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New Social Media Sites…for Business?

The Social Media Incubator

This new Facebook application allows you to do career networking on Facebook by searching a company name, see which of your Facebook friends are connected to it and posting job openings. Empire Avenue is a combination of game and social networking, calling itself the “social stock market.”

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Twitter’s Biz Stone speaks at CIRA’s AGM

Sherrilynne Starkie

He told the crowd made up of Internet geeks, social media enthusiasts and business professionals about how Twitter was born in 2006. Soon Twitter came to the attention of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg who offered Biz and co-founder Jack Dorsey $500 million for the company, which was at the time valued at $25 million.

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4 Ecommerce trends you need to know for 2022

Sprout Social

Social commerce. Social commerce is when you buy and sell products or services directly from a social media platform. With the maturing of the influencer industry, the natural next step is for platforms to help influencers and companies sell to consumers. By 2025, US social commerce is estimated to be nearly a $79.6

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IABC Canada: the big shift

Sherrilynne Starkie

Ipsos Public Affairs conducts corporate reputation and social research around the world. The company, a Division of Ipsos, the world’s second largest market research firm, has offices in 25 countries and a staff of 700 research professionals. Social capital Ottawa. Ottawa’s Capital City News.

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Why You're the Key to Social Media Success

Convince & Convert

New research from White Horse of 104 companies found that in 86% of companies, executives are not using social media. Would a company launch a major television campaign if the CEO had never watched TV? Social Media? Most B2B companies have fewer customers, so the opinions of each are magnified.

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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. The only things produced in social media sites are members (members produce the rest).

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Need to Fundraise? Stick With What Works!

SocialFish

The use of social capital builds trust and makes strangers more willing to donate for a worthy cause. Make use of your organization’s social media platforms to spread the word to as many people as possible. There are also companies that will plan everything for you and take a percentage of the revenues.

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