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Social You Should Know—April Social Media Updates

Ignite Social Media

A lot happened this month in social media with most of the news centered around the Facebook privacy scandal. What we learned from that experience is that many people in Congress do not understand how social networks work and that Facebook has a lot of action items to follow up on. Facebook Faced Congress.

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Digg: Your Privacy is an Illusion

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face. Besides major usability issues , duplicate stories submissions , and ads that literally scream at you , Digg has yet another issue to deal with: privacy.

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Social Media Insecurity: What to do When Online Activity Affects.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Just because my work includes strong involvement with social media doesn’t mean that I need to let everyone into my personal life… or for that matter… open my privacy so you can see all my posts. I kind of have an “old school&# approach but I also respect my privacy. Great post. Answers Yahoo!

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I think it’s a bit of an intrusion on my privacy with how Spock seems to be harvesting emails. Reply Shane January 6, 2008 at 7:21 pm I’m fairly new to this whole social networking phenomenon. Also find YouTube fascinating. What is your experience? So far most of my time is spent on Stumbeupon and Propeller.

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

But I do think its important to, if they want to blog, teach them well about how to keep a secure amount of privacy, especially when it comes to pictures, addresses, hang-out spots, etc. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us All the best from Brazil! Answers Yahoo!

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

Convince & Convert

And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. I’d add: 1)Social media can increase sales. I’d add: 1)Social media can increase sales.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Lesson # 3 : Learn To Use YouTube To Convey a Message. And they mean it, too, saying "At TCBN we respect your privacy. Lesson # 5 Use Social Networks. and excellent use of SlideShare, Scribd, & YouTube as examples!). social networking. social media. social news. social networks.

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