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

Bare Feet Studios

It was named after the hashtag – see next item. Via @JohnGarcia ) Hashtag Aggregation: People create hashtags to help aggregate related content from disparate sources so the world (and all of its relevant subsets) can be easily informed.

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Learning via the Social Media Game

Bare Feet Studios

Capture other people’s content using their RSS Feeds and aggregate (display) them on your website. Facebook & LinkedIn allow you to create private groups. Manage invitees; they discuss and share. Where do you and your staff spend more time? www.facebook.com. www.linkedin.com. Create custom tags for your org & events or concepts.

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

Razor Social

Every monitoring tool will provide you some capability of monitoring specific keywords (in isolation, as part of a URL, as a hashtag etc.). For example, if you were tracking a hashtag you could automatically track the topics within the hashtag. Data is aggregated and presented in a suitable form. Keyword/Topic Monitoring.

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We Interrupt This Lifecast: Syndication Overload (Part 1)

Firebelly

Social technologies make syndication and aggregation simple. It allows you to update your Facebook status from Twitter, but you can choose which tweets you want to syndicate by ending the tweet with the hashtag #fb. Only the tweets you end with #fb with show up on Facebook instead of all of them. Am I alone here?

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

The hashtag arrives (2007) The strict 140-character limit for tweets set Twitter apart from rivals, including Facebook and Tumblr. But Twitter’s significance was really defined by the hashtag , a symbol that’s helped political organizers and average citizens mobilize, promote, and create awareness.

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7 Reasons To Add Amplify To Your Social Networks

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Matthew Smith via Flickr, Creative Commons Can you say “love at first byte&# ? There are several other options, such as Flickr, Tumblr, WordPress, Blogger, etc… even Ping.fm. Incorporating hashtags being used on Twitter into Amplify: [link] when they introduced hashtags to Amplify.

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How to Create Awesome Content From Your Next Event Experience

ProBlogger

Image via Flickr user richard.scott1952. Over the last year, many technology companies have discovered that the “biggest” blogs and aggregators – places like TechCrunch and Hacker News – aren’t quite as valuable as they thought. This is a guest contribution from trade show expert Peter Symonds. .