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MARCH 8, 2010

Home About In the Media Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison) How People Respond to Your Online Content March 8, 2010.1:39 The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0 However, I still review some Web 2.0 of tweets, tweet type, conversation type. You can also drop a note at contact@iffort.com.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Home About In the Media Enterprise 2.0 Conversations Facebook will surge ahead in India February 4, 2010.8:53 53 pm Preventing Social Media Spam Jump to Comments Image by Josh Russell via Flickr Sometimes it feels really sorry to see the tactics of a select group of folks in the name of using Social media as a Conversation Medium !

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

So, don’t get paralyzed by the cross group challenges - move it forward and determine where the opportunities to improve customer experience are for what “you control&# and drive progress there - then fan out with your early successes. © 2008 Community Group Therapy. Social Web. Content still is king.

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OCTOBER 31, 2007

51 am Linkedin v/s Facebook – Professional up Against Social Jump to Comments Matt Dickman’s thoughtful post on Linkedin v/s Facebook raises a few questions. Everybody knows and has been saying that Facebook is Personal and Linkedin is more Business users. The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Home About In the Media Dear Airtel: It is about Customers & Conversations Facebook and India August 3, 2010.6:07 Time has passed by and since then, Facebook has grown to half a billion global users and would fall next only to China and India if it were a country. The bottom line is, Facebook isn’t a one size fits all solution.

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JUNE 27, 2008

« Professional services network offsite: Tapping the Power of Collaboration | Main | Audio stream of radio interview on Facebook, networks, connectivity, and media » Eight steps to thriving on information overload. Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us |. Share on Facebook. Top 100 Web 2.0

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

A while back I created a post called – There is no “campaign&# in Social Media because when marketers use the word “campaign,” it tends to suggest an initiative to get a message out to a targeted group of constituents. Share this on Facebook. It also implies there will be a beginning and, somewhere down the road, an ending.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

That doesn’t typically fly elsewhere (Facebook will kill the account), but Times Square on Friendster required 2 accounts at the time because I maxed out on the initial 500 person limit. The High Point: Facebook In 2004, I joined Facebook and my behavior changed drastically. I had many friends just like that.

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JUNE 27, 2008

Netgear Joins the Web 2.0 Jason Calacanis launched yet another discussion of the future of the web with his official definition of web 3.0 , in which web 2.0 Maybe instead of getting tangled up in discussions of what’s web 1.0 vs. web 2.0 vs. web 3.0, or web 3.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Networks like Digg, FriendFeed, and Facebook are seeing huge growths in value, but the little guys, the ones actually providing the meat and potatoes for those operations, rarely see a nickel. The major “Web 2.0″ This new world is an evolution of the Web and it cannot be undone.

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Laurel Papworth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Digg has changed it’s social networking strategy from spotlighting key influencers who “digg&# a lot of articles to collect followers (crowd gatherers) to news from your friends. The Digg Situation. The new Digg looks, therefore, like a mix of Facebook, Twitter, and RSS. Cos that’s a friend no?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

surveys, focus groups, test marketing) often spend millions to locate their target markets. You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested.

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OCTOBER 10, 2008

Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit 5 Comments Filed under BarCamp Tags: BarCamp , BarCamp Delhi , BCD5 , delhi , Google , open source , Social media , startup , twitter 5 Comments Sesso January 22, 2009 at 12:25 pm Great site. & The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0 However, I still review some Web 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

But now the platforms have diversified, today there are Indians heavily discussing social media on twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. The idea is not to create a feeling of competition but a strong group which can collectively spread social media usage in India. influential Indians in social media on Facebook etc.)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

When you have a group of people submitting their work, there is an awareness that it isn’t just one idea that will work, so the result is a higher quality of work. Crowdsourcing is an useful model because it can be used by any group for any reason. Facebook Create a Facebook Page and tell everyone about it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Already, however, it’s gaining momentum among “Digg refugees&# and folks who don’t feel comfortable on other social networks. Social Desire November 30, 2007 at 5:26 pm Don’t Digg? Then Mixx, Instead » Small Business SEM December 3, 2007 at 9:40 pm Think Digg Has Jumped The Shark? Come Join Me!!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

A seminar is different from a regular course in that it necessarily involves interaction with the students — a seminar is to a regular lecture course as web 2.0 is to web 1.0. The professors’ styles feel like a comparison of LinkedIn and Facebook.

