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Major Social Media Acquisitions: 3 Must-Reads

Firebelly

Big companies have been acquiring social media startups a lot lately. Here are 3 must-reads on some of the larger acquisitions and, more importantly, why these companies feel the need to become more social. Salesforce Buys Buddy Media To Ride Social Media Marketing Wave.

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Bubble or No Bubble, We’ll Still Be Social

Waxing UnLyrical

Far too much has been said on the valuations of the social web startups. Even for a startup that fetched $41 million, that is plain wasteful, if not irrationally exuberant. A staunch Seth Godin disciple, he is engaged with social enterprise development and its intersection with social web.

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Thank you Google, for the Antithesis of a More Social Network

Waxing UnLyrical

A staunch Seth Godin disciple, he is engaged with social enterprise development and its coitus with the web. When not building startups across various sectors, he lovebickering about typography and design. Image: OZinOH via Flickr, CC 2.0. Amrit Pal is an engineering undergrad at BITS Pilani in Goa, India.

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Enterprise 2.0 Conversations

The Marketing Blog

Enterprise 2.0 The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0 The focus of the blog has shifted from that of a startup-centric one when it originally started in 2007. I guess, it's an entrepreneur/ blogger fav topic to blog when starts a startup. Conversations (themarketingblog.wordpress.com) [.]

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PB165: Interview with Daniel Flynn – Thankyou Cofounder

ProBlogger

In today’s episode, we hear from Daniel Flynn, co-founder and Managing Director of Thankyou a social enterprise that sells consumer products like water, nappies, hand sanitiser and much more here in Australia and soon to be New Zealand. An Interview with Daniel Flynn – Co-founder of Thankyou. I’ll talk to that at the end.

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PB165: Interview with Daniel Flynn – Thankyou Cofounder

ProBlogger

In today’s episode, we hear from Daniel Flynn, co-founder and Managing Director of Thankyou a social enterprise that sells consumer products like water, nappies, hand sanitiser and much more here in Australia and soon to be New Zealand. An Interview with Daniel Flynn – Co-founder of Thankyou. I’ll talk to that at the end.

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3 Strategies to Make Big Content Work for Your Brand

Convince & Convert

For Salesforce, we helped get the Social Success content microsite up and running in a few months, from a standing start. It’s now packed with great content on social selling, social-powered customer service, and the social enterprise in general. About the Matthew Gratt: Follow @mattgratt.

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