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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. Ecommerce stores catering to the sports industry. One of the best ways to get to know your audience is to use an analytics tool that can aggregate data from all your platforms. Because people could place bets online.

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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. There are also a number of groups and associations that can be joined and used for interaction with others within industries of interest.

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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. category killers: aggregators that capture the best of many blogs/feeds, so they need not be read individually.

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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. category killers: aggregators that capture the best of many blogs/feeds, so they need not be read individually.

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Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

So even if I pay to upgrade to LinkedIn Business for $20 per month for the privilege of spamming (sorry, sending InMail) 3 people I dont know every month, it wont be much more useful than renting a list from a good old-fashioned arms dealer to the spam industry (aka the list rental industry, sometimes called Database Marketing).

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PKM and the Organization - Pollard

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I first got interested in the idea of bottom-up personal 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. There is just no time, she told me, for stuff that clients dont think very important. Blog readers.