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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. Delicious Social bookmarking is a great way to share interesting links that could aid in the development of an idea, education, and/or marketing efforts. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

And worst of all, when recommendation is made, suggesting that these shortfalls on the primary site should be corrected first and foremost, it’s quickly brushed aside as too expensive, cumbersome, or simply not exciting enough when compared to the oncoming, external social media blitz. Still not sure how to take action on this rule of thumb?

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

StumbleUpon: The Funny, the Informational, but Not So Newsy StumbleUpon is probably the last social site that I’d consider going for “news&# — at least not for “current events.&# For example, just the other day I stumbled upon an Apple press release from 2003. Sorry, guys, it’s five years later.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

&# Reply Onibalusi Bamidele August 26, 2010 at 5:52 am Really great post Tamar, The self promotion aspect was what I learned the hard way, after being banned on over 100 forums and some social bookmarking sites. Small businesses can’t always follow by example, unfortunately. Answers Yahoo!

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StumbleUpon Etiquette Guide and Best Practices

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Relationship opportunities on StumbleUpon are endless, especially since it’s a social bookmarking service based on interests. It shows that you have a vested financial interest in Yahoo News. This is not a real example, readers.) Answers Yahoo! Very nice of you. I mean it really baffles me. Excellent tips.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. I have my Google reader shared URL, set up as a Yahoo Alert. Answers Yahoo! Which is search able, etc.

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The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Let the Social Media Traffic Quality Analysis Begin In order to answer the question of whether niche social media drives higher quality traffic, two social networks were chosen for analysis — one generic and one niche. Would Be interesting to see and filter out areas for example US and Non-US traffic. Answers Yahoo!