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What is Reddit, and Should Your Brand Be Using It?

Hootsuite

Reddit is a social network with a forum-style discussion structure. Reddit launched in 2005 and sold to Conde Nast less than a year later for $10 million USD. Users create posts in topic-based communities — called subreddits — and interact in comment threads. Every thread has an OP (original poster) who started it.

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The Biggest and Worst Breaches Of 2019 

The Realtime Report

The hacker accessed credit card applications made between 2005 and 2019. These batches appeared on hacking forums and were noticed by security researcher Troy Hunt, who identified the link between them all and informed the public. They contained personal data including names, home addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, etc.

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Should Your Brand Consider Reddit?

Likeable

Reddit, on the other hand, is a niche social media platform that’s essentially a series of forums where users can share news, content, and interact with one another. Reddit was founded in 2005, shortly after Facebook, by Steve Huffman, Aaron Swartz, and Alexis Ohanian. Read on below.

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Why Every Brand Should Have a YouTube Channel

Socialized

YouTube is the second most popular social media site in the world and is only exceeded by Facebook, ever since it was introduced in 2005. YouTube is a perfect forum to develop your authority and reputation. We will discuss some of the benefits of getting a channel on the web, and how to create your brand channel on Youtube right now.

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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You | chrisbrogan.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

answering question in the Q&A forum (it’s good quality publicity). December 2005. October 2005. September 2005. August 2005. April 2005. March 2005. February 2005. January 2005. LinkedIn remains my favorite social networking tool. Actually, they’re both good publicity.

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The Future of Community Management

Ignite Social Media

The role of a CM, as we know it today, really started in 2005 , when the role was akin to “The Forum Moderator.” CMs work on behalf of brands to cultivate, nurture, and engage with consumers. That people-first mentality seeps into everything a CM does.

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

The story need not be long or highly personal story – it could simply be sharing how you did something in your business (you’ll see me do this below when I talk about how on dPS we added a Flickr Group to dPS as an intermediate step on the way to starting a forum, now a Facebook Group ). I use personal language.