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Social bookmarking
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 […]
Guide to content tagging in social bookmarking
Jason Falls at Social Media Explorer: The Practical Guide To Content Tagging In Social Bookmarking. Principal points: Keep It Simple I would recommend using no more than 2-3 tags per piece of content and keep the words very generic. If it’s about social media measurement then maybe tag it “socialmedia” and “measurement”. If you’re ever […]