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2012 in Recap: The Year of Visual Social Media

Mindjumpers

But 2012 was also characterised by being the year when visual content came into focus, as Sara predicted. In 2012, the photo sharing platform Instagram became immensely popular, which proved that users are increasingly visually focused. Facebook Timeline. Facebook & Instagram: success and turbulences.

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Dark Social in 2023: Here’s Why (and How) You Should Track It

Hootsuite

The term “dark social” was invented in 2012 by Alexis Madrigal, former editor of The Atlantic. In an era when you can watch 700 review videos for a product on YouTube, we still turn to people we consider experts — friends, family, or niche communities — for purchasing advice. Dark social helps you find these powerful sources.

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

Big data matters to you as humans and a community and as a marketer,” Young told the audience of senior marketing strategists. Young explained how a German green party politician took Deutsche Telecom to court to get his own cellphone data and realised that there were some 35,000 pieces of data held for 2012. People want to share.

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A Social Media Status Quo Pt.1-Japan

Mindjumpers

Mindjumpers’ global network consists of local country community managers, creating a platform of multinational professionals. It is their insights enable us to execute and maintain brand communities around the world in a structured, quality assured and cost effective way. Local community manager Kiran Larange shares his knowledge.

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4 Emerging Social Media Trends to Watch in 2020

Social Media Strategies Summit

Source: PEW Surveys conducted 2012-2019. 2 Growth of private communities and tight-knit tribes. This trend data emerged as concerns about privacy grow and users start gravitating towards making more individualized and personal connections using messaging. Source: Facebook Groups.

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Highlights from ProBlogger Event 2012

ProBlogger

Leave your email below and we’ll let you know where and when it is on: Name: Email: We respect your email privacy. Building an Inspired Community! ProBlogger Training Event 2012 and a Day Spa next year please. 2 Years Later – ProBlogger Training Day 2012. Problogger Event 2012: The Full Wrap Up (Pt 1).

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Social Media From A Worldwide Perspective: Japan

Mindjumpers

Mindjumpers’ global network consists of local country community managers, creating a platform of multinational professionals. It is their insights enable us to execute and maintain brand communities around the world in a structured, quality assured and cost effective way. Local community manager Kiran Larange shares his knowledge.