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The Unfriendliness of Kid-Friendly Social Networks

Socialized

Everyone’s talking about the launch of Togetherville , a social network designed to bring parents and their kids together with the goal of learning responsible social networking. It is designed to deliver to marketers an elusive group of big spenders. In other words, they are not using a social network.

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8 Best Practices for Collaborative Blog Groups

Kikolani

In the last few months, I have had the privilege of becoming a regular contributor on several multi-author blogs such as Search Engine Journal , Famous Bloggers , Social Media Examiner , Search Engine Watch , and Stay on Search. This should be the most obvious and important use of a private blog group. Announcements.

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Twitter for Business: Is It Time?

Webbiquity SMM

Twitter is generally viewed as the second-best social network for B2B marketing , behind only LinkedIn. Of the top 500 people in event marketing per BizBash magazine (a group that should definitely be social media active), just 119 —less than a quarter—even have a Twitter account, and many of those are inactive.

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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

Upstart Business Journal, the Austin Business Journal and the North Bay Business Journal. Such platforms as Yammer, Chatter and Jive certainly look and feel similar to Facebook – with a news feed, groups, friends and status updates. This month, I surveyed end users to find out how they draw value from going social.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

Socialized

And a recent piece in the Wall Street Journal didn’t say so either. In fact, it indicated e-mail use was growing, just not as fast as social network adoption. In my November Talent Zoo column I attempt to debunk five social media myths. And MySpace is for “young people&# right? You can see the article here.

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Monday Morning Reads: Mobile Apps; LoTR Revisited; Funky SEO

Dave Fleet

Amidst ongoing unrest in the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal takes a look at why some regimes are shying away from shutting down the Internet in their countries. Fast Company: Google Gives More Prominence to Social Search. Social rising in search. WSJ: Smart Dictators Don’t Quash the Internet. QR ideas for business.

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The Top 9 Social Media Trends of 2019

Social Media Strategies Summit

The move to Private Groups. Groups took off in 2018 as a way for brands to connect directly with fans without the algorithm affecting their posts. As of 2018, Facebook reported that 200 million people are members of ‘meaningful’ Facebook Groups. After a year of scandal, trust in social media companies has never been lower.

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