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Social Media Stock Talk: Five Reasons to Buy Facebook

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The biggest news in the history of social media took place Friday when Facebook had its IPO, becoming the biggest social name ever to join the public market. What has surprised me a bit is the amount of negative comments in the Facebook conversation. Facebook is the standard. Facebook is buying like crazy.

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Are You a Digital Landowner or Sharecropper?

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Is a Facebook page really worth more than your own website? You only have to think back a few years to MySpace to see why you should not build on someone else’s digital land. Use Twitter to build your audience and use Facebook to talk to your audience. Is this the smart way to go though? Now where are they?

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5 Simple Ways Small Businesses Can Ace Social Listening in 2019

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Don’t put off joining Facebook until your cousin calls you to inform you your business is being called out on Facebook. Napster, and. And following are: Some Brands that Listened. Continuous customer feedback is the bedrock of innovation because companies that listen innovate. They include: Adobe Systems. Align Technology.

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5 Tips to Find Your Best Audience on Social Media Platforms

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But numbers are not only more precise, sometimes they tell surprising stories, like the rapid rise in Facebook users who are female and older (grandmothers looking at photos of their grand babies). Don’t assume that social media comprises just Twitter, Facebook and maybe LinkedIn. Start the conversation as soon as possible.

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The International: Taking Social Media Overseas

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So many of us are wrapped up in our day-to-day Facebooking and tweeting that we forget our messages are going overseas. We all know that social media platforms are used for different purposes: MySpace (did you see how it’s been revamped?) If you enjoyed it, be sure to connect with Shonali on Twitter , Facebook , or Google+.

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6 Things The Army Taught Me About PR

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My soldiers told me MySpace was a place to meet girls, so it didn’t seem to have a practical business application and I didn’t want another password to remember. Facebook had a mere 20 million registered users. While I was an early adopter of social sites like LinkedIn, most PR pros weren’t generally using social media for PR purposes.

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Like Stuff On Facebook? Say Cheese, You're An Ad!

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Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Like Stuff On Facebook? The unit will give brand-related action such as a “like&# or a check-in a lot more visibility on Facebook by adding them to an ad unit in addition to users’ news feeds.

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