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How to Create a Thriving B2B Advocacy Community

Convince & Convert

jtroyer Tweet This Giving Back to Your Top Influencers Back in 2003, VMware ‘s online community was centered around a forum. Today, despite the fractured social media landscape, their community still has one central home on the web: the VMware Community site. See you next week!

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What Do We Need to Teach About Knowledge Work? | Computer Writing and Research Lab

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Allen 2003; Senge 1994; Stone 2006). Allen 2003; Senge 1994; Stone 2006). In his substantial writings on management, Peter Drucker (2003) calls for รข??a That might involve learning popular time management techniques (Allen 2003) or participating in online communities that face similar problems (Spinuzzi 2003, Ch.6);

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Social media and the rise of fantasy sports

Sprout Social

Fantasy sports have played a huge role in shaping fans’ communities and conversations on social platforms. million in 2003. So in early 2003, we’ve got over 15 million people playing fantasy sports online. Social media makes fantasy sports a global, connected community. What are fantasy sports? Talk strategy.

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Social Mediaโ€™s Redheaded Stepchild

Jeff Esposito

This is easy to understand given the fact that the HR community as well as PR people were among the dominant early adopters of the platform going back to its 2003 launch. They found a way for LinkedIn to make their jobs easier (think Pinterest and women). But LinkedIn has come a long way since its early days as a pseudo โ€œhiring site.โ€

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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Unfortunately, the siteโ€™s spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise. Myspace: โ€œA place for friendsโ€ (2003) Friendster rival Myspace (originally styled as MySpace) quickly became the go-to site for millions of hip teens. You could create a profile, include โ€œstatus updates,โ€ and reveal your mood.

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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

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From shared databases to communities of practice: A taxonomy of collaboratories. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication , 12 (2), article 16. From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories. First, scientific knowledge is difficult to aggregate. Zimmerman, A., Nathan Bos. Johns Hopkins.

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Personal Knowledge Management - Pollard

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I first got interested in the idea of bottom-up knowledge management, focused on the unique needs of each front-line employee, in 2003, my last year as Global Director of Knowledge Innovation for a major professional services firm. Intentional Communities. The drawing above shows the old KM model and the new PKM model. Gil Friend.