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Five Signs the Future Belongs to User-Generated Content

Waxing UnLyrical

via Flickr, CC 2.0. Today’s lesson is user-generated content 101 and five reasons why the future belongs to the users. It’s a landslide: Community creates results. The Harlem Shake depended on community. User-generated content is far better at creating that community. Image: mayeesherr. (in in West Bengal!)

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What Compels People to Share Your Content?

Waxing UnLyrical

Have you ever wondered what compels people to share content on their social networks? Two social accounts cross in the night , and a re-tweet or Like is born – why is that? Facebook insists it has the answer: write better content. In other words, the bandwidth for content consumption is fixed.

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Thank you Google, for the Antithesis of a More Social Network

Waxing UnLyrical

Keeping the early adopter community in context, t here isn’t a desire to connect more, or even connect better. Unless, of course, you are another Guru , pushed compulsively to opine on recycling and rehashing “content.&#. Or are we in an infinite loop of growing out of social networks every five years?

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7 Reasons To Add Amplify To Your Social Networks

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 7 Reasons To Add Amplify To Your Social Networks December 21st, 2010 Tweet I first heard about Amplify earlier this year; I believe it was at the January chapter meeting of IABC/DC Metro.

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Jake's Take: A Slew of Social Network Ideas

Firebelly

| Main | Are We Addicted To Social Media? » June 24, 2010 Jakes Take: A Slew of Social Network Ideas Almost everyone is aware of the major social networkingwebsites in existence. But did you know there’s a social network dedicated to people who like totravel to different baseball parks?

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

The post 7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Recently on ProBlogger we’ve been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog.

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Instagram Does the Two Step - And Steps In It

Social Media Marketing

Instagram was all the rage, and I've even heard from a number of sources that it is now one of the definitive social networks for the teen and tween demographic. It's not too long ago (okay, in social media terms, it was eons ago) that Flickr was one of the major social networks. So what happened?

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