Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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Understanding the Nature of an Event Using Social Analytics

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter activity around flooding in NYC on August 15th, 2011 showing peak responses at noon and 5 PM. Most influential Twitter accounts associated with this article. Twitter Influential Steven DiMartino. Record Rainfall in the New York City area actually happened on Sunday 8/14 more than Monday 8/15. Stories about the rainfall.

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5 Things I’ve Learned from Running BizSugar

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You have to bring energy to it, and you have to “prime the pump” at first, until enough people know about the site that momentum builds on its own. Just a couple of the initiatives we’re currently working on are integrating Facebook and Twitter logins, and adding more community features.

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11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Building relationships takes time, energy and effort. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! I especially liked your point about changing opinions too frequently. Most business owners want quick success.

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Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I, too, find that Twitter has been incredibly powerful for me to connect with real life colleagues, readers of Techipedia, family, and everyone in between. I’m also something of a Twitter purist. Enter a second Twitter account. With Twitter being so incredibly large and vast, there are different types of mini-communities.

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The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I live twittered hour 23 and 24 of my last story submission to Digg. Some might be the “savviest&# users because they spend inordinate amounts of time and energy there. Cut your losses, bite the bullet, go through the emotional withdrawal, then vote with your feet and begin investing your time and emotional energy elsewhere.

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Triple Bottom Line Thinking for Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Although some communications professionals may think that triple bottom line social means using Facebook, Twitter, AND LinkedIn, we’re going to take a little bit more of a philosophical approach than that. A few basic ways that businesses measure this area are management of energy consumption, waste reduction and sustainability reporting.

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Creating Passionate Customers: Brand Evangelism and What it Means.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The only investment in the act of marketing on the social web is time and energy. The easiest way to find these people is to find the communities that your users frequently visit, be it forums, Twitter, or other social networks. Today, marketing your business for free may seem to be an unattainable process. Answers Yahoo!

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