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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.

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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You | chrisbrogan.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Use the groups features and find groups where you might want to contribute. The Social Media 100 is a project by Chris Brogan dedicated to writing 100 useful blog posts in a row about the tools, techniques, and strategies behind using social media for your business, your organization, or your own personal interests. August 2004.

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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). Knowledge works primary product is knowledge, which is circulated across and through organizations. Knowledge work tends to be organized in distributed, heterogeneous networks rather than in modular hierarchies such as those Marx described (1990).

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4 Brands Embracing Diversity in Their Content

Pixlee

The brands who are the most successful are committed to representing real people consistently in their ads, on their websites, and within their organizations. Dove’s Real Beauty campaign launched in 2004 and continues to run over a decade later. ThirdLove . This commitment also has a positive impact on the business.

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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. For example, its recent focus on Stories and Groups could be seen as a way to encourage more unique content. Fewer posts will receive organic reach. That’s no bad thing.

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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. This year, the parent organization is raising operational funds and asking people, past and present members and friends, to submit their stories with the “#MySMCStory” hashtag. In 2009, I was working at a startup organization.

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Knowledge work as craft work

Buzz Marketing for Technology

How do we reuse knowledge assets more broadly in the organization? How do we raise the standard of practice in the organization to that of the best units? After she yelled at you for how little lead time you had given her, she handed your incomprehensible draft to one of the commercial artists in her group. 2004 Jim McGee.

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