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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. This one page aggregates all of the data from Twitter, Facebook, blogs, the community forums, and any other place online where VMware chatter might be going on.

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Social media and the rise of fantasy sports

Sprout Social

million in 2003. So in early 2003, we’ve got over 15 million people playing fantasy sports online. Fantasy draft companies. A few companies start popping up where online players can join, and play a variety of games, with people all over the world. How Top Fantasy Draft Companies Use Social Media.

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Social Media’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 “hiring site.”

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Unfortunately, the site’s spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise. Myspace: “A place for friends” (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 “status updates,” and reveal your mood.

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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. Fast Company Blog. The drawing above shows the old KM model and the new PKM model. comment [].

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How to Save the World - PKM An Update

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. Fast Company Blog. The drawing above shows the old KM model and the new PKM model. comment [].

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

First, scientific knowledge is difficult to aggregate. The culture of independence benefits science in many ways, but it also makes it more difficult to aggregate scientists labors. 2003; Stokols, Harvey, Gress, Fuqua, & Phillips, 2005). In particular, our research has highlighted three types of barriers. Definition.