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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

Try an INTERNAL Unconference Sun, Jul 12, 2009 Prof. Development , Social Media On July 9th, 2009, my Strategic Communications team here at Booz Allen held an unconference as an alternative to the traditional All-Hands meeting. Does your organization have an internal microblogging service (Twitter is most likely too public for most)?

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter, Pownce, and other “microblogging&# platforms really don’t fit in the type of social networks that I intend to illustrate here. Reply Jutta March 25, 2009 at 8:39 pm I totally agree – each social network has a different function for me. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I met him on StumbleUpon over a year ago and he is one of those kids who never ceases to amaze me; he totally understands social media and his 22 Reasons for You to Blog was even featured in my annual Best Posts of 2009 roundup. His blog is full with regular small byte-sized updates about U2, sports, movies, and more.

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Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I ran a sports site until just recently, and I LOVED to talk sports from that Twitter account. I refused to tweet more than once a day about sports on my @danielthepoet account, simply because most of my connections there are marketers or tech-obsessed folks (i.e. not so much sports fans). that is what is important here.

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11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you open a newspaper and take a look, even within the Sports section, their’s specific writers who consistently tackle specific topics. They rarely have one writer covering the details of every local sports team. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009). It’s just impossible to do.

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’m typing this blog post on a $750 Dell Inspiron 700m laptop (which I purchased nearly 3 years ago) which is lighter than the keyboard I used in 1993 and sports a high resolution despite its 12″ screen size. Reply Tamar Weinberg February 13, 2009 at 10:02 am Mikebingo, you weren’t *that* much older. I was 16 in 1993.

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7 Truths About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you write for a sports blog, you have hundreds of similar sports blogs to choose from. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009). In other words, you as the blog’s writer (or blog representative) need to go out and build bridges with people in relevant fields.