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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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Tips on How PR Pros Can Create Social Media Success

Mindjumpers

They go as follows: Be alert and join conversations. Naturally, it’s not possible to predict what news that are waiting around the corner to break, but it’s possible to know that some events will gain attention within social media. Get acquainted with news aggregation services. Develop social news backgrounders.

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Social You Should Know—April Social Media Updates

Ignite Social Media

Additionally, bots tweeted 89% of links to popular news and story aggregation sites. These percentages are pretty high and it will be interesting to see if this new research will resurface the bot conversation. . That should catch you up on all of the latest platform news.

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The Social Media Monitoring Lighthouse – A Guide on What and How to Monitor

Razor Social

Do you realize how valuable it is to monitor and track conversations online? Are you monitoring the trends related to conversations about your brand? Is all that social media activity paying off? Listening is just as important as sharing on social media Click To Tweet. The Social Media Monitoring Lighthouse.

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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 Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. Niche network: Sphinn : In the red corner we have Sphinn – a social news network dedicated purely to online marketing news and discussion. Subsequently, Sphinn is perhaps the most relevant niche social network on the web.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The reason is that people didn’t have aggregate power: they were individual voices that a news channel or a company can choose to ignore. Again, by no means is this new. Companies are at the stage that they cannot afford to sit idly by and be passive in social media. That’s not the point.