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A Decade Filled With Social Media Changes

Ignite Social Media

Back when Ignite started in 2007, social media was a simpler time. Myspace was the top social media site, Facebook was new, and we were fine with it. Ignite has been serving up social media for some of the world’s best brands for 10 years, and we’ve seen a lot of changes.

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The Evolution of Social Media, and of Likeable

Likeable

It was the summer of 2007, and Facebook had recently opened up beyond college students, to welcome everyone to its platform. We had an assignment for Verizon FiOS, then a new cable TV alternative, to find influencers (yes, in 2007!) An intern suggested I try Facebook—and after 12 hours of exploring, I was hooked. .

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Webinar Recap: A Decade in Social Media. What’s Now. What’s Next?

Ignite Social Media

The focus of our webinar was around the changes we have witnessed in the social space over the past decade, the current trends, and our predictions for the years to come in social media. The Past 10 Years in Social Media. During this time, LinkedIn was the first to go public and Facebook soon followed.

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Five Upcoming Social Networks To Look Out For In 2021

Ignite Social Media

Social media marketers constantly try to balance the proven practices on established social networks with strategic bets on the up and comers. When I started Ignite Social Media in 2007, the battle between MySpace and Facebook still raged and Friendster was hanging on for dear life.

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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. His topic, the year the Internet fought back, focused on how a genuine grassroots movement, fuelled by social media, impacted the Canadian Federal government’s digital copyright law.

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

Buffer Social

Do you remember your first social media profile? Or, how about your first social media post? Social media has changed and evolved so much since the early days, it’s almost hard to believe how far we’ve come. How people use social media has changed as well. The Birth of Facebook.

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StumbleUpon Traffic to Magazine and Content Sites Down 27%

Adam Sherk

The news of layoffs at StumbleUpon reminded me that in compiling some year-end social media referral data I’d noticed that a number of sites had experienced declines in StumbleUpon traffic. Declines in StumbleUpon Traffic: 2012 vs. 2011. One thing to point out is that not every site experienced a decline in 2012.