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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

Examples: YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Twitch and UStream. How brands can use social messaging apps: Use chatbots to answer customer questions. Create a private group for loyal customers and followers. Social curation and bookmarking sites. Stream everything from concerts to eSports, product launches and beyond.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

When you have a group of people submitting their work, there is an awareness that it isn’t just one idea that will work, so the result is a higher quality of work. Crowdsourcing is an useful model because it can be used by any group for any reason. As they saying goes, competition breeds excellence.

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Learning via the Social Media Game

Bare Feet Studios

Tomorrow I am working with an esteemed group of coral reef scientists here in Hawaii to illustrate various ways to use social media. I will be using a version of The Social Media Game , an interactive learning process originally developed by my darling colleague Beth Kantor a few years ago. Social Bookmarks.