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Curation and the paradox of user-generated radio

The Way of the Web

So you’ve got Blip.fm, which has been around for ages, and is in effect a musical microblogging service which produces an effect of crowdsourcing John Peel as you follow a network of users all ‘blipping’ individual tracks. radio stations.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Microformats – Web content will have more machine-readable markup and UGC (like reviews) will be aggregated into larger sites/services. Once the Web is better optimized for mobile devices people will add even more user generated content. Reply free market research August 13, 2008 at 5:51 am web 2 is the future!

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10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don't Involve Twitter.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Disaster management (servers go down, critical bug found, etc.) And on, and on… Despite the fact that many of these are specific to software development in general, not just gaming, there are many tasks that we all share as community managers no matter who we’re working for, like featuring positive contributors to the community!

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

10 Rules for Increasing Community Engagement (Mashable): A big point that Leah Betancourt makes here is the emphasis on user generated content (UGC). How to Kick Start a Community: An Ongoing List (Web Strategist): Jeremiah suggests some great ways to build a real online community in your little neck of the woods.

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The Ultimate List of Social Media Definitions You Need to Know

Hootsuite

Microblogging. Microblogging is the practice of publishing short content updates to platforms such as Twitter and Tumblr. User-generated content (UGC). When brands reshare that content with their own followers, they’re implementing a UGC campaign. See Vanity metric.

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