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Curation is Not Aggregation

Firebelly

While it’s not as pure and noble as content creation, it’s more than aggregation. Are you a curator or an aggregator? Aggregation is an amassing of content. An aggregator will get books about airplanes. An aggregator will gather Merlots of any kind, or even just “reds.” What is your process?

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators by Tamar Weinberg on September 23, 2009 Share This is a guest post from Josh Schnell, founder of Macgasm.net and web developer.

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Blogging Upstream

Waxing UnLyrical

Tootzypop , the lifestyle blog I founded for savvy women over 40 , is no exception. In women’s online media, the formula is one part fashion and beauty, one part yoga and fitness, one part recipe swap, a ginormous dose of mommy blogging; mix and cover with a thick frosting of e-shopping. Image: Bruce Guenter via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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How to Take a Collaborative Approach to Managing Social Accounts Across Higher Ed Departments

Social Media Strategies Summit

For instance, MIT uses Flickr as an image library because it’s free and easy for everyone to use. We upload it to Flickr, and all our partners can download it freely.”. MIT has a social media hub that aggregates content from almost 200 accounts — but Jenny’s team only selects the best of the best for inclusion in the hub. “I

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We'll Always Have Blogging

Social Media Marketing

Image credit: Express Monorail (Flickr) "Round up the usual suspects." Corporate blogging has been with us for quite some time, with some major companies having forayed into the space in the early to mid 2000s. Or is it that there's a purpose that isn't served by blogs? "I But of course, you know that's just crazy talk.

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6 Must-Have Social Plugins for Your WordPress Blog

Convince & Convert

This popular plugin lets you incorporate all of your social sharing buttons into a customizable bar that sits on the top or side of each blog post for easy sharing. Creating visually appealing content for your blog has become increasingly important, especially now with the advent of Pinterest. No Google or Flickr search necessary.

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On The Death Of Google Reader

Waxing UnLyrical

Our networks are much more efficient at aggregating and gathering information relevant to us because they’re different from us. Image: warrantedarrest via Flickr CC 2.0. He also blogs. There is no way I could ever match the richness of those information streams on my own, which is what an RSS feed requires.