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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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The Four Semi-Truths of Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

Semi-truth #1: Our infatuation with the next, new, shiny, thing in social media depreciates as soon as we realize that it’s just another engagement, aggregator, application, thingy requiring more time, increased effort, permission to access, another profile creation etc., Great news! What happened? The coolness wore off.

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Free Summer School For Marketers

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Jason Hirschhorn is the former co-president of MySpace. Currently, he is curating and aggregating this amazing resource of information. Yep, one for that too. I''m a major fan of their Online Media Daily and Mobile Marketing Daily newsletters. Media ReDEFined. Forget the website and simply sign up for his free, daily e-newsletter.

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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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Why the Future of Social Community is Omni-Social

Convince & Convert

Then, along came the new breed of digital landlords like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin, Pinterest, and even G+ for a time. The audience aggregation on Facebook (in particular) and other platforms is simply overwhelming. Omni-Social is the Offset to Paid Social.

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50 Ways Marketers use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Harp Interactive

Start a community group on Facebook or Ning or MySpace or LinkedIn around the space where your customer does business. Consider a Lijit Wijit or other aggregator widget. Map out an integrated project that incorporates a blog, use of commercial social networks, and a face-to-face event to build leads and drive awareness of a product.

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Social Media Tools, Apps, Resources and Plugins

Harp Interactive

cross-post your updates to Jaiku and many other sites like Facebook , MySpace , LinkedIn and more via Ping.fm. Alltop is a blog aggregator which can be searched by subject matter. Some of twhirl’s features: runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista/Win7) and Mac OSX. displays notifications for new messages. post images to yfrog.

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