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Curation is Not Aggregation

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Curation is the big new buzzword this year in social media circles — collecting information in a strategic amassing of selected information that’s presented in a new way to draw out the subtleties and patterns that might not otherwise be noticed when looking at the group in toto. Are you a curator or an aggregator?

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Memorial Day & Social Media: 5 Must-Reads

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Here are your 5 must-reads on Memorial Day and social media that we don’t want you to miss. Memorial Day Thoughts From Social Media Explorer. Customers Bullish On Travel, Spending This Memorial Weekend, Says Social Sentiment Index [STUDY]. Know that they did not die in vain.

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How To Be A Hashtag Hacker

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The hashtag, or pound sign (#) for you social media novices, has become one of the most important ways we communicate with people online. To fully utilize hashtags to their greatest social media potential here are a few sites you ought to visit: Hashtracking : This tool allows you to track the traffic of multiple hashtags in real time.

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We Interrupt This Lifecast: Syndication Overload (Part 2)

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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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We Interrupt This Lifecast: Syndication Overload (Part 1)

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Social technologies make syndication and aggregation simple. Note: The biggest offenders Ive noticed seem to be those who like to consider themselves "social media savvy" and think they need to be everyone at once always. There are particular in the know social media types who actually do this.