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A Social Network For Genetics Research: Can It Help Isolate Parkinson’s Genes?

The Realtime Report

Can social networks help with medical research? The world’s first genetics-based social network – as 23andMe labels itself – is looking to show they can. It started in 2009, when 23andMe decided to do genetic research and invited anyone diagnosed with Parkinson’s to donate their DNA sample.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. Crowdsourcing has become increasingly more widely used because it helps cultivate creativity and innovation. Crowdsourcing is an useful model because it can be used by any group for any reason.

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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

To help you out, we’ve put together a list of 14 types of social media every marketer needs to know. From social networking to video sharing and social messaging, there’s something for everyone (and every business). Types of social media. Social networking. Social messaging.

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Facebook’s Like Button adds Life to your Content

Buzz Marketing for Technology

At last count well over 100,000 websites integrate some form of Facebook’s social plugins (including my site!). Tags: Applications Buzz Marketing Content Marketing Crowdsourcing Facebook Social Media Social Networking. I want to roll the clock back a few weeks.

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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

Currently, her research focuses on various topics related to CRM software, sales, customer service and marketing strategy. Most people wrongly assume social enterprise networks are simply Facebook for business. From what I’ve learned, the question is no longer if socialized business will become the norm, but when.

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How is Facebook Going to Make it’s 1st Billion Dollars?

Atom Thought

Do you know that there may be a social networking site which is bigger or almost equal to Facebook? ’ Here is an interesting and well researched whitepaper on the Future of Monetization for Social Networks and Social Gaming companies- rightly christened as’ HOW IS FACEBOOK GOING TO MAKE IT’S 1ST BILLION DOLLARS?

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Create a Customer Experience Strategy [FREE TEMPLATE]

Hootsuite

Use Hootsuite Streams to track them across every social network. Do your research (AKA a competitive analysis). Spend some time researching the customer experience landscape. This in-depth guide on social media competitive analysis may give you some inspiration on how to tackle your customer experience research.