Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In the post, I shared my don’ts of social networks, and to that point, I added the following rule for LinkedIn: Gathering all the email addresses of users you are connected to — even locating email addresses of LinkedIn Group managers — and utilizing this mailing list to promote your own company or service off-site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

surveys, focus groups, test marketing) often spend millions to locate their target markets. You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

First, realize that there are no “magic bullet&# slides that I can give you – there are numerous resources available, from CommonCraft’s excellent “in plain English&# series of videos to the numerous 101-style sites out there. Use an open source microblogging service like Yammer or QikCom.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

Whether it’s Tamar’s blog, a Facebook fan page, a LinkedIn group, a Ning network, a local association, etc. I couldn’t be consistent in any of the sites. That way you catch anyone talking about you or referencing your site. The barriers to entry of most social and business sites are low or non-existent.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Here are some egregious sins that you must not perform on social media sites. Avoid these violations and learn how to manage and maintain online relationships on a variety of popular social media sites. Abusing group invites. Submitting a story to a social news site that is completely off-topic. Many call this spam.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

account, and a full, multi-channel viral contest supported by both offline and online media assets, to drive awareness and potential consumers to a fully socialized micro site. For large, Fortune 1000 brands, this is typically a very large group, ranging from a few thousand to a few million individuals.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The major “Web 2.0″ ″ and social networking technologies that have been created in the last several years have been a major boon for consumers and web users. Just like it’s not uncommon for someone to click the “Digg&# button on Digg without ever visiting the site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

It’s even better when you take part in the everyday details of your site and focus on your user’s experience. His site is successful on its own, but his involvement makes the user experience all the more enjoyable. It would help if there was more communication, like warnings on the site before scheduled downtime. (I’ve

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

It is the younger generation that Tom mentions as possible change agents who use web 2.0 Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. This site is a companion blog to the FASTforward conference and summit series and is sponsored by FAST.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Personal , Social Media > How Do You Network on Different Social Sites? How Do You Network on Different Social Sites? by Tamar Weinberg on December 19, 2007 Share How do you leverage different social networks? Are you the same?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Totally connected groups are average sharers, creating as much as they can consume and using free sites to display it all. Tagged as: media snackers , social media , web 2.0 { 6 trackbacks } Media, Mm Mm Good! They can send out strong visual and text messages in a few seconds similar to what web sites do now.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

The Early Adopter Appeal Mixx is a new social news site that went into private beta a mere two months ago. Finally, you can preview your image (or select the desired image if multiple images are on the page), add a title, description, and tags, choose a category, and submit the story to private groups (if you’re a member of any).

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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. You may have stumbled upon a site a few hours ago, and now you’re actively Tweeting. What content are they sharing?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

To be sure, though, solicit feedback from a group of trusted peers not directly involved in your company or marketing objectives before going ahead with publishing the video, since you need an unbiased opinion. loved the will farrell piece–I always meant to check out his site, and hadn’t until now.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Groups : Facebook Groups still exist, but I wouldn’t encourage using them unless you’re looking to maintain a fully closed and private community in the confines of the service. Normally, Groups exist to let people congregate around a common interest. And if it does still exist, a Facebook Page may make sense.)

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Facebook SEO Policies Groups 268

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

StumbleUpon is different from many other social sites in that it works via a toolbar installation on your browser. Once it gathers personalized information from you (hobbies and interests), you can start surfing with StumbleUpon to find brand new sites that are related to your interests as suggested by other users on the service.

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StumbleUpon Digg Social Networking Review 181

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

Lacy : Let’s talk about that: the original vision and original mission of the site. He talks of a group on Facebook that has a goal to build an organization that has enough political clout to achieve ends to end poverty. Lacy : When you compare Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, Zuckerberg : Well…no.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Digg is by far the largest; as a former “top user&# of the service , I built strong relationships with employees and users of the social news site. There were other typical social networks in this grouping as well, including Flickr, FriendFeed, Kirtsy, Mixx, Plurk, StumbleUpon, Tip’d, and Twitter. It’s not.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

Now that Friendfeed aggregates every social site you use (for the most part — they’re still missing some ), anyone can see that you’ve just thumbed up that article on how to find porn behind a WebSense firewall even though you may have done it as a favor to your friend. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Linkedin lead generation requires commitment to answering and asking questions on Groups/Answers, taking advantage of the deep searches, and connecting directly with those around you in your network. And of course, don’t only focus on YouTube; there are other video syndication sites that you can spread your message to.

