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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I’m taking two seminar courses at school this term, and they each resemble a particular form of social media. A seminar is different from a regular course in that it necessarily involves interaction with the students — a seminar is to a regular lecture course as web 2.0 is to web 1.0.

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Social Media Class Forums Microblogging

10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don't Involve Twitter.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Work With Web Developers to Update Your Site for Web 2.0 The difference is updating your website to Web 2.0. Once the web 2.0 Once the web 2.0 But I’m not going to coach you on how to design a web 2.0 and it’s edited by the one and only Orli Yakuel.

Communities

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Sadly, this person’s post was pulled by the strict moderators on that forum; the post was purely self-promotional and nothing but. If you’re only on the forum to tell other people to visit your website or to use your product, you won’t go far.

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Social Media Engagement Forums Policies

10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

You can use the many applications that Facebook offers, so that others can answer questions on a survey, have discussions on the forums, and/or have notes to bring awareness to a topic. Facebook Create a Facebook Page and tell everyone about it. Evernote Create an area for your team can collaborate on notes, ideas, and information.

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Mixxing In, and Why Early Adoption is Important: A Review of the.

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. Yes it will.

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Want to Friend Me on Facebook? Please Use My Public Page or.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Other industry connections that have simply flourished since the very “early days&# of social media. I may have met these individuals by chance (long-standing relationship) or through the blogosphere or forums. The chart above illustrates the breakdown of the “social media&# friends.

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Creating Passionate Customers: Brand Evangelism and What it Means.

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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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

In web hosting, there are hundreds of different forums and sites. When it comes down to it, there is absolutely nothing wrong with engaging in such a way with any social community as long as you have the intentions of the community at heart. Find out where they are advertising their products. Let the community know who you are.

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Social Media Digg Brands Marketing

The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Unfortunately for Digg, the savviest users of the bunch have also been the most vocal about Digg thus far (save for the few blogs that cover everything web 2.0 This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall.

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Digg Social Media Upcoming Ustream

When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

If a forum exists for your industry, you should very well be active: you should participate and follow the discussion closely to know exactly what is being said and what kind of feedback you can take back to your executive and development team to enhance your product and to make it better than your competition.

Brands

Brands Message Boards Travel Forums

11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This blog covers specific topics if and only if there’s discussion in a variety of internet marketing forums. Is there no related discussion there?

Blogosphere

Blogosphere Blogger Comments Tips

Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

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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Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace

Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson Respond to Digg Complaints

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

Tagged as: digg , jay adelson , kevin rose , social media , social news { 24 trackbacks } Communications Downtime: Another Digg Revolt? I would like to see the Digg forum come on line and I would like to see them hold true to thiner word about town hall meetings. Thanks, guys! Thanks again for covering this.

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Digg StumbleUpon Communities Upcoming

Advice for a New Internet Marketer (or How to Spot Internet.

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. I love those forum visitors, don’t you? It is frustrating to no end.

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Marketing How To SEO Training

Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

They have discussion forums that are visited by moderators who merely police the content itself, but change never comes from suggestions offered in the forum itself or in the posts, even if hundreds of users contribute the same identical observations. Be proactive and not reactive. (To

Apple

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

That is the value to me of Web 2.0 That is the value to me of Web 2.0 That is the value to me of Web 2.0 j Deborah L Maue Social media = Web 2.0. is about the tools, social media is about the strategy. Deborah L Maue Social media = Web 2.0.

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Social Media Strategy Consultant Web 2.0

Social Media Strategy from A to Z » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Kirtsy and Other Niche Social Networks. Did you know there’s a social news website catered to women called Kirtsy ? Kirtsy is a social news network; there are also forums and even Yahoo! Your target market might be hiding in a niche forum somewhere out there. You just need to look.

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The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

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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Social Media StumbleUpon SEO ROI

Is Social Media Becoming Boring?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

You can’t only write comments on forums. Social media needs to be coupled with a creative strategy for maximum effectiveness, especially as everyone and their mothers join these sites and services to market themselves, their services, or their products. You can’t just IM your friends begging for votes via the backchannel.

