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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

Social messaging. Social shopping networks. Interactive social media apps. Microblogging platforms. Social review sites. Social curation and bookmarking sites. Social networking sites. Overview: Social networking sites allow people to connect with each other through a shared online space.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Explain your goals and establish clear guidelines for any mention of the company on social media sites. This presents misunderstandings (at the least) and enlists your people beyond just the marketing and PR groups. Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.). Social Sharing (YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare, etc.).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

Favorites & Groups. Social Web. Add to groups/events. Groups/Events. Not added to any group/event. Social bookmarking, â?¢ Front Page Joan Vinall-Cox Slide 36: Twitter & Microblogging â?¢ Social bookmarking, â?¢ Are you human? Sorry for asking). Enter the text in the image.

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Social Media Citizens Hate BP + 4 Other Social Media News Items

Firebelly

Twitter to Change Links and How They Are Displayed By Ben Parr In an effort to bypass the obscurity of shortened links and to prevent malware and phishing attacks, Twitter has begun the rollout of t.co, its official URL shortener, along with some major changes to how the microblogging platform handles links.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

When you have a group of people submitting their work, there is an awareness that it isn’t just one idea that will work, so the result is a higher quality of work. Crowdsourcing is an useful model because it can be used by any group for any reason. As they saying goes, competition breeds excellence.

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10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

surveys, focus groups, test marketing) often spend millions to locate their target markets. Establishing a social media strategy will help you see where potential customers are hanging out. It finds your customers Companies using traditional marketing methods (e.g. Where are the people most likely to buy your products and services?

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

Social Media Strategery

His second point got me me thinking about what I’m going to write about now – in what ways can the government use social media to make a difference in their day, TODAY? What are those things that they can do with very little effort where they can start see the value in social media?

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