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Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I ran a sports site until just recently, and I LOVED to talk sports from that Twitter account. I refused to tweet more than once a day about sports on my @danielthepoet account, simply because most of my connections there are marketers or tech-obsessed folks (i.e. not so much sports fans). that is what is important here.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter, Pownce, and other “microblogging&# platforms really don’t fit in the type of social networks that I intend to illustrate here. Delicious – collect news links that feed into my blog, because WordPress.com has a widget for it. But how would you count how often you “visit&# Twitter?

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

His blog is full with regular small byte-sized updates about U2, sports, movies, and more. Sean McGee is a huge U2 fan like his dad (yes, that Matt ). He’s 12 years old and lives in Tri-Cities, Washington. He also tweets regularly. I asked two questions, and here are their answers: How Young is Too Young?

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Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson Respond to Digg Complaints

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

That will make the Average Digger more interested in pop culture, sports, astrology etc. There’s a related problem with Digg, and that relates to the volume of Diggers. As Digg grows, the “average Digger&# more and more becomes Everyman. and less interested in tech subjects.

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11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you open a newspaper and take a look, even within the Sports section, their’s specific writers who consistently tackle specific topics. They rarely have one writer covering the details of every local sports team. It’s just impossible to do.

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7 Truths About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you write for a sports blog, you have hundreds of similar sports blogs to choose from. In other words, you as the blog’s writer (or blog representative) need to go out and build bridges with people in relevant fields. If you write for an animal shelter, start talking with pet owners and local businesses to help each other.

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’m typing this blog post on a $750 Dell Inspiron 700m laptop (which I purchased nearly 3 years ago) which is lighter than the keyboard I used in 1993 and sports a high resolution despite its 12″ screen size. The cost: over $4k for a 386SX/25mhz with 170MB of hard drive space, 2MB RAM, a 2400 baud modem, and a 13″ monitor.

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