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JULY 31, 2007

Popular MBA discussion groups like pagal guy , cool-avenues , job forums, web directories , scripts and other talks are still pretty much a part of traditional discussion forums. The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0 However, I still review some Web 2.0

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JUNE 27, 2008

Certainly the new array of social media and Web 2.0 Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us |. Share on Facebook. Jun 20, 2008 — Digital Media — Aus Web 2.0 Jun 19, 2008 — ITWire — Australias top Web 2.0 who should drive Web 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Smaller companies could succeed with this method by marketing — verbally or through their website — to groups of devout followers and keeping their Twitter streams current (offering a daily deal or frequent deals that encourage customers to seek out discounts and sales). So while I love Facebook , Twitter fulfills many needs.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In the post, I shared my don’ts of social networks, and to that point, I added the following rule for LinkedIn: Gathering all the email addresses of users you are connected to — even locating email addresses of LinkedIn Group managers — and utilizing this mailing list to promote your own company or service off-site. What do you choose?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Here’s a screenshot of a story that became popular with a whopping 235 Diggs. It was taken the night of January 28, 2008 (approximately 11PM EST): While Digg typically allowed stories to hit the front page within 80-120 votes (the latter being more rare than normal), it’s now requiring almost double the number.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2007

For passionate bikers and sports watch lovers there’s a Fastrack group on Facebook. The group is a platform to bring the biker community together – from India and overseas – to discuss trends, issues, products & offers, tips & advice, events and more…related, of course, to biking and maybe the great outdoors.

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JULY 30, 2007

The other day I was doing a bit of search (organic search) for a cheap, reliable, quality (wow i.e. quite a bit) web-hosting provider. Did a bit of research, read some e-mails in my discussion group, talked to a couple of net experts ( not geeks but domain pros). The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0

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JUNE 22, 2008

Target Audience The target audience is from 15-30 years of age group, youngsters who spend a lot of time on net and need a break and some thing fun and exciting to do, or when one is generally getting bored. The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0 However, I still review some Web 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Totally connected groups are average sharers, creating as much as they can consume and using free sites to display it all. Tagged as: media snackers , social media , web 2.0 { 6 trackbacks } Media, Mm Mm Good! BTW – I’ve really been interacting with the Digg community more and more. Of course I do.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. You can easily determine if your friends are interested in marketing, photography, books, music, web 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

Those of you who read Techipedia regularly know that I won’t add you as a Facebook friend if I don’t know you. I guess it’s assumed in social spaces that when s/he initiates the friend request, you can comment on anything on their Facebook wall or tweet back at them about something personal or even comment on a photo.

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JULY 28, 2008

HTML-Tags: On June 25th, AppGap contributor Jenny Ambrozek and others came together for a great discussion of how businesses large and small are experimenting with Facebook groups and other social networking tactics to grow awareness, build buzz, gain insights and increase sales. Enterprise 2.0 Web Commuting. Work Design.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 23, 2008

Friendfeed has a feature called Rooms that you can use to share links with either the public at large, a small group of friends or just yourself. The first is to grab this bookmarklet and start capturing stuff you find in the wilds of the web and stuffing it into your private room. Digg: srubel. Facebook: 500028774.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

To be sure, though, solicit feedback from a group of trusted peers not directly involved in your company or marketing objectives before going ahead with publishing the video, since you need an unbiased opinion. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

They want a blog, an iPhone app, viral videos, a Twitter handle, a Facebook fan page complete with custom applications, blogger and influencer engagement initiatives, an ad.ly For large, Fortune 1000 brands, this is typically a very large group, ranging from a few thousand to a few million individuals.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

by Tamar Weinberg on February 22, 2008 Share This is a guest post from Pierre Far, who recently launched a very cool program called Social Alerter which notifies you as soon as your website has a solid chance of hitting the Digg or del.icio.us Facebook’s plateauing of traffic (data out today) may be explained by such a hypothesis.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

blog with FeedBurner Social Media Release Criticism: Nine Points to Consider Social Media – Digg, MySpace,YouTube – Web 2.0 You could also group them. The whole web 2.0 I would love it if you considered adding a little more. I know more work. Not a lot though. Food for thought with gratitude.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Today, it appears every retail or business concern says ‘follow us on Twitter’ or ‘be our friend on Facebook.’ For the most part, you can’t buy Twitter followers or Facebook fans. We recently shared the story to a large group of Dallas hotels. This article is an example of that.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

After all, Facebook could eat the web. 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. Don’t use a Facebook Group. Therefore, it’s a force to be reckoned with.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. So the question arose – was social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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