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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

To help you out, we’ve put together a list of 14 types of social media every marketer needs to know. From social networking to video sharing and social messaging, there’s something for everyone (and every business). Types of social media. Social networking. Social messaging.

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Any Publicity is Good Publicity in Social Media, right?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

It’s the interconnected nature of today’s social networks like Facebook or microblogs like Twitter and the way they broadcast their messages to the world but also in the process creating permanent search friendly records that make them so powerful and also potentially dangerous.

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Social Media for the Boardroom

Buzz Marketing for Technology

At a recent BlogWell event I got a chance to hear Robert Raines from Chevron present his Social Media program and how he reports their activity into the Boardroom. It all starts with the Pulse Report that Chevron had produced by Edelman (their PR firm) using their Alterian’s SM2 social media monitoring tool.

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Why Twitter Still Matters

Direct Marketing Observations

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society provides information about blood cancer, research and events that readers can get involved in. But now, because of social networks, in this case Twitter, they’re able to have an impact and make a difference on the lives of thousands of people.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

As she notes in her introduction, Li’s book is organized around four main themes: Research: start by using search and social media monitoring tools to discover where your customers and prospects are congregating. Don’t automatically assume they use the most popular social networks. Social Events (e.g.,

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88% of Twitter Users Follow At Least One Brand

The Realtime Report

Last week’s events revealed several interesting new statistics about Twitter, including information about mobile use and brand engagement on the platform. The highlights: 60% of Twitter users access the microblogging platform on mobile devices. there are more than 400 million tweets per day.

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

StumbleUpon: The Funny, the Informational, but Not So Newsy StumbleUpon is probably the last social site that I’d consider going for “news&# — at least not for “current events.&# For example, just the other day I stumbled upon an Apple press release from 2003. In this way, it is Pull.