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Why Social Media Is Like Getting Stoned

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Your whole being is involved, and you’re using your skills to the utmost. If you’re skilled in the art of social media “Flow”, switching gears between being a conversational leader to a contributor (and back) should be natural and easy as you engage others across various platforms. The ego falls away. Time flies.

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The Innovative Educator: 5 Things You Can Do to Begin Developing Your Personal Learning Network

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skills) and grow into PLN producers (2.0 3-Set up an iGoogle account using your professional email and subscribe to the blogs you selected in Google Reader. Caution: Limit your reader to five to start. 5-Join the microblogging phenomena by reading Tweets at Twitter. Here is some advice to get started.

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11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Dishonesty Lying about your knowledge, skills, or experience will not pay much in the way of rewards over time. Reply Rebecca Caroe October 8, 2010 at 2:16 am Tamar, I find the ‘expert’ stuff absolutely crucial – in fact if you are a real expert then you *may* be forgiven poor grammar and communication skills.

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6 Things Parenthood Taught Me About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

We hit hiccups with our marketing efforts and also our parenting skills. I turned off the posts on Buzz mostly for the issue that Google doesn’t truncate the posts. Meanwhile, I always share my posts via Google Reader and at least doing so encourages people to click on the post on Buzz.

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7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In an effort to write for readers, for example, one can get a little anxious about whether they’re coming off sufficiently experienced or skilled. Sometimes graphics or images can be subjective too, meaning one thing to the author and potentially lacking meaning to the reader. But we carry on, don’t we?

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In fact, I think it’s a great sign that practical literacy and writing skills aren’t dead! Glen amazes me with his blogging and web design skill and also his ability to make money and still bind the community. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Reply Andy M.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

That’s gotta be more luck than skill no? Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca The reason this is news is not that they are actually doing something that shows a lot of ingenuity, its that this time it actually worked. Hotels in NYC are costly.

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