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Five Signs the Future Belongs to User-Generated Content

Waxing UnLyrical

via Flickr, CC 2.0. It’s a landslide: Community creates results. The Harlem Shake depended on community. User-generated content is far better at creating that community. It’s been a heck of a ride! Image: mayeesherr. (in in West Bengal!) So which one garnered more interest according to Google trends?

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Monday Roundup: Content Rules

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Depone via Flickr, CC 2.0. area, she loves helping for- and non-profit clients, both small and large, turn corporate codswallop into community cool™. Resources Shonali Burke Weekly Roundup blogging content online publishing ugc user generated content' 4 Reasons Your Content Is Yawn-Worthy. Based in the Washington, D.C.,

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Successfully Engaging Customers with a Cause

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Some Highlights: Hub was [link] They made sure the site was a real online community for men, women and companies You sign up, create a “team” and tell your story as a way to recruit and harness UGC They started building outpost sites on MySpace, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube – tapping into existing communities – making it extremely seamless (..)

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Whenever I present or give classes on monetizing social networks and online communities people usually have two questions. Social Media Monetization Models on Flickr [link]. Pay $25 a year a la Flickr for a Pro account. One, should we monetize other people’s activity? Two, how can Twitter make money? 20 million?

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10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don't Involve Twitter.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. &# That last one might be the most honest of the three, since asking a Community Manager whether they tweet for a living is like asking a construction worker if they cat-call for a living, or a doctor if he asks people to say “ah!&# for a living.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The point is that consumers now have a more potent aggregate power: someone with a problem can now reach others with the same problem faster, build a community around this shared problem easily, and mobilize lots of people behind the common cause more efficiently. Not just being talked about but be an active voice in the community.

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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. It’s good to know that there are ways to bring Facebook community closer together. Think again!

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