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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

What about forums? Discussion forums. Microblogging platforms. Discussion forums. Overview: Discussion forums are online platforms where people can ask questions, give answers and start discussions on a variety of topics. Provide customer support in forums where your people are discussing your brand.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

Your PR team was aware of most of these as it often had a hand in generating those placements. I’ve used this tool on behalf of small clients for finding hundreds of key influencers on Twitter, blogs and various other social networking sites and forums. blogs, microblogging sites, social networks, etc.). Social Mention.

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Social Media Listening for B2B Marketing

Buzz Marketing for Technology

One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing the flow of information about their brands, products, and services that occurs in social media channels, including microblogs (such as Twitter), social networking sites (such as Facebook), blogs, and online forums.

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Enterprise 2.0 Success is About the Players, Not the Field

Social Media Strategery

Watch your local Pee-wee football team’s practice sometime and you’ll see a lot of dropped passes, missed tackles, and a whole host of other mistakes. But…what would happen if you put that team on Heinz Field and gave them all the same amenities as the Pittsburgh Steelers? Are they punished for hoarding information?

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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The blogger (Professor Jutras) posts his ideas, occasionally throws in some editorial and takes some light, widget-fed microblogging (the current events some students share). I see this seminar as a forum. In a forum, some threads get “stuck&# to the top and are thus afforded more visibility. I see this seminar as a blog.

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Drive for Show, Putt for Dough – a Lesson for Enterprise 2.0 Platforms

Social Media Strategery

implementation – be it a wiki, a blogging platform, discussion forums, microblogging, or Sharepoint – fail miserably because they forgot to focus on the fundamentals. vendor out there offers a similar set of features – blogging, microblogging, wiki functionality, profiles, tagging, search, etc.

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What Kind of Online Community Do You Have Behind Your Firewall?

Social Media Strategery

As CIOs and Chief Knowledge Officers bring tools that have been used on the Internet – blogs, wikis, microblogs, profiles – behind the firewall, they tend to expect the same results. "We'll The Intranet development team. You create a wiki page for your team containing the text of a report you're working on.