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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

If you want to improve your social media marketing strategy , you need to know about the different types of social media content and how or where you share that content. Understanding these different types of social media will help you develop a better content strategy and know where to focus your time and energy.

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Crowdsource: BP Oil Spill and social media

Laurel Papworth

And there are a lot of innovation crowdsourced communities online. I checked: none had a project to find a solution for the oil spill. So I got to thinking: what if we crowdsourced a solution? And my second question was… would BP listen to a crowdsourced solution? Crowdsourced innovation social networks.

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What Social Media Lesson Did Gap Learn?

Direct Marketing Observations

They decided to go from this… To this… Ouch… Without really knowing the full back story but having a good feel for when major retailers and companies crowdsource new ideas, I think it’s safe to say that Gap really didn’t reach out to its user base to find out what they might think. They went off. Your trust them.

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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

Streamline project management. Users also reported advantages with project management. Social enterprise platforms use shortcuts that make relevant conversations easier to find (using the #keyword, for example). Then, they are continually rewarded as they watch project teams bring the idea to fruition.

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Can You Trust Social Media Sources?

Net-Savvy Executive

Before you can pull insights from your data, you need data, but I'm hearing more concerns about data quality in social media analysis lately. Lately, I'm hearing more about social data that's intentionally tainted. If you're looking for meaning in social media data, you may have to deal with adversaries.

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How To Organize A Brand Hackathon (And Why) – Interview With Betabrand’s Chris Lindland

The Realtime Report

This led to a series of email exchanges with Betabrand founder and CEO Chris Lindland, who pointed me to a number of other campaigns the brand has done–some of which were created at a series of hackathons that Betabrand hosted this year. Asking your customers and fans to hack your brand is about as social as a social business can get.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

The Best of Twitter 20 From the forward: I’m sitting in a ballroom in Indianapolis in September, 2008 watching Joseph Jaffe give a masterful presentation on social media transforming corporations, when I come upon the idea to interview him on Twitter. Also, thank you to the supremely talented Tzeyee Goh, who designed this eBook.