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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Professor Daniel Jutras’ classes begin with him and/or students covering some current events relating to the seminar’s topic. We pause for 10 minutes, and when we return, the class asks questions or makes comments, to which Professor Jutras responds. I see this seminar as a blog. I see this seminar as a forum.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Videos that have a completely unplanned “wow&# element to them definitely travel far in social circles. Randy Pausch , a former lecturer at Carnegie Mellon, inspired not only students in his class but the world in his last ever speech before he passed away from pancreatic cancer. Inspiring videos, too, can be viral.

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How a Small New York City Hotel Put Itself on the Map through.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The word of mouth has traveled, because Pamela Slim learned about the hotel from Jonathan. If you’re constantly broadcasting and not building bridges, your social media engagement will only travel so far. I personally learned about Roger Smith Hotel at a social media conference and was told that it’s the place to be.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Then and Now In the good old days, say from the 1850s onwards, marketing was mostly a one way “communication&# : companies advertized their wares via local media like newspapers, magazines, and traveling salespeople. Geeks being geeks figured out the problem (it was the video drivers) and demanded a fix.

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Most of the kids in my classes did not care. I had my first blog in 2000 where I did daily entries on my cross-country travels. I know that as an aspiring author in my elementary school years (I knew I wanted to be one when I was 5!), I, on the other hand, wasn’t going to be stopped.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After all, hourly consulting fees are typically much more costly than a “free lunch&# plus the travel time it took to meet up. Almost everything everyone does in the business world, be it a regular transaction, tourism, or travel, has some financial element to it. Money makes the world go round.

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Advice for a New Internet Marketer (or How to Spot Internet.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Word travels. Should you hear of such, I can pay and would want to travel to such a class, please, please let me know. When you travel the world, even though you do not know all the languages, it is quite handy to at least know how to ask where the bathroom is. Meanwhile I’ll study the sources you suggest.

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