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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. The SXSW Twitter feed helped many communicate with each other and even allowed for individuals to meet for the first time.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The Pork and Beans video enlisted in familiar faces across the YouTube culture. With over 1 billion video views on YouTube per day, if you have a great video that shows your passion for the product and the right audience comes along, you can find your video in the spotlight. Informational Give a man a fish, feed him for a day.

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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The blogger (Professor Jutras) posts his ideas, occasionally throws in some editorial and takes some light, widget-fed microblogging (the current events some students share). Gab Goldenberg writes a search marketing blog for which he has plenty of good arguments for you to follow by RSS feed. I see this seminar as a blog.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You never know until you check out their feed. Their commitment to social media : Are they dabblers in social media or serious aficionados? By studying their feed, you can learn a lot more about how important social media is to them. What can you learn about me? Perhaps they’re insomniacs.

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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’m sure that if iTunes actually included the customer in its feed, and if other Apple departments followed suit, there would be a whole lot more followers and satisfied customers. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Is that even professional? Answers Yahoo!

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It’s certainly not unthinkable that someone will import your RSS feed into another website without ever gaining any permission to do so. Some of those tactics may seem more vile than others, but a dangerous reality exists that no one is talking about — with social networks comes theft, and very little pay off for content creators.

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The right news will hit the front page of Digg quickly.