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

Webbiquity SMM

So the question is–are there things that today’s B2B marketers can learn from history, specifically, the tremendous success of Facebook and the rise, fall and possible resurrection of Myspace? How can the respective histories and behaviors of these two companies inform the best practices for B2B marketers? My answer is certainly–yes!

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Social Success Comes from Individuality

Convince & Convert

We pulled out some of the insights from each show: Water.org Chief Community Officer, Mike McCamon Mike McCamon, Water.org @mccamon Mike’s team has distinguished their work at Water.org through creative partnerships. Smaller businesses have their fingers on the pulses of their local communities and can tap into that.

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Later, several other websites such as Classmates.com and Friendster contributed to the development of social networking to help reach our present day scenario, where we see the domination of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. Current social networks in the growth stage are Twitter and Facebook.

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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. The following year, Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook. Fantasy draft companies.

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Goldman Sachs Story Highlights Classic PR Blunder

Socialized

Within the past 10 days I have told someone “Don’t put into an e-mail, chat, a tweet, a Facebook status update or anywhere else something you don’t want on the front page of the New York Times.” It’s classic communications advice. It’s not as if Americans like the investment community right now, and this sure isn’t helping.

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15 Tips To Optimize Your LinkedIn Initiative

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

LinkedIn has enjoyed explosive growth since its debut in 2003. Remember, you’re not on Facebook, Google+, or MySpace here – this is a social network for business professionals. Also, the groups on Linkedin are not like your average Facebook group. This is a guest post by Lior Levin. Add Your Personality.

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