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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

When you have a group of people submitting their work, there is an awareness that it isn’t just one idea that will work, so the result is a higher quality of work. Crowdsourcing is an useful model because it can be used by any group for any reason. As they saying goes, competition breeds excellence.

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter as a tool to communicate during conferences. 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. Twitter as a marketing tool. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. surveys, focus groups, test marketing) often spend millions to locate their target markets. New tools pop up. Twitter is a fantastic tool to use. Some are great.

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Building Trust: A Relationship is Not a Newsletter Opt-In

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In the post, I shared my don’ts of social networks, and to that point, I added the following rule for LinkedIn: Gathering all the email addresses of users you are connected to — even locating email addresses of LinkedIn Group managers — and utilizing this mailing list to promote your own company or service off-site.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’ll admit (a little secret of mine) that I initially befriended a few folks I admired on TV (specifically, 2006-2007′s Beauty and the Geek) but since I have no personal connection to the guys, I deleted the non-genuine contacts. LinkedIn is a industry tool. The chart below accounts for my 200 connections.

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Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

For large, Fortune 1000 brands, this is typically a very large group, ranging from a few thousand to a few million individuals. And as more and more users begin to use their mobile devices as their primary tools for performing searches, implementing mobile user interfaces for a primary website becomes crucial. All rights reserved.

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Boycott Facebook & Related Sites | Bare Feet Blog

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There are so many socnets and microblogging/status update services out there. You can move your group off Facebook and into Ning or Yippikaya or Tumblr or Virb or … etc. I have gotten very used to a certain (large) lack of privacy in most traditional senses. Didn’t Enron teach us anything? It’s so easy to Mutiny.

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