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The Story of Ignite Social Media, The Original Social Media Agency

Ignite Social Media

Iā€™m Jim Tobin, the founder of social media agency Ignite Social Media (2007) and influencer marketing agency Carusele (2015). Ignite Social Media is known as ā€œ the original social media agency ā€ because we were the first social media agency created out of whole cloth in the United States.

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B2B Social Media: 4 Ways to Sell the Value to Management

Convince & Convert

Guest post by Eric Schwartzman , coauthor of S ocial Marketing to the Business Customer , the first book devoted exclusively to B2B social media communications. How do you know if your market is active in social media? Most organizations get the value of trying to land coverage in trade media.

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Crowd-Sourced Information Online: Helpful or Harmful?

The Social Media Incubator

The reactions to this proposed law are definitely being heard. In 2006 he encouraged viewers to change the Wikipedia entries on elephants to state that their population had tripled in the last six months. The Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) is an effort to regulate all content online. So what happened?

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Why Youā€™re Not Going to Be a Thought Leader in 6 Seconds

Convince & Convert

In 2006, she launched her marketing strategy consulting business and by 2009 wanted to write a book. She couldn’t get any of her three book proposals off the ground, being told she didn’t have a strong enough following. So she went back to the drawing board and began blogging in earnest to grow her following.

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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. Itā€™s bursting with pivotal moments like the launch of Instagram Stories, to that one time Zuck was on trial for Facebook privacy issues, toā€¦honestly, letā€™s just look at the entire social media history timeline. So, how old is social media?

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. The chronically bad Minnesota Timberwolves NBA franchise has this sign in the Twin Cities airport: Bravo.

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Taking a Break!! | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media Taking a Break!! Other than my honeymoon in October 2006, this will only be my second vacation of longer than 3-4 days in the six years since I started working at Booz Allen.

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