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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Industry colleagues are those I have met in person (typically in a casual atmosphere or at conferences). I needed to differentiate Digg from social media because they actually are part of a distinctive community (and as you know, I’m very passionate about Digg so it really did deserve its own category). (And

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Internet Marketers of New York Charity Party: March 18, 2008

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Where : Black Finn NY, 218 East 53rd Street Who : Yours truly and a bunch of awesome people who are flying in to NY to attend the Search Engine Strategies conference Why : Because you know you want to support a charity and hang out with some of the biggest search industry leaders Will I see you there?? I hope so!?

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter as a tool to communicate during conferences. After attending SMX (I’ll post something on that soon) and SES NY, I realized that Twitter is a useful tool for conferencegoers to communicate their whereabouts or to share breaking news and announcements. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Social Media for Non-Profits: How One Small Charity Makes it Work

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Epic Change decided to dabble in social media, because as Stacey says, it was “a way to cultivate a community of support for Epic Change.&# More importantly, Epic Change has a mission to empower individuals to tell stories in order to acquire financial resources to make positive change in their communities. Why social media?

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How You Can Benefit from Real Time Search » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Or, let’s say you wanted to see what people were saying about the recent Tiger Woods press conference. And with millions of updates each day, you are going to get a lot of commentary that mentions Tiger Woods but not his press conference. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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The Innovative Educator: 5 Things You Can Do to Begin Developing Your Personal Learning Network

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Many educators in successful schools are involved in their schools professional learning community and perhaps they even collaborate with other schools in the district, city, state, country or beyond, but Innovative Educators also have personal learning networks (PLNs) enabling them to connect with other learners around the globe.

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Pubcon 2007 Recap

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

First, some educational takeaways: Social media is the “new&# medium for businesses to communicate with consumers in a way that is interesting to them. But for those of you who have come to expect these kinds of conference wrap-up posts, you know the drill: it’s time to greet everyone once again.

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