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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. 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. I was obviously wrong, many people do), but I still feel the same way about Foursquare as I did back then.

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Here’s how you make marketing people love

Convince & Convert

The book launches tomorrow (November 4) and is available at Amazon.com and BN.com as an electronic download for the spectacularly reasonable price of $2.99. At this stage, these clients are primarily interested in information about communities, regional amenities, and lifestyle optimization in general.

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New Photo-sharing App Called “Color”. The Next Big Thing?

Mindjumpers

In this relation, the founder, Bill Bguyen, has also stated that the core goal with Color is to make small communities of friends and strangers. > To download Color, visit Color.com. Similar Posts: Foursquare Gives Users a Holiday Gift. As mentioned, Color has received a lot of criticism. What do you think about Color? >

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Are We Making Our Fans Work Too Hard?

Convince & Convert

First of all, every fast food location with a FourSquare Mayor reward is combining location-based technology with tangible rewards. There are 550 million Facebook members, four million FourSquare users, and in the digital loyalty game you already have players like Loopt and Shopkicks offering well-executed solutions.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2010

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. Since I can’t read everything written by the Internet Marketing community, I ask my Twitter and Facebook followers for their own recommendations. Community Management/Engagement.

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How to Fix a “Broken Brand” with Social

Convince & Convert

Click the play button to listen here: Download the audio file: [link]. ” A promotion on Valentine’s Day last year gave a Lightning cupcake to anyone who checked in on Foursquare or Facebook. From Janrain , a free guide to improve your conversion rates and your data quality. Listen Now. The RSS feed is: [link].

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