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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Tests ‘Buy’ Button, Twitter Acquires CardSpring

The Realtime Report

Check out all the latest social media news from the last two weeks, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, YouTube and Vine: Facebook. Facebook tests new ‘buy’ button for online purchases in U.S. Social Media News Ticker: Foursquare Launches Swarm, YouTube Reportedy Buying Twitch.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. Crowdsourcing has become increasingly more widely used because it helps cultivate creativity and innovation. Crowdsourcing is an useful model because it can be used by any group for any reason.

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Group Buying! Game Changer or Not?

Atom Thought

So how do you buy your t-shirts, or shoes? And maybe if you were buying an unbranded shoe or a t-shirt from janpath, you might want to take help from your friend in bargaining the prices won’t you? And that brings us to a couple of questions everyone is asking today- Is Group Buying going to be the next big thing?

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Crowdsource: BP Oil Spill and social media

Laurel Papworth

And there are a lot of innovation crowdsourced communities online. So I got to thinking: what if we crowdsourced a solution? And my second question was… would BP listen to a crowdsourced solution? Crowdsourced innovation social networks. So I had a look on crowdsourced business websites.

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Use Instagram to Create Visual Engagement

Mindjumpers

The Facebook-owned mobile photo editing and sharing network Instagram has been around since October 2010 and by April 2012, the platform had 30 million users worldwide. The community-based t-shirt company Threadless is a crowdsourcing business whose design is created and chosen by the online community.

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Social Media for Sales

Webbiquity SMM

One of the challenges in measuring the ROI of social media marketing is that the use of social networking and social sharing tools isn’t confined to the marketing group. Social media is being used in multiple functions across the enterprise, from product development (e.g. Share this on Reddit. Tweet This!

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How to Use Social Media to Sell More Products

Rebekah Radice

Not everybody who’ll see your social media posts will be ready to buy. Pairing social media with email marketing is a way to move people off social channels and into a more personalized conversation. Would you be comfortable promoting them on your blog, social networks, and so on? Build an Email List.

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