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APRIL 8, 2011

Facebook was recently valued at $85B on SecondMarket. With a current user base of 650 million*, each Facebook user would be worth $130 to the company. Warren Buffet thinks social networks in general are overvalued, and we might be headed for the Web 2.0 version of the dot-com bubble/bust, but in.

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MAY 13, 2010

You have to wonder why the Obama administration isn’t hinting at a bailout for Facebook in the event that the social network’s latest privacy kerfuffle threatens the very vitality of the global poking grid. Facebook will issue a watered down explanation — it won’t be an apology.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

The free-form writing style of social networks like Twitter and Facebook is changing the way people communicate, and causing students to fail English. And academicians are, in part, blaming social networking. And academicians are, in part, blaming social networking.

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APRIL 14, 2011

Considered within the narrow definition of high growth social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, it's easy to see why some wonder why Craigslist hasn't joined the social revolution, and why the site hasn't undergone significant changes to its features and user interface to remain "competitive." But to look at.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Facebook users have launched a handful of petition drives asking the social network to allow users to click a thumbs-down icon to give a news feed item, advertisement, etc. There are several Facebook groups with a million or more users advocating this. Tags: Facebook button dislike petition. million members.

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MARCH 26, 2010

Changes announced today to Facebook’s privacy agreement suggest the company is about to flip the switch and add location-based capabilities to the social network. So will all of these players run from the fray when Facebook throws down its 400 million-user glove? Tags: Social Media Brightkite check-in check.in

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I think Facebook is on its way to becoming the next AOL. Chris Hall published an interesting post titled Is Facebook Today’s Internet ? Chris contends that Facebook today is similar to the Internet itself circa the 1990s: Everyone’s clamoring to get on. You don’t use apps, you use Facebook apps.).

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MAY 14, 2010

Sure you’re ticked off about Facebook’s abuses of consumer privacy, but does closing your account accomplish anything? Even if one million people closed their accounts, that would represent 1/4 of one percent of Facebook’s 400 million user base. Read Facebook’s own Privacy page. Inform Your Friends.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

How to decide an appropriate persona of the customer and myself for using Social Media? Before you link to your audiences in social networks, you need to consider and identify them. By relating that with an exciting growth or feature, the brand will keep itself responsible for a social networking target.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

To de-clutter, such pessimist posts and reviews, install and use social media management tools to control your audience online. Such tools applications will help to classify unwanted comments in any social networking site like Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. It’s vital to reply and respond accordingly.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Location-Based Applications Will Dissolve Into General Social Networks. Location-based applications like Foursquare and Brightkite will not be the darlings of social media as some predict, but will instead turn into features and dissolve into general social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

I recently gave a talk at Golden Gate University titled Career Development & Job Search in a Social Media World. I talked about social network etiquette, the strategy behind building a network of professional associates, how to present one’s self online, and what recruiters are looking for, and what they hate.

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MAY 7, 2010

All of the social networking leaders have stumbled. Facebook has made one privacy screw-up after another. Yet how many blog posts tell us how to adjust our Facebook privacy settings? Or, are Google and Facebook, with “populations&# greater than that of the United States, beyond the reach of any regulatory agency?

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

It’s been replaced by Facebook, Twitter and online collaboration. In fact, it indicated e-mail use was growing, just not as fast as social network adoption. In my November Talent Zoo column I attempt to debunk five social media myths. Everyone knows e-mail is dead. Well, not exactly. You can see the article here.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Everloop, which bills itself as an e-learning social network, claims “All tweens are left out of the social graph because they must be over 13 in order to legally use services such as Facebook. Without having a centralized online community of their own, a tween’s social media experience is disparate,

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JANUARY 22, 2010

and went on to cite statistics that show both e-mail and social networking use on the increase. It’s hip and cool to say Facebook, Twitter, and text messaging have replaced e-mail, and “anything worth saying can be said in 140 characters,” but it isn’t true. We posted the finished video on YouTube and Facebook.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Mainstream media are having a field day scaring consumers into thinking that criminals are preying on users of social networks that disclose their geographic locations. And in fact, these indicators are much more accurate than a social network check-in, which can be faked or time delayed. I’m ruined!&# Absolutely.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

YouTube is the second most popular social media site in the world and is only exceeded by Facebook, ever since it was introduced in 2005. 73 percent of US adults are using YouTube, which would be better than Instagram and Facebook. Reason To Be On YouTube as a Brand. Advantages for Brand on YouTube. Exposure the Brand.

