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Lessons along the road: 5 career pointers for new graduates

Dave Fleet

For me, it’s evolved over time… but it really started with social media. I remember writing a report in university on the potential for an early eCommerce retailer to better optimize their journey planning to anticipate customers’ purchasing behavior based on their past activities, and serve products to them accordingly.

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10 Tips to Be Successful on LinkedIn

Ari Herzog

LinkedIn launched on May 5, 2003 (on my mother’s birthday) and currently has 277 million members — with two new people creating accounts every second. I joined LinkedIn in February 2007 and I’ve actively used it over the years both as a consumer and a teacher. Stop Using Social Media. Media LinkedIn'

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Why More Members, Money, and Ads Don’t Always Mean More Success: A B2B Marketer’s Survival Guide

Webbiquity SMM

Background on the two social media sites. The two companies were created six months apart; Myspace was founded in August 2003 and by July 2005 was bought by News Corp for 580 million dollars. Facebook, by contrast, started out as a social media outlet for Harvard. million dollars from Accel Partners in May 2005.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

The history of social media is a long and storied one. It’s bursting with pivotal moments like the launch of Instagram Stories, to that one time Zuck was on trial for Facebook privacy issues, to…honestly, let’s just look at the entire social media history timeline. So, how old is social media?

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It’s time companies stop resourcing social media like it’s 2007

Sprout Social

Some companies still treat the social media team like Harry Potter in the cupboard under the stairs. But this misunderstanding–or more accurately, this lack of understanding–does real harm, both to the social media professionals on staff and the company as a whole. Perform community management. Become a social CIO.

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What's Your Government 2.0 Personality Type?

Social Media Strategery

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media What’s Your Government 2.0 Over the last few years between starting the social media practice at Booz Allen and getting involved with the broader Government 2.0

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Common Social Media Questions and Answers All Marketers Should Know

Hootsuite

What are the most common social media questions marketers get asked? We put the question to our LinkedIn community and based on the responses one thing is clear: There’s a lot of people out there who don’t know what social media marketers do. Can social media really be a full-time job?

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