Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

The history of social media is a long and storied one. It’s bursting with pivotal moments like the launch of Instagram Stories, to that one time Zuck was on trial for Facebook privacy issues, to…honestly, let’s just look at the entire social media history timeline. So, how old is social media?

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Twist Image

JANUARY 31, 2012

In fact, if Facebook's growth and interest continues to propagate, we can expect that more and more platforms will simply offer social networking solutions that can live and play alongside and within Facebook (much like Twitter does). It was also this past December that it cracked into the top ten social media sites in the world.

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Laurel Papworth

JUNE 14, 2011

Iceland have turned to social media to ask the population to crowdsource writing Iceland’s new constitution. HOWEVER and it’s a big however, according to my 7 Steps of Social Media Engagement, these look very campaign based. No long term engagement, or continued input through social media channels.

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Twist Image

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

She published her first book, Spark: How Creativity Works in 2011 and now hosts her own podcast, Pursuit of Spark! While much of Godin's thinking has come to bear true in our social media-induced world, this TED Talk will get you thinking differently about where you spend your marketing dollars. social media.

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Oktopost

AUGUST 15, 2022

Social media has come a long way from when it first appeared on the web. Long before any of us knew or understood the potential behind social media, the first iterations were popping up to connect us all to the rest of the world. Let’s take a look at the history of social media.

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

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?

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

This year, colleague Cheryl Burgess and I changed things up a bit, opening the award to nominations but focusing specifically on outstanding men and women who work for technology companies and are active on social media. Stacey is flat-out awesome: Social Media Manager for Vocus/PRWeb as well as serving her country as a U.S.

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The Way of the Web

OCTOBER 7, 2011

It’s no coincidence that at the time myself and other digitally-addicted colleagues were pushing for ideas like low cost digital launches based around teams of 2 or 3 and a blog-based platform, Mashable was being launched by the then 19-year-old Pete Cashmore (2005). Suddenly we were able to produce a variety of RSS feeds for starters.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

Social media was always social , just not with that funny name. I was recently cleaning out a cabinet in my apartment and tossed out a 2005 Yellow Pages that was in pristine condition. Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg April 14, 2010 at 9:01 am Must read: Is Social Media Becoming Boring? Probably not.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

There are many aspects of business, there are many aspects of creating pursuits like podcasting and YouTubing where there are no actual deadlines, or when we have these fuzzy deadlines and as a result we’re not motivated by them. There at the top of my list of goals for 2011 was start a podcast. I put it on my someday list.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

There are many aspects of business, there are many aspects of creating pursuits like podcasting and YouTubing where there are no actual deadlines, or when we have these fuzzy deadlines and as a result we’re not motivated by them. There at the top of my list of goals for 2011 was start a podcast. I put it on my someday list.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

There are many aspects of business, there are many aspects of creating pursuits like podcasting and YouTubing where there are no actual deadlines, or when we have these fuzzy deadlines and as a result we’re not motivated by them. There at the top of my list of goals for 2011 was start a podcast. I put it on my someday list.

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Diva Marketing Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

Recently many of my social media conversations seemed to be about the perception that social is a young person’s game. However, many of the people who began exploring social media 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 years ago were 30+ when they/we started working in this industry. . ~ Ghostbusters. Just One Crowd Sources Question.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 25, 2012

A prediction about the future of blogging; a platform actively used by over 181 million people (Nielsen data for October 2011). TechCrunch and Mashable are two of the most influential tech blogs; both covering a vast majority of the news happening in the start-up and social media world. The New York Times?

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 25, 2011

The huge growth of online sites like Youtube, Twitter and Facebook, which have the potential to give anyone a large audience are a great example of this in action. I learned that: DeSmogBlog , although one of the smallest that I analysed, was chosen as one of Time Magazine’s Top 25 Blogs for 2011.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 7, 2022

Social media is always evolving to satisfy the needs and interests of its users. New social media platforms emerge to serve specific audiences or to offer something different. Not all new social media apps will blow up like TikTok. New social media apps and platforms marketers should watch in 2022.

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