Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Effectively, they’re porting their press release information to the wide open, and perhaps going a little more granular by featuring content specific to elements of iTunes. First, I’m going to say kudos to Apple for trying involve themselves in the world of social media. I’m going to stop there, though.

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How to Build the Perfect Facebook Fan Page, 2011 Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Your Profile Picture thumbnail is the icon that displays next to your Page posts and your Posts on other Pages, when you comment as your Page (a great feature introduced with the new layout). The Photostrip has been a feature of Personal Profiles for some time, but became available to Pages with the introduction of the new Page layout.

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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Everyone from Apple to Starbucks leverages online communities to impact their businesses. If you want a scalable solution with plenty of feature options, Drupal is a great open source solution that requires some custom programming. It’s Worked Before. To wipe startup costs, check out a free open source solution like phpBB.

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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. Thank you very much for the feature! Reply Sean June 10, 2010 at 8:29 pm Hey thanks for featuring me!

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Once online, it caught the attention of executives at Apple who flew him into California to make it a commercial reality. Peace, Jackie Reply Al June 30, 2010 at 12:49 pm This post was also featured on our Education Blog, here is a link to it: [link] Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Be sure to wrap all code in <code></code> tags.

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Why Customer Service Should Be in Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Comcast did it early, and Frank Eliason today (who, by the way, is featured in the book I wrote) is really the role model for excellent customer service using online technologies. Many people think that if they involve themselves once, they’re essentially sucked in forever.

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Our family’s first computer (which wasn’t net-equipped) was an Apple IIgs which my father purchased in 1987. I still slap myself on the forehead when I recall tossing out a magazine from the Compuserve days that featured the best websites of that time.) Computers are getting smaller, cheaper, and more efficient.

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