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Plutter Kite: The Ultimate Micro-Blogging Service

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Threaded Comments – one of the largest feature missing out on Twitter was the ability to actually respond to someone. Plurk introduced a comment system which helps create a conversational feel. Twitter went about this in the right way and it’s opened up a host of new applications, tools, and scripts.

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I Invented Facebook » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As I commented on the VentureBeat blog post, I knew about the concept of a Facebook before it even caught on. But these claims that someone invested Facebook first were contested much earlier before the application development platform was made available. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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

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Many educators in successful schools are involved in their schools professional learning community and perhaps they even collaborate with other schools in the district, city, state, country or beyond, but Innovative Educators also have personal learning networks (PLNs) enabling them to connect with other learners around the globe.

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you have a software application and people follow your product, by all means, set up a Twitter feed and let your users subscribe! Tagged as: communication , facebook , Internet , microblogging , social media , twitter { 4 trackbacks } Pour la promotion du cne extreme, devenez ralisateur et crez un film. Yeah, I thought so.

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Why Social Media Is Like Getting Stoned

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Unless the person in question has earned social media deity status where even their most tiresome ramblings generate a high volume of comment and conversation, anyone attempting to seed a new conversation needs to earn the attention of their potential audience. There will never be a sure-win plan that applicable to all.

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Andrew Sutherland, 17 Year Old Creator of Quizlet » Techipedia.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In that way, I wish Quizlet, an online application to make learning vocabulary fun and engaging, was available back when I needed it. I was reading a recent interview with Andrew , who built the application out of a passion and a need — I don’t think anything like Quizlet exists anywhere else.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You can use the many applications that Facebook offers, so that others can answer questions on a survey, have discussions on the forums, and/or have notes to bring awareness to a topic. When I was having some issues adding the commenting system to my web site, I was able to quickly get a response from the JS-Kit team and their users.