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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A member of my religious community disappeared. In September 2006, after Facebook had nearly 10 million members, the News Feed was announced, which the team had been working on for almost a year. We now check in voluntarily to places like Foursquare and Gowalla, where we broadcast what we’re doing and where we’re eating.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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LinkedIn “in the Black” (2006) In sharp contrast to other networks, LinkedIn was the first to offer users paid premium packages. Ahead of its acquisition by Google in the fall of 2006, the site grew to 100 million videos watched by 20 million dedicated users. and really set the tone for future tweets. My, how times have(n’t) changed!)

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here’s 2006. 40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media (Louis Gray): Mike Fruchter writes an awesome blog post on Louis Gray’s blog about how to get involved in social media, from branding to blogging to Twitter to community. Here’s my list for 2008. Here’s 2007. Yes, that’s right.

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Social Media Strategy from A to Z » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Give to your community. Customer Service.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2010

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. Since I can’t read everything written by the Internet Marketing community, I ask my Twitter and Facebook followers for their own recommendations. Community Management/Engagement.

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Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

By May 18 , the MetaFilter community dared to ask the same, very unpopular questions Becky and some of her friends had been asking for months. This happened last week on the tightly knit community on Plurk, which has a unique and friendly atmosphere as Tamar described a few weeks ago. Be observant! Did your room just light up?

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What You Can Learn About Social Media Marketing from TLC

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The three hostages are fortunately safe, and business resumed as usual for Discovery Communications staffers. Around that time, though, I noticed that TLC was promoting Foursquare as Facebook within their TV programs. In fact, the screenshot above with all the spam shows that that Foursquare status update was nowhere to be found.