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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

It started in 2004 when a legislative committee held a series of hearings on digital copyright reform. It was during the 2006 election that first signs that a grassroots movement was taking hold were spotted, according to Geist. People will increasingly seek to influence policy, companies and communities. Related articles.

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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You | chrisbrogan.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here’s the first paragraph of my summary: I show businesses how to use social media technologies for external community building and outreach, and for internal collaboration. For the bonus round, I recommend staying up to date via LinkedIn’s community superhero, Mario Sundar. December 2006. November 2006.

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Why More Members, Money, and Ads Don’t Always Mean More Success: A B2B Marketer’s Survival Guide

Webbiquity SMM

So the question is–are there things that today’s B2B marketers can learn from history, specifically, the tremendous success of Facebook and the rise, fall and possible resurrection of Myspace? From its founding, Myspace took off like a rocket ship while Facebook had a much slower ascension from launch. My answer is certainly–yes!

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#MySMCStory: Social Media Club and Me

Ari Herzog

Eight years after building my first website, I began blogging 2004 on a now-deleted LiveJournal community. facebooking since 2005, and tweeting since 2008, and, partially because people kept coming up to me and telling me they followed my blog or enjoyed my tweets, I knew I was respected as a thought leader. Here’s mine.

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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A member of my religious community disappeared. After having read the immensely resourceful book, The Facebook Effect , I’m starting to understand how our world is changing thanks to social networks. Nearly 10% of Facebook’s membership protested by joining other groups demanding that Facebook shut down the News Feed.

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Top 10 Powerful Moments That Shaped Social Media History Over the Last 20 Years

Buffer Social

The Birth of Facebook. Community Support during World Tragedies. The Birth of Facebook. Facebook, the social media network that has an incredible two billion monthly active users (nearly a third of the earth’s population), is the only network that I’ll mention in this post for moments-sake. The Facebook.

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BMJ blogs " Blog Archive " Richard Smith: Get with Web 2.0 or become yesterday's person

Buzz Marketing for Technology

attracted to it by its anarchic, democratising, iconoclastic potential, I urge friends to start using Facebook. He’s also a Facebook fanatic. Some believe that Facebook has peaked, and will now go the way of Friends Reunited. Google, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook are all incredibly young organisations. December 2006.

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