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Facebook Shares Jump 80% in 3 Months at Private Auction

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The Palo Alto-based social networking giant is a privately held company, and its shares are not listed on the NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange alongside Google, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, or any of the other publicly traded Silicon Valley behemoths – at least for now. Post on Google Buzz. Unsurprisingly.

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Why social media teams will be at the center of conversational commerce

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According to Chris Messina , who coined the term in 2015, conversational commerce is about “delivering convenience, personalization and decision support while people are on the go, with only partial attention to spare.” Social Commerce: Facebook Shops, Instagram Shopping, Pinterest for Shopify. ??

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This Week in Social Media – 4/3/2013

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Each week at Ford, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep the wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.

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7 Popular Goal-Setting Strategies That Will Help You Achieve Great Things on Social Media

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Goal: “I wish to grow the Buffer Facebook page from 35,000 likes to 100,000 likes by May 31, 2015.” A concept invented by Intel and used with amazing success by Google, OKRs help set strategies for teams and individuals and allow a way to evaluate these strategies and reflect on performance. Audience-building goals.

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Where Social Media Is Headed in 2017: The Biggest Trends to Watch For

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billion monthly users (up 16% from Q3 2015). Masquerade (MSQRD): Masquerade allows users to record video selfie animations, change the way you look and send it to friends via your favorite messengers and social networks. Google still leads the way in search, with 3.5 billion in revenue during Q3 2016 and now has 1.79

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The Silent Rise of LinkedIn to 500M Members: What Marketers Need to Know for 2018 [SSM069]

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In episode #69 of The Science of Social Media , we explore the many features that make LinkedIn such a powerful platform for brands and what marketers need to know going into 2018. How to listen : iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloud | Stitcher | RSS. billion at the end of 2016 in one of the largest social media deals in history.

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3 Things About Facebook

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For some, it's easy to write off Facebook as the online social network du jour. This article article pits Apple , Google , Amazon and Facebook against one another. Beyond a world where Microsoft doesn't even make it to the final four, it may appear (on the surface) that Facebook just snuck into this list against those behemoths.

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