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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. GetSatisfaction provides a way for companies to do that. Ustream gives you a way to host a live show and have your Twitter followers chat with you while you are on the show. Answers Yahoo!

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

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Of course with all of these options you’re really at the mercy of other companies who have control over the hosting and upkeep of your community. A number of years ago I experimented over with using Ustream to connect with my readers. You also lose some control over features etc.

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The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Using Digg as an instrument to get Digg’s attention has never clearly had an impact until last week’s “revolt,&# and the only reason why it had an impact then was because it was done off Digg’s site (in this case, Ustream ) and had plenty of press people standing behind it. Answers Yahoo!

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

Of course with all of these options you’re really at the mercy of other companies who have control over the hosting and upkeep of your community. A number of years ago I experimented over with using Ustream to connect with my readers. Google+ pages and communities. Setting up a Ning Community.

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

Of course with all of these options you’re really at the mercy of other companies who have control over the hosting and upkeep of your community. A number of years ago I experimented over with using Ustream to connect with my readers. You also lose some control over features etc.