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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The reason is that people didn’t have aggregate power: they were individual voices that a news channel or a company can choose to ignore. Not one of them has a blog (solicitors, accountants, insurance brokers etc). Facebook, Myspace etc are just the start. Again, by no means is this new. That’s not the point.

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Aggregate Your Other Social Streams If you’re only on Facebook, this step isn’t for you. Take MySpace as just one of many examples of an online property that become too comfortable with its “space.&# For example, let’s say you’re an insurance agency or a bank. Thanks for allowing me to comment!

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

By that I mean not only the social voting sites like Digg, Reddit, etc, but also on the social networks (Facebook, MySpace, etc), social communication tools (Twitter, Pownce, Seesmic, etc.), Creating sites on Facebook and MySpace are not either. Link drops in social media sites are not social media marketing. Answers Yahoo!

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Best Social Media Stats and Market Research of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

“70% of social media users between the ages of 18-34 regularly use Facebook more than other sites such as MySpace, Twitter, and Classmates.com,&# and women use Facebook more than men. The biggest barrier to adoption may be CIOs; 54% of CIOs block social networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, in the work environment.

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Connecting 2 the World

Buzz Marketing for Technology

IEEE, National Association of Insurance and Financial advisers, the national air transportation association). In other words, I foresee learning management systems as becoming learning tool aggregates that will help keep track of where students and student groups keep their things. So do the industry professional organizations (e.g.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I loved FB because it wasn’t myspace and wasn’t full of junk, spam and porn and when it opened to everyone, i was afraid it would become just like that. I think people opted for FB over MySpace because of so many of the reasons people are becoming disenchanted with FB right now. This reminds me of Myspace 3 years ago.

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