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Four Areas that Digital Marketers Need to Continue to Focus On

Direct Marketing Observations

Twitter ain’t going anywhere -From cars that tweet , to marketers figuring out newfound ways to leverage the power of microblogging and actually driving awareness and making money-Twitter is hitting some good times. Twitter didn’t buy Posterous just to spend money and collect a toy. need more proof? They have plans.

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

But let’s look at it another way: if your post didn’t appear on FriendFeed at all, would readers have flocked to your site?

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Rethinking how I manage my sites

The Way of the Web

I’ve been pretty busy with client work and my own sites recently – and managed to commit a cardinal sin in forgetting to renew the hosting package on one of my oldest projects, 140char.com.

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Top 20 iPhone Apps for Bloggers

ProBlogger

If PayPal is the official financial service of bloggers, Twitter is the official microblogging service. In fact, it’s not a microblogging service anymore. Tumblr is also known as the “other&# microblogging service, which thankfully didn’t follow Twitter’s path and remained true to what it was created for.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A response came from a business owner who had the perfect answer on her website and directed the original poster to the website for a detailed reply. When I reviewed the poster’s account, I understood why.

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Major problems upgrading to Wordpress 2.9

The Way of the Web

140char.com will be evolving into more co-ordinated project to effectively cover microblogging across Twitter, Plurk, Tumblr, Posterous etc in a better way. TheWayoftheWeb will continue as a personal commentary/memory aid/guide to social networks, marketing, mobile, videogames, technology and the media industry.

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Digg vs. Reddit: Reddit's Staff is Better » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Digg posters tend to be second only to the people who comment on YouTube videos in terms of the immature drivel they produce. Should the problem with Digg ever get resolved (I’m not holding my breath), I won’t be rushing back in a hurry. Reply Alexis Ohanian September 26, 2007 at 2:16 pm Hey Tamar, Thanks for noticing.

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