Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The launch of Geocities by Yahoo marked for some the beginning of a new revolution in the online media called social networking. From an evolutionary standpoint and through historical data, there have been several milestones that have been reached that can help us formulate a true life cycle phenomenon in the social networking space.

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How Social Media Has Become a Tool For Clinical Research

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social networking gives sponsors and clinical trial coordinators the ability to target a vast group of e-patients. An isolated patient population still will have a wide range of influences that affects the type of information they’ll likely engage with on social platforms.

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Does Social Media Impact Sales at Tobacco and Adult Themed Stores?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Further, in their annual social retail report , which aggregated data from over 10,000 retailers representing 304 million unique shoppers and 1.69 Among the more interesting findings: Users coming from a social network spent $126.12 On the contrary, the average order value of a non-socially engaged person was $116.55.

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I Invented Facebook » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here’s the real Facebook, long before I joined the social network myself: Truthfully, it doesn’t matter who invented Facebook. And these three social networks, which were based on very similar concepts, predated the Facebook that we know and love today. or to actually give the social network a fair chance.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

by Tamar Weinberg on December 19, 2007 Share How do you leverage different social networks? I am fascinated by the amount of social networks that I’m part of, but better yet, I’m intrigued to find that I assume different “personas,&# at least in terms of choosing friends (and using the networks), on each social site.

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Plutter Kite: The Ultimate Micro-Blogging Service

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It feels like every day there’s a new post about Plurk, Twitter, or some new micro-blogging platform. They’re always heralded as the next big social media hit , the best on the web, or something killer. Most of these platforms are too young to be killing anything, and are generally unfinished. thank you for sharing!

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An Unorthodox Way to Gain Brand Awareness: The Beren Dilemma

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

However, what was missing was the lack of participation that the readers could take part of — they had no platform for action. Promote your petition on social networks: “An easy way to spread the word about your petition is to post it to your social networks and encourage your friends to do the same.”

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