets you schedule different Twitter backgrounds, bios, and profiles, so that you can see which profile types might get the most engagement. For a big company account, it’s difficult to actually engage all day long (and all week long, especially if you’re a 9-5 shop). Profile design rotator.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Mark Thompson of Search Engine Journal has a great article entitled How To Find Industry Influencers. Look at Boring Stats — and Make Them Interesting This has a little to do with the Social Media platforms, but mostly with analytics. But I’m not going to coach you on how to design a web 2.0 Check it out!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Top 29 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic) : Andy Hagans consistently updates this list with some great resources that aren’t necessarily being tapped into by many folks, but maybe it’s time for things to change. Reddit Tips from the Top Dog on Reddit (Social News Watch): How do you become a top user on Reddit?

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