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How Flickr and Google Help Us Remember

Ari Herzog

The Library of Congress did not know the names of French brothers Michel, age 4, and Edmond, age 2, when the institution uploaded this photograph to Flickr in the summer of 2008. Through Flickr’s users who viewed, commented, liked, and shared that photo, the LOC can now tell a story for what was once a story-less photograph.

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Instagram Does the Two Step - And Steps In It

Social Media Marketing

And just like that, the photo sharing app market is up for grabs. It's not too long ago (okay, in social media terms, it was eons ago) that Flickr was one of the major social networks. there seemed to be a bright future for this repository of images. And yet, through all of this, the Dude abides Flickr remains.

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ECM in the Cloud: A “CYA” for Press Agents

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: flyfarther79 via Flickr, CC 2.0. But wait, before you start lumping cloud-based ECM with other digital repositories like Google Drive and Dropbox, let me explain further. The cloud has changed everything, far more than merely how we communicate. It’s a win-win for everyone involved.

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15 Places to Find Free Images for Your Blog

Writtent Blog

The ancient saying that a picture is worth 1000 words comes as no surprise to content marketers. Even some of the sharpest content marketers have no idea that Google Advanced Search exists! CompFight is a super-fast, easy-to-use alternative to Flickr Search. Is it any surprise that Flickr is a top resource for image-sourcing?

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Organizations have used it for developing programs, marketing efforts, research, and education. 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. Then again, not everyone is familiar with net marketing except Net Marketers.

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Top 15 FREE Internet Marketing Tools To Boost Your Online Business

ProBlogger

Today, Internet marketing is evolving at a greater pace than ever. Using premium services for all the tools necessary for Internet marketing is not feasible for every business – that’s when free options come into play. Being an Internet marketer, I can understand how difficult it is to come up with a great idea.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. You’re engaged in an advertising and marketing campaign that uses the Web as its distribution platform. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.