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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It’s why T-Mobile succeeded with a flash mob. Randy Pausch , a former lecturer at Carnegie Mellon, inspired not only students in his class but the world in his last ever speech before he passed away from pancreatic cancer. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Anyone can visit online meeting places like Digg and Reddit and promote the voices and opinions of others, and anyone can mobilize a group of people around a common cause on Facebook or elsewhere. A great example, one that recently affected me: A mobile phone manufacturer, called HTC, released a phone that had sub-par video performance.

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So You Want to Bring Social Media to Your Organization?

Social Media Strategery

Mobilizing Generation 2.0 We’ve actually been discussing this in my management class over the last few weeks. Don’t you have to know how blogs and Facebook are being used, be comfortable with them yourself before you can identify the reasons why the blog would be more effective? Thanks for including Now Is Gone.

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Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On the other hand, Plurk is really new, and thus, Twitter wins on followers (and the fact that mobile access — via SMS — totally owns), so the Plurk discussions (for now) are at a minimum. I am starting to use Plurk more with the mobile interface, though it isn’t 100%. It works for that purpose just fine. But PLURK?

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The Truth About the iPad | Blogging and Content Creation | Social.

Convince & Convert

For now, I think it’s a highly mobile DVD player, game machine, Kindle, iPod, email appliance, and Web surfing device. The cost of textbooks and the bulk of carrying a laptop could be replaced by an iPad, without too much lost in the utility of actually having a computer in class. What is it? i love ipad too.

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

Convince & Convert

Growth Is Slowing The true size of the Twitter audience is a bit tricky to pin down because 55% of its users do so via third party and mobile applications. Functionally, everything Twitter does, Facebook does just as well, with the exception of mobile usage. Check ( Facebook Lite ). Retweet-style sharing tools? its high churn rate.:

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How to Get an Influencer's Attention

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

For example, I write a lot about AOL, and after the recent layoffs, I wrote how the entire mobile advertising team took a voluntary buyout and quit the company. Peter is also the founder of Gizmodo, Joystiq, hackaday, and Engadget Mobile. Reply Gabe Arnold September 7, 2010 at 12:01 am Wow, mobile typing for the win.