Using social media isn’t about finding the ROI, it’s about filling a purpose. Find out why you should look at how a new social media effort or tool benefits you and your business and not how the creator necessarily intended it to be used.
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Top tools to help you curate business content
SEOmoz’s Gianluca Fiorelli talks about content creation. Learn about the five different kinds of curation and discover the tools that can help you in this process.
Do you have a strategy for social bookmarking and crowdsourcing?
Here is part 7 of the series I will post over the next few months based on chapters from my new book, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization.
The book is meant to be a guide to building an optimized foundation in social Web for beginners and advanced users alike.
Chapter 7 of the book is about social bookmarking and crowdsourcing using news aggregators, enabling users to save and share their favorite Websites and determine the popularity of a news story, blog entry, or Website through various voting and rating systems.
Amplify: Trying a new microclippnig service
I have tried various ways to record links (bookmarks, etc.) and have them displayed on my blogs. I used Delicious for a long while, but it seemed too disconnected from blogging. A few months ago, I started to use Tumblr and created messagelinks.tumblr.com and groundlinks.tumblr.com. However, they aren’t really like other tumblr blogs, because their […]