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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Too many people come to Telligent, as a platform vendor (yes, we have multiple extensibility points and workflow definitions), and say they “Want Facebook&# for thier website. I’m not convinced there is a lot of evidence in BUSINESS communities that people come to those communities for social networking (like Facebook / MySpace).

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

She was recently named CEO of Yahoo!, She’s actually the second woman from Wisconsin to lead Yahoo! Ushahidi, which means “testimony” in Swahili, is building a platform that crowdsources crisis information, allowing anyone to submit crisis information through text messaging using a mobile phone, email or web form.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I got sucked into HOURS of consulting to show him the basics of Facebook (he was a tech luddite) and he argued with me for much of it. In the freewheeling, egalitarian, crowdsourced world of the internet we are accustomed to, and actually feel entitled to get music, art and books for free. I felt a lot of compassion for his cause.

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