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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. The C-61 in 61 Seconds YouTube competition invited Canadians to post a short video expressing their concerns over the bill. There is some organization, but mostly the activity is far more distributed than orchestrated campaigns.

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

agora pulse

College students were the target audience for Facebook when it went live in 2004. Those college students of 2004 are the older millennials of today. Marketers are now using TikTok to amplify Instagram campaigns and vice versa. I’m not suggesting you drop Facebook—but embrace Facebook’s demographic shift. TikTok Example.

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Jake's Take: Facebook Hits The Big 5-0-0

Firebelly

Mark Zuckerburg launched Facebook in 2004 for his friendsand classmates at Harvard University, then continued to branch it out to otherschools. Despite the catches, Facebook is putting up very impressivenumbers for growth year after year. Even as recently as February, the networkwas just at 400 million strong.

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Google, Social Media, and the Wisdom of Enigmas

Convince & Convert

A good, albeit not expressly social, example of this principle lies in the first advertising campaign that Google invested in. Those in the Bay Area may remember it well, a cryptic billboard in 2004 along the 101 freeway: That’s it. That idea broke the convention of the medium but made the most of the opportunity.

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Social Media Influencers – What would you do? @spotus

Laurel Papworth

I occasionally see a campaign that I think is important but I can see they aren’t going around it the right way. The Oxford American , a national magazine award winner in 2004, plans to publish the piece. Nine donors so far… What would YOU do to improve this social media campaign? Like this Spot.US cyclist story.

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

Buffer Social

But since we’re celebrating the positive impact of social media on people’s lives and on the world for this campaign, these are all particularly meaningful and important moments in the social media history. Feel free to jump to a certain moment(s) in the social media history! The Birth of Facebook. I know I have!

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Top 17 Social Media Monitoring Vendors for Business

Socialmedia.biz

Using the software, you can measure the results of your social media marketing campaigns. You can use it to measure your online campaigns. When publishing analysis and research reports, this software focuses mainly on the major social media sites, including YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. It was founded in 2005 by Giles Palmer.