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APRIL 28, 2010

With its incredible growth (200 million to 400 million users in the last 12 months), and announcement at its April 21 F8 developer conference of new capabilities, Facebook seems to have become, as Chris O’Brien of the San Jose Mercury News says, “the most important company on the Web.”. All of this raises interesting privacy concerns.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Social media and careers are covered by prediction #6: “In 2009 we saw a couple of interesting surveys by respected organizations indicating that recruiters are increasingly using or planning to use social media to find and investigate talent. They search social network profiles on Facebook, Twitter, etc.;

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FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I was interviewed recently by Canadian Press , and subsequently a number of radio stations across Canada, on the effect of social networking on student language skills. Our work, school, social, and private lives have become one. Rather, I think what we have is the clash of two worlds and two kinds of language.

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AUGUST 26, 2017

Remember to post regularly and use social media best practices. Best social media platform. Facebook leads as the most popular social networking site as of July 2017. Advantages of using social media for marketing. YouTube, Twitter, and others closely follow it. Broader audience reach.

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MARCH 15, 2010

The idea that social media allows us to engage in online conversations is getting people into all kinds of trouble, because what we’re doing when we click “Tweet&# on Twitter or “Share&# on Facebook isn’t conversation — it’s publication. It’s unclear what everyone means.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Twitter, and every other social network, has written/legislated rules, moral/ethical rules, and some rules that are derived from community values. For many, social networking is a leisure activity that takes place outside of school or the workplace. It’s not illegal to do so. It’s not even immoral.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Nick Sobrak-Seaton and I, and maybe a few surprise guests, will be on KSCO Santa Cruz AM radio this Saturday talking about social media as a marketing and communications tool for businesses and non-profits. Ethical social media business practices. Social networking Etiquette. Video, such as YouTube and 12 Seconds.

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JULY 6, 2010

So you have a blog, maybe two, a couple of Twitter feeds, a YouTube channel and a Facebook page. Your company is truly social, isn’t it? But none of these things equates to being truly social. Being social, or being engaged with consumers, is a deep cultural attitude that a company either has or doesn’t have.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

You’ll also have the option to “cross-post” such that your location and message is published both within the application and to your Twitter or Facebook account. Most location-based services have a few basic social networking features like finding and adding friends, and communicating with friends via private messages.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Several clients have told me recently they don’t think their Facebook pages have as many fans as their brand seems to warrant. One executive compared the “coolness” of his brand to a larger, boring brand that drew many more fans to its Facebook page, adding, “I don’t get it.”. Why do you have a Facebook Fan Page?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

My latest Talent Zoo Column looks at Facebook Fan Pages and how to make the most of them. Here’s an excerpt: Several people have told me recently they don’t think their Facebook pages have as many fans as their brand seems to call for. I think one of the issues here is the inflation of language so pervasive in social networking.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

I’m referring to smart, articulate people from other fields who have something profound to say that might help us put social media into perspective. McLuhan clearly foresaw the whole phenomenon of blogging, Twitter and Facebook status updates. The median age of the social networker is rising slowly, however.

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MARCH 26, 2012

The latest social media kerfuffle is over news that some employers are requiring job candidates to disclose their social networking log-in credentials. Shel Israel does an excellent analysis and summary of the fine points of this story, so I won't do that here). Foregoing a discussion about why employers would need this.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Many of us take for granted the meaning of the word “social” when we think of social media and social networking. For the techie, social software is most likely built using Web 2.0’s By this definition, Facebook is probably the most social site. Most wikis aren’t that social either.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The same is true of social networkers who are often presented with a thumbs-up icon they can click to “Like&# an item. Yesterday I saw a link in a Facebook news feed to a story about the desecration yesterday of a synagogue in Florida on the anniversary of Kristallnacht. This is a problem with all social networking.

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JULY 25, 2016

I recently posted on Facebook : “I do not like Donald Trump. But I don’t have to let you campaign for Trump on my Facebook page. One response in particular was so provocative there wasn’t enough room to respond on Facebook, so I am responding here. Even though Facebook “owns” the site.

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