article thumbnail

14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

Microblogging platforms. Curate and promote user-generated content via branded hashtags. Host live events and Q&A events with customers or experts in your industry. Build anticipation for upcoming products or events with live teasers. Microblogging platforms. Audio sharing. Live streaming.

Types 145
article thumbnail

Twitter Lists Are Life Changing, Threaten Yammer & Others

Socialized

It makes the service much more useful and will eliminate many annoying hashtags.&# People interested in an event could join a list and then could watch and participate in a closed environment. Not only would this be cleaner for all, it would eliminate the need for annoying hashtags for these kinds of applications.

Yammer 140
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

TWITTER CHANGES: YOU FAVORITE ME…NO, YOU LIKE ME!

Myrland Marketing

It looks like our favorite… real-time micro-blogging conversational breaking news 140-character message hashtagging event-tracking Social Networking site. …Twitter, might be in the midst of making a little change to your Favorite button.

Twitter 78
article thumbnail

10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The best way to use it is create a hashtag, explain what you are trying to accomplish, and have your followers tweet away. They used Twitter, so that attendees could tweet and discuss the events with their followers. Facebook Create a Facebook Page and tell everyone about it.

article thumbnail

Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Big thanks go out to Chris Hemrick , who led the planning, development, and execution of this event. We established the hashtag that we would use when blogging or Yammering about the Uconference. Government 2.0

Gov 2.0 85
article thumbnail

The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Tumblr and the age of the microblog (2007) In 2007, the social network described as “Twitter meets YouTube and WordPress” came a-tumblin’ along when 17-year-old David Karp launched Tumblr from his bedroom. The hashtag arrives (2007) The strict 140-character limit for tweets set Twitter apart from rivals, including Facebook and Tumblr.

article thumbnail

How to Create Effective Social Media Guidelines for Your Business

Hootsuite

If specific hashtags are a core part of your social strategy, be sure to share them, too. Use title case for hashtags—it makes them more legible for screen readers. DO share company posts, events, and stories. WhatsApp, Messenger), microblogging networks (i.e. Avoid gender or race-specific emojis. Legal Considerations.