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AUGUST 27, 2012

Enter social media and its importance as a traffic source. We once thought the merger of AOL/Time Warner needed to be investigated by the DOJ. We once thought nobody could unseat Google since all inbound traffic to the web came from them. Is Facebook unstoppable? Of course not.

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APRIL 18, 2019

While I know some people on social media find it funny that people would steal a $500+ asset and repurpose and resell it, in any other world that’s simply theft. I’m not sure I personally could do this. At Bird, we have built in massive programs to reduce theft, including integration with law enforcement.

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JULY 14, 2010

Let’s say you have a marketing department with an incredibly talented leader who knows SEO, SEM, social media and how to hit the ball off the cover on press coverage. But this leads to organizational drift because staff will continue to produce “work.&#. Let me give you an example.

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JUNE 17, 2013

Have you found a way to best link your potential marketing leads in social media into activity that leads to more business?”. They don’t have a way to measure the effectiveness of a Like.”. “Do Do you see that at all inside your department?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

And of course African Americas and Latinos over-index in spend and consumption in many categories including many health & beauty products, movie theater attendance, mobile phone usage and even social media. ” Troy started his life in a poor neighborhood in West Philadelphia.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

It an era of social media and newsreaders titles matter a lot. So I need to stand out in two areas in which I compete for attention – social media and news readers. And so does Tweeting more than once if for no other reason than to account for multiple time zones and the ephemeral nature of social media.

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MARCH 5, 2010

.&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor. It has some similarities with Brizzly in this regard.

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San Francisco Technical Review Los Angeles Software Review 254

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APRIL 16, 2011

Certainly if you look at eCommerce & social media – women are the ones using these products. Make sure they’re on your board, your board of advisors, whatever. Make sure 50% of the people you hire are women. The women are out there.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

What is the future of social media, digital television or mobile computing. .&# This isn’t likely to appeal to us. We want somebody who is ready, willing and able to debate tech with us. Where do you think things are heading? We want applicants who are either in LA or have a compelling reason to be in LA.

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MAY 4, 2013

The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company. I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging.

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MAY 19, 2013

His vision for social analytics and tracking the conversion funnel was better than any I had heard at the time (or since). It is what he set out to build and he had huge initial success in landing big clients like Disney, Zynga, Gilt and TopSpin.

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JULY 15, 2011

These were good packages in the pre social media world at helping figure out who was driving your traffic. to track all of my social media sharing behavior. In the social media world that tool is awe.sm. Twitter is an amazing generator of social hooks to websites. Today they’re wrong.

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Analