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IBM Social Computing Guidelines

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds and social media. 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. Country/region [ select ].

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Predictions Revisited: Five Not-Too-Distant Technologies That Might Change Social Media

Ignite Social Media

Six years ago, I published the post “ Five Not-Too-Distant Technologies that Might Change Social Media.” Podcasts were a thing back in 2005, receiving some initial popularity, only to fade away from the general public’s eye. One thing I’ve noticed with certain tech trends is that they’ll form a hype bubble and then fade into obscurity.

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Cyberbullying and blogs – a case study Mumbrella

Laurel Papworth

Often, bullies use it to exclude the victim from a social circle for reasons such as looking different, being gay, being intelligent or gifted, or having special needs or disabilities (Shariff and Gouin, 2005, p.3-4). It was one line in a piece that other journalists thought was important and published in it’s entirety.

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Facebook Credit: Zuckerberg next Treasurer of the Internet App2User

Laurel Papworth

So we use real money (which is itself virtual medium of exchange) to achieve frequent flyer points and loyalty card points (also virtual) which we then swap for Facebook Credit to buy virtual items in virtual worlds. And at the centre of it will be the question: who will own the global currency markets?

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