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Social Media SEO Blogger Communities

7 Truths About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

That’s to say that if you use a public forum to insult, attack, or demean others on your personal time, you may find that impacting your company by association. If you blog or post comments, you should make sure it adheres to your company’s social media policy.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008: Social Media, SEO, and More " techipedia | tamar weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

: Jason Falls explores the commonly-discussed (but not easily answered) question about social media. Scared of Social Media? Jill Whalen has been active on forums and online communities for 10 years now. But “social media marketing expert?&# Gary Vaynerchuk’s Keynote at Web 2.0 Not excess.

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SEO Social Media Marketing Reputation

6 Things Parenthood Taught Me About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

Maybe it’s on a forum. You Don’t Get a Vacation In the online space, there will always be some sort of mention online that is applicable to you in some way. Maybe it’s on Twitter. Maybe it’s on Tip’d. The Internet never sleeps and neither should your online initiatives.

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Social Media Marketing Digg Consultant

Dear Facebook Friends, You're Doing it Wrong

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

In an effort to make Facebook data more public, Community Pages let people share ideas, thoughts, and their interests in a fully open forum. Community Pages are the most annoying thing Facebook has given us , but I see their point. Sadly enough, most people don’t know that their content is public; a wonderful example is seen below.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

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. Did I post on forums? Did I promote by IM?

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

Fifteen years have passed, and while much has changed technologically, the concepts that animated web users back in the old days remain as relevant as ever. Social media was always social , just not with that funny name. Forums existed well before I was born, after all. They evolved into sites with graphical interfaces.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

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). Industry colleagues are those I have met in person (typically in a casual atmosphere or at conferences).

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MySpace LinkedIn Facebook Social Networking

7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Social media marketing, SEO, and forum marketing are the great ways to expand your market coverage. Check out the forum and amazon.com to see the customer’s feedback are the great ways to learn what language they speak. Those comments on your blog are great way to hear the feedback and to improve your blog constantly.

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Blogger Engineering Flickr SEO

Why SEO is Easier than Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Thanks Reply Barry Schwartz December 16, 2009 at 1:06 pm Tamar, A few comments… (1) I believe you are wrong on the point about everyone being a social media expert but not the same with SEO. I see it in forums and on blogs. I cannot tell you the number of “SEO experts&# I see pop up everyday. 2) SEO is far from immediate.

SEO

SEO Social Media Marketing Digg

The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

While many of these people may be naive to the world of Social Media they are not naive to the world of business and the cost of time. I offer a lot of free advice and support to my clients (one-on-one conversation, group forums etc), I do this because I love what I do and appreciate those that support what I do.

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Products Consultant Price Social Media

Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I like Seesmic for Windows, but coming from Seesmic Desktop, there are some kinks (which I expressed months ago on the Seesmic Forum powered by UserVoice) that need to be worked out, such as the ability to copy and paste and the fact that Seesmic for Windows doesn’t have sounds.

Twitter

Twitter Sports Microblogging HootSuite

The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

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. Excess converts to spam.

Handbook

Handbook Social Media Web 2.0 StumbleUpon

Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 Â» Techipedia | Tamar.

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?

Marketing

Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation

Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

5 Important Web Video Lessons for Small Business Owners (Mashable/OPEN Forum): How are you going to make your video stick? How to Write Effective Press Releases in the Age of Twitter (OPEN Forum): It’s not really just the “age of Twitter&# – it’s the “age of social.&# Is it in your pitch?

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering

An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

I wonder if the new traffic from outside Facebook will clog up the news streams and I am unconvinced that Community Pages offer value (am I missing something here?). Thanks for taking the time to spell out the needed changes in a public forum–maybe this will get Facebook’s attention. We can hope!

Facebook

Facebook Issues MySpace Privacy

The 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men Reprise

Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

He is the author of B2B Marketing Insider , a contributor for the SAP OnDemand blog and also a co-founder of social news site Business2Community.com. He is a frequent keynote speaker, guest blogger and brand advisor, and co-author of the book “Enterprise 2.0: How Technology, E-Commerce and Web 2.0

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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Social Media Strategy from A to Z » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

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Is Social Media Becoming Boring?

7 Truths About Social Media Marketing

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6 Things Parenthood Taught Me About Social Media Marketing

Dear Facebook Friends, You're Doing it Wrong

Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins

Why SEO is Easier than Social Media Marketing

The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account

The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

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