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Social Citizens: How Social Media Can Help Social Problems

Mindjumpers

Tweet Last week, Facebook finally revealed their much hyped “life saving” feature: the organ donor status. The campaign started in 2004 before social media had a firm grip on the majority of most countries’ population and the outcome was not really that impressive. Networking on social initiatives.

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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. From then the movement grew: The Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook Group was launched in 2007 and soon had 90,000 members. Hundreds of Facebook groups started cropping up indicating the issue was finding space in local communities.

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Social Media New Year’s Resolutions That You’ll Have Fun Achieving

agora pulse

Embrace Facebook’s Demographic Shift. As the Frozen song says, “Let it go …” Facebook is now 16 years old, and its user demographic has shifted. I’m not suggesting you drop Facebook—but embrace Facebook’s demographic shift. College students were the target audience for Facebook when it went live in 2004.

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When You Need a Social Media Manager

Ari Herzog

When you need someone to analyze, recommend, implement, monitor, or otherwise manage your internet presence, from being the voice of your Facebook page to steering tweets to evaluating whether the next best tool is a surefire way to outmaneuver your competition, I want to talk to you. When you need a social media manager, think of me?

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On Moving On

Ari Herzog

And I did… Each of them left their worlds of independent consulting and entered professional communities of workplaces and coworkers. I want to use my 12 years of experience in integrated communications to help an organization with social media marketing, community and media relations, writing and editing, and policy development.

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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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How Obama Sets Online Marketing High

Ari Herzog

It sounds staggering but President Barack Obama will likely break $1 billion in political fundraising for his 2012 re-election campaign. In 2008, Obama made big headlines when he became the first presidential candidate in the modern era to decline public financing for his presidential campaign.

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