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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. This was when groups first started to come together to self-organize online.”. From then the movement grew: The Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook Group was launched in 2007 and soon had 90,000 members. This was unprecedented.

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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You | chrisbrogan.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here’s the first paragraph of my summary: I show businesses how to use social media technologies for external community building and outreach, and for internal collaboration. Use the groups features and find groups where you might want to contribute. And I get some really great insight from the community on LinkedIn.

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Social Media "Pioneers" Tell Why

Diva Marketing Blog

Neville Hobson, Communication Consultant - Partly for that very reason: unproven, often risky! Yvonne DiVita, BlogPaws, Lipsticking - I joined in 2004 and it gave me immediate results. Before I was blogging in 2004, I was already writing a lot for eMarketer (my full-time job), and then started contributing to MediaPost.

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Today, MySpace can be grouped under this category. With the launch of Facebook in February 2004, users got comfortable with the network and MySpace was a secondary destination. Varghese is the CEO of Social Media Outsourcing company Bobtweets.com , a social media consultant, and author of the blog www.twitterblogpost.com.

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Knowledge work as craft work

Buzz Marketing for Technology

As an aside, Etienne Wengers excellent work on communities of practice (e.g., Situated Learning or Cultivating Communities of Practice ) grew out of observations about learning in craft environments.) I started consulting before the advent of the PC. Let me go way back for a counterexample. Indirect value of improved visibility.

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Social Media Insecurity: What to do When Online Activity Affects.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

My uncle knows a young girl from his community, a recent college graduate, who is looking for a social media job. Reply Deb Ng August 19, 2010 at 8:55 am Jenn Fowler (@jennfowler) and I joked the other day about starting a support group for our spouses and other social media widows and widowers. Thanks Deb! I want to say yes.

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13 Reasons Why I Am an Obsessive Compulsive Facebook User Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

But over the past few months, the Facebook community has become a huge success and is continuing to flourish, and my classmates are slowly beginning to join the network. or the desire to establish a new group. That desire to invest in the community and to address the community is proving to be extremely effective.

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