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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

Social messaging. Social shopping networks. Interactive social media apps. Microblogging platforms. Social review sites. Social curation and bookmarking sites. Social networking sites. Overview: Social networking sites allow people to connect with each other through a shared online space.

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Best Social PR Guides and Tips of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Writing that “The most productive PR path…is a blended approach to social and traditional media,&# Len Stein offers a quick but valuable process for obtaining and promoting old and new media coverage using multiple tools like social bookmarking sites, internal company distribution, your own website, marketing emails and more.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you’re going to engage in social media, do it! Do study your influencers Want to reach out to influencers ? Study your influencers out; don’t take the lazy path because you can. The Facebook page could be totally overrun by bandits and they’d never know because they aren’t paying that much attention.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. By studying their feed, you can learn a lot more about how important social media is to them.

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How to Write a Social Media Policy

Webbiquity SMM

Social sharing sites (e.g. Microblogging sites (e.g. Social bookmarking sites (e.g. Social Media Objectives. What does your organization hope to accomplish through social media? . Never use social media as a platform to disparage coworkers, supervisors or suppliers. • Forums and discussion boards.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

To get a feel for what students are studying in Social Media U, you only need to do a web search because many of the students arent just learning how to, theyre blogging about it too. Of course, the entirety of social media cant be summed up in one blog post, so these are just a handful of subjects listed below.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Hiring for Social Media How to Evaluate Social Media Street Cred (Logic+Emotion): Do you know if that person is able to handle a social media marketing initiative? David Armano suggests to study out the candidate first; they shouldn’t just be focused on Twitter, for example. How omnipresent is he?

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