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7 Tips for Staying on Top of the Social Wave

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1) Look for more content to be produced by “others”. This means look for the rise of the professional content creators masking as citizen journalists. We used to marvel at UGC, but what is it when large organization start to pass their content off as UGC? Know the difference between “real&# UGC and professional content.

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18 reasons a social media snake oil salesman might want out

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4) Stealing other peoples content was hard work. 6) No one is calling you or responding to your sign up landing page with exclusive offers and social media tips. 15) You hate creating content and no one was coming to the blog. 3) Your social media certification classes didn’t really take off like you thought.

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10 social sites you might have missed

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3) I love this deck, The Tipping Points of Social Media. Pay attention to this post by Coree Silvera titled 36 Twitter Resources: Advanced Twitter Search for Business, It’s loaded with advanced Twitter search tips you probably don’t know about. You want to see micropayments in a down n’ dirty fashion? This is it!

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Protecting Children from Social Media

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But more importantly, aside from the breakdown of percentages in that graphic above-look at the number of ways that people can consume and create content. It’s just the tip of the iceberg in ways that a child can communicate with their peers and others. Create a blog on WordPress. Comment on any blog anywhere.