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MARCH 24, 2008

06 am Cool Apps & Tools Jump to Comments Few freeware apps which make life better SnagIt Screen Capture Utility – While Microsoft Windows does offer a Prt Sc (Print Screen) key it is fairly complicated and painful to capture the screens with the ‘Prt Sc’ key.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 27, 2010

community, congratulate those of us on new career moves, and help connect potential candidates to new positions too. community and I’m looking forward to see where he takes his passion in this new role. Image Courtesy of Flickr User Ben Zvan. Development Social Media Gov 2.0 Open until Jan. Heroes At the Gov 2.0

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Convince & Convert

JULY 19, 2012

note: see some of Mark’s work at his Flickr account here) How did you get into this? I’m using Microsoft Publisher, which most graphic designers would laugh at that, right? But my goal is to basically just try to communicate ideas. We’ll link to some of it here in the blog post that we write around the video.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 14, 2012

Just like in the 90’s when Microsoft seemed like the only choice, but then we found alternatives like Mac or Linux, there are alternatives to WordPress too. Habari is a secure blogging platform designed from the ground up with the current and future needs of the blogging community firmly in mind. But is it necessarily the best choice?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

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. It’s their community of choice and that’s fine. I don’t know yet if it changes my feelings at all.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

Intentional Communities. The Salon Blog Community. Flickr: My Photos. Mostly its called cultural or corporate anthropology or ethnology, but I prefer the term Customer Anthropology -- the study of your customers people and behaviours in their natural habitat. Environmental Health News. Environmental NewsNet. Gil Friend.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

It use to be that Apple was the scrappy underdog and white knight to Microsoft's evil empire. link] James Windrow Apple used to be the scrappy underdog and white knight to Microsofts evil empire. Thats convenience! What I found most interesting is the continued shift in the perception of the Apple brand.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 10, 2009

Image Courtesy of Flickr user Ack Ook* buy-in , leadership , scary , social media , web 2.0 An example is a blog called ‘Mini-Microsoft’ where some dude just voices his opinion about life inside Microsoft. link] sradick Partha – great example of the Mini-Microsoft blog. It’s scary.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

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 Home | Web Apps | Trends | Google | Microsoft | Facebook | Archives | Jobs. ReadWriteWeb.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

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. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

A number of large web development discussion communities host contest areas, including NamePros , v7 Network , and Webmaster Talk. The software development community -- especially the open source community -- has long used "bounties" to help lure developers to certain tasks. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteTalk. AltSearchEngines.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 26, 2011

Image: Asthma Helper via Flickr, CC 2.0 Doesn’t it call to mind the Flickr-Virgin Mobile brouhaha from a few years ago? Image: Rafael Peñazola via Flickr, CC 2.0 Cheers, Sheldon, community manager for Sysomos ([link] Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)" This could backfire on marketers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

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.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

They will have to fix this or risk really turning off their core community and fall into the, "oh, no, another annoying spammy tool" category. Home | Web Apps | Trends | Google | Microsoft | Facebook | Archives | Jobs. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteTalk. AltSearchEngines. RWW Daily by Email. RWW Weekly Wrap-up. 12 Comments. RECENT JOBS.

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Laurel Papworth

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

We look at Freemium revenue in social networks and online communities including asking that: if freemium is the business model of giving it all (or most) of the services away for free , how can you then charge for it? On Flickr, maybe a 100 meg of uploads is fair, more is not. And what is free stuff anyway – marketing?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2009

He was incredibly giving and made huge sacrifices for his community, his wife, his children, his grandchildren, and even his great-granddaughter who was born the week after he was admitted to the hospital for the last time. Back then, Queens had no large Jewish community but the new residents had determination to set up a synagogue.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. SEOmoz PRO : SEOmoz PRO features a rich library of informative guides, a myriad of tools, and a strong active and close-knit community. I am a leader in my community. I highly recommend you follow his stuff.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

If you think about what’s gaining steam across the entire social community, it’s all visual. But it’s all that direction and I think there’s a larger trend at play there around communicating, not just data, visually, but communicating every aspect of your life visually as opposed to textually.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 11, 2010

For every article that I write, I first read it over 2-3 times (which can take quite a while, as I write a lot) and then run it through Microsoft Word which helps me spot spelling and grammar mistakes. Now his content is far more targeted to his community and people are getting a lot more value out of his writing.

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Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 9, 2012

A users can post to his/her Facebook wall, send a Tweet, share photos to Flickr and TwitPic, upload a video to YouTube, post a blog entry and manage other social accounts all from a single login and tool. A free app for Apple iOS devices that enables users to manage multiple social media accounts at once.

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