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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

web sites, images, videos, etc.) 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. Evernote allows you to clip anything (e.g.

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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.

Digg 100
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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Whereas one needed an expensive VHS cassette recorder in 1993 to create a home video, even $40 cell phones (or digital cameras) can capture quality images and video that can be placed online for a much larger audience than ever before. Radio is being listened to online, and podcasts are popular among technological savvy folks.

MySpace 101
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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Too often, the humanization part gets overlooked in an effort to create a “user-generated video contest widget that we’ll launch on Facebook with support from Ustream.&# What other social media fallacies do you have? link] Jay Thompson This may be the best post on social media I’ve seen.