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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Perhaps this is a “take heed&# call to community participants who engage on the social web, but while ExpertCruiser warns its readers that this is a scummy practice, in reality, scouring social sites for mentions of your product, service, and even your competitors is nothing new. The full disclosure obligation is obvious.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Even a recent thread on Cre8asite Forums discussed this, kicking off by someone stating they find social media very intimidating. We certainly we had word of mouth back then, but it was geographically limited to a large degree due to travel and communication constraints. Pierre recently launched Social Alerter.

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

From its humble beginnings as an area on the web development discussion forums at SitePoint , to being spun off from the SitePoint Marketplace a few months ago, 99designs has experienced astonishing growth to become a leader in its market. The site is forum-based and relies on a "design team" (pre-approved designers) to fill out its crowd.

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Advice for a New Internet Marketer (or How to Spot Internet.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. Word travels. And read this post from Mat with some good suggestions.

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11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This blog covers specific topics if and only if there’s discussion in a variety of internet marketing forums. My blog has been evolving as I’ve recognized my desire to move more into commentary, with feature length travel articles sprinkled in. Is there no related discussion there?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

link] Travel Trends – Social Fallacies, Smaller DMOs, Leading Hotels, Benchmarking, Disneyland Gets twitterjacked « Travel 2.0 [.] link] Social Media Myths and Reality » The Buzz Bin [.] We have taken baby step mostly focused on WEB, Blog, forums in the industry etc. I market them.&#