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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. When I was having some issues adding the commenting system to my web site, I was able to quickly get a response from the JS-Kit team and their users. Additionally, crowdsourcing has even help bring awareness to charity causes and collecting money for them.

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Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

And worst of all, when recommendation is made, suggesting that these shortfalls on the primary site should be corrected first and foremost, it’s quickly brushed aside as too expensive, cumbersome, or simply not exciting enough when compared to the oncoming, external social media blitz. Still not sure how to take action on this rule of thumb?

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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. Sorry, guys, it’s five years later.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

&# Reply Onibalusi Bamidele August 26, 2010 at 5:52 am Really great post Tamar, The self promotion aspect was what I learned the hard way, after being banned on over 100 forums and some social bookmarking sites. Small businesses can’t always follow by example, unfortunately. Thanks a lot for the great post!

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. You can easily determine if your friends are interested in marketing, photography, books, music, web 2.0

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The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Let the Social Media Traffic Quality Analysis Begin In order to answer the question of whether niche social media drives higher quality traffic, two social networks were chosen for analysis — one generic and one niche. Would Be interesting to see and filter out areas for example US and Non-US traffic.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social media isn’t going away, but this example shows that some systems just happen to work better than others. Reply kevin May 9, 2008 at 9:15 am Rankings on social media breeds a pointless competitiveness that I just don’t get. Take MySpace for example, they rank their blog postings daily like a billboard chart.

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