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Social Media Stock Talk: Five Reasons to Buy Facebook

Waxing UnLyrical

The biggest news in the history of social media took place Friday when Facebook had its IPO, becoming the biggest social name ever to join the public market. Its $108 Billion offering came in as the 3rd largest ever (behind Visa and Enel), so the day was significant not only for social media types but also for market watchers.

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Awareness to Sales: Building a Social Media PRISM Funnel That Converts – Ian Cleary [SSM051]

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Is social media best used for sales or for brand awareness and engagement? The age-old question that marketers have been debating even before Mark Zuckerberg started TheFacebook in his tiny Harvard dorm room back in 2004. Why both awareness and sales are an important part of social media. Is there one? The process?

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Google, Social Media, and the Wisdom of Enigmas

Convince & Convert

But there is at least one element of the early Google culture worthy of discussion as it relates to social media. I learned one wholly invaluable lesson from those challenges, one that is as relevant to social media as it is to other media: embrace, and never stray from, who you are at that core.

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LinkedIn, Social Media And Bubbles

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Internet IPO since Google back in 2004. Everyone from investors to start-up entrepreneurs and media pundits have looked at this deal sideways. And, while the platform has many people who are still trying to game it and spam it with nonsense, the average LinkedIn user takes this online social network seriously. media pundit.

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Experiential Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Episode 1 of Social Media Business: What is “the experience economy&# – is it the next step on from agrarian, commodity, service…? I’ve started a new podcast called “Social Media Business&# that will be a regular feature covering where the money is, in social networks.

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

At this stage, most early adopters and heavy users of other social networking sites would be the majority of new registrants as they are very well aware of the new developments in the networking space. Classmates.com and MySpace are two social networks in their decline stage. How relevant is social media life cycle for a business?

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The big challenge for social media attribution

The Way of the Web

Tracking the effect of social media can be a challenge, particularly in regards to attributing conversion rates and sales in areas such as eCommerce. A study just released by Adobe puts social as the source of 2% of traffic to U.S Back in 2004, a film named Fröken Sverige was released, starring Alexandra Dahlströhm.