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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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Social Citizens: How Social Media Can Help Social Problems

Mindjumpers

Movember is another great example of how to target people in order to engage actively through social media to help a social problem: prostate cancer. The campaign started in 2004 before social media had a firm grip on the majority of most countries’ population and the outcome was not really that impressive.

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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You | chrisbrogan.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

LinkedIn is a professional network built around one’s employment capabilities. It is often referred to (I believe somewhat incorrectly) as an online version of your CV or resume. LinkedIn remains my favorite social networking tool. requesting recommendations from those within my network, 2.) December 2004.

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Eight steps to thriving on information overload

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Reading and learning are what Stephen Covey refers to as Quadrant II activities - important but not urgent. Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Eight steps to thriving on information overload. Jun 24, 2008 — Australian Financial Review — Social networking comes of age, sort of.

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PR Trends in 2010: The Future of PR

Proactive Report

Joseph Thornly posted this graph from Google Trends that shows searches for public relations have been declining since 2004. Interest in social media and social networking started to pick up in 2006, grew slowly through 2007 and 2008 and really gained ground in 2009. And social media seems to be the winner.

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Jake's Take: Facebook Hits The Big 5-0-0

Firebelly

Mark Zuckerburg launched Facebook in 2004 for his friendsand classmates at Harvard University, then continued to branch it out to otherschools. Nobody expected it to even overtake social-networking giant MySpace,as it did in 2008, and eventually have more users than the USA has citizens. So how did this happen?

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The information processing view of humanity

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Future Exploration Network. « Keynote: building the networked professional firm | Main | Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application » The information processing view of humanity. Living Networks book (6).

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