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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

Social curation and bookmarking sites. For brands, social media networking sites offer an opportunity to build awareness, create a community of customers and followers and drive traffic to websites. By creating informative and engaging content, brands can cultivate relationships with customers and followers that lead to conversions.

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Is Facebook Suffocating the Rest of Social Media?

Convince & Convert

The fact that the number of social networkers (read: Facebook) is almost as large as the number of blog readers and video watchers (59% to 68%) is the most striking finding in this research. Is Facebook Making Us Stupid? Why read a blog, when we can look at the headline and first two sentences in a Facebook status update?

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Content Aggregation: The Future of (B2B and Consumer) Media?

Webbiquity SMM

New tools, however, are bringing sophisticated content aggregation and curation within reach of midsized enterprises. The site also makes it easy to promote your newspaper through Twitter and Facebook. Content aggregation and curation will become increasingly popular as a way to give everyone what they want. Share this on Bebo.

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4 Ways the Twitter You Know is Changing Forever

Convince & Convert

The rise of Twitter was accompanied by the slow demise of RSS and Digg, as the surging popularity of the 140-character kid made many previous pointing and info-gathering technologies unnecessary. Twitter as Curator and Editor. Twitter became (and still is) the headline news of the modern age. Twitter as Conversation Forum.

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The Pinterest Buy Button Might Rock Your Ecommerce

Convince & Convert

Unlike Facebook or Twitter, Pinterest serves as a platform for inspiration for users. In some ways, the platform serves as a social way to curate and build wish lists. Both Facebook and Twitter have experimented with marketplaces of their own, but they are struggling to gain user trust and identify consumers’ intent to buy.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media (Louis Gray): Mike Fruchter writes an awesome blog post on Louis Gray’s blog about how to get involved in social media, from branding to blogging to Twitter to community. This post is really poetry, as are all his other writings and blog posts. It’s definitely a worthwhile read.

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Social Media Strategy: 10 Experts Reveal Their Secrets

Viper Chill

For example, you might not know that I helped one newspaper go from a limited social media presence to helping them hit the Digg homepage over 40 times. Leverage Facebook advertising to gauge the audience opportunity. Research other fan pages to see what those Facebook users are not getting elsewhere and give it to them.