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Are You a Digital Landowner or Sharecropper?

Waxing UnLyrical

You only have to think back a few years to MySpace to see why you should not build on someone else’s digital land. When MySpace launched, it was full of promise, Many people, businesses, and artists flocked to it, creating pages and in some cases, taking down their websites and pointing their domain names to their MySpace page.

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How Social Media Has Become a Tool For Clinical Research

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reduce overall costs. Additional recruitment costs. Powerhouse networks like Facebook and Twitter can be used to promote specific trials to targeted demographics while significantly lowering the cost per patient. 2) Reduce the Cost Per Patient. Drive more pre-qualified patient referrals. Extended study periods.

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9 New Instagram Features and How to Use Them

Buffer Social

A great example of this is how Notes updates will appear at the top of your followers' inboxes (but more on this below).   Below are examples from @kelseywells and @kayla_itsines.   *Note that the cost of your subscription will differ depending on your region.  When you’re ready, hit Share.

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A Social Media Status Quo Pt.1-Japan

Mindjumpers

It is their insights enable us to execute and maintain brand communities around the world in a structured, quality assured and cost effective way. However the network’s slow reaction to become smartphone compatible was rather late and eventually resulted in a loss of users similar to Myspace. As an example, users can send stamps.

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Social Media From A Worldwide Perspective: Japan

Mindjumpers

It is their insights enable us to execute and maintain brand communities around the world in a structured, quality assured and cost effective way. However the networks slow reaction to become smartphone compatible was rather late and eventually resulted in a loss of users similar to Myspace. As an example, users can send stamps.

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How to Create the Optimal Press Release in Social Media

Ari Herzog

As a general rule, most readers in social media will not trust or even bother to read a standard press release when it is presented to them on web sites such as Facebook, MySpace or Twitter. The reason they cost so much, is because good press releases are very valuable. A properly distributed press release can cost hundreds of dollars.

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Paid Posts: My Facebook Status Update is Smarter Than Yours

Webbiquity SMM

In the Kiwi-based trial run, the costs of a highlight range from 40 cents to $2 (New Zealand dollars). MySpace, anyone?). Various iterations of the ‘highlighted post’ are being tested as well, including some that indicate a post as highlighted (read: paid). Paid Posts (Kind of) Already Exist. Paid Posts Will Be Divisive.

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