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Instagram Is Fastest Growing Social Network Worldwide

The Realtime Report

Facebook, YouTube, Google+, Twitter and LinkedIn are still the most popular social networks worldwide, but Instagram is growing faster than any other social site, according to new research by GlobalWebIndex. The Facebook-owned image sharing social network increased its active user base by 23% in the last six months.

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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

To help you out, we’ve put together a list of 14 types of social media every marketer needs to know. From social networking to video sharing and social messaging, there’s something for everyone (and every business). Types of social media. Social networking. Social messaging.

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Why Your Marketing Needs Real-Time Data

Buzz Marketing for Technology

So to illustrate this, I decided to run a research experiment to show at IAB MIXX. This was research that was exclusive to IAB MIXX, but you can now see below. To do this, I asked our research analysts at Networked Insights to study what marketers talk about. IAB Mixx Research.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

The explosion of social media has led to a corresponding need for more sophisticated monitoring tools that can crawl the hundreds of social networking and bookmarking sites and millions of blogs across the globe. Social Mention. blogs, microblogging sites, social networks, etc.). Tweet This!

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Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About.

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information by Adam Sherk on January 21, 2010 Yesterday Cision released the results of their Social Media and Online Usage Study, a survey of social media usage by print and Web journalists.

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Why Twitter Still Matters

Direct Marketing Observations

The American Cancer Society tweets about cancer research, specific types of cancer news, and information. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society provides information about blood cancer, research and events that readers can get involved in. The Red Cross uses its Twitter page for disaster and preparedness updates.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

As she notes in her introduction, Li’s book is organized around four main themes: Research: start by using search and social media monitoring tools to discover where your customers and prospects are congregating. Don’t automatically assume they use the most popular social networks. Social Events (e.g.,

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