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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

You could post on community review sites or live-stream it to the masses. Understanding these different types of social media will help you develop a better content strategy and know where to focus your time and energy. To help you out, we’ve put together a list of 14 types of social media every marketer needs to know.

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Reuters, Rogers and social dashboards

Sherrilynne Starkie

Reuters has launched Social Pulse , a social media hub on Reuters.com which highlights social media’s most shared news, companies and influencers. It displays the news that is most popular in Reuters social network. Social media podcast For Immediate Release covered the launch this week.

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How to Grow on Threads: 9 Learnings from the Buffer Team

Buffer Social

  The platform bears a striking resemblance to X, but fans are quick to point out the community-building focus. Introducing a clever tags system — a bit like a marriage between hashtags and subreddits — and a host of handy new Threads features has been a catalyst for growth in recent months, with more to come.

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Why the Future of Social Community is Omni-Social

Convince & Convert

The online community pendulum is swinging back. It’s no longer enough to rely on social networks for community infrastructure. Smart companies are now combining owned and rented community functions into a 1+1=3 scenario I call Omni-Social. Omni-Social is the Offset to Paid Social.

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7 Skill Sets for Nurturing Open Community

Convince & Convert

Tweet Guest post as part of the virtual book tour by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer to explore concepts from their new book Open Community : a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. We come from the association industry and for many of us “membership” people, community is old hat. It’s what we do.

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2012 in Recap: The Year of Visual Social Media

Mindjumpers

Brands quickly picked up on the importance of visual communication and started building Instagram communities. Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram triggered an outrage against the world’s biggest social network when Instagram during December made two announcements.

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How to increase Twitter followers for your business

BeingOptimist

Many big companies still rely on Twitter to communicate with their followers on day to day basis because according to them this is the best way they can interact with the users and can easily understand the consumers’ interest and disinterest in the product & services. Encourage your followers to retweet your posts.

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