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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The launch of Geocities by Yahoo marked for some the beginning of a new revolution in the online media called social networking. From an evolutionary standpoint and through historical data, there have been several milestones that have been reached that can help us formulate a true life cycle phenomenon in the social networking space.

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Common Social Media Questions and Answers All Marketers Should Know

Hootsuite

What are the most common social media questions marketers get asked? We put the question to our LinkedIn community and based on the responses one thing is clear: There’s a lot of people out there who don’t know what social media marketers do. Can social media really be a full-time job? You're doing great.

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How Facebook Marketing is Changing (And How to Be Prepared)

Buffer Social

Facebook, as a platform, is barely recognizable from the social network that launched to connect Harvard University students in February 2004. But what does this mean for marketing on Facebook? Moz’s Whiteboard Friday has made their blog a go-to destination for search engine marketers for a few years. Over to you.

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How to Use Social Media to Market Your Business Like a PRO

Rebekah Radice

Marketing your business on social media is tougher than ever. That doesn’t include Twitter, Instagram, Google Plus and the many other social networks. Or why so many businesses are eager to create differentiation through social media? How did I get involved with social media marketing?

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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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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? How can the respective histories and behaviors of these two companies inform the best practices for B2B marketers? My answer is certainly–yes!

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Facebook’s $5 billion IPO: By the numbers

Idaconcpts

Estimated overall value of the social network — which may command “a valuation more than five times higher than Google Inc.,” Initial investment by billionaire Peter Thiel in 2004 in exchange for 44.7 Initial funding sought by Facebook, in one of the largest IPOs ever filed by a technology company. $75

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