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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A seminar is different from a regular course in that it necessarily involves interaction with the students — a seminar is to a regular lecture course as web 2.0 is to web 1.0. Professor Daniel Jutras’ classes begin with him and/or students covering some current events relating to the seminar’s topic.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Videos that have a completely unplanned “wow&# element to them definitely travel far in social circles. 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. Inspiring videos, too, can be viral.

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How a Small New York City Hotel Put Itself on the Map through.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The word of mouth has traveled, because Pamela Slim learned about the hotel from Jonathan. If you’re constantly broadcasting and not building bridges, your social media engagement will only travel so far. I personally learned about Roger Smith Hotel at a social media conference and was told that it’s the place to be.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Then and Now In the good old days, say from the 1850s onwards, marketing was mostly a one way “communication&# : companies advertized their wares via local media like newspapers, magazines, and traveling salespeople. Geeks being geeks figured out the problem (it was the video drivers) and demanded a fix.

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Most of the kids in my classes did not care. I had my first blog in 2000 where I did daily entries on my cross-country travels. I know that as an aspiring author in my elementary school years (I knew I wanted to be one when I was 5!), I, on the other hand, wasn’t going to be stopped.

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Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Marketing Tactics (SEOmoz): Jane Copand, the Web 2.0 guru, shows how to leverage Web 2.0 25 Headline Formulas that Have Plagued and Blessed Web 2.0 PR Disasters Lurk in Web 2.0 Bookmarklets for the Web 2.0 sites to market your brand and control your message.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After all, hourly consulting fees are typically much more costly than a “free lunch&# plus the travel time it took to meet up. Almost everything everyone does in the business world, be it a regular transaction, tourism, or travel, has some financial element to it. Money makes the world go round.

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