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Social Media Citizens Hate BP + 4 Other Social Media News Items

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Twitter to Change Links and How They Are Displayed By Ben Parr In an effort to bypass the obscurity of shortened links and to prevent malware and phishing attacks, Twitter has begun the rollout of t.co, its official URL shortener, along with some major changes to how the microblogging platform handles links. Having trouble reading this image?

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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Tumblr and the age of the microblog (2007) In 2007, the social network described as “Twitter meets YouTube and WordPress” came a-tumblin’ along when 17-year-old David Karp launched Tumblr from his bedroom. 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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Koka Sexton

Social Media Marketing Campaigns: How to Set Goals and Define Your Target Market From DoshDosh: This article talks about the most common goals for social media marketing and includes suggestions on how you can determine your target audience. Use get_bookmarks() instead. How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager!

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Corporate Social Media Reading List

Koka Sexton

Social Media Marketing Campaigns: How to Set Goals and Define Your Target Market From DoshDosh: This article talks about the most common goals for social media marketing and includes suggestions on how you can determine your target audience. Use get_bookmarks() instead. How NOT to use your Social Media Marketing Manager!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media: Implementation and Execution 7 Reasons Why Social Media Marketing Campaigns Fail, and How to Fix them (Stuntdubl): Todd Malicoat never blogs, but when he does, he writes great posts like this suggesting that if your social media marketing campaign is failing, you may have had the wrong strategies in place.

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Social Media Strategy from A to Z » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FourSquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and other location-aware services are social networks, unifying real connections. Social media doesn’t have to be a challenge thanks to tools that help you track measurement, assess the reach of campaigns, give you updates when someone talks about you, and more.

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What You Can Learn About Social Media Marketing from TLC

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Around that time, though, I noticed that TLC was promoting Foursquare as Facebook within their TV programs. On multiple occasions, I noticed an overlay during their episodes that encouraged users to follow them on Foursquare with a link to a Facebook.com address. The FourSquare/Facebook issue is at best a confusing promotion.