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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It makes me wonder if I’m sending my requests to a wall (or for your tech geeks, /dev/null) or if people really work for Apple (outside their marketing and engineering departments). I think Microsoft would be more receptive to user feedback. I’ve seen this on Microsoft’s PR depts.

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The FASTForward Blog " Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? : Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary

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Microblogging. John Marshall, VP Global Product Development for McGraw-Hill/ Platts, will discuss how his organization was able to significantly increase revenue from its online industry community by boosting the number of subscribers รข?? Future of Communities. Search Engine Watch. Microsoft Links. Charles Handy.

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The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Spam engineer guy Matt Cutts has his own blog where he talks about his personal life and all things Google. Google is undoubtedly huge and they could simply shrug their members off like Digg does to its much smaller userbase, but instead they engage the community and that’s why Google is such a positive brand.

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Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Patience is required in building a community, seeing real results with monetization and building traffic. Some people are able to build a community but fail at monetizing their blogs. Some also build traffic but fail to build a community. Patience really is important in every aspect of building a blog.

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

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One of the topics was microblogging, and Twitter was discussed. Since then, the students have formed their own vibrant community on Twitter. Ive found out, that it is far too easy to be dragged to only one larger and very live community (Facebook for example) and to forget about all of the rest web 2.0 ReadWriteWeb. 25 Comments.

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SXSW: Mark Zuckerberg Keynote (the edited liveblogged version)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

We’re not the only ones [enabling such communication] but a lot of people are using our tools, especially in places like Colombia. We’re not trying to build new communities; we’re allowing people to communicate with people they already know. What about the ad deal you currently have with Microsoft?

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Is Social Media Becoming Boring?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

When dealing with emotions, psychology, anthropology, sociology, among other disciplines, you’re bound to make “mistakes&# as you attempt to understand demographics and communities and learn about who will be receptive to what. It should be about growing the community, not cutting new people off while they learn the ropes.