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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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For example, the PLATO system, developed by the University of Illinois in 1970, had many features of an early social media network but was largely used in academia. Friendster (2002) Launched in 2002, Friendster was originally going to be a dating site that would help set up people with friends in common.

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Social Pros 20 – Katie Morse, Billboard

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This episode features Katie Morse of Billboard. Social media and community management and listening and social business and enabling your employees to be spokespeople and all the things we talked about here at Social Pros , and all the things we talked about in the Now Revolution , that’s not advertising. Listen Now. Absolutely.

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

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The feeling of community, and “we’re all in this together&# is slipping away. Location, Location, Location The biggest story of the event was the widespread usage of presence services foursquare and Gowalla. link] Meryl K Evans I'm glad I went in 2002 and 2003 before it got so big.