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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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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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The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. Niche network: Sphinn : In the red corner we have Sphinn – a social news network dedicated purely to online marketing news and discussion. Subsequently, Sphinn is perhaps the most relevant niche social network on the web. Bookmarked!

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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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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. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Reply Andy M.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. That’s gotta be more luck than skill no? 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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