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Why Facebook Timeline Ads Suck

Waxing UnLyrical

I digress… This is NOT a Pinterest post, mostly because I’m preoccupied with my Timeline on Facebook, and not in a good lion cub hugging sort of way. I see ads “not by facebook.” The point is that these ads “not by facebook” have nothing to do with my timeline or me. I wish them ill.

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Building Trust: A Relationship is Not a Newsletter Opt-In

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They understand that the boundaries of the “human world&# have not disappeared in the virtual world. Just because I choose to reach out to you, comment on your blog post, follow you on Twitter, become your Facebook friend, or join your LinkedIn group, it was a desire for me to possibly get to know you in the future.

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5 Social Marketing Stories You Need To Read

Firebelly

80+% of Twitter Accounts Inactive, But Core Users More Committed By Dirk Singer Though Twitter won’t be heading into obscurity like the virtual world (this New York Times article gives some good reasons why), it’s still the case that Twitter’s actual user base is small compared to the number of registrations as some new stats from RJMetrics show.

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Social Media Monetization Models on Flickr [link]. Pay $25 a year a la Flickr for a Pro account. Virtual Real Estate a tough one again if you are not a virtual world like Second Life but how about a special forum for payment. Someone tell Facebook too. Looking at the diagram here they are one by one .

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If you love good ideas, let them go…

The Way of the Web

Sometimes that’s been on behalf of an employer, and sometimes it’s been that search for the elusive ‘next Google/next Facebook’ that I suspect most of us spend time daydreaming about. Image courtesy annais on Flickr (CC Licence). Image courtesy ieshraq on Flickr (CC Licence). Go and bloody do it.

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7 steps to shutting down a social media site

Laurel Papworth

Nearly five years ago–back when Flickr was still in its infancy, and Facebook was on just a few college campuses–we founded Tiny Pictures with a view to helping people share experiences as they happen. In one virtual world we opened up the gates to all the “scarce&# goodies. A bit of history. Or Twitter.

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Friday Fun: For the Heart, Head & Soul

Diva Marketing Blog

Friday Fun is Diva Marketing's virtual happy hour from cosmos to Jack to lemonade. Too many wonderful things happening in the virtual world not to pass along from fun contests to help non profit causes to quirky ways to grow your business. If nothing else their Facebook invite page sure looks like it will be good networking!