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

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Reddit isn’t often mentioned alongside the “big” social networks, though it’s one of the most influential. 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. What is Reddit? R.I.P. Yahoo Groups.).

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Social Media Usage Skyrockets in Last Decade

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Back in 2005 when Pew started tracking social media usage just 7% of adults where active on social networking sites. Over the years Pew has monitored how the rise of social media has affected our work, relationships and communication patterns and how these changes have affected business and politics.

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What If Savings Investments Were More Like Blogs?

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economics , patterns , retirement , savings , structure , Tech Tools 6 Tweets { 6 comments… read them below or add one } NewMediaHowTo May 21, 2010 at 10:16 am What If Savings Investments Were More Like Blogs? Now is a good time to sign up to receive new articles by email as soon as they are published or subscribe to our RSS feed.

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Twitter's Supposed Lack of Loyalty: It's “too” easy

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My experience with twitter was that I didn’t really get engaged with it until I found the third party client that suited my usage; I’m sure others have experienced a similar pattern Roxanne Darling April 30, 2009 at 2:29 pm @Piers – I agree.

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Why Are Advertisers Embarrassed by Advertising?

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Now it is done by gathering volumes of data and filtering it for patterns, then establishing software-based triggers to display targeted ads from high-tech inventories. So we have this rich, conversational internet happening, and the bloom of social media and social networks almost everywhere I turn.

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BMJ blogs " Blog Archive " Richard Smith: Get with Web 2.0 or become yesterday's person

Buzz Marketing for Technology

RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networking sites, mash up technology, etcâ??but The best work related social-networking for me is the buffet at courses/conferences, when I can exchange opinions with other attendees. Bmj.com has its Web 2.0 components (blogs and rapid responses), but mostly itâ??s is unavoidable.

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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Crane (1972) first described the loosely-affiliated but highly interactive networks of scientists as "invisible colleges." Crossing boundaries between institutions is frequently a greater barrier than mere distance (Cummings & Kiesler, 2005). 2003; Stokols, Harvey, Gress, Fuqua, & Phillips, 2005). Alexander, C.,