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Don’t Squander Your Social Capital

Janet Fouts

Social capital is one of the new buzz words of the decade. Basically it’s a ratio of the size of your network and how much of that network listens to you, trusts you and takes action based on what they’ve read. Those are the ones with social capital. Numbers game. Don’t be that person.

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Need to Fundraise? Stick With What Works!

SocialFish

Crowdfunding is a popular way for businesses, non-profits, and individuals to raise money by leveraging on social networks. The use of social capital builds trust and makes strangers more willing to donate for a worthy cause. Why this is a great fundraising idea. Charity Auctions. This means that everyone can participate.

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Need to Fundraise? Stick With What Works!

SocialFish

Crowdfunding is a popular way for businesses, non-profits, and individuals to raise money by leveraging on social networks. The use of social capital builds trust and makes strangers more willing to donate for a worthy cause. Why this is a great fundraising idea. Charity Auctions. This means that everyone can participate.

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5 Social Marketing Stories You Need To Read This Week

Firebelly

Women Use Social Mobile More Than Men By Tiphereth Gloria Nielsen posted these mobile social stats from December 2009 about the gender differences when accessing social networks via mobile devices. As it escalates, however, it unlocks opportunities that are commensurate with the community’s assessment of its value.

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10 BtoB Marketers Predictions for 2010

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Corporate Websites will become less important – As every company gets more experienced with Social Media you will see more consumption of content off of the corporate website in places like Facebook, YouTube, and relevant Communities and Forums. Social Search could it be a Google Killer? Share this on Reddit.

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Rockyou fined and social media implications

Laurel Papworth

Online social gaming company, Rockyou with 32 million gamers, and $129,000,000 of funding, got fined $250,000 for revealing the usernames and passwords of their online community members, and putting at risk their webmail (Gmail, Yahoo etc) accounts. That would be us.

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BMJ blogs " Blog Archive " Richard Smith: Get with Web 2.0 or become yesterday's person

Buzz Marketing for Technology

RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networking sites, mash up technology, etcâ??but None of that undermines your assertion that the medical community need to embrace this new technology - and I think the idea of sharing high quality knowledge into the poorer world has enormous potential. Bmj.com has its Web 2.0

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