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Social Media Degrees Provide Advancement Opportunities in Associations and Nonprofit Organizations

SocialFish

Due to a large number of associations and other organizations using social media such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter for marketing campaigns and public relations, employers are increasingly seeking those who have social media knowledge and skills. This is a guest post by Brian Jenkins, who writes about Careers in Computer Science.

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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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Why the Future of Social Community is Omni-Social

Convince & Convert

The online community pendulum is swinging back. It’s no longer enough to rely on social networks for community infrastructure. Smart companies are now combining owned and rented community functions into a 1+1=3 scenario I call Omni-Social. A commitment to moving beyond the hegemony of rented social community.

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It’s Time to Own Your Social Community

Convince & Convert

The days of the leased social community are fading, and it’s time to re-embrace owned social. Before the rise of MySpace and Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr, the “original” social media was created in the unglamorous yet impactful world of discussion boards and forums. Thus, the trend pendulum (the trendulum?) It was the best of times.

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12 Solid Stats Surrounding Social Networking (Plus Four  Timely Tips)

Webbiquity SMM

Though it’s dangerous to assume anything about leadership in the social networking space (Facebook overtook MySpace as the biggest social network less than a decade ago , after all), the landscape does seem to have matured and stabilized somewhat at this point. Just 3% say they communicate with brands using Twitter. (

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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. Gartner predicts 80% of customer service organizations will abandon native mobile apps in favor of messaging for a better customer experience by 2025.

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10 Questions You Should Ask Your Social Media “Expert”, “Guru” or “Wizard”

SocMed Sean

Hopefully, these 1o questions can help you in the process of finding someone who really understands your business and can help formulate and execute a plan to engage with your community online. Every business and organization is not the same, so a one-size-fits-all social media strategy is generally a bad idea. Probably not.

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