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Looking Into The Social Media Past

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In preparation for the New Year, we’ve been working on transferring our Firebelly blog from Typepad to the beautiful WordPress content management system. Check out just a few examples… The “Facebook Movie&#. It’s amazing how some things we didn’t even know about in 2007 or 08 became big news by 2010.

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“Not All Fans Are Created Identical”: The Jeff Widman Interview

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A guy that has never been one to take “the system” or any system at face value. Big brands like YouTube and Mashable have bought into Jeff’s and PageLever’s different way of Facebook analytics. . He’s always looking for better, more efficient means of getting things done.

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Social Promotions: The Greatest Risk And Reward Post

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This has spawned an eco-system of service providers to help run these promotion – from official network-approved platforms to legal advice to promotions specialists to community management. Do you really want to be the “Johnny Knoxville” of Social Promotions? Photo credit Dick House.

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6 Annoying Ways You’re Using WordPress

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The website management system flat-out beats all other blogging and even web development platforms I’ve worked with… when used correctly. For example, just take a look at this post, and how it could look with no formatting. I’ve never made any attempt to hide it, I have an ongoing love affair with WordPress.

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Five Reasons Why I Love Wordpress

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. | Main | Stop tweeting about the # of followers you have » October 23, 2009 Five Reasons Why I Love Wordpress WordPress was originally made as a blog publishing application but has now evolved into a huge content management system (CMS). For example, check out the very popular site colourlovers. This is very untrue.

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Jake's Take: A Slew of Social Network Ideas

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  Ning, for example, announced last monththat it will be phasing out its free users, and Grou.ps only allows for acertain number of users and uploads before it pushes you to their paid system. For one, an increasing number ofthese “free social network” websites have stopped being, well, free.

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“Don’t Think Like A Marketer. Think Like A Person”: The Susan Etlinger Interview

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The problem, from an evolutionary standpoint, is that we don’t yet have the systems and organizations (and in some cases, even computational capability) to handle all this data. Imagine, for example, what happens when a company makes a decision that people loudly and immediately dislike.

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