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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

For brands, social media networking sites offer an opportunity to build awareness, create a community of customers and followers and drive traffic to websites. Examples: Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Snapchat. How brands can use social networking sites: Post, share and respond to audience content.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, An Interview & Gift Wrap Inspiration

Kikolani

How connecting your LinkedIn contacts builds social influence – another great way to use LinkedIn to build your authority. How I drove over 240,000 pageviews through new Digg , social bookmarking, and blogger outreach – a video on how to generate traffic from a variety of social bookmarking sites including the new Digg.

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Nine Notable Uses for Social Bookmarking

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Webupon > Social Bookmarking. Nine Notable Uses for Social Bookmarking. Bookmarking doesnt need to be limited to tracking websites for yourself. Social bookmarking sites excel at maintaining an online grouping of websites for many purposes (e.g. for ways to use social bookmarking more creatively?

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

She provides an excellent taxonomy of the social media landscape, categorizing the different types of social media tools into: • Social News Sites (Digg, Reddit, Kirtsy, etc.). Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.). Social Sharing (YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare, etc.). Social Events (e.g.,

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Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective

Buzz Marketing for Technology

There is some stuff coming out around "Personal Learning Environments" for example, take a look at: ePortfolio Model and the Concept Diagram for Personal Learning Landscape. For example, if you look at the diagram from the post I cited above: Jeremy has a good model of the likely elements along the bottom. where the "."

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How to Create a Reader Avatar for Your Blog

ProBlogger

We’ve created a template you can use to help you do this, and I’ll be sharing some examples of my own reader avatars throughout this post.) He’s recently retired and has bought an entry level DSLR to help him record an upcoming trip across the USA. Here’s another one from a different type of reader at DPS: "Keith".

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The Bamboo Project Blog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I heard the same thing from the Gen Y folks at my Social Media Game workshop). 38% of organizations surveyed for an upcoming study from Aberdeen said the biggest growth in learning and development over the next year will come from â??informal The investment these companies will make in blogs, social networks, and communities will â??

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