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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

Microblogging platforms. Community blogging sites. Examples: YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Twitch and UStream. Microblogging platforms. Overview: Microblogging is a type of social media marketing that allows users to post short updates or messages. Community blogging sites. Community blogging sites.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Ustream and YouTube Video blogging is becoming increasingly popular, especially now that smartphones have better video cameras, and there are apps to upload them to video services, such as Ustream and YouTube. Ustream gives you a way to host a live show and have your Twitter followers chat with you while you are on the show.

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The Innovative Educator: 5 Things You Can Do to Begin Developing Your Personal Learning Network

Buzz Marketing for Technology

2-Pick 5 Blogs you find interesting and start reading them. In addition to my own blog, I follow weblogg-ed: learning with the read/write web , Tales of a Technology Omnivore , The Innovative Parent , The Brazen Careerist , Cool Cat Teacher , Ted Talks , Dan H. Keeping up with more blogs will be difficult.

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The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Unfortunately for Digg, the savviest users of the bunch have also been the most vocal about Digg thus far (save for the few blogs that cover everything web 2.0 Blog posts have been written and buried once a user submitted it to Digg. If nobody talks, nobody remembers, and nobody sticks around.

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Blogs are the new medium for a person to talk about areas in which the individual has exhibited some level of expertise or even to articulate thoughts on subject matters that interest nobody but a small group of people. Twitter is the new chat room, but IRC still remains a popular choice behind services like Ustream and Y!

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