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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

What about forums? Discussion forums. Microblogging platforms. While they aren’t traditionally thought of as a marketing tool, messaging apps like WhatsApp can be a powerful way to reach and engage with your target audience. Discussion forums. Microblogging platforms. Should you focus on photos?

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

Webbiquity SMM

A simple tool like Google Alerts would pick up most stray citations. The explosion of social media has led to a corresponding need for more sophisticated monitoring tools that can crawl the hundreds of social networking and bookmarking sites and millions of blogs across the globe. blogs, microblogging sites, social networks, etc.).

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57 Social Media Policy Examples and Resources

Dave Fleet

American Express Open Forum. Use of social networking, microblogs and other third party websites. Policy Tool for Social Media. 3 Great Social Media Policies to Steal From (Kodak, Intel, IBM). American Institute of Architects. Policy on Staff Use of Social Media. American Red Cross. Online Communications Guidelines. SocialFish.

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Social Media and the Contact Center for Dummies (Wiley)

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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Social Media for the Boardroom

Buzz Marketing for Technology

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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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

There have also been doctors that have used social networking tools, like Twitter, during surgery. Here are ten social media tools that can aid you with crowdsourcing: Twitter It is already being used for many crowdsourcing efforts. What are some methods and tools that you have seen various organizations use for crowdsourcing?

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Enterprise 2.0 Success is About the Players, Not the Field

Social Media Strategery

Over the last few years, I’ve seen dozens of failed wikis, blogs, microblog platforms, forums, and idea management deployments, and I’m sure I’ll see many more. It happens when they are rewarded for sharing information. It happens when they like working with the people around them.