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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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Social Media Metrics and Conversion

Proactive Report

US businesses have definitely accepted that social media has to be a part of their marketing and PR activity - four in five US businesses with at least 100 employees will take part in social media marketing in 2011, says eMarketer. That’s a big jump from the 42% who used social media in 2008. Conversions.

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Predictions Revisited: Five Not-Too-Distant Technologies That Might Change Social Media

Ignite Social Media

Six years ago, I published the post “ Five Not-Too-Distant Technologies that Might Change Social Media.” At the time of the post, several companies were emerging to focus on brain-computer interfaces (BCI). There were two companies I cited in the previous posts, Emotiv and NeuroSky. Facebook’s relationship with A.I.

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Top 17 Social Media Monitoring Vendors for Business

Socialmedia.biz

For instance, internet users create new social media accounts every day. You cannot underestimate the power and impact of social media in the business world today. Previously, people used social media platforms to chat, create friendships, share files, and perform other social activities.

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Surprise and delight: What it is and brands who get it right

Sprout Social

Marketers can take a play from the event planner’s book by implementing surprise and delight for their audiences through social media. Some companies use it as a retention strategy as well. If a surprise and delight idea is executed well, customers are more likely to advocate for the brand, especially on social media.

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Facebook Launches Video Calling Based on Growth in Content Sharing

Mindjumpers

I too was waiting eagerly for what the social media giant was going for, next. New launches: Video Calling : Facebook announced the new video calling feature which is built into the company’s chat platform. Users can click a video-call button at the top of the chat window to start a video conversation with a friend.

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The big challenge for social media attribution

The Way of the Web

Tracking the effect of social media can be a challenge, particularly in regards to attributing conversion rates and sales in areas such as eCommerce. A study just released by Adobe puts social as the source of 2% of traffic to U.S Back in 2004, a film named Fröken Sverige was released, starring Alexandra Dahlströhm.