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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I see this seminar as a forum. The admin (Professor Macdonald) / moderator (students teaching the class on a given day) create categories of conversation, which are analogous to deciding on forum names/topics and sticky threads. (In In a forum, some threads get “stuck&# to the top and are thus afforded more visibility.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They have discussion forums that are visited by moderators who merely police the content itself, but change never comes from suggestions offered in the forum itself or in the posts, even if hundreds of users contribute the same identical observations. Be proactive and not reactive. (To

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Sadly, this person’s post was pulled by the strict moderators on that forum; the post was purely self-promotional and nothing but. If you’re only on the forum to tell other people to visit your website or to use your product, you won’t go far.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You can use the many applications that Facebook offers, so that others can answer questions on a survey, have discussions on the forums, and/or have notes to bring awareness to a topic. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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7 Lessons learned from Toyota's “borrowed” image follies | Shuaism

Josh S Peters

Toyota apologized via Twitter to Calanan and 2 other artists, and they even made a formal statement about it in the Flickr help forum. The real rub of it is that Michael (and all the other artists involved) had no idea their images were being used. Josh Peters You're welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

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Social Media for Lead Generation and Acquisition | Shuaism

Josh S Peters

Excluding the millions of forums, niche networks, and sites that your customers could be hanging out on there are 2 “de facto&# sites that are very quickly emerging as the two you “need&# to be a part of and one platform you should have. If not, now would be a good time to start.

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If a forum exists for your industry, you should very well be active: you should participate and follow the discussion closely to know exactly what is being said and what kind of feedback you can take back to your executive and development team to enhance your product and to make it better than your competition.

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