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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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4 Brands Embracing Diversity in Their Content

Pixlee

A leader to watch in inclusive marketing, this brand not only tackled representation but reflected their diversity-related goals authentically through engaging with a target community. The campaign’s goal is “to unite and inspire people to take action in their communities” using the power of sport. .

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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 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. Boomers of all ages are more likely than any other age group to spend an hour or more a day online. Create content for communities.

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Think Like Zuck: 5 Secrets of Success of Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Since 2004 it has grown to over one billion users globally, with over half of those logging on daily. Facebook isn’t just a social networking site; it is a way of staying on touch with people around the world, a place to bring people together and building communities, and a tool for sharing information.

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What Do We Need to Teach About Knowledge Work? | Computer Writing and Research Lab

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In this white paper, I take a postcritical stance (Selber 2004). That might involve learning popular time management techniques (Allen 2003) or participating in online communities that face similar problems (Spinuzzi 2003, Ch.6); Liaisons are workers or positions that develop to provide stable connections across groups.

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#MySMCStory: Social Media Club and Me

Ari Herzog

Eight years after building my first website, I began blogging 2004 on a now-deleted LiveJournal community. I’d developed a voice and a strategy for social media and was responding to community discussions about the business (which was controversial) in community forums. Our first Board was a small, but passionate group.