Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2009

That’s why social media is important. And when the reviews are genuine and diverse, people are able to make a decision whether to proceed with the purchase or look elsewhere. I posted a review of it on my website at [link]. I love the review! It doesn’t end there, though. How do you do #1?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

The site does not resolve on smart-phone browsers, and if they sell products online, their e-commerce platform has no social functionality (no review functionality, no commenting functionality, etc). In general, there are no visible calls to action to engage with social channels and little if any interactive assets.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

When he isn’t writing guest posts, James analyses and reviews printer hardware and accessories. He also posts on their blog where he focusses on covering new hardware releases in the print industry. In his spare time he spends too much time on XBOX Live and enjoys nothing more than food from his native South Africa.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Here’s some more food for thought: Every blog post or negative review costs you thousands of customers. We have embarassing pictures in Google Maps , videos about the death of an innocent man in the hands of a “competent&# cop , and even Yelp reviews that can damage your personal reputation , never mind your business.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 22, 2010

If you work in the movie business, a real time search will show you early reviews of how fans are enjoying your movie. As for the business purpose of real time searches, all of this information can certainly be used to benefit a marketing or research project.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

When I reviewed the poster’s account, I understood why. Reply Kellye Crane August 26, 2010 at 11:40 am Very interesting to me is the account of a “social media rockstar&# with “a stellar social media record&# basically selling you out for a buck. I’m shocked (though perhaps I shouldn’t be).

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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 right news will hit the front page of Digg quickly.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Reply Tamar Weinberg September 26, 2007 at 12:17 am My primary complaint with Reddit is that while it’s not slow at all compared to other social news sites, the interface is very primitive. Lots of other reasons to love Reddit. I’d only suggest a few GUI enhancements, but I know that’s in the works already.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Jonathan Fields Self Help,&# asking him to review a new book. I just wrote several posts on Brian’s PPBPR as well as moderating a Social Media Book Discussion on it. In a nutshell (and one that is hard to summarize given the chunks of gold in his communications), an email was addressed to “Mr.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 9, 2007

December 9, 2007 at 5:43 pm Great to finally meet you in person, Tamar!

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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. But I guess that I got over it because I am pretty cool with my the content and reviews and so on.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

If your partner isn’t comfortable yet with your social media involvement, all hope is not lost. Here are five steps you can take: Review In a committed relationship, if there is any hint of disagreement in the social space, it’s time to sit down and look at one another’s social networks.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Disclosure : I was introduced to Tweet Spinner by business colleagues, and I took the initiative to request a full featured account for the purposes of this review. Read more: [link] Reply Neil February 8, 2010 at 7:31 pm Now I see why the guys who own and operate Tweet Spinner referenced your Review of their tool.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

If a product is bad, there will be enough people raising their concerns loudly enough that companies have no option but to react very quickly: a few bad reviews could kill a product launch. Anyone can post a review on Amazon saying this product is broken and negatively affect future sales. Why is this different than a few years ago?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

A Travelmole source, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “It is clear that RCCL’s Royal Champions initiative has created an uneven playing field, not only on the Cruise Critic bulletin boards, but, quite possibly, in regard to user reviews in their main content area. So what’s the big deal? From here, the hole just gets deeper.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

23 Social Media Marketing Tips from Dell, Comcast, HP, Wells Fargo, Best Buy, General Mills, Ford, UPS, Home Depot, Cirque du Soleil (Online Marketing Blog): Lee Odden takes advice from the best minds in social media who have worked in the corporate world. Some really great public domain image search tools are reviewed in this article.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

I had no clue there are so many kids out blogging… I personally think there is no “too young&# for writing … stories, movies, reviews, anything they like really. Reply Krisenkindt June 11, 2010 at 6:34 am Awesome post!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

I mentioned that I wasn’t going to touch Facebook and Twitter, so I’ll recommend that if a happy customer writes a review via email or Yelp – give them a call and thank them. It’s an imperative part of your job to not only control and monitor your company’s reputation, but to create it to begin with.

