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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

Microblogging platforms. Examples: YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Twitch and UStream. Microblogging platforms. Overview: Microblogging is a type of social media marketing that allows users to post short updates or messages. Offer customer support or answer questions in microblogs or comments. Audio sharing.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Ustream and YouTube Video blogging is becoming increasingly popular, especially now that smartphones have better video cameras, and there are apps to upload them to video services, such as Ustream and YouTube. Ustream gives you a way to host a live show and have your Twitter followers chat with you while you are on the show.

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The Innovative Educator: 5 Things You Can Do to Begin Developing Your Personal Learning Network

Buzz Marketing for Technology

5-Join the microblogging phenomena by reading Tweets at Twitter. IStream, UStream! We ALLScream for UStream! (If youre following closely you may note this is actually PLN 2.0 tip thrown in for those who are ready for a head start, and because Id really love to get to know my readers through comments here).

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The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Using Digg as an instrument to get Digg’s attention has never clearly had an impact until last week’s “revolt,&# and the only reason why it had an impact then was because it was done off Digg’s site (in this case, Ustream ) and had plenty of press people standing behind it.

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter is the new chat room, but IRC still remains a popular choice behind services like Ustream and Y! (It was faster for me, anyway.) Old technologies aren’t dying down; they’re just expanding. Email is still email (but doesn’t cost $0.25

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