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

Hootsuite

Reddit launched in 2005 and sold to Conde Nast less than a year later for $10 million USD. Reddit’s official content policy doesn’t explicitly ban affiliate links, but they do warn against coming across as “spammy.” Host an AMA. Users create posts in topic-based communities — called subreddits — and interact in comment threads.

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IBM Social Computing Guidelines

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In the spring of 2005, IBMers used a wiki to create a set of guidelines for all IBMers who wanted to blog. In 2005, the company made a strategic decision to embrace the blogosphere and to encourage IBMers to participate. A public blog is not the place to communicate IBM policies to IBM employees. IBM Social Computing Guidelines.

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Rogue Snapnames Employee Bids on Domain Name Auctions, Drives Up Prices

Bill Hartzer

This is a clear violation of our internal policy and was not approved by the company. This conduct affected a small percentage of SnapNames auctions: • Bidding affected approximately five percent of total SnapNames auctions since 2005, most of which occurred between 2005 and 2007. • Extent of impact. Share this on Mixx.

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TruthForce! | How Wiki Software is Changing Communication

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IBM has used internal wikis since 2005, with an eye to selling the concept to its clients. One of its first applications was a wiki that employees could use to collaborate on writing a blogging manifesto: a set of policies for appropriate use of blogs in and out of the office. became the companys official policy.

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Technology for Small Business

Buzz Marketing for Technology

MySpace: One of the earliest social networking sites, MySpace was launched in 2003 and acquired in 2005 by News Corp. Ning: Launched in 2005, Ning is a platform for creating social networks around specific areas of interest. It hosts more than 185,000 networks, many quite specialized. where can I get Web hosting in Dallas,?

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Which types of agreements are in scope of this guidance?

Writtent Blog

A limitation gets created on the freedom of a person with respect to entering into contracts, subject considerations of the public policy and other contingencies mentioned under the provision ( agreement ). In addition to this, the Act also clarifies what objects and considerations are lawful and what are not.

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Case Study: What Happens When You Want to Sell Your Blog?

ProBlogger

When I started my travel blog back in 2005, I never imagined I’d be selling it. FE International had a policy of releasing the money as soon as everything was handed over. To make things easier we tended to give our hosting accounts to the new owners. Hosts like SiteGround will allow changing the owner’s details.