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How To Be A Hashtag Hacker

Firebelly

It has evolved from being just a symbol into allowing people to easily aggregate and organize tweets, status updates, and photos that all have something in common throughout Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google +, Tumblr, and Pinterest. For brands, hashtags can be a great way to get costumers interacting with a product or promotion.

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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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3 Reasons Why Pinterest May Succeed Where Google+ Has Failed

SocMed Sean

The results are uniquely crowd-sourced aggregations and classifications of content from across the Web. The concept of aggregating and pinning content isn’t completely novel (just check out your office bulletin board), but there are no status updates, no games, and no chat. So Why Now? What Makes Pinterest Different?

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General Mills Embraces Collaborative Storytelling with “Hello, Cereal Lovers” Social Media Community

Convince & Convert

Spanning Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr, the “Hello, Cereal Lovers” communities focus on General Mills’ cereal varieties, but aren’t opposed to (gasp) occasionally mix in a competitor for the sake of a sweet recipe. But still, how many competitors would even consider it in the name of interesting content?

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The complete guide to online social listening

Sprout Social

Beyond your brand name, “how to” queries are great to track as well. For example, if I were a company like Alienware or iBUYPOWER, I’d want to know what the top product recommendations are for queries such as “How to build a gaming PC.”. Tumblr is yet another head-scratcher for many brands. And with that, we wrap up our guide!

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5 Ways To Become Social Media Relevant

Jason Yormark

Tweets, blog posts, and articles are peppered with how to-s, trends, and best practices. But what I have done is taken the time to understand how to use certain tools and strategies to leverage social media successfully for building my personal brand, as well as for small to medium sized businesses to get up and running from nowhere.

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

Razor Social

In this guide, we go through what you need to be monitoring and how to do it. Enriched data analytics – Understand consumer habits, preferences, unmet needs and how to maximize return on your marketing investment. Data is aggregated and presented in a suitable form. You may also be monitored!! Who is monitoring you?