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On Trust and Children in Social Networks

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1) Not 2 weeks prior to this happening, I was on television and in front of a live audience, as well as members of the school board, explaining why I did not see the point in children (freshman to sophomores on down) using Facebook, let alone a social network at all. 4) My daughter saw the event on television. One of many.

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Why Social Media Will Challenge Marketers in 2019

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In 2007 when I joined Twitter, those were not front of mind questions for those of us using the social network for the first time. The way social networks are utilized now both from a marketing standpoint and a UX standpoint, has undergone an almost 360 degree change since those early years. What were they thinking?

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Will Color be the NBT in social? Or will it fade?

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Share together in a new, moving social network. Color is a photo sharing/social network app launched last week, and it was not a quiet launch either. So if it’s mobile social photo sharing, then, for instance we could pull the photos of specific events all into one bucket w/o a lot of the fat right?

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8 mistakes you can avoid making in social media

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I must admit that I was inspired to write this post based on the Social Media club of Orlando. They had tweeted me an invite to an event titled, “Mistakes and Lessons Learned in Social Media. Not all networks are the same and as social networks mature, new networks are cropping up daily that are more niche specific.

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Why Twitter Still Matters

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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society provides information about blood cancer, research and events that readers can get involved in. But now, because of social networks, in this case Twitter, they’re able to have an impact and make a difference on the lives of thousands of people.

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