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Social Media and Travel

Social Media Marketing

The Airlines To my knowledge, Southwest was the first airline (or at least the most prominent early on) to get involved with social media. JetBlue made a name for itself in the social media space after a difficult travel situation thanks to severe winter weather in 2007. That finger wag gets me every time.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

2007: Facebook. From Singapore I’ve watched the social media world develop its identity and characteristics. Often, friends from the “real” world gave me passage to the social media world. It was likely in 2007 and I never really used it. Social media became specialized. Foursquare?

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Is Social Media Too Good To Be True?

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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). The book, which has been published in seventeen different languages, took a very opposing view of the Internet and the power of social media. mass media. media pundit.

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Mobile Social Networking Growing

Freelance Social Media

Search About Jacinta is the owner of LangfordMedia , a digital marketing firm that specializes in social media, web development, and mobile app development.

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Why a Social Credit Score is an Empty and Dangerous Notion

Waxing UnLyrical

Back in 2007, my co-founder, David, and I kicked around ideas fairly similar to what Klout does today. Don’t get me wrong, there’s an undeniable entertainement value to social scores. He is passionate about social media and plays an instrumental role in the transition of the marketing and PR industries in the post mass media era.

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Corporate Social Media Reading List

Koka Sexton

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Corporate Social Media Reading List I’m a huge fan of social media. I joined Twitter on June 30 2007 and after a few bumps in the road, I was addicted and even wrote a set of top twitter tips. That is until recently. That someone was me.

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Branded Content and the Future of Social Media

Proactive Report

I had the pleasure of chatting with Maggie Fox at the Media Relations Summit in New York City last week. She spoke on the session about the future of social media and in this interview Maggie explains how branded content and the intersection paid and earned media is a growing trend she is seeing. Follow me on Twitter.