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Think Twice About Automating Your Social Media Efforts

SocMed Sean

digests, Foursquare updates, and auto-retweeting of certain “trusted resources” In the end, there was a strong consensus that while some automation is valuable, over-automating your social media activities actually defeats the purpose of building individual relationships with your customers or community members.

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We Interrupt This Lifecast: Syndication Overload (Part 2)

Firebelly

This week, however, I want to talk about those who aggregate content from all over the web and syndicate it through their Twitter streams. They were simply aggregating content from around the web and pushing it through their Twitter stream. You get the point. They werent interacting with anyone. They werent saying anything.

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The Gamification of Social Media

Social Media Marketing

When tied to other accounts such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn and blogs, your net worth rises based on the content you either create or share. We started accounts for Ford ( FORD ) and Lincoln ( LINCOLN ), linking our Facebook pages, YouTube channels and Twitter and Flickr accounts. Yes, that's an actual term.

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

Webbiquity SMM

I’ve always found Foursquare a bit creepy; turns out there’s actually an app named Creepy that aggregates “GPS coordinates for any user (of geolocation services like Foursquare, Twitter and Flickr), pointing out their most frequented hangouts on a map…Essentially, it’s a stalker’s dream app.&#

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Learning via the Social Media Game

Bare Feet Studios

Capture other people’s content using their RSS Feeds and aggregate (display) them on your website. FourSquare/Gowalla. Create or archive photos online to share with others. You can also share find photos of other’s you can use under a creative commons license. Will you create your own or use others? Create a group too! www.flickr.com.

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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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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Hot or Not is rumored to have influenced the creators of Facebook and YouTube and nurtured millions of insecurities. Gaining traction: LinkedIn, YouTube, and WordPress (and more) arrive (2003-2005) In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facemash, described as Harvard University’s answer to Hot or Not. The Facebook” followed in 2004.