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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

Direct Marketing Observations

Wikipedia posted its three millionth article. Sadly, efficiency will also devastate those industries and professions that thrived on media’s historical inefficiency. Whether it’s for your customers, employees or partners, you want them to come to you as a resource for trusted content rather than as an aggregator of everything.

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Social Media’s Redheaded Stepchild

Jeff Esposito

Image: Wikipedia. There are also a number of groups and associations that can be joined and used for interaction with others within industries of interest. It’s a response that all of us who engage in the social media space have probably heard at one time or another when we ask someone if they are on LinkedIn.

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

Razor Social

Here’s the Wikipedia explanation of sentiment analysis: “ Sentiment analysis (also known as opinion mining) refers to the use of natural language processing, text analysis and computational linguistics to identify and extract subjective information in source materials.” Benchmark your brand against industry peers.

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Content farms will eat themselves

The Way of the Web

I’ve spent a long time working for media companies, and whatever you may believe about the media industry as a whole, I’ve seen an enormous amount of respect and faith from audiences for traditional media products. Wikipedia is one example, but others, for instance, Squidoo, allow you to donate any earnings to charity, for example.

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The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

All three sites at the centerr of this analysis sit within the online marketing and search industry. On the other hand, Sphinn is a professional network dedicated to industry news. Nonetheless, this post was very useful and thanks for taking the time to aggregate the data. Professional content probably isn’t a priority.

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Five models of content curation

SocialFish

This is a pretty good deconstruction of how we actively curate content for you here on SocialFishing, and it’s a useful way to think about particular kinds of posts you could be posting on your association or nonprofit blog relative to your industry topics. This one’s a no-brainer – try my Link Love Monthly on for size.

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JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Wikis have found their way into industry as well, as. Wikipedia-style? mimic the anonymity of posting to Wikipedia. about the same time as Wikipedia discovered that one. trust Wikipedia?? of information that is available on Wikipedia and. of information that is available on Wikipedia and. real world?

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