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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

Social curation and bookmarking sites. Platforms like Instagram, which has more than 1 billion monthly active users , have made it easier than ever before to curate and share photos and images. Curate and promote user-generated content via branded hashtags. Build relationships with other bloggers in your niche.

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11.5 Amazing Content Creation Tools for Becoming a Super Blogger

Writtent Blog

Use the dashboard to curate content in real-time. In the end, if your Twitter list isn’t among your go-to content creation tools and resources, curating a thorough list of thought leaders can give you a significant social media boost. Conferize curates leading conferences, and the content and social media surrounding these events.

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7 Ways to Take the Media World by Storm

Convince & Convert

Look for bloggers in your industry to help, or review the masthead for the leading trade magazine in your industry who are freelancers. For curation , look at PublishThis or Curata. For crowdsourcing , look at Crowdsource. If so, what should their duties be? Joe: Of course.

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5 Ways You Can Use Facebook Groups to Benefit Your Blog

ProBlogger

One of the most common uses of Facebook groups by bloggers are ones set up to support a course or an event. Before Facebook, many bloggers used private forums on their blog, or used comments following the course content for any conversation with participants. As bloggers we are usually flying solo, or working in virtual teams.

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The New Media Journalists

Proactive Report

Be a curator of the news. Use crowdsourcing. Since PR people have a symbiotic relationship with journalists, bloggers and journalists who ar ebloggers, we need to take a good hard look at this list. Can you be part of their crowdsourcing? Find, aggregate, give context and meaning to the news.

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Cognitive Surplus - Use Social Connectivity to Change the World.

Convince & Convert

Harnessing the power of the collective (crowdsourcing for social change) is a thread woven throughout Cognitive Surplus , and its viability requires two of Shirky’s assertions to be accurate. More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2. More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2.

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Taking Your Blog Post Series on the Road

Waxing UnLyrical

Create a series and invite other bloggers to write their own post on their personal blog. ” This is essentially a distributed blog post series where the bloggers post on their own blogs. The main value of both examples is that you are coaxed to connect with other bloggers. The upside here is simple.