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Can You Trust Social Media Sources?

Net-Savvy Executive

Common words as brand names pose a similar challenge (I always like the examples of Apple and Orange, because it's the one time you really can compare them). The other is designed to fool search engines with keywords and links embedded in usually irrelevant text. He even used a real client as an example.

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Donations as Revenue: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Drupal , Joomla , and LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python are also mentioned as examples of donation social economies. Paypal widgets are quickly embedded in social network sites and make transactions such as donations across the online community relatively easy. With traditional media. PayPal Donations.

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Taking Your Blog Post Series on the Road

Waxing UnLyrical

There’s lots of great examples, but here are four: Combine: gas engine + battery power = hybrid car. The main value of both examples is that you are coaxed to connect with other bloggers. Innovation often comes from combining or subtracting or inverting existing ideas or processes. Image Credit: Nicholas_T via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Enterprise 2.0 Reflects the Culture | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

Crowdsource white papers and presentations! By embedding collaborative tools into the daily flow of work, companies can indeed change their cultures to become more transparent and collaborative. That wiki is going to reflect the culture of your organization, not change it. Enterprise 2.0 holds a lot of promise: Increase collaboration!

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The Ultimate List of Social Media Definitions You Need to Know

Hootsuite

For an example, check out Ask me Anything: The Talkwalker Edition. For example, Hootsuite uses Twitter’s API to publish tweets, and Instagram’s API to schedule posts. Face filters on social apps like Snapchat and Instagram Stories are the most common examples. Twitter chats, like the monthly #HootChat , are a prime example.

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Civic Crowdfunding vs Tax – Collaborative Government #Gov2

Laurel Papworth

compare it to social media funding, civic crowdsourcing and peer to peer industries. In the same way we weren’t ready to take the reporting of news, in depth analysis and opinion and embedded research of traditional media, but we did it anyway. Never mind, create a crowdsourced non-regulated energy competitor from the Village.