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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After attending SMX (I’ll post something on that soon) and SES NY, I realized that Twitter is a useful tool for conferencegoers to communicate their whereabouts or to share breaking news and announcements. This was particularly prevalent during the South by Southwest conference several months ago, which helped fuel Twitter’s growth.

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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. What tasks are more important to developing a popular community versus developing a popular blog? Gab Goldenberg writes a search marketing blog for which he has plenty of good arguments for you to follow by RSS feed. He’s also getting ready to launch a WordPress membership plugin. All rights reserved.

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Ethics in Social Media: A Glossary | Bare Feet Blog

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This is the phrase often shouted by CEO’s to their ad and PR agencies , thinking that viral web successes can be pulled out of a tactics and strategy handbook. GMOOT - An acronym that stands for “Get me one of those!&# They can’t – that’s why they are called “viral.&# Please do leave a comment!

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. It’s why songs like this translate to tweets , remixes , and playoff game invitations. It’s why I laugh every time at this BBC Guy Kewney Goma mix-up (and even posted about it once before). Informational Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.

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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Is that even professional? Think about redoing your Twitter strategy if all you plan on doing is broadcasting. I’m sure that if iTunes actually included the customer in its feed, and if other Apple departments followed suit, there would be a whole lot more followers and satisfied customers.

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Just like it’s not uncommon for someone to click the “Digg&# button on Digg without ever visiting the site. It’s certainly not unthinkable that someone will import your RSS feed into another website without ever gaining any permission to do so. I think the big issue here is more about sites with snippets of text. Again, I kid.)

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

What can you learn about me? Their schedules : Are your friends voting up a story on Mixx at 4 in the morning? Perhaps they’re insomniacs. You never know until you check out their feed. Their commitment to social media : Are they dabblers in social media or serious aficionados? FriendFeed isn’t just an aggregator, though.

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