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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

Yesterday, Michael Geis t presented a keynote address to the IABC 2012 Canada Business Communicators’ Summit which was held in Ottawa. The new law provides a safe harbour to those who create and also those who host that content, for example.”. March 2012: Ottawa’s Twitter top 20. Michael Geist (Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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#MySMCStory: Social Media Club and Me

Ari Herzog

We’ve launched a monthly book club which features social media industry titles and host monthly webinars accessible to all SMC members worldwide. I have been involved in some form with the Social Media Club Boston Chapter since its founding in 2006, and remain so to this day, currently serving as a member of the board.

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

Buffer Social

Numa Numa (Published: 12/11/2006 – 26,800,130 views). Following its appearance on SNL, the video appeared on YouTube and was viewed more than five million times until February 2006 when NBC Universal asked the site to remove it. While tumbling around in zero gravity aboard the ISS, he even hosted an AMA session on Reddit !

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Social media and the rise of fantasy sports

Sprout Social

In 2006, Twitter is born. DraftKings is a fantasy sports site that hosts daily games for all major sports—including golf and martial arts. It was founded by three VistaPrint executives (Jason Robins, Matthew Kalish, and Paul Liberman) in 2012. And what did social media and fantasy sports? They can update each other.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

We’re proud to acknowledge these 50 women from 41 different organizations as the top #Nifty50 women of technology on Twitter for 2012. She also hosts the talent chat (#TChat) on Twitter Wednesdays from 7-8pm eastern time. ” She was named B2B Magazine’s 2012 Digital Marketer of Year. Stacey Acevero. Linda Boff.

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

Check out the top 20 posts on ProBlogger in 2012 and notice that over 50% of the most read posts that year had personal words in their titles. The technical challenges – as with most self hosted blogging platforms forum platforms need maintenance and upgrades and can be a challenge to manage. Share Opinions.

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Still here – 6 years of blogging and 4 years of data…

The Way of the Web

Although I started publicly blogging at TheWayoftheWeb on a blogspot account back in 2006, it was only in 2008 that I switched to WordPress and installed my current Google Analytics account, so May 1 is kind of an anniversary. 2012 – The year of 3d printing? Has Microsoft made a major marketing mistake?

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