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Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

Reply Deb Ng August 19, 2010 at 8:55 am Jenn Fowler (@jennfowler) and I joked the other day about starting a support group for our spouses and other social media widows and widowers. Your post offers good suggestions – far better than starting a support group. Getting both partners on the same page is really important!

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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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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Using market intelligence, Royal Caribbean identified supporters of the cruise line via social networking sites and took the opportunity to give fifty of the most ardent supporters, called Royal Champions, special privileges, including free paid cruises and invitations to special events with company executives.

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Brands Message Boards Travel Forums 133

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t use a Facebook Group. Be Creative Facebook confines you to its site and its feature set, but clearly we can see that they do have a pretty rich feature offering. Of over 1500 friends that I have, I’m constantly being pitched to join groups I have no interest in. It’s an irritant. Way too oldschool.

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Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

It’s not enough to be insular and focus on your groups of friends. At business networking events, try to get to know people outside your group of trusted colleagues. We may be slightly different versions of ourself when with each of these different groups. I created an additional account for people in that group.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

I now present you with … Infraction #2 : On October 31st, my friend Erik created a Facebook group for Digg fans which was inspired by the extremely popular (3241 Diggs as of this writing) Digg story about how Stephen Colbert’s Facebook group was the fastest growing ever. The URL now is dead.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Like last year, if your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, there’s a badge for you to proudly celebrate this achievement on your site. Thanks again to David Mihm who specializes in Portland Web Design for creating them. Scroll down to the bottom of the post to grab the code you need for your post or site.

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

I’ve never been big into any of the voting social media sites but after reading this am going to look into the Mixx. Most other sites you belong to probably have a bigger sense of community. I have a pretty healthy dislike of digg, even with the algo change the same sites make the top.

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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 As a side point, Google is a bigger beast and it has tens or hundreds of staff members visiting forums and moderating groups to ensure that the user experience is a good one.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2008

We organise language courses worldwide for businesses, one-to-one students, and small groups. We hired a Brighton SEO company to come up with some ideas for something to put on our site that would not only be fun, but also show that we at Language Trainers have a genuine interest and passion for languages.

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Marketing Film StumbleUpon Project 103

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

I became a big fan of playing games (bingo especially) at a little hub on AOL called RabbitJack’s Casino , which was considered a unique community within the AOL borders with a close-knit group of people from all walks of life. They evolved into sites with graphical interfaces. I started on Compuserve CB Simulator in 1981. ;o)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

I was a Facebook purist in its former form and I liked having access to select group of exclusive folks knowing that these were trusted people and that only certain groups of individuals were allowed to have access. Reply Jonathan Evans April 28, 2010 at 2:57 pm Good interaction here on your site. Yup, it’s true.

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Facebook Issues MySpace Privacy 277

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. Content Marketing : Content marketing refers to writing relevant articles on your site (or having good site copy) that can bring awareness to your website property.

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Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2009

Reply Danielle Winfield October 26, 2007 at 6:25 pm Tamar, it’s taken me 3 times coming to your site to leave a comment because I’ve had such a hard time getting through this post without getting choked up. Your words and memories are beautiful thank you for sharing them. I wish your family comfort and strength for these times.

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MySpace Consultant Yahoo StumbleUpon 102

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

People are flocking to sites like Twitter and Facebook and other communities because they are online communities where they can learn from and hang out with their peers. I was recently in charge of marketing and communications at the local public TV/Radio group and we set up an RSS feed from our local news features to our Twitter account.

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Social Media Klout Influencer Feed 251

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

He says, “The use of Twitter was mainly for the brevity and ability to drive traffic to our blog and booking site rogersmith.com. We recently shared the story to a large group of Dallas hotels. Once connected, he looked at their friends and followers to see if there was an opportunity to branch out and make new friends.

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Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245