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The Case For Myspace

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In the end, the buying and selling of Myspace will be a positive business move for News Corp. In June 2006, Myspace became the most popular online social networking site in the United States. Did Facebook's success and the changing landscape of Myspace make it an undesirable business moving forward for News Corp.?

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Social Media Stock Talk: Five Reasons to Buy Facebook

Waxing UnLyrical

The biggest news in the history of social media took place Friday when Facebook had its IPO, becoming the biggest social name ever to join the public market. Its $108 Billion offering came in as the 3rd largest ever (behind Visa and Enel), so the day was significant not only for social media types but also for market watchers.

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[VIDEO] Minute Masterclass: What should you look for when buying a marketing tool?

Audiense

Welcome to the latest Audiense ‘Minute Masterclass’: the third in a series of videos that stick around about as long as a date would if they ever saw our old MySpace profiles. (I Wondering what kind of things a good marketing tool can achieve? Wondering what kind of things a good marketing tool can achieve?

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6 social media marketers on the future of social messaging

Sprout Social

Ten-cent text messages, AIM chat rooms with your best friends and glittery MySpace pages with bulletin boards are just a few nostalgic elements from the early days of social media. Today, social media marketers aren’t solely focused on strategizing content for posts and social feeds. You have to put yourself in your audience’s shoes.

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Growth means that the network has reached enough mass that businesses and marketers have taken note. At this stage, people start using these networks for commercial purposes, such as business networking, sales promotion, customer relationship management, and general marketing. Today, MySpace can be grouped under this category.

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Paying Homage to the Social Technographics Ladder

Ignite Social Media

If you’re an OG in the social media marketing business, there’s little doubt that you don’t remember the Social Technographics Ladder created by Jeremiah Owyang , Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li when they worked at Forrester Research. . Why Do People Not Use Facebook? .

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Facebook Fans Mean Business (And Are More Likely to Buy)

Firebelly

Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing. 51% of Facebook fans said they are more likely to purchase from at least a few brands they are fans of on Facebook. 60% said that being a Facebook fan of a brand would cause them to be more likely to recommend that brand to a friend. Having trouble reading this image?

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