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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The Irony: MySpace Okay, so in my previous paragraph, I mention that you should be an early adopter of social networks. However, I joined MySpace in 2006 to network with individuals who refused to use Facebook and to return to my liberal ways of accepting a lot more friend requests than I normally would. > click.

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Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The only similarity is a 140 character limit for posts — so Plurk is essentially a microblogging platform. Plurk: Real Nested Conversations Brought to the Microblogging Platform A few days ago, I noticed via Twitter search tool Summize that Aaron Brazell had been talking about me on his Twitter stream.

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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). The url reads montessorY instead of montessori. I see this seminar as a blog. Sry bout that – would ya mind fixing it? Answers Yahoo!

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Social Media Citizens Hate BP + 4 Other Social Media News Items

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Twitter to Change Links and How They Are Displayed By Ben Parr In an effort to bypass the obscurity of shortened links and to prevent malware and phishing attacks, Twitter has begun the rollout of t.co, its official URL shortener, along with some major changes to how the microblogging platform handles links.

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The Innovative Educator: 5 Things You Can Do to Begin Developing Your Personal Learning Network

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5-Join the microblogging phenomena by reading Tweets at Twitter. Why Every Parent and Teacher Should Learn MySpace. Mandate Against Professional Blog URLs in NYC DOE. (If youre following closely you may note this is actually PLN 2.0 Youll learn a lot in minutes that fit into 140 character sound bytes. ► April. (11).

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How to Use Social Media for Personal Branding

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I also use Google Reader to monitor my brand – subscribe to BackTweets for your URL and several various versions of your name in Google blog/news search. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Answers Yahoo!

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How to Audit Your Social Media Efforts: 20+ Questions to Ask Yourself

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You could also add your social media profile URLs on your business cards, in your catalogues, on your flyers, etc. Another way you can integrate is using your social profile URLs as your website when leaving comments. Follow me @Sociatic&# on my Twitter shirt. Make your handle big and bold so people can see it. Answers Yahoo!

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