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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

Social curation and bookmarking sites. By creating informative and engaging content, brands can cultivate relationships with customers and followers that lead to conversions. 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.

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Content Aggregation: The Future of (B2B and Consumer) Media?

Webbiquity SMM

What do these trends mean for the future of news gathering and information delivery? David Koretz offered one vision recently on MediaPost, writing: The news organizations of tomorrow will no longer be loud-mouthed pundits espousing a barely informed worldview. Examples range from Google News and Yahoo! Publishers want eyeballs.

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Free Summer School For Marketers

Twist Image

One of the marketing industry''s premiere trade magazines offers up a slew of free e-newsletters that are chock full of information and insight. Currently, he is curating and aggregating this amazing resource of information. Following are some of the richest and deepest places to grab a master''s level education in marketing.

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4 Ways the Twitter You Know is Changing Forever

Convince & Convert

The rise of Twitter was accompanied by the slow demise of RSS and Digg, as the surging popularity of the 140-character kid made many previous pointing and info-gathering technologies unnecessary. Twitter as Curator and Editor. Twitter became (and still is) the headline news of the modern age.

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Influencers- Friend or Stranger?

Laurel Papworth

Digg has changed it’s social networking strategy from spotlighting key influencers who “digg&# a lot of articles to collect followers (crowd gatherers) to news from your friends. The Digg Situation. The new Digg looks, therefore, like a mix of Facebook, Twitter, and RSS. Crowd Gatherers (“Curators&# ).

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The Pinterest Buy Button Might Rock Your Ecommerce

Convince & Convert

In some ways, the platform serves as a social way to curate and build wish lists. Truthfully, many social networks are still haunted by what happened to Digg, a once-huge social network that destroyed its following by trying to monetize too quickly. Pinterest automatically pulls data from your site to create Rich Pins.

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How Social Bookmarking Works [Plus 7 Tools To Help You Do It]

Hootsuite

” Sure, you can keep your bookmarks to yourself, but it’s just as easy to curate bookmarks for the public — or specific groups. In fact, social bookmarking websites almost function like enclosed, highly curated search engines. Trending topics on Digg. Benefits of social bookmarking. Rank your content. Free to use.