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The two ‘gadget’ purchases I need to make in 2011

The Way of the Web

So the Consumer Electronics Show has taken place for another year, with masses of coverage on all the new products and trends which manufacturers believe will shape out gadget buying for the next couple of years. Which is a pretty lofty theme to justify buying some cool geeky stuff to play with.

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

Convince & Convert

For instance, open source software and the Freemium model are allowing for a more organic, bottom-up adoption of many applications and technologies. Alternatively, an organization may use the open source LAMP stack and OpenOffice and save a great deal on software licenses. Enterprise 1.0 was very much top-down.

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Forget e-readers, I just want a CC-reader

The Way of the Web

The second criticism I’ve heard several times is that initially you’re stuck with copyright-free material pre-loaded, and buying new content can be difficult, leaving a fairly unsatistfactory experience.

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

Social Media Strategery

Use an open source microblogging service like Yammer or QikCom. We’re not talking about enterprise-wide IT systems here, these are relatively simple changes that you can make today and start realizing the benefits of using open platforms as opposed to closed channels. 101 , buy-in , marketing , social media , web 2.0

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Gov 2.0 – We Need to Get Past the Honeymoon Stage of Our Relationship

Social Media Strategery

Let’s start with the entire over-celebration of opensouce for opensource’s sake — merely so that the government can spend a bundle buying the consultant that comes with the “free&# software. Open government=closed society of geeks [link] [link] Prokofy Neva You talk as if it is only admirals in the way of the Goverati.

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Why Nobody Should Buy Digg ?» Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Why Nobody Should Buy Digg Why Nobody Should Buy Digg by Tamar Weinberg on December 20, 2007 Share It hasn’t even been a week and my once positive outlook of Digg has come to a sour end. Answers Yahoo!

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Tagged as: audacity of free , authors , book , chris brogan , free , Marketing , social media { 3 trackbacks } VIP Access: The VIPerchill Business Plan August 4, 2010 at 4:12 am Could Consultants Offer Incentive-Based Pricing? Reply Carri Bugbee July 30, 2010 at 5:00 am Todd, can I buy you lunch and pick your brain??? You get the idea.

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