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The Gamification of News

Social Media Marketing

This week Google announced the launch of their Google News Badges. Edition of Google News now lets you collect private, sharable badges for your favorite topics. The more articles you read on Google News, the more your badges level up: you can reach Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and finally Ultimate.

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Local Business Offers Up Foursquare Special

Freelance Social Media

It was the venue of Lawrence’s only known “Swarm&# badge on Foursquare so it should come as no surprise that it would have such a special. About the author Justin Langford wrote 11 articles on this blog. The Sandbar is already known as a social media friendly business with its usage of Twitter , Facebook and blogging.

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How To Create a Conference Badge Page

Bare Feet Studios

You can use FTP to create a custom directory for your badges or you can also use the image up-loader that comes with your blog site. This is what you would place in your Event’s Badges page (assuming you replace the appropriate URLs and file names as outlined above: Step 5. See the PodCamp Hawaii Badges page for examples.

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I Don't Care Where. You. Are. Right. Now. | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

If it is worth it to you to tick off a bunch of your online friends to publicly proclaim that you just earned a GymRat badge on Foursquare and you’re comfortable with the privacy issues of announcing where you are at every given moment, then more power to you. No badge, no mayorship, no virtual prize, no free sandwich is worth it.

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Foursquare and The New York Times Archive Would Be a Great Match

Adam Sherk

Metro will provide Foursquare with location-specific editorial content such as reviews, tips and articles on points of interest. With content in the NYT Article Archive dating back to 1851, there is a world of fascinating stories that could be shared. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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What I've Learned About Blogging Based On A Year's Worth Of Data

Jason Yormark

These were the top 10 visited blog articles I wrote in the past year. Most achieved a Postrank of higher then 6, and 9 out of the 10 articles dealt with social media. Stick To Writing What You Know – The bottom line is anytime I strayed away from blog articles about topics I had a relatively deep experience with, my traffic suffered.

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3 Top Challenges Facing the Social Content Curator

Socialmedia.biz

On the other hand, you don’t want to link to your own pages exclusively, as that would make you come off as selfish and would mean overlooking the lion’s share of important articles. Who has the time to manually go through all the content aggregators, leaderboards, newsfeeds and RSS readers to find the best third-party content for posting?