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Social Media Stock Talk: Five Reasons to Buy Facebook

Waxing UnLyrical

The biggest news in the history of social media took place Friday when Facebook had its IPO, becoming the biggest social name ever to join the public market. Its $108 Billion offering came in as the 3rd largest ever (behind Visa and Enel), so the day was significant not only for social media types but also for market watchers.

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Awareness to Sales: Building a Social Media PRISM Funnel That Converts – Ian Cleary [SSM051]

Buffer Social

Is social media best used for sales or for brand awareness and engagement? The age-old question that marketers have been debating even before Mark Zuckerberg started TheFacebook in his tiny Harvard dorm room back in 2004. Why both awareness and sales are an important part of social media. Is there one? The process?

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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This isn’t a real post about social media strategy, but it’s an important issue that follows from our social media behavior online. Ironically, this is something that takes a bit of effort on our part, yet nearly 4 million of us share our whereabouts across location-based social networks.

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240: 7 Social Media Trends I Noticed at Social Media Marketing World

ProBlogger

Key Themes and Trends from the Social Media Marketing World Conference. In today’s episode, I want to share seven trends people were talking about at the Social Media Marketing World mega-conference recently held in San Diego. Which social network should you focus on? Examples of Trends in Social Media.

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This Blog Is Dead

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In 1997, wired teens created online diaries, and in 2004 the blog was king. Today, teens are about as likely to start a blog (over Instagramming or Snapchatting) as they are to buy a music CD. Blogging is a legacy system within that framework. mass media. media channel. social media. blog comment.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

The history of social media is a long and storied one. It’s bursting with pivotal moments like the launch of Instagram Stories, to that one time Zuck was on trial for Facebook privacy issues, to…honestly, let’s just look at the entire social media history timeline. So, how old is social media?

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Wirearchy :: I'll Do It My Way - The Mass Customization of Knowledge Work

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The Interconnected Workplace - An Ever-Changing Flow The new conditions of an interconnected workplace world - free-flowing information delivered via integrated information systems, linked together in networks of relationships - are rapidly redefining the nature of work. Month Archive. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008. January 2008.

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