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Five Social Channels You May Not Know About

Ignite Social Media

The microblogging site launched in August of 2009 and as of May 2017 had 340 million active monthly users. Now it has grown to offer online games, avatars you can customize, share Snapchat like disappearing videos, join online groups and receive messages and large files. That’s a pretty big deal right?

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The Ultimate List of Social Media Definitions You Need to Know

Hootsuite

An avatar is a visual representation of a person for use in digital contexts. On social media, the term “avatar” also refers to your profile picture—the image that represents you on the platform. Most individual users choose a photo as their social media avatar, sometimes supplemented by a digital frame or filter.

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13 Social Networks That Are a Big Deal in Non-English Speaking Regions

Hootsuite

Sina Weibo is an app for personal microblogging. Popular in China, the platform is also referred to as just “Weibo,” which translates to “micro-blog.”. The makers of Line offer a collection of associated gaming apps, as well as an online avatar community called Line Play. Sina Weibo. It allows you to send texts and voice notes.

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How to Audit Your Social Media Efforts: 20+ Questions to Ask Yourself

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Do I have social media integration on my business blog? If you have a business blog, you have to integrate your social media profiles on it. Ask your blog’s readers to follow you on Twitter, subscribe to your YouTube channel, add you on LinkedIn, or “Like” you on Facebook. There are plugins that can help you do that.

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How Spying On Your Friends Causes Reevaluation of Endorsed Content

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FriendFeed is just another tool to let the world know who you really are on top of Facebook and LinkedIn (and perhaps your blogs). Even if you shared your social media profiles on your blog/website in the past, FriendFeed forces your actions across all social networks upon your friends and makes them much more public.

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Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Create multiple blogs based on multiple personal professional interests 2. Create a unique twitter account for each blog 3. My #1 mistake was not creating a business blog and using THAT to connect with all the ORM, SEO, PPC, and SMM folks out there. I’m not recommending this approach, but this is what I did: 1.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’m actually in the midst of a blog redesign (since I know this one is so plain) Reply Tamar Weinberg December 19, 2007 at 10:58 am Jon, yeah, it is actually quite cool to see that we’re in touch after all these years. Delicious – collect news links that feed into my blog, because WordPress.com has a widget for it.

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