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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators by Tamar Weinberg on September 23, 2009 Share This is a guest post from Josh Schnell, founder of Macgasm.net and web developer.

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Social media and the rise of fantasy sports

Sprout Social

You don’t have to be a sports fanatic to know how much sports fans love to share updates about their teams on social media. Fantasy sports have played a huge role in shaping fans’ communities and conversations on social platforms. How mainstream media and social media created fantasy hype.

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Hawaii Tsunami Proves Social Media Power Again: Information is a.

Bare Feet Studios

Social media has earned a spot alongside our government planners and traditional news media. He embedded other live media to keep people informed, and was being used by CNN to inform their global television audience. The user-generated messages supported both of those organizations on a second by second basis.

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Best Social Media Monitoring Tools

Bill Hartzer

More and more businesses are getting into social media – an umbrella term that covers various activities that help bring about social interaction on the internet. Facebook and Twitter are some of the main outlets for social media, but there are numerous types of social media like blogs, wikis, forums, chat rooms, etc.

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Social Media Revenue: Huffington Post TechCrunch Valuations

Laurel Papworth

Yes, Virginia, social media and blogs CAN make money. Will 2010 see the further rise of social media proprietors? It’s usually said in a tone that implies that social media is so gosh- darn “social&# and “friendly&# that everyone gives everything away for free. CEO: Eric Hippeau.

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Use Humor and Ridiculousness to Reach Your Audience

Convince & Convert

Tim Washer , Senior Marketing Manager in Social Media at Cisco , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the value in making your customers laugh, how to spend less and storytell more, and bringing ridiculousness to big corporations. Social Media Stat of the Week: 86% of brands to increase video ad spend in 2014.

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Top Posts of 2011

Net-Savvy Executive

As in previous years' lists ( 2010 , 2009 ), some of the most-read posts are old ones—going all the way back to 2006 (!). Monitoring Social Media Before You Have a Budget - May 2008 (#1 in 2009 & 2010). Global Social Media Usage Patterns - January 2011. Remember these? March 2011.

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