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Social Media Adoption: Higher Education Beating Business

Proactive Report

Key findings: • 95% of college admissions offices use at least one form of social media; a 10% increase over 2008 and 34% growth over 2007. 38% of colleges’ and universities’ admission departments use message boards; 22% use podcasts and 13% use wikis. Blogging: 22% of Fortune 500 have a corporate blog. 42% of the Inc.

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50 of the Most Dependable Web Resources for University Students | Educhoices.org

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Counselors Corner > May 2008 > 50 of the Most Dependable Web Resources for University Students 50 of the Most Dependable Web Resources for University Students. Other site features include a message board and rich text editor. © copyright 2003 – 2008. Read on for a list of 50 of the most useful and.

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Ethics in Social Media: A Glossary | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

On the other hand, Whole Foods CEO really crossed the line by posting on stock message boards under an alias name , attempting to influence the stock price of an acquisition. Another colleague, Dave Peck, created the persona of Britney Mason who started as a character in Second Life and took on a life of her own.

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The effective practice of social media marketing requires monitoring all channels, from online cruise message boards to social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIn. And those who see that the big loser is the message board’s credibility, and by extention, other board’s credibility, also.

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How Social Media can Fix the Troll and Bullying problem

Laurel Papworth

The fallout: Internet message-board commenters went even crazier than usual , posting Fowler’s home address, which in turn prompted him to threaten to sue the website where it had appeared. In 2008, a girl called Zhang Ya (??) Someone launched stephenfowlersucks.com. Ok, maybe don’t.

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Interview with Alex Brown, Author: Great and Goodness Barbaro And His Legacy - Part 1

Diva Marketing Blog

So let’s turn the clock back to 2005 – 2008 when you were Sr. Diva Marketing/Toby : You had huge success with that blog (and subsequent message board and wiki), from hundreds of thousands of comments, to rich content and wonderful search rankings. Recently you changed domains from timwoolleyracing.com to alexbrownracing.com.

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Changes in News Delivery Give New Power to Press Releases

Proactive Report

While there were vigorous conversations going on in forums and message boards, there were no social networks. No one was wirelessly connected. 10% were using the so-called “cloud”—or hosted applications, or services delivered over the Internet. Connections were slow and stationery and focused around your own computer.