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LinkedIn, Social Media And Bubbles

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Late last week, LinkedIn became the biggest U.S. Internet IPO since Google back in 2004. Beyond the hype (the stock doubled in price on its first day of trading) to confusion ( The Atlantic ran a Blog post titled, Did Bankers Scam LinkedIn Out of Over $130 Million? ) I joined LinkedIn very early on.

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Groupon by the Numbers

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Size of Google’s IPO in 2004. Professional networking site LinkedIn raised $217 million in its May offering. Groupon’s revenue for the first three months of 2011. Amount of money the company lost in the same quarter of 2011. Amount of money the company lost in the same quarter of 2011. 413 million.

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7 Reasons Your New Blog Visitors Bounce, and How to Stop Them

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Unless someone’s using a browser from 2004, they should be able to view your content without any major problems. Do any say copyright 2011? The only places dates 2011 or older are acceptable are buried deep in your blog or news feed. Connect with PBP on LinkedIn. It asks for a browser upgrade. It displays old dates.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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Gaining traction: LinkedIn, YouTube, and WordPress (and more) arrive (2003-2005) In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facemash, described as Harvard University’s answer to Hot or Not. The Facebook” followed in 2004. And that was the start of its decline from ultra-trendy to ultra-tacky. My, how times have(n’t) changed!)

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A Brief History of Social Media [Infographic]

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The very same year, surprisingly, LinkedIn launched as a professional networking and job posting site. While younger people were agonizing over their top 8 on Myspace, LinkedIn slowly grew, acquiring just 20 signups per day. In 2016, LinkedIn had grown to 430 million members. A Not-So-Distant Past: 2010-2015. Social Media Today.

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Common Social Media Questions and Answers All Marketers Should Know

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We put the question to our LinkedIn community and based on the responses one thing is clear: There’s a lot of people out there who don’t know what social media marketers do. How do I update my LinkedIn photo? Here’s a chronological timeline of the founding dates of Facebook and other platforms: LinkedIn: May 5, 2003.

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Social Pros 18 – Ike Pigott, Alabama Power

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” 30% of them said LinkedIn, 20% said blogging, and 19% said Facebook. Now, I like LinkedIn a lot. I think LinkedIn gets a bad rap. If you’re a B2B company and you believe that LinkedIn is the best possible way for you to deploy your social media self, I think maybe you need to look around a little more broadly.

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