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A Brief History of the Evolution of Social Technology

Social Media Marketing

Not surprisingly, less tech-savvy businesses were not as adept at presenting themselves to the consumer. Used to rally demonstrators, Facebook postings, mobile phone images and SMS messaging played a huge role in organizing a thus-far loose-knit regime opposition. Cases in point are the recent uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

SocialFish

Patrick Meier is a director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, which is a platform that unifies data gathered from multiple sources (SMS, e-mail, web) and distributes it onto a visual map or timeline. In the five years since Hurricane Katrina, social media has exploded, and its potential for use in crises was clear after the Haiti earthquake.

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Why I Rarely Answer My Phone | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

And when we had our little earthquake here a few years back, phone did not work tho SMS did! kierantong @roxannedarling Excellent keynote and presentation at #HISMS today. :-) View All Follow @roxannedarling Rox & Shane Recommend: These are services we have purchased, use and recommend. Dollars and attention in the mix.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Finally, we come to the present day. People will share content on mobile devices through IR/SMS/email. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. The reason is that people didn’t have aggregate power: they were individual voices that a news channel or a company can choose to ignore. and your phone will visit the related Web site.

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Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This year, I present you my favorite timeless posts of 2007, complete with descriptions about each blog post (which more than quadrupled the workload for me this time around, especially because I tripled the amount of links, but I had fun!) Here’s how you should present it. For example, Rule #1 is “Thou Shalt Be Honest.&#

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Should Businesses Use Twitter As a Marketing Channel? [Infographic]

Mindjumpers

Businesses are also tactically focusing on the demographics and messaging on each of their social media channels to decide what to focus on, what to say, how to target those present and whether being present on that channel is value for money. Launched in 2006, Twitter is popularly called the “SMS of internet&#.

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6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

And since we first covered it in April of 2006 it has gone completely free. When we first reviewed 2or3things Blastfeed in late 2006 it appeared to be shaping up as a good consumer filtering alternative to Feed Rinse. ZapTXT also powers email, IM, and SMS alerts for sites like TheStreet.com. not via an RSS reader).

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