Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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Across the USA by Train… With Kids and For $0

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This post isn’t about anything I normally write about. However, another viral post stemmed my desire to write about my own train experience. This is my opinion of an exciting opportunity that I encourage you to experience at least once in your lifetime. Oh, and by the way, this is an article for the average Joe, not the average Amtrak railfan.

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On Approachability.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Are you the kind of person who updates social media often? I’m curious to know if you’ve found that your broadcasts have (re)invited people into your lives, people you may know through your career, school, religious circle, or whatever, who have approached you about something that they may have picked up through your social media updates.

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How to Create a Kickass Product Without Touching the Dev Cycle

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

So, you built a working product. People use it, they love it, and they tell their friends to use it. You grow your footprint. Awesome! Naturally, people who like you want you to get better. They email you bug reports. They email you suggestions. They email you because they want you to succeed. So why would you be so goddamn stupid to ignore that? There’s a product I blogged about before.

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Build Relationships. Not Numbers.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

She friended me on Facebook. Not once, not twice, but a few times. Her profile photo made her look fantastic. Clearly, the plastic surgery worked. The way she flaunted her assets in photo after photo made her a prime candidate for some Sports Illustrated spread. She probably was too short to be a real model, I’d concluded. I never met her. Didn’t know her.

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12 Ways to Improve Your Online Reputation with Wiselike

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A lot of you have learned about recently launched Wiselike , and many of you signed up due to the prompting of your friends or my Facebook announcement. Well, let me fill you in on something: I’m not one of the three cofounders, but I’ve been involved in this labor of love for the last five months. Wiselike is the culmination of a project created by CEO Kyu Lee , who has always been interested in career paths and had created several projects to learn about what people do and how they

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17 Productivity Tools for the Ultimate Business Gain

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Every so often, I reevaluate the tools I use to see if something is better. I’m very open and flexible about discovering new technologies because I strive for efficiencies, especially as my work environment is not the same as most others. In short, I work remotely. I’ve worked successfully with many teams that have been distributed across the world and the startup that is now a media powerhouse was originally established with several of the key players working across continents.

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Social Media Purism Stupidity is what Gets You Fired

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Ten years ago, social media marketing did not exist. There were online communities. People participated on those communities. It became possible, all of the sudden, for marketers to participate within those communities because they saw an opportunity. And so, all of the sudden, this pure network of sorts became a place for marketers, as they always do, to capitalize upon.