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Social Media Insecurity: What to do When Online Activity Affects.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social media is about helping one another and building real strong friendships, usually around a certain interest or activity. If my actively engaged social media colleague James posts a photo of his young son Harold on his Facebook page, James might expect comments by me and other peers who may not know the mother of that child.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. It seems the activity level has fallen off. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. He used Twitter to raise money for charity if people tweeted and blamed his cancer.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Some advice I give to my Social Media students is to be careful following the example of some large brands who are relatively new to Social Media but seem to be successful. Small businesses can’t always follow by example, unfortunately. All rights reserved.

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7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Schedule those important activities in your weekly calendar. What’s a good example of this? There are a few bloggers who are smart and great writers … like you for example, Tamar. Lately, I’ve been creating graphics with screenshots to point out specific examples. Bit you are the exception!

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You may have stumbled upon a site a few hours ago, and now you’re actively Tweeting. As an example, let’s take a look at Robert Scoble’s FriendFeed (click the image for a larger view): In this screenshot, Robert utilized both Google Reader and Twitter, and the comments spread to his feed where an ongoing discussion ensued.

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I started blogging at 20 when I was a college newspaper editor in 2006, and even then I was considered something of an early adapter. I first heard about him when he was 15 in 2006 and he captured the attention of some huge blogs because of his analysis of their posts. The perspective will take an really interesting turn.

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The examples you gave of people copying full text of a story somewhere else is in the very slim minority from my experience. Josh’s examples relate to sites like Digg, which allows a short description, and FriendFeed, which is similar in that respect. FriendFeed’s activity for me has ebbs and flows.