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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter, Pownce, and other “microblogging&# platforms really don’t fit in the type of social networks that I intend to illustrate here. In the business world, social networks help professionals share industry expertise and facilitate business networking. But how would you count how often you “visit&# Twitter?

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

His blog is full with regular small byte-sized updates about U2, sports, movies, and more. Sean McGee is a huge U2 fan like his dad (yes, that Matt ). He’s 12 years old and lives in Tri-Cities, Washington. He also tweets regularly. I asked two questions, and here are their answers: How Young is Too Young?

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Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Topical profiles are what I’d call the new norm. I ran a sports site until just recently, and I LOVED to talk sports from that Twitter account. I refused to tweet more than once a day about sports on my @danielthepoet account, simply because most of my connections there are marketers or tech-obsessed folks (i.e.

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7 Truths About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you write for a sports blog, you have hundreds of similar sports blogs to choose from. If there’s one recurring theme that I feature here on Techipedia, it’s the fact that social media marketing relates to dealings with other individuals. A good tip: think about it as a reputation tattoo.

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11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you open a newspaper and take a look, even within the Sports section, their’s specific writers who consistently tackle specific topics. They rarely have one writer covering the details of every local sports team. It’s just impossible to do.

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’m typing this blog post on a $750 Dell Inspiron 700m laptop (which I purchased nearly 3 years ago) which is lighter than the keyboard I used in 1993 and sports a high resolution despite its 12″ screen size. The cost: over $4k for a 386SX/25mhz with 170MB of hard drive space, 2MB RAM, a 2400 baud modem, and a 13″ monitor.

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Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson Respond to Digg Complaints

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Tagged as: digg , jay adelson , kevin rose , social media , social news { 24 trackbacks } Communications Downtime: Another Digg Revolt? That will make the Average Digger more interested in pop culture, sports, astrology etc. The embargo is no longer in effect and it seems that all may actually go well back on Digg.

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