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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’m taking two seminar courses at school this term, and they each resemble a particular form of social media. A seminar is different from a regular course in that it necessarily involves interaction with the students — a seminar is to a regular lecture course as web 2.0 is to web 1.0.

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The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. Social news is about reciprocal relationships. Submitting a story to a social news site that is completely off-topic. Excess converts to spam.

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Mixxing In, and Why Early Adoption is Important: A Review of the.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It’s about time that I bring the dialogue here since it’s evident that I’m already starting to grow fond of the brand new social network. The Early Adopter Appeal Mixx is a new social news site that went into private beta a mere two months ago. I naturally selected the “Photo&# option.

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A Review of the New Digg Images and Universal Taxonomy.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Are you submitting a news story? At this point, you input the URL. If it’s a news story, you can even choose a thumbnail (that will appear on the upcoming list or on the top right corner) if Digg is able to locate one for you. First, when you go to Digg’s submit page , you’re now greeted with three options.

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Tweet Spinner Review: A Powerful Application to Manage Your Tweets

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You can also choose a very aggressive spam filtering method that will consider any DM with a URL as spam. Tweet content: URLs. If a high percentage of the user’s Tweets are filled with URLs, you might not have an interest. messages?) Both archival and spam filtering can be scheduled. You cannot change the schedule.

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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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How to Use Social Media for Personal Branding

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I also use Google Reader to monitor my brand – subscribe to BackTweets for your URL and several various versions of your name in Google blog/news search. But to David’s point, if you’re not creating any new content on your blog, chances are you won’t see much traction.