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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

Social curation and bookmarking sites. Examples: Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Snapchat. 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.

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What’s in a crowdsourcing….

The Way of the Web

I was going to write an eloquent and heartfelt post regarding everything that’s wrong about the attempt by Golley Slater to rebrand by a hamfisted attempt at ‘crowdsourcing’ – another example why really we should be stricter about how the term is used, and why co-collaboration should probably replace it.

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Curation and the paradox of user-generated radio

The Way of the Web

In an age of democratisation of content creation and particularly at the moment, content curation, it seems as if simple and easy user-generated radio is an obvious desire and fit. Increasingly all of those services are interlinked with Facebook and Twitter, allowing for a high level of integration where the people are. radio stations.

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2 Amazing Movember Case Studies That Will Make You Grow it Back

Convince & Convert

While there were many great examples of content throughout the month, Movember’s Moscars crowdsourced video contest and i.d.e.a’s wacky puppet named Harry Mustachio truly bring to life how this charitable movement is generating amazing visual content. did a good job of curating a centralized place for the movement.

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11.5 Amazing Content Creation Tools for Becoming a Super Blogger

Writtent Blog

Twitter Keyword Streams. The only thing quicker than Google’s capacity for crawling and indexing content is Twitter, one of the world’s fastest-moving social media networks. Use the dashboard to curate content in real-time. Twitter Lists. Quora is 2013’s answer to the crowdsourced question-and-answer forum.

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7 Ways to Take the Media World by Storm

Convince & Convert

For curation , look at PublishThis or Curata. For crowdsourcing , look at Crowdsource. You can find Joe on Twitter @JoePulizzi. For production , look at DivvyHQ , Kapost or InboundWriter. For content management , look at something like Compendium. If you ever see Joe in person, he’ll be wearing orange.

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Social Media and Village Crisis Comms – Local Gov Councils and Emergency Services #NSWFires

Laurel Papworth

Curating Facebook status updates and tweets and community information, they worked hard to bring the sort of information that an official news service might miss or deem trivial. And while their Twitter account @NSWRFS has only 36,000 followers, the massive number of retweets mean their tweets are reaching 1 million people on Twitter every 4.5