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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

What about forums? Discussion forums. Form communities and discuss relevant news within them. Examples: YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Twitch and UStream. Discussion forums. Overview: Discussion forums are online platforms where people can ask questions, give answers and start discussions on a variety of topics.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You can use the many applications that Facebook offers, so that others can answer questions on a survey, have discussions on the forums, and/or have notes to bring awareness to a topic. Ustream gives you a way to host a live show and have your Twitter followers chat with you while you are on the show.

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Learning via the Social Media Game

Bare Feet Studios

The confusing part is also very good news: it is very arbitrary whether we call something a “social network&# or an “online broadcast&# etc – most of these tools listed below easily fall into many of these categories! Create your own niche online social network with ready to use blogs, RSS feeds, forums and more.

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The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Using Digg as an instrument to get Digg’s attention has never clearly had an impact until last week’s “revolt,&# and the only reason why it had an impact then was because it was done off Digg’s site (in this case, Ustream ) and had plenty of press people standing behind it.

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Social Media is Scary - How to Address Junior Employees

Social Media Strategery

Once we deployed internal blogs, a wiki, and forums, that’s when my work internally with social media really took off. panel discussion in Denver this past weekend where the session was shared live on Ustream and had people ‘tweeting in’, I made a late New Year’s resolution. Fresh News Theme by

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

There’s been a bit of news about it recently. However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. There ’s been a bit of news about it recently. Social Media is Inexpensive False. Use technology to be yourself, and don’t overthink it.

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Forums existed well before I was born, after all. Twitter is the new chat room, but IRC still remains a popular choice behind services like Ustream and Y! I spent hours on forums and at news sites, reading people’s thoughts about her and posting my own. They evolved into sites with graphical interfaces.

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