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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

Social messaging. Social shopping networks. Interactive social media apps. Microblogging platforms. Social review sites. Social curation and bookmarking sites. Social networking sites. Overview: Social networking sites allow people to connect with each other through a shared online space.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

.&# Though measuring direct ROI is challenging , a successful social media program should increase engagement with customers and prospects, provide direct website traffic and increase branded search traffic. Li really “gets&# social media from the social, search and business perspectives, and this shows throughout the book. .

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. Delicious Social bookmarking is a great way to share interesting links that could aid in the development of an idea, education, and/or marketing efforts. It seems the activity level has fallen off. Delicious is my favorite one to use for this.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Some advice I give to my Social Media students is to be careful following the example of some large brands who are relatively new to Social Media but seem to be successful. Small businesses can’t always follow by example, unfortunately.

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. If you’re not actively engaged, the news won’t come at you. For example, just the other day I stumbled upon an Apple press release from 2003.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

The actual answer to “when was the first social media site launched” is debatable. SixDegrees was certainly one of the first, but you have to define what a social media site is before you can say which is the first. So, how old is social media? This moment essentially marked the beginning of social media influencers.