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Using Social Media to Find Christmas Presents for Friends

Mindjumpers

First of all, Etsy was founded in June 2005. Etsy is a community as well as a company, and their mission is to enable people to make a living making things and connect producers with buyers. Find Gifts for Friends with Facebook Connect. And the fact that the application makes use of the individual’s interests is a great thing.

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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? From its founding, Myspace took off like a rocket ship while Facebook had a much slower ascension from launch. My answer is certainly–yes!

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Web 2.0 Expo – cool stuff seen on the floor of the show

Buzz Marketing for Technology

What does this mean – as I understood it – they make various viral marketing campaigns or social applications that can then be shared with friends who can customize them to post it to their blog or website via an iFrame. HiveLive has a very different take on Enterprise Communities. One of their customers is Serena Software.

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API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. 60,000 developers in 2005 creating apps using the APIs and forming an ecosystem of development.

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iGoogle Finished – what’s your favourite RSS Dashboard social media monitoring?

Laurel Papworth

I teach classes on social media monitoring – computer classes – and the students set up iGoogle to find and monitor Media, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, images, key influencers, keywords, CEO and brand mentions and so on. Now that iGoogle is retiring , I need another free service to teach social media monitoring – know of one?

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Entrepreneurs: Software and Apps I Use

Jon Loomer

While my focus has and will continue to be on Facebook ads, I have plenty to share about what I’ve learned while building my business.]. You can tell I was even a little proud of how thrifty I was ( I spent only $750 on Facebook ads — what was I doing?? ). I hated it, and I moved my community swiftly. Maybe too swiftly.

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#MySMCStory: Social Media Club and Me

Ari Herzog

The prior five years involved senior management roles in state and local government and, despite sending off resumes and applications for full-time positions and being called in for numerous interviews, I decided I wanted to be self-sufficient and make a living in the online industry. I worked late at night and weekends. Got a question?