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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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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. The Register ).

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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.

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Social Media in Action: Twitter and Emergency Response | Social.

Social Media Strategery

Development Social Media Social Media in Action: Twitter and Emergency Response Tue, Sep 23, 2008 Social Media If you were reading the news or traveling by plane today, you probably already know about the JetBlue evacuation of JFK airport in New York today. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! Government 2.0

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Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Message Boards. A wiki can help do the job. Copyright ©2001-2008, CompuMentor. Browse by category: Browse by category. Hosted Applications. Website Tools. Credit Card Processing. Networking. Full list of partners and products. Learn about TechSoup Global. What other innovative ways have you used tagging? More Articles.

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50 Habits of a Highly Effective Blogger " EdithYeung.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Links 3-08-08 to 3-25-08 | effectivedesign.org on 26 Mar 2008 at 3:39 am. [.] ThatsBlog.com » Blog Archive » Blog Carnival: Blogging: Fifth Edition on 20 May 2008 at 2:57 pm. [.] April 2008. March 2008. February 2008. January 2008. Copyright © 2008 Edith Yeung.com Dream Think Act.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Is it trying to become a wiki? million members, and I’ve asked her to contribute her thoughts as she’s gathered from Facebook’s message boards and discussions. A third tab called “wikipedia&# appears to be displaying our wikipedia entry verbatim. Do other community pages have walls? This one does not.

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