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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I needed to differentiate Digg from social media because they actually are part of a distinctive community (and as you know, I’m very passionate about Digg so it really did deserve its own category). The Irony: MySpace Okay, so in my previous paragraph, I mention that you should be an early adopter of social networks.

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Today, MySpace can be grouped under this category. Classmates.com and MySpace are two social networks in their decline stage. I think most of us agree that MySpace is dead. Launched in 2003, MySpace concentrated on the music niche. With hype and buzz, MySpace started to grow. The Case Study of a Full Life Cycle.

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A Social Media Status Quo Pt.1-Japan

Mindjumpers

Mindjumpers’ global network consists of local country community managers, creating a platform of multinational professionals. It is their insights enable us to execute and maintain brand communities around the world in a structured, quality assured and cost effective way. Local community manager Kiran Larange shares his knowledge.

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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. It’s time to revamp how your community manager handles interacting with your audiences. It’s okay to get creative, experiment, learn and refine.

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How to Fix a “Broken Brand” with Social

Convince & Convert

He hates to admit it, but James was first active in MySpace. He worked for Jeep, which was one of the first companies to join the social sphere, and at that time MySpace was the place to be. And from Expion , a free report on the top 50 retail brands’ social media use in 2013. Listen Now. The RSS feed is: [link].

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. I wish that could be enough said.

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The Psychology of Change: How We React When Our Favorite Social Networks Shift

Buffer Social

The Instagram community has evolved over the past five years from a place to share filtered photos to so much more — a global community of interests sharing more than 80 million photos and videos every day. Hopefully avoiding the same pitfalls that Friendster and Myspace fell into as they scaled. What this means for brands.