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SXSW 2011: Strong on Networking; Less on Content

Dave Fleet

Twitter got its big break-through at SXSW in 2007. Tips: Don’t just hang out with people you already know. If you spend the whole time with people you could meet any day of the week normally, you’re missing out. As I mentioned above, take advantage of the opportunity to get out, meet new people and make new connections.

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What Happens After Your System Notices Something Important?

Net-Savvy Executive

I sometimes summarize the opportunity of social media analysis as using computers to "read the Internet." In 2007, I pointed out the need to link social media monitoring to customer service , because most of the problems that people were seeing as PR problems started with unhappy customers. Now what happens?

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What really ended EMAP’s golden days?

The Way of the Web

I also took the chance to start playing with social media – we quickly had a Myspace page and Flickr group up and running, to be joined by Facebook and Twitter. Since then, we’ve had Myspace (2003), Facebook (2004), Youtube (2005), Twitter (2006), the iPhone (2007), the iPad (2010), and Blogger (1999) or WordPress (2003).