Proactive Report

JANUARY 21, 2010

A national survey conducted by Cision and Don Bates of The George Washington University’s Master’s Degree Program in Strategic Public Relations found that an overwhelming majority of reporters and editors now depend on social media sources when researching their stories. 65% to social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

Which is why, of course, your business needs a killer social media strategy. In order to tap the potential of this fabulous marketing tool, you’ll want to first determine if social media can meet your goals and objectives. New tools pop up. Social media is changing how we do buisness. Some are great.

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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. 4: Online Driven Companies – Social media can be used to drive traffic to online websites.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 22, 2010

There are a variety of tools which help you to navigate Twitter and the real time web. Lastly, another free tool to check out is TrendsMap. Also, with real time search engines, you don’t have to be a user of any social network to benefit from the data and information, so anyone can use these tools from day one.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

It might also be a good idea to have clear examples from previous examples of your work that you can show them, with solid stats, visual tools and information, so you have something concrete to back up the points you’re trying to make. Your customer may find it easier to understand if they see what the general trend of social media is.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Reply Tamar Weinberg December 17, 2009 at 11:26 pm Janie, I’m not entirely sure – I think it really depends on email marketing tools. My focus is more on the humanness of the business versus the tools of the trade. The tools help, but at the end of the day, it’s about the relationships.

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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

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? They wanted to use media that was free.

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Social Media Network Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2010

Social news / bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, technorati, dig and others. Microblogs e.g. Twitter. I admit social media is a great tool for doing online reputation management. microblogging-sites August 25, 2010 4:56 PM Pervara Kapadia said. Consumer Review sites such as epinions, MouthShut and others.

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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

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. You’ll learn: What’s the hype about LinkedIn and how can I use it?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

LinkedIn is a industry tool. In the end, I guess there are two social networks that I take seriously: Facebook for keeping in touch with everyone who has somewhat of a personal connection to me, and LinkedIn for business opportunities and for networking with colleagues. The chart below accounts for my 200 connections. Great article.

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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

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. Here’s a secret, it’s a great tool for tracking your favorite users too. link] Pagerization Infinite scroll!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

youtube Portfolio Lateral Action Lifehacker Macgasm Mashable Pistachio: Touchbase Blog Ramblings of a Sysadmin Real Simple Schwag Addict Search Engine Roundtable Professional Bio Spammr from Tumblr Home About Consulting Contact Sitemap Policy Site design by The Other Ben Rudnick.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Search for blogs via paid tools such as Radian6, TruPulse, and Trackur. BuzzStream is a brilliant new tool that lets you gather contact names and addresses and chart your history of communications with each individual blogger.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

While the problem doesn’t solely lie on the shoulders of the developers who have been implementing the tools in these web applications, the responsibility for accurately monitoring true interest in submissions does. With no incentive to click through to the source, we’re ridding content creators of their hard-earned payoffs.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Looking for a way to monitor social media activities and results on a tight budget? Want to show the world how social you are with a cool widget on your website or blog? How about a real-time search tool to see what’s being said about your company or any topic of interest right now? Cool Web Tools.

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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. I HEART PLURK.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

One tool I’ve recently discovered is Scribe SEO. In an effort to write for readers, for example, one can get a little anxious about whether they’re coming off sufficiently experienced or skilled. Sometimes graphics or images can be subjective too, meaning one thing to the author and potentially lacking meaning to the reader.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

What will the new innovation, the new leap, the Web 3.0 (I 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?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

Social media tools can allow us to grow, can even help us to accomplish great things together (i.e. supporting causes), if we are using them with awareness. Really enjoyed this post! Reply Tamar Weinberg June 11, 2010 at 9:31 am Well said, Becky.

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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 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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

These are friends who have no direct ties to the industry, but in using social networks, we’ve formed close bonds and friendships. 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. It’s not.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

In fact, social network use is so ubiquitous these days that students are even using them to apply to colleges via a Facebook app called The College Planner. Bentley is just all over the web when it comes to social media tools because theyre not shy to put their knowledge into action for their own use. Talk about College 2.0.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

25 Signs You’ve Got a Strong Social Media Consultant or Agency (The Buzz Bin): Beth Harte and Geoff Livingston explain that social media consultants need to know a lot more than about the basic tools out there. What is social media about? No, it’s not about the tools!)

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Additionally, a social media marketer needs to be a contributor and participant online to better understand the space and provide solid recommendations to their clients. Jason Falls , Director of Social Media : A social media marketer is simply someone who uses social media tools to connect products or services with customers or audiences.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

As you bring out in the post, there are many methods of broadcasting, sharing, engaging with customers on this platform, with lots of tools available to configure however you like. I am new to your blog. Very thorough and great for usage as a training tool. After all, Facebook could eat the web. Can’t wait to read more!

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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

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

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. If you have the mindset to make Facebook a professional tool, you certainly can turn it into one.

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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.&# Reply Mike Wilton January 26, 2010 at 12:16 pm Great post Tamar.

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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

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.

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