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5 Ways To Become Social Media Relevant

Jason Yormark

Leverage 2nd Tier Platforms – While the Facebooks and Twitters of the world are certainly the big dogs, there are opportunities elsewhere to capitalize on. The top 3 that really come to mind are LinkedIn , Foursquare and FriendFeed. RSS aggregators can be your best friend. But it’s a good start.

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5 Ways To Become Social Media Relevant | jasonyormark.com

Jason Yormark

Leverage 2nd Tier Platforms – While the Facebooks and Twitters of the world are certainly the big dogs, there are opportunities elsewhere to capitalize on. The top 3 that really come to mind are LinkedIn , Foursquare and FriendFeed. RSS aggregators can be your best friend. But it’s a good start.

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity SMM

Facebook can be a wonderful platform for sharing information, but also a playground for narcissists. Certain aspects of social media (such as the ease of building a large following on Twitter—if you’re not picky about things like quality or relevance) are like helium for those with already overinflated egos. The solution?

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friendfeed Explosion

Koka Sexton

They’ve brought their expertise to a slightly different area: social network aggregating. If I wanted to leave a comment, I would do it on the same platform the feed came from and not an aggregator. Once a dormant social site that I used only for aggregating my rss feeds has now become a full fledged community.

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Learning via the Social Media Game

Bare Feet Studios

It just shows you how much app and platform development continues in the sphere of online social networks and mobile options. Capture other people’s content using their RSS Feeds and aggregate (display) them on your website. FourSquare/Gowalla. Ask them to write about you. www.technorati.com. News & RSS Feeds. Project Blog.

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Getting Ready for LeWeb, Need Your Ideas

Almost Savvy

How will services like foursquare*, twitter*, facebook*, paypal* fit in to the mobile real time web? [* = Le Web 09 participant] Just a few thoughts Irene, I may have more later. The platforms and devices used to communicate continue to fragment: multiple email accounts, social networks, chat, SMS etc.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

It depends, but early social media platforms started to pop up in the late 90s to early 2000s, with the technology budding as early as the 70s. It wasn’t until a couple of months later, that the #SanDiegoFire hashtag was sparked to aggregate tweets and updates about the California wildfires. So, how old is social media?