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LinkedIn Success Steeling Facebook Hustle
Social networks like Facebook and Google+ may have much larger membership bases than LinkedIn, but LinkedIn's steady run has proven why it beats them both in the business world. It's become a real battle among the three companies, and LinkedIn's success keeps the other two innovating and hustling.
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Fostering Customer Relationships with Social Media, One Tweet at a Time
There’s certainly not even a remote bit of controversy in saying that customers are truly the lifeblood that sustains the survival of businesses today.
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Branch: A New Social Network Aiming to Improve Conversation
A new social networking platform, Branch aims to improve the way people communicate online by encouraging more meaningful conversations. The Social Network Problem While social media has given people more ways to connect and interact with each other, there are often limitations with these sites.
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Cisco: A Learning Social Community
Being digitally social isn't a practice that's relegated to staying in touch with friends and family, it can extend to other areas, including education and skills training. That's where Cisco comes in. Everything Can be Social Since its inception, people have been using the internet to communicate.
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LinkedIn Reaches 200 Million Members [Infographic]
Unlike other social networks, LinkedIn has grown its memberships slowly and steadily. While other networks usually have taken five years to reach the 100 million mark -- LinkedIn took eight years, only reaching the mark in 2011.
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A Look Back at Social Media in 2012
In 2012, the social media landscape got manicured. Many more prominent channels emerged and older ones became more refined as they worked to embrace where and how we engage, manage and otherwise share information.
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Ping.it Launches: A Social Media, Email Hybrid for Targeted Content Sharing
Social platform Ping.it launched in public beta today as an alternative communication and content sharing tool that combines social media and email. Everyone knows the fatigue of wading through social media updates. Ping.it has found that on average, a person spends 12 hours on the internet a day, but due
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[Infographic] SharePoint 2013 in 2012
In August, we illustrated the current state of SharePoint. As it is now December and time for retrospectives, we decided that we'd take a look back at what kept us most engaged about SharePoint this year -- SharePoint 2013. Currently in beta and scheduled to be released for
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Google+ Adds Communities, Tops 500 Million Users
Google+, the company’s venture in social networking, has launched public and private Communities that users can set up. Those users will have a lot of potential fellow communitizers, considering that Google+ has now announced it has more than half a billion users.
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Microsoft Grows Social Features With Cut-Price Yammer-SharePoint Integration #spc12
The great thing about conferences is that by the end of them, you usually have a better idea about products and vendor offerings. The SharePoint conference is Las Vegas is no different. However, true to form, Microsoft has only half-answered one of the burning questions of this year: what will it do with Yammer? What to
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eMarketer Report Highlights Importance of Brand Advocates
One of the biggest values of social media for brands is the increased influence of “brand advocates.” A new report from eMarketer focuses on how to leverage and amplify their influence.
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Pinterest Lets You Block Users & Report Profiles, Let the Security Begin
Pinterest wants to give its users more control. This week, the popular social photo-sharing site announced that it is adding several new features to do that. One of the new features Pinterest announced is user blocking.
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Unison Releases 'Room'-Based Enterprise Social Network
There’s a new enterprise social collaboration product out. The New York City-based Unison Technologies has unveiled a new version of its service, a quick-to-launch social network based around virtual rooms. Intermedia and Unison were founded by Michael Choupak. The company, which also has an office in St.
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The Social Intranet: Tools, Trends and Who's Using it [INFOGRAPHIC]
This month we're talking about the company intranet -- its history, its culture, its future. Intranets have always been about enterprise collaboration, but now that they've evolved into platforms for enterprise social networking. The success of an intranet is not just determined by what it offers, but how employees use it.
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