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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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Tips on How PR Pros Can Create Social Media Success

Mindjumpers

E.g. it’s almost a safe bet that events like the #Oscars or #SXSW will have a large group of people following the hashtag before, during and after the given event. This means there can be great value in timing news or relevant content around these popular events in order for them to have an engaged audience to spread the message.

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Social You Should Know—April Social Media Updates

Ignite Social Media

Twenty-three child advocacy and privacy groups have filed a complaint with the FTC that Google is violating Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and collecting personal data on those under age 13. Additionally, bots tweeted 89% of links to popular news and story aggregation sites.

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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. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Smaller companies could succeed with this method by marketing — verbally or through their website — to groups of devout followers and keeping their Twitter streams current (offering a daily deal or frequent deals that encourage customers to seek out discounts and sales). Twitter as a news breaker. Your mileage may vary.

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The Social Media Monitoring Lighthouse – A Guide on What and How to Monitor

Razor Social

You may also need to monitor particular topics, which may have conversations around groups of different keywords. People mention what they are doing on social media channels and they also look for advice. You can track a group of your competitors to identify how they are performing in relation to SEO, social media etc.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. In fact, most of them had already left.

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