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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

FourSquare “check in” drops (2009) Location-based app Foursquare was one of the first that allowed users to “check in,” while sharing recommendations all about their favorite neighborhoods and cities. You may not remember Foursquare (or weren’t yet born during its heyday), but chances are, you’ve used the company’s tech.

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Facebook, Sharing, Social And Me

Mindjumpers

This is great advertising for consumer communities on Facebook. As Facebook advertising is right now, it allows marketers to buy ads that point towards their Facebook fanpage. What makes Facebook doing this so special is viewing it from a marketing perspective and the 500 million active user community that lives on Facebook.

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Here’s how you make marketing people love

Convince & Convert

In fact, if you buy a copy of Youtility for Real Estate, and you don’t love it, just let me know and I’ll refund your money in full. They may be receptive to buying, selling, or leasing, but haven’t taken steps that would indicate that they are active in the market. Youtility at the Top of the Funnel.

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Social Media in the Industry: Customization is the Key to Success

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On top of that, let’s add all of the other social networks out there including Linkedin, Foursquare, Myspace, Friendster, Tumblr, YouTube and the list goes on. to increase visibility in the online community. As of November 2010, there are more than 500 million active Facebook users, 50% of whom login every day. Foursquare!

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The Gamification of Social Media

Social Media Marketing

You can earn money (their currency is "Eaves") by buying other people and you can see your own worth rise by getting other people to invest in you. It's a chance to connect and brainstorm with others by finding affinity groups ("Communities") within Empire Avenue. But like the other sites, it's also a social network itself.

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Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma

Laurel Papworth

Foursquare becomes Social Work and all the better for it. Daniel proposed that we set up Foursquare style badges to encourage staff to contribute and use the internet. Now we can see leaderboards and games played out in social spaces, it’s easier to buy into as a concept. systems from a thing of work to a thing of play.

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Empire Avenue – Measurement of Social Influence?

Janet Fouts

Basically Empire Avenue is a community (and I use that term loosely here) where members buy and sell virtual shares in each other in the hopes of getting rich in currency of the site, called “eaves&#. If you’re in it for community forget it. Discussions range from buy me! Maybe about as long as Foursquare.