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The Psychology of Change: How We React When Our Favorite Social Networks Shift

Buffer Social

The Facebook-owned company moved on from its old-fashioned camera icon and embraced a new, minimalist design across its suite of products: Instagram, Layout, Boomerang, and Hyperlapse. In a blog post the company explained: The simpler design puts more focus on your photos and videos without changing how you navigate the app.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Unfortunately, the site’s spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise. Myspace: “A place for friends” (2003) Friendster rival Myspace (originally styled as MySpace) quickly became the go-to site for millions of hip teens. 2005 marked the apex of Myspace. 2005 marked the apex of Myspace.

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Once a unicorn, always a unicorn: Flock Freight’s Bob Wolfley on disruptive innovation, creativity and social careers

Sprout Social

Wolfley points to the nostalgic days of internet angst for many: MySpace. Writing emo poetry on MySpace notes revealed a passion for creative writing. At MeUndies, Wolfley became the company’s first Social Lead, eventually becoming Brand Manager. Director of social and partnerships. What are the trends?

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

It’s a good mix of coach-speak, highlights, community service footage, and cheerleader features. In a world where company employees from Legos reward their most die hard fans by engaging with them in their online communities, what better vertical to do something similar than with professional sports?

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15 Lessons That Took Me 15 Years to Learn by Jim Tobin

Ignite Social Media

I also created a company called Carusele. If we take a look at what’s happened over those 15 years, to frame this in the context of the larger timeline going on in the world, MySpace launched in 2003. They just needed to appeal to enough people to get their razor company off the ground. But interesting content travels.

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Digital and Dollars – Successfully Adding Online Marketing to Your.

Convince & Convert

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. by @jaybaer: [link] (via @ginidietrich) [link] Patrick Reyes The digital eco system can be applied to large companies too!

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Advanced Social Media Lessons from the Best in the NBA

Convince & Convert

Many of our guests have been working in social at their respective companies for a few years. As the winner of the 2014 Digital Innovator Award given by the NBA, Jeramie credits his team and upper management for letting him grow his social team the way he sees fit. Tweetable Moments I don’t think I saw social media coming.