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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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The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Conversely, with a slightly more generic subject matter (and the occasional gag post), Online Marketing Banter seems to be a little more popular with Stumblers. When this process occurs two page views are counted instead of one, thereby lowering the bounce rate. However, bounce rate data for StumbleUpon is misleading.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I know many are already in the process of trying out other social networks, so the phenomenon of social news won’t die down anytime soon. Really, try Propeller, you’ll meet some amazing people there and have actual intelligent conversations. (I Why is Digg allowing third-party sites to aggregate the statistics?

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

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One of the topics was microblogging, and Twitter was discussed. Pipes as part of your OPML to algorithmically pre-process a bunch of feeds. I am actually in the process of proposing a class like this at the local JC (I would like to teach it even). aggregators. Now if it could only stay up, we would be in business).

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

But more than that, Mike’s post explains that social media is really about using social channels appropriately to communicate and converse — and as an extension of that, you might just end up being able to sell something. Conversation Agent): How do you want to use Twitter? It’s really not that hard!

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Their YouTube page, ironically, only features a playlist of videos that they love but does not show any videos made by themselves, such as the process of making a Peanut Butter Cup. This method is smart because it helps build interest on another platform and drives conversions directly on their home base. I know I would.)

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The scope of marketing needs to be broadened in view of the new dynamics that have employees, customers and prospects engaged in conversations – horizontally, peer to peer, in some cases even in co-opetition situations. Some communities are very open to marketers being there and contributing to the conversation.