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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

You could post on community review sites or live-stream it to the masses. Microblogging platforms. Community blogging 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. Should you focus on photos?

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Twitter Social Listening Guide 101

Keyhole.co

Being a community-based platform, Twitter audiences collectively engage with trend-based content they like and relate to. So, it’s evident that brands aren’t shying away from amplifying their marketing efforts on the microblogging site. Increase lead generation: Track trending topics, keywords, and hashtags.

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Social Media for Non-Profits: How One Small Charity Makes it Work

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Epic Change decided to dabble in social media, because as Stacey says, it was “a way to cultivate a community of support for Epic Change.&# More importantly, Epic Change has a mission to empower individuals to tell stories in order to acquire financial resources to make positive change in their communities. Why social media?

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The best way to use it is create a hashtag, explain what you are trying to accomplish, and have your followers tweet away. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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A Beginner’s Guide to Mastodon

Buffer Social

Some names may be familiar to you while others are completely new, but a quick search on Google Trends reveals that old or new, people are looking for the next, best microblogging platform. There are hashtags and lists, and you have up to 5,000 words to express yourself – as well as the ability to add GIFs, videos, and images.

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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

We established the hashtag that we would use when blogging or Yammering about the Uconference. While tuning in to hashtags like #gov20camp or #sxsw can give virtual attendees a reasonable feel for the content of the conference, that only works when hundreds of people are actively using the service, giving individual perspectives and updates.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Tumblr and the age of the microblog (2007) In 2007, the social network described as “Twitter meets YouTube and WordPress” came a-tumblin’ along when 17-year-old David Karp launched Tumblr from his bedroom. The hashtag arrives (2007) The strict 140-character limit for tweets set Twitter apart from rivals, including Facebook and Tumblr.