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How Arena Stage Uses Initiators to Grow its Audience

Waxing UnLyrical

I had such fun during the show, I did try to check in on Foursquare, upload a couple of photos that I took before the performance started (the set design is really excellent), etc., I asked if he had gotten any push back when he came up with this idea (in 2007), and he said, “Theaters are story-telling institutions.

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Social Media's Little Miracles Are Changing Business

Diva Marketing Blog

Variations of this post have become a holiday tradition on Diva Marketing beginning in 2007. Customers would not be coerced into buying what they did not want and if another store had a better, less expensive product Macy's would send them there. . and the sugar surge has just begun. is dependent on what we've always known.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

YouTube makes partners, the OG influencers (2007) Through YouTube’s elephantine beginnings , the buzz grew. In May 2007, YouTube introduced its partnership program. The hashtag arrives (2007) The strict 140-character limit for tweets set Twitter apart from rivals, including Facebook and Tumblr.

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Is Social Media Too Good To Be True?

Twist Image

Andrew Keen made this argument in his book, Cult Of The Amateur - How The Internet Is Killing Our Culture ( Bantam Dell Publishing Group , June 2007). Do not buy this book as it will distract you from the truth (my views)." In contrast to this thinking is Sherry Turkle. Yes, Keen's work is contrarian, provocative and forward thinking.

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7 steps to shutting down a social media site

Laurel Papworth

By the way, I joined Radar in November 2007 and was impressed with their signup/verification/welcome email (a much missed proposition). Often groups in the community will want to offer to buy the service they love it so much. More in Social Media is Not An Experiment. Their shutdown process is equally commendable. Obvious stuff.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here’s 2007. 23 Social Media Marketing Tips from Dell, Comcast, HP, Wells Fargo, Best Buy, General Mills, Ford, UPS, Home Depot, Cirque du Soleil (Online Marketing Blog): Lee Odden takes advice from the best minds in social media who have worked in the corporate world. Here’s my list for 2008. Here’s 2006.

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14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media

Convince & Convert

Place making social media (Foursquare, Gowalla, et al) will continue to gain traction over the next 18 months. Otherwise, let's jump back into the TARDIS and re-live 2007 til we get it right. Content creation and content marketing will continue to allow companies to capitalize on the fact that every customer is now a reporter.