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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

If you want to improve your social media marketing strategy , you need to know about the different types of social media content and how or where you share that content. Understanding these different types of social media will help you develop a better content strategy and know where to focus your time and energy.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here are ten social media tools that can aid you with crowdsourcing: Twitter It is already being used for many crowdsourcing efforts. Ustream gives you a way to host a live show and have your Twitter followers chat with you while you are on the show. What do you think will be seen in 2010?

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The New Twitter

Mindjumpers

If you click on a tweet you’ll get a detail pane on the right side of your timeline that shows more details of the tweet; such as embedded media. Media You can see embedded media without leaving Twitter such as YouTube videos, Flickr pictures and live streaming from Ustream and more.

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Learning via the Social Media Game

Bare Feet Studios

Tomorrow I am working with an esteemed group of coral reef scientists here in Hawaii to illustrate various ways to use social media. I will be using a version of The Social Media Game , an interactive learning process originally developed by my darling colleague Beth Kantor a few years ago. included on this list.

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Are Meerkat and Periscope Good News or Bad

Convince & Convert

And while we have had live streaming apps in the past like Livestream, Ustream and others, the time appears to now be right for live streaming. What happens when people start to Meerkat and Periscope all of the conference sessions at Social Media Marketing World, when the conference is trying to sell the recordings?

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

Convince & Convert

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Absolutely.

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Facebook: Iceland Constitution and Gov 2.0

Laurel Papworth

Iceland have turned to social media to ask the population to crowdsource writing Iceland’s new constitution. HOWEVER and it’s a big however, according to my 7 Steps of Social Media Engagement, these look very campaign based. No long term engagement, or continued input through social media channels.

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