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How a Social Media Evangelist Became a Social Media Realist

Social Media Strategery

When did I become the guy who gets tired of social media? How did I go from annoying everyone around me by my incessant yammering about social media to the guy who grows increasingly annoyed when people talk about everything social media will do? You can go out and get a social media certification.

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OliveWoo – The First Location-based Date Service

Mindjumpers

Since forming in March 2006 more than 5,000 people have signed up to attend monthly standing room only events. Similar Posts: Foursquare Reaches 100 Million Checkins Facebook Introduces Geolocation Foursquare: How Does It Work? Basically OliveWoo is a place where you can create, discover, and share exciting date ideas.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

From Singapore I’ve watched the social media world develop its identity and characteristics. Often, friends from the “real” world gave me passage to the social media world. One night in 2006, over Tiger beer and carrot cake at a hawker center , my designer friend Little Ong told me about Multiply.

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Crowd-Sourced Information Online: Helpful or Harmful?

The Social Media Incubator

Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare are just a few of the online sites that are threatening to “…take a ‘nuclear option’ and ‘go simultaneously dark’ in protest of the bill,” MSNBC.com published earlier this week. The reactions to this proposed law are definitely being heard.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

The history of social media is a long and storied one. It’s bursting with pivotal moments like the launch of Instagram Stories, to that one time Zuck was on trial for Facebook privacy issues, to…honestly, let’s just look at the entire social media history timeline. So, how old is social media?

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What’s Your Mobile Marketing Strategy?

Small Business Mavericks

Amidst all the hype with social media, there’s a growing trend that sometimes gets lost in the shuffle: Mobile marketing. Before starting my own company in 2006, I worked for 16 years in the wireless industry for AT&T Wireless and Cingular, so I’ve watched mobile develop over the years with more than a casual passers-by interest.

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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This isn’t a real post about social media strategy, but it’s an important issue that follows from our social media behavior online. This gave the social network a true exclusive feel and made people long for access. They couldn’t get their own personal accounts to check out what the appeal was.)

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