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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

The Facebook” followed in 2004. Tumblr and the age of the microblog (2007) In 2007, the social network described as “Twitter meets YouTube and WordPress” came a-tumblin’ along when 17-year-old David Karp launched Tumblr from his bedroom. As the story goes, Twitter early adopter Chris Messina, proposed the hashtag for organizing tweets.

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Social Media Marketing Guide: Facebook

Little Web Giants

Everything you need to know about the six most popular social networks for businesses: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+ and Instagram. Recently I won the Biggest Social Geek competition generously hosted by Marin Software , the largest third-party aggregator of paid search spend globally. In today’s post, Facebook.

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Social Media Marketing Guide: Facebook

Little Web Giants

Everything you need to know about the six most popular social networks for businesses: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+ and Instagram. Recently I won the Biggest Social Geek competition generously hosted by Marin Software , the largest third-party aggregator of paid search spend globally. In today’s post, Facebook.

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25 Ways to Create Shareable Content

Convince & Convert

Email keeps growing exponentially, with trillions sent every year, Facebook went from university students only in 2004 to more than a billion users eight years later. But the most alarming stat that is the number of blogs created only to be abandoned in favor of Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, or the newest shiny toy. Read Twitter streams.

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Only a handful of articles have appeared in the academic and public press about PLEs since the term gained currency in 2004. PLEs are meant to simplify managing these artefacts, creating meaning through aggregation, linking and metadata tagging (eg comments, keywords). Recent Twitter: Skype My status button [link]. -->.

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Understanding Which Social Platforms to Choose When [infographic]

Mindjumpers

With Twitter, Facebook, now Google+ and more, it is easy to confuse one with another and forget about the specific social strategy. In 2004, users were sharing 1% of content (on Facebook). An aggregate of 4 billion things get shared every day, which is approximately twice as much as a year ago. Infographic.

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Best Social Media Stats and Market Research of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

What percentage of Fortune 100 companies are on Twitter? What social media tool helps small business double their reach on Twitter? “70% of social media users between the ages of 18-34 regularly use Facebook more than other sites such as MySpace, Twitter, and Classmates.com,&# and women use Facebook more than men.

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