Tag Archives: Social Media

Three Types of Video Networking Sites

ShareSharing information is at the heart of social media. Today’s social networking sites harness the power of word-of-mouth and digitize it online. News, music, photos, videos, and more disperse throughout today’s social sphere as people discover and share their Internet finds. Videos have risen as a focal point of shared content. In response, networking sites specializing [...]
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Facebook Set to Capture 500 Million Users’ Milestone

ShareFebruary 2004, six-and-a-half years ago: A small, unknown, self-startup website is born within the confines of Harvard. Today: That network’s presence seeps into almost every website, every search engine and every bookmark bar. Facebook’s initial presence at Harvard spread to nearby colleges, eventually growing to encompass all universities before consuming high school populations, as well. Launched from [...]
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BlogHer Embraces Community, Empowers Women Bloggers

Share“Where are all the women?” Although this question may seem like something you’d hear at an unsuccessful frat party and not the inspiration of  one of the most influential online platforms today, it was this important media meme of the early ‘00s that led three women bloggers to start the now immensely popular BlogHer Conference [...]
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Saints: 31, Super Bowl Advertisers: 0

ShareI didn’t notice this until about halfway through the Super Bowl when Gary Vaynerchuk pointed it out. It seemed despite the millions of dollars big brands spent on Super Bowl ads this year, not one (at least that I saw) specifically directed people to their Facebook pages. Maybe it’s because my “day job” is now [...]
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How to make FourSquare more social

ShareOver the past few months, I’ve been using FourSquare more regularly. FourSquare is a social networking service/game that you can use to track your whereabouts. It is typically accessed via an app on a mobile smartphone (Droid, BlackBerry or iPhone). The idea is that you earn points each time you arrive at a location and [...]
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