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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. When I was having some issues adding the commenting system to my web site, I was able to quickly get a response from the JS-Kit team and their users. Additionally, crowdsourcing has even help bring awareness to charity causes and collecting money for them.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. Reddit and Mixx , on the other hand, live on a karma system.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. It’s a great system … in theory. FriendFeed: The Catch That brings me to the biggest downside of FriendFeed.

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

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Michael Wesch, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University is best known on the net for that video, The Machine is Us/ing Us , which is a great example of how to use the medium to convey a message thats more than just scripted rhetoric, but that has meaning. Side note: great interview with Wesch here ).

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media: Getting Started Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if You Don’t Want to (A Smart Bear): Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) makes a compelling argument into why social media must be considered, even if you have no interest in it. The article has examples of how social media worked too.

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StumbleUpon Etiquette Guide and Best Practices

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Relationship opportunities on StumbleUpon are endless, especially since it’s a social bookmarking service based on interests. It shows that you have a vested financial interest in Yahoo News. This is not a real example, readers.) Keeping garbage out of the system makes for a more enjoyable experience for everyone.

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Advice for a New Internet Marketer (or How to Spot Internet.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. Reply Tamar Weinberg March 10, 2010 at 12:50 pm True.

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