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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reply Tamar Weinberg September 26, 2007 at 12:17 am My primary complaint with Reddit is that while it’s not slow at all compared to other social news sites, the interface is very primitive. Digg posters tend to be second only to the people who comment on YouTube videos in terms of the immature drivel they produce.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reply Webmaster Tips February 29, 2008 at 11:32 am Two rapidly upcoming technologies that will push marketing further in the social media direction are: * cell phone barcodes – It’s common here in Japan, but Google is just starting to implement it. and your phone will visit the related Web site.

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Similarly, posters on Cruise Critic who are aware of this intrusion into their boards will forever look skeptically upon favorable reviews of Royal Caribbean’s products. Even unbiased positive reviews will now be discounted.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Leveraging Other Social Media Sites How to Get Media Attention and Traffic Out of BusinessExchange (Small Business Trends): Not many people know about BusinessWeek’s Business Exchange, but Anita does, and she explains how you can get visibility out of it. Shevonne tells you how to actually use it and take advantage of its features.

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Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Around here, we see an amazing proliferation of very high-quality posters of sad-looking children. And I always wonder – if you are SO hard up for $$, who paid for the fancy 11×14 glossy posters, and the hosting, and the web dev? Prove to me it all was donated, and then we can talk.