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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

Microblogging platforms. Curate and promote user-generated content via branded hashtags. Microblogging platforms. Overview: Microblogging is a type of social media marketing that allows users to post short updates or messages. Offer customer support or answer questions in microblogs or comments. Audio sharing.

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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. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca He used Twitter to raise money for charity if people tweeted and blamed his cancer.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Using the holiday where most Americans express their thanks, a part of the TweetsGiving initiative was to act as a creativity catalyst, asking people to tweet what they were thankful for with the #tweetsgiving hashtag. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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50 (of the) Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Secrets of Twitter Hashtags (For Those Still Unsure) by Interactive Insights Group. For those unsure of what hashtags are or unaware of their many uses on Twitter, Robin Broitman offers an extensive list of hashtag resources and guides. You still need live tweets to engage with people.&#. Share this on Bebo. Post on Google Buzz.

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Best Twitter Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

As adoption skyrockets, marketers are striving to optimize their use of the world’s most popular microblogging platform. Twitter is used (officially) in 65 of the Fortune 100 companies , 63% of small to midsized businesses, and nearly half of all B2B enterprises. What types of information are worth sharing, beyond blog posts? .&#

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Tweet Spinner Review: A Powerful Application to Manage Your Tweets

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’d love to see a mute – particularly for “twilight&# , “biggest loser&# “football&# or the latest hashtag of a conference I couldn’t attend. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Abusing Twitter hashtags during a crisis. Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. Once upon a time, I stumbled upon a Digg submission of a Sphinn submission of a blog post. and having a real conversation first.

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