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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

When it comes down to it, there is absolutely nothing wrong with engaging in such a way with any social community as long as you have the intentions of the community at heart. The key here is making the mechanics of the social networks transparent. Don’t fool them, or they’ll end up fooling you.

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The major “Web 2.0″ ″ and social networking technologies that have been created in the last several years have been a major boon for consumers and web users. This new world is an evolution of the Web and it cannot be undone. Let’s be honest for a second here.

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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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Digg: Your Privacy is an Illusion

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Nearly four months later, the social features appear to be here to stay. As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face. I don’t want anyone but the intended recipient to see shouts, for example.

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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. You can easily determine if your friends are interested in marketing, photography, books, music, web 2.0

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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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Why Customer Service Should Be in Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

And if you are, I hope you have a disaster recovery system in place!) Don’t you think, however, that the more consumers use social media for customer service, the more it floods the system? It’s important for companies to utilize social media but it doesn’t scale. It’s like THE CLUB.