Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

by Tamar Weinberg on December 19, 2007 Share How do you leverage different social networks? I am fascinated by the amount of social networks that I’m part of, but better yet, I’m intrigued to find that I assume different “personas,&# at least in terms of choosing friends (and using the networks), on each social site.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2010

One of the most common questions in social media is – “is it worth it?”. Because of the nature of the marketing tool, each industry differs to the point that people just aren’t sure. Every industry can benefit from social media. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

Moreover, if you follow the latest search engine algorithm trends, you know that Google and others are apparently beginning to factor any and all social mentions into their ranking methodologies, and it’s likely that these social signals will become even more influential over time. It’s much appreciated.

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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. Let’s be honest for a second here. The major “Web 2.0″

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Epic Change’s success obviously means that the tools they used, where the barriers for entry are rather low, are working. Interactions We’ve seen the motivations for Epic Change to get involved in the social media space, but what do they do? Yes “Social media is all about making changes&#.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2009

After you’re quite certain you’re ready to dig into the social media world and you have formulated a strategy , the latter half of the book will guide you through popular existing tools that can ease your way into social media. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

A few months ago, Brian Solis talked about an off-topic pitch about a social network for plants. Somehow, I think nature lovers would be more interested in socializing shrubbery.) Search for blogs via paid tools such as Radian6, TruPulse, and Trackur. Where do they come off doing that? I’m sure you can relate.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

They hear about tools, put forth a miserable effort, and are either too busy or just lazy. With social media, an abundance of resources are at your fingertips. However, without a successful plan and any adequate preparation, your social media efforts will fail. It’s a dumb move, to be honest (I thought it was temporary!).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Reply Robert February 2, 2010 at 6:27 pm You had me when you put more focus on communicating than the tools. Made me laugh when I compared it back to Roberts comment about focus on communicating rather than tools. There is a reason why Social media is called social media. Hope that clarifies. It doesn’t work.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

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 And that is what I love about the Internet.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

One tool I’ve recently discovered is Scribe SEO. 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 But we carry on, don’t we?

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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. Social media tools can allow us to grow, can even help us to accomplish great things together (i.e. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Pierre recently launched Social Alerter. He writes a science blog , maintains a set of SEO tools and moderates at Cre8asite Forums. Tagged as: Marketing , social media { 7 trackbacks } Will Business Boldly Go Into The Social Media? Social Media is certainly getting a lot of attention.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Regardless of the many years of experience you have in the online space, the ideas behind social media and social media marketing are applicable to everyone. Social media rocks because it’s one of the most amazing tools for “free&# market research. Kirtsy and Other Niche Social Networks.

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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?) People use both networks as a free-for-all.

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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

MAY 5, 2010

Aggregate Your Other Social Streams If you’re only on Facebook, this step isn’t for you. Hopefully, though, you’re considering other social networks to broaden your social media reach. Hootsuite , for example, has multiple tabs that highlight their social involvement elsewhere on the web.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

A Community Manager who does use social platforms needs to be able to track its effectiveness in… um… getting people through the door. I remember sitting in an ROI webinar with New Marketing Labs’ Justin Levy , and he more or less skimmed through 5 or 6 different measuring tools like Grader, and of course, Google Analytics.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

The Quiz The quiz is another viral tool that brings a bit more fun into everyday web browsing. Tools Users also like things that make their lives easier. Whether it is a tool that finds domains for you or a utility that makes web surfing just a bit easier, remember, tools were created out of a need. thanks for sharing.I

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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. I’ve personally found StumbleUpon to be a great tool to find good and exciting content, and I’ve even made some friends through the “toolbar.&# It’s not a way to pawn for votes on other social networks.

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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. That said, such a broad determination means you can be a social media marketer and not know it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Tweet Spinner is a CRM tool too, allowing you to connect with potential followers. The tool will also prevent you from following spammer accounts through a variety of tactics. Tweet content: @replies : You also might choose not to follow people if they are a broadcast tool. Twitter CRM. Thanks for doing the research.

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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. FaceBook – Display who you are and what you do using a variety of tools and start making connections. Think about buildings.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

I would be curious to see a ratio of legitimate references to “social media&# vs. spam/splogs/social snake oil salesmen. The marketing mix has changed, social media consists of channels and tools that all marketers must consider for their clients. As for social media becoming boring…I don’t think so.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

You can build followers to these accounts through Twitter tools such as Tweet Spinner. My first account is on technology/social media tools which is in my 9-5 shop but I have other topics I’d like to dive into, let’s say fashion, art, travel and finance. I think that your goals should be clear, though.

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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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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Measurement Audit What part of my social activities do I measure? If you haven’t already, get measurement tools to measure all your social activities. Some tools you can use are Social Mention , Trackur , and PostRank. PostRank is becoming one of my favorite tools. Have a nice one. Great questions!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Social Media is More than Just Twitter and Facebook Hopefully, if you’re participating in social media marketing, you’re using more than just the tools everyone else is using. Social Media is More than Just Twitter and Facebook >> This is absolutely right.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2008

My startup, Roomorama.com (a tool for hosts and guests to manage their short-term rentals) just released a beta version three weeks ago and we’re exploring a few viral marketing methods – perhaps you can give us some feedback and pointers! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

Zuckerberg: The internet is a great platform for overall communication, but there need to be specific tools. We’re not the only ones [enabling such communication] but a lot of people are using our tools, especially in places like Colombia. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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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

MARCH 4, 2008

I, like Loren Baker , feel that Mahalo is one of those sites that had its skeptics in the beginning but is growing to become a valuable research tool. Social search is here to stay. It’s just a tool, like Firefox, in your arsenal of the computer. Let’s say that it’s a public water fountain.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

He also offers high quality tools, many of which are free. SEOmoz PRO : SEOmoz PRO features a rich library of informative guides, a myriad of tools, and a strong active and close-knit community. Knowing the tools doesn’t make you an expert. I use all of the tools I’ve been using for years for others.

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