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JUNE 3, 2013

In addition, there will be numerous evening groups heading out for dinner and drinks. The speaker line up is top notch. Plus you’ll get me as a moderator as well! It’s really social?. This will be a conference rich in conversation and discussion between breaks and during meals.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

This varies from audience to audience, and even group to group. You can’t just create content in a vacuum, or curate it for a group of people who don’t care. What subjects do they want to learn about? What formats will they consume? How long can your content be? How often do they want it?

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MAY 18, 2015

See if they are active in any LinkedIn Groups, check out their blog, or follow them on Twitter. Join in conversations, or answer questions (when relevant) in the groups you have joined. Once you have established credibility among others in the group, start publishing your own content to show you and your company are industry leaders.

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JULY 15, 2013

Instead of ‘dates’, Millennials hang out in groups, which can make it harder to get to know someone on a deep, personal level. While this can really tick some people off a lot of Millennials find it less intimidating to hang out with a group of people compared to going on a date with one another. Hanging Out – The New Date.

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JULY 24, 2013

Private group – high level of exclusivity and if there is a high network density (members building relationships with each other) then this is an actual community. Facebook groups are the best option, but Facebook hasn’t innovated on groups in a while. This is less of a community and more of an audience.

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MARCH 6, 2012

Here are pros and cons to hating online: On the one hand, they have outlets on social media where they can voice their negativity to a large group of people quickly and with little effort. You may find these people in your Facebook community, for example. On the other hand, haters are now exposing themselves.

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JANUARY 27, 2012

During my time at IU, I’ve had assignments that involve blog posts, wiki articles, and students doing group projects via chatroom. We even broke up in to groups using special chat rooms to finish a project. Beyond that, during a large snow storm last year, one of my classes has an impromptu online meeting using Adobe Connect.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

We asked Deftones and the brains behind the contest, Velvet Hammer Music and Management Group, for some tips on running a successful photo contest on Instagram. From Instagram Blog Photo contests are a great way to increase visibility of your brand on Instagram. Here’s their advice. Statigram Makes Instagram Contests Easier.

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JULY 18, 2011

By Kevin Cheng I’ve been thinking about grouping and organization of friends for a long time. I’ve decided to try to document my thinking so far on Google Circles, as well as the larger context of digitally grouping people. Can We Ever Digitally Organize Our Friends?

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JANUARY 8, 2014

While most New Year’s resolutions involve losing weight or saving money, one group of Australian scientists had an entirely different thought: “How can we save lives from shark attacks?” ” Their answer? By making sharks tweet of course.

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MARCH 5, 2018

It has the ability to collect information about audience behaviors: what you follow, what you click, who follows you, which groups you belong to, and so on. Mom Insight #2: We’re watching. The Facebook is smart, mom. A social media manager’s job is to use this information to help tell a brands’s story.

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APRIL 9, 2013

I’ve talked to marketers in both those groups (and let me tell you size is no indication of smarts or sophistication) and I’m amazed at how many people think they can plan a successful social media program without executive buy-in. It doesn’t matter if you work for a Fortune 100 company or a small business.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

By Kate Endres To ensure Pinterest is here to stay, the company has conceptualized and is launching a test period for promoted pins for a group of businesses. Promoted Pinning: The Future of Pinterest. What Pinterest’s Promoted Pins Mean for Social Media Marketing.

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MARCH 21, 2012

According to a report by Jeremiah Owyang of Altimeter Group , only 8 out of 30 brands surveyed had expectations set. Setting expectations is the corner stone of any successful Facebook community.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

Despite some headlines taking things a bit too far, like the one touting “mobile to overtake fixed Internet access by 2014,” statistics show there are numerous emerging markets surrounding the mobile movement, including a group who are only using the internet on their phones.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

President), I’ve grown a bit discouraged with the lack of benefits, the lack of interaction with my friends (interaction in my peer group seems like more of a novelty) and the growing addiction I was urging myself into. But more like Ulysses (the Greek hero not 18th U.S.

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APRIL 4, 2013

The Millennial group is constantly being bombarded with social media – it can be hard to keep our attention for more than a few seconds. Generation ADD? Sweet and simple is the best. As noted above, Social Media is the best way to reach us Millennials, but what is the best way to go about it?

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DECEMBER 27, 2013

There are moments in our lives that we want to share, but that will be the most relevant only to a smaller group of people. By Instagram We’re excited to bring you Instagram Direct, a new way to send photo and video messages to friends. Instagram Direct helps you share these moments.

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APRIL 16, 2013

The Pew Internet Report found that mobile access to the internet is most common for teens – cells phones have become extremely important for this young group of individuals and how they receive information.

