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How to Create a Thriving B2B Advocacy Community

Convince & Convert

jtroyer Tweet This Giving Back to Your Top Influencers Back in 2003, VMware ‘s online community was centered around a forum. Today, despite the fractured social media landscape, their community still has one central home on the web: the VMware Community site. See you next week!

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Social media and the rise of fantasy sports

Sprout Social

You don’t have to be a sports fanatic to know how much sports fans love to share updates about their teams on social media. Fantasy sports have played a huge role in shaping fans’ communities and conversations on social platforms. How mainstream media and social media created fantasy hype.

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Government Use of Social Media - "In Addition to," Not "In Lieu of.

Social Media Strategery

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media Government Use of Social Media – “In Addition to,&# Not “In Lieu of&# Tue, Apr 27, 2010 Government 2.0 community? Government 2.0

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Social Success Comes from Individuality

Convince & Convert

An interesting theme arose with the Social Pros in April: everyone ended up talking about how important individualization is in social media. His first post on Facebook appealed to his friends asking for help, and it soon became clear that social media was a great way to find information.

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API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

is “little bits everywhere&# – don’t force customers to come to your site, let them do purchase your products on their site, where they are, and let their social network be informed. An overview of social media monetization revenues. API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Ep.003 Previous Shows.

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

At this stage, most early adopters and heavy users of other social networking sites would be the majority of new registrants as they are very well aware of the new developments in the networking space. Classmates.com and MySpace are two social networks in their decline stage. How relevant is social media life cycle for a business?

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Lessons along the road: 5 career pointers for new graduates

Dave Fleet

For me, it’s evolved over time… but it really started with social media. When social media first emerged, I found it absolutely compelling. Its roots back in the mid-2000s – and the early business use-cases – centred around building communities and solving problems. I talked about social media earlier.

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