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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

If you want to improve your social media marketing strategy , you need to know about the different types of social media content and how or where you share that content. Understanding these different types of social media will help you develop a better content strategy and know where to focus your time and energy.

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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. It also allows you to share your bookmarks on other social networking sites.

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When The Media Plays Scrooge

Waxing UnLyrical

Mark as read Approve comment I will be UStreaming the caroling as we stop at each station. UStream will automatically post an update to my twitter, [link] when I begin livestreaming and provide a link to watch. Mark as read Approve comment Due to all the negative media attention, they asked that I not livestream it.

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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.

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

Convince & Convert

I’ve been thinking lately about why I got involved in social media. But as I pondered this connection, I realized that there was a portion of the advertising world that shared a lot of elements with social media – infomercials. The same is true in social media. But, I’m not.

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

Convince & Convert

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Absolutely.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

SocialFish

by Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross – Reposted with permission (original post appeared on the NTEN blog ). In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked. The American Red Cross is mentioned more than 1,000 times per day on the social web.

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