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This Week in Social Media – 6/19/2013

Social Media Marketing

Yahoo is supposedly acquiring Qwiki , an app that turns photos, sound and video clips into short movies. Credit: Tom Fishburne Metrics/Measurement/Big Data In case you missed it last week, the Social Media Measurement Standards Coalition has developed a set of standards supported by a number of industry organizations.

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Social Media for Non-Profits: How One Small Charity Makes it Work

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’ll be perfectly up front when I say that I’m not very familiar with most charities and nonprofit organizations. Since the organization’s mission relies on storytelling, Stacey says, “social media represented a way for us to share those stories with the broadest possible audience for the lowest possible cost.&#

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. Organizations have used it for developing programs, marketing efforts, research, and education. What are some methods and tools that you have seen various organizations use for crowdsourcing?

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Tool for Social Media Network and Online Reputation Management

Social Media Network Marketing

We understand that there's a high degree of correlation between good customer / stakeholder experiences and their willingness to associate with the same organization, brand, product and service. Social networks like Facebook and others. Social news / bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, technorati, dig and others.

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11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

By exemplifying self discipline, punctuality, and organization you will establish yourself as one to be both admired and hired. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Answers Yahoo! Negativity Everything and everyone has both good and bad characteristics.

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Creating Passionate Customers: Brand Evangelism and What it Means.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Seems to me that in order to gain the benefits of Social Media Marketing tactics, traditional marketers must give up their need for control, especially of the metrics. The social media networks are systems — non-linear, fuzzy, powerful, organic systems. Answers Yahoo! Systems evolve in unpredictable ways.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It is similar to the education I hear going on about length of time to get results via organic SEO. Anything organic – which relationship building is – will take time to build up, especially where we interact with the human element and we seek to build the know, like and trust factor. Answers Yahoo!