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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.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

2005: Flickr. A story I posted on Digg in 2005 crashed the “interesting” get-paid-for content site I was briefly testing. I may have opened a MySpace account when it was still the talk of the digital town. Got a question? This is a guest blog post by Stephen Black. This is his story. Ask Chiaki Williams. 2007: Facebook.

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Justin Timberlake Loves Social Media and You Should Too

Freelance Social Media

They understood the importance of being on Myspace and connecting on the same platform as their fans. Just look at what the internet did for the Arctic Monkeys back in 2005. He’s on the more traditional social media platforms such as Myspace, Facebook, and Last.fm. to compete.

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Technology for Small Business

Buzz Marketing for Technology

s features allows members to post questions in a number of forums focused on particular topics and geographical areas. They can also ask and answer questions and use groups to communicate with people with similar interests. Ning: Launched in 2005, Ning is a platform for creating social networks around specific areas of interest.

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Top 10 Powerful Moments That Shaped Social Media History Over the Last 20 Years

Buffer Social

My first profile was on Myspace , my first friend was “Tom from Myspace,” and my first post was something like, “Myspace is awesome!” Mark, if someone was to put the question to you about the magnitude of what you’ve launched; how big do you think your product or service is?”

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

When I was in school, we had a TV, the stereo, and the (one) family telephone, but we certainly didn’t work with one ear to the phone and an iPod earpiece in the other ear while typing on our MySpace pages. hours a day. What does this mean for workplace learning and performance professionals?

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Hawaii Business: How the Social Media Workshop Can Help You

Bare Feet Studios

But first I would like to answer some of the questions I have been receiving about our upcoming events, Social Media Workshop Hawaii and Podcamp + Wordcamp Hawai. It encompasses other buzzwords and concepts you may have heard, from social networks like FaceBook , LinkedIn , and MySpace , to conversational marketing, web 2.0,