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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 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. Time will only tell.

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

Convince & Convert

And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. What other social media fallacies do you have? It’s not hard, it’s complicated. It’s about humanization.

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Today, Facebook or MySpace will help you locate lost family or reunite with old friends. Today, nearly all of my high school friends are online, and most of them maintain Facebook or MySpace accounts. Twitter is the new chat room, but IRC still remains a popular choice behind services like Ustream and Y! Answers Yahoo!

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