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JANUARY 15, 2014

The Firebelly team is made up of a very diverse group of people from different backgrounds and different viewpoints, but everyone at Firebelly has something in common: we all want to do good. However than I met Duncan, someone who also believes in the power of design thinking.

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JANUARY 19, 2012

Based on numerous meetings with all kinds of people and organizations – here are a few of the top reasons that some groups will have a tough time succeeding with their Facebook marketing efforts. According eMarketer, 93% of people expect brands to have a presence on Facebook. So, the rush will continue.

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JULY 25, 2013

Treat this group as your friend, a confidant, and immerse them in your cause. Finally, Millennials will surprise you. They are opinionated, digitally creative and read the news just like you (but they are doing so from a tablet or smart phone). They care about social change!

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

Use Twitter as a way to group all the websites you normally visit to individually. Twitter is the perfect way to start the ripple in the puddle — your information working as the initial drop of water. Whom do I follow? Former Answer: Anyone you want! Current Answer: Applicable accounts! Some people tweet total crap.

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MARCH 12, 2012

According to Pepper Miller, founder of The Hunter-Miller Group, a research and consulting firm specializing in marketing to African-Americans, self-segregation exists in the social media space, and has a huge impact on advertisers.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

However, don’t forget the 45-54 group. Look closely at your community demographics. If your community is 70% 25-44, then the bulk of your conversation starters should be geared towards this demo. They may account for a smaller part of your community, but gearing 10% of your conversation starters towards them will give you good results.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Sharing info with select groups is easier. With as many friends as most of us have on Facebook now, you tend to forget people (Sorry. It’s true!). This feature helps build your lists quickly. If you have a link you only want to share with your coworkers, you can!

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AUGUST 31, 2011

There is only a 13% difference between the two age groups in usage, compared to 42% in 2008. But as I continued to read, I learned maybe some of my parents’ generation turned to Twitter immediately with me. The survey went on to say that the 30-49 age gap is closing in on the under 30 crowd for social media use.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

“Follower&# also has a new definition: “someone who is tracking a particular person, group, etc. verb : (on the social networking service Twitter) repost or forward (a message posted by another user). Noun: are posted or forwarded message on Twitter&# . on a social networking site.&#.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

By Jason Kincaid Google+ is taking another major step needed toward becoming a full-fledged Facebook rival: it’s launching Google+ Pages, which allow brands, products, companies, businesses, places, groups, and everyone else to establish a presence on the service.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

The success of group-buying services such as Groupon and flash sale sites like Gilt has demonstrated that consumers will jump at the chance of a good deal. Facebook Gets Serious About Location with Deals The opportunity to save money will give Facebook’s base of mobile users, now 200 million-strong, a reason to use Places to check in.

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JULY 7, 2011

In addition, there were numerous evening groups heading out for dinner and drinks – although the after hours location of choice seemed to be the Redwood Room at The Cleft. He demonstrated a supreme commitment to the audience, while ensuring that presenters shone through – a balance that is so rarely accomplished at conferences.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Our group stayed in the van and observed by sticking our heads out of the sunroofs. If you ever drive around Jackson and see 10 to 20 cars pulled over on the side of the road you know there is wildlife of some sort around. This is how we ran into about 30 bison grazing on the side of the road.

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JULY 31, 2012

Curation is the big new buzzword this year in social media circles — collecting information in a strategic amassing of selected information that’s presented in a new way to draw out the subtleties and patterns that might not otherwise be noticed when looking at the group in toto. Curation is an art form into itself.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

I know with my friends, those not so pleasant photos of you from the weekend do not go up on Facebook or on Instagram, instead it is a joke between our close group. We care more about privacy for that reason alone. We probably know the privacy settings to any social media better than some of our textbooks. We do care about privacy.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

Make sure to have a creative name for your group (just to put in a little effort). For the new kid on the social media block (and for those readers who decide to go out for Halloween last minute), be a Google+ Circle! Grab a bunch of friends and a hula hoop, and you’re done!

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APRIL 22, 2011

Only on its 4th episode at the time of writing, hosts Sarah Lane and Amber MacArthur (familiar names if you were a fan of the now-defunct TechTV network) commonly cover new websites and social groups emerging on the web. Did I mention I’m heavily biased toward podcasts I can watch?

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AUGUST 3, 2015

Firebelly has worked with Bozzuto, a property management group, for about two and a half years. A few weeks ago I was invited by Mallory Square (one of the Bozzuto communities Firebelly works with) to attend a blogger event they were hosting. I booked a ticket and it was set—Stephanie was going to Maryland.

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