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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In fact, you’re likely spotting the shift; instead of companies posting their URLs on television commercials, they’re asking their followers to join them on Facebook. There’s a cost to this, though. The EA Mobile Human Tetris project takes you to a Facebook application where everyone participates in a game of Tetris.

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I was 12 at the time, it was 1993, and AOL cost $5.95/hour Whereas everything used to cost money (my highest AOL bill was $267.48 The cost: over $4k for a 386SX/25mhz with 170MB of hard drive space, 2MB RAM, a 2400 baud modem, and a 13″ monitor. Email is still email (but doesn’t cost $0.25

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter, Customer Service, and Good Brand Management (Conversation Agent): Valeria Maltoni writes a great primer to why Twitter is important for customer service, but then goes a step further and tells you what tools you can use to monitor your brand (and some that cost money and let you respond). Matt McGee offers tips on how to do this.

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Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On the other hand, Plurk is really new, and thus, Twitter wins on followers (and the fact that mobile access — via SMS — totally owns), so the Plurk discussions (for now) are at a minimum. I am starting to use Plurk more with the mobile interface, though it isn’t 100%. Oh, and I stole your link.

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6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace | facebook | Social.

Convince & Convert

Mobile is Critical MySpace was slow to adopt mobile technology, and the lack of MySpace in your pocket was part of what killed them. Further, mobile users actually spend more time on Facebook, not less. They recognize that the future is not in dot coms at all, but in deconstructing content and making it mobile and portable.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

These scenarios come to fruition in spontaneous communities, on social networks, and other self-service tools – all thanks to the availability of low cost technology and access to the world wide web. Doesn’t cost them much to assist others, and they reap many return benefits. Be genuine in all your communications 5.

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Ignore Foursquare at Your Peril - An Analysis of Potential.

Convince & Convert

Arm your manager with a mobile device and an email alert system: For the final question of the #socialmedia chat, we talked about tips for businesses looking to take advantage of Foursquare. Not bad considering the haircut only costs $15.00. Not bad considering the haircut only costs $15.00. Yet another testimonial for them.