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Social Media Education and News
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SI Social: Hitman Social Media Game Shows How To Do It Wrong
Social media is a fairly new medium, so it’s no surprise that people gaffe from time to time when they try to execute it right. Of course, there’s a varying degree of severity between “Whoops, I posted the wrong link!” to “Oh my, I’ve done something so bad that I …
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Medium: Twitter’s Founder Develops WYSIWYG Blogging
As an avid Tweeter, I’ve been excited about the launch of Medium since I first learned about the new site this summer. The promise of a service that bridges the gap between the 140 characters I already love and a more traditional blogging platform is one that excites both my …
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Did Social Fall Flat on Black Friday and Cyber Monday?
The weekend after Thanksgiving was one of the most aggressive marketing blitzes in recent memory. News reports had three shopping holidays to choose from: the venerable Black Friday, which started around 1961 but didn’t gain the influence it now has until as late as 2005; Small Business Saturday, a American …
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Instagram Web Profiles Bring Nashville Filter to the Masses
Photo sharing service Instagram announced the release of brand new web profiles for all users last week, some two years after the launch of its iOS app. Although this is big news for your average Instagrammer, the addition is also a major breakthrough for businesses who use the app for …
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SI Social: Facebook Announces Couples Pages, World Retches Audibly
In the modern world, there’s tremendous emphasis on finding a romantic partner. As if we didn’t get enough pressure from literature about star-crossed lovers, movies about pairing up, and images splayed across glossy magazine pages depicting blissful partners holding hands and gazing into the sunset, now Facebook has decided to …
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Top 5 Things I Learned About Politics on Facebook
At some point during the endless presidential election of 2012, you probably shared a political opinion on Facebook that you were wholly unqualified to advance. Facebook is one of those great and terrible places where totally uninformed people can share their feelings with everyone they know. There’s just no room …
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Facebook Promoted Posts: Taking Away Your Fans?
Last week, a small ripple went through the Dangerous Minds blog, crying out “I WANT MY FRIENDS BACK!” Letting out a screed of massive proportions, the piece has made its rounds on the very social network it lambasts, even having some of the 59,502 fans replace their profile pictures with …
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Hurricane Sandy Viral Photos – For Better or For Worse, What You Share Affects Your Cred
Just like all of you, I spend a sizeable portion of my day with Facebook open in one of the many tabs of my Google Chrome browser. I do it for work; other typical explanations include social media addiction, boredom, or a bad case of the Mondays. Either way, I’m …
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Naked Pizza: A Local Success Story, Fueled By Social Media
Folks, here is a lesson in homegrown social media success. While it has long been known as an obsession of my generation, it can be difficult for just-starting-out businesses to learn how to grapple with this fact and to lasso it into a useful tool for getting non-virtual dollars into …
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Twitter and Your Business: Harnessing The Goliath
Since its initial launch in 2006, social media goliath Twitter has expanded into a vital part of our daily lives, 140 characters at a time. The microblogging platform provides a flexible platform for 14-year-old Jessica to share her flirtatious encounter with the boy from 3rd period Science while simultaneously hosting …
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