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What is social media doing to our youth?

Austin Startup

I joined Facebook in November 2005 and Twitter in November 2009. In both years I was a freshman in high school and college, respectively, and interestingly enough, a freshman at new-age social media. As kids in this “first” social media generation, we really didn’t know what this power meant, and our parents certainly didn’t.

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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! My advice to startups pitching the media – [link]. The media’s fixation on size (Google+ vs. Facebook) is misguided. Why do we continue to obsess about size?

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Transcript of Using Story to Win on Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Using Story to Win on Social Media written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. She’s also got a new book called Social Media Success for Every Brand: the five StoryBrand Pillars That Turn Posts Into Profits. But let’s talk about social media in general. Transcript.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Reddit, a popular website for news and discussion, was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. WhatsApp became one of the most popular apps for social media by 2014.

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Why Business Relationships Take More Than Texting, Friending, And Online “Connecting”

YoungUpstarts

It’s official: Email, texting, and social media are no longer just helpful supplemental business tools. Social media and technology do have their place, but they are not, and never will be, a substitute for in-person interaction. They’ve taken over the whole game. Trust is at an all-time low.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

They didn’t just “grow up with social media,” they grew up with “social media that constantly changes.” ” In fact, not only do they keep up with the changes on a particular social media service, they are always exploring the latest new services.

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Want to Work for a Startup? 10 Questions to Ask Your Interviewer

mashable.com

Social Media. Social Media. Sites Jobs Events Social Good Summit Media Summit. is the largest independent online news site dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.