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Reply Rhea Drysdale October 29, 2007 at 12:52 pm pfffft Reply Derek October 29, 2007 at 12:59 pm This is a great list of ideas coupled with specific examples that other people should certainly take note of and review. What’s stopping you from taking the plunge? I definitely appreciate your time putting this all together!

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

You’ll find all of this and more in this collection of tools and reviews of some of the coolest free or low-cost social media monitoring and web tools so far this year. Social Mention. ** 5 stars. A quick and handy way to get a snapshot of the “social media rank&# of any website. Reviews of More Cool Tools.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

Review pages often : Give your two cents on content, both newly discovered by yourself (add pages to the StumbleUpon database!) Putting effort into the review shows that you want other people to see it. Also, what do you think of reviews where someone just pulls an excerpt from the page? Will have to start reviewing again.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

I have never written a product review on my blog and my posts average 30 comments. However, after writing a product review on my blog recently, after 24 hours I only had 3 comments on the post (which is very unusual). For example, my blog is three months old. This means I have built an audience who love free information only.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

As Tamar pointed out, it’s a social news site, not a network and I could care less about how often profiles are updated. If they wanted social networking, they had their options: Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, etc. Reply Tamar Weinberg September 20, 2007 at 5:43 pm Brian, it’s no longer “social news,&# though.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

These are the people who really make a solid effort — they review the blog content and realize that their pitch might be a further extension of content that they had already seen on the blogs they are targeting. When the pitch goes out, it’s up to the blogger to take the story to heart and possibly share it with their readers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Let’s just take a look at the potential of Facebook for business for a moment here and review the various options business owners have in order to be effective with Facebook business marketing. Why not solicit reviews from your community to see what they think about you? Therefore, it’s a force to be reckoned with.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

One which is more personal to meet new friends through my book review blogging activity. The other is an account which I’ve just created as a professional account to highlight my opinions on marketing and social media. Reply natasha musa February 18, 2010 at 9:46 pm Hi Tamar, Really good article.

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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. Word travels. You can do better. Thanks for the great article.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Some time ago, I got a free review copy of your book from O’Reilly… But, hey, I have recommended it to many! I actually solicited users to review my book and I actually encouraged it! But a review copy is usually provided under the premise that you’d be, you know, reviewing it. In that first approach.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2008

The takeaways are simple: look at who you’re targeting, review what they find interesting, and be inventive. Reply Mary Ward June 9, 2008 at 4:00 pm Hello Tamar, You’ve got a great enthusiasm for your topic, which is why I decided to review your blog on DoYouDiggIt.com. This video is already spreading like wildfire.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Jonathan Hochman , Internet Marketer and Wikipedia Administrator : I classify social media marketers by their level of involvement: Listening — Being aware of social media, monitoring your brand, and using that information to make business decisions. Specialties in social media work are already developing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

The main one: give to reputable non-profit groups and *steer* individuals towards these groups when in need. People hustling others on social media for a couple of dollars. I saw the review of it in some of the friends blog, and requested even my other friends to contribute to her. There is a fine line in all of this.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

Moved on to Classmates.com and Amazon book reviews. Look forward to reading other stories here Reply Leif Hansen May 19, 2008 at 8:47 am Great recent history review, thanks. I had anonymous names and handles. What has changed in the last three years for me, is how much more open I am with my online activity.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

Way to get that news before me! Audience reaction: mixed reviews ] Yes, we’re launching in French tonight. [ Follow-up question : Is this a concern related to security or reputation? Lacy : Well, you’ve touched on international — I heard you were launching France tonight – Mark : Yeah!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Top 10 Reasons Why Great Content Fails on Social Media : In case you’re still emphasizing submissions on social sites, here’s why your content … uh, appears to suck. How to Commit Social Media Suicide : Some people don’t get social media. But not for Glen Allsopp, who reviews it here.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

By basing your brand off of what you’re passionate about and want to be an expert in (if you’re not already), you will be able to become a serious player in the social media world. The more you read, the better and more prepared you will be to communicate through various social media channels.

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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.

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