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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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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. Obvious stuff.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Other topics (or "lessons") could include the following: RSS, flickr , Wikipedia , social bookmarking, search engines/blog search engines, virtual worlds, VoIP/Skype, mobile media, interactive gaming, and other tools that can be found on this nice list on the Teaching PR blog. mobile web. POPULAR TAGS.

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Web 2.0 and Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) " Learning Matters!

Buzz Marketing for Technology

You then want to throw in some pictures (Hello Flickr/OFoto) and inevitibely want to find (or create) audio (Hello Odeo) and video (Hello Jumpcut, Eyespot and YouTube/Google Video) that further emphasize your point. which means that it becomes easier for people (not just programmers to be prosumers). Anyway enough about that.

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Freemium Revenues: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

In this episode of Social Media Business podcast, the concept of freemium is introduced – what it is, how Flickr, LinkedIn, SecondLife are making millions of dollars from giving stuff away for free. On Flickr, maybe a 100 meg of uploads is fair, more is not. I’ve included links and charts below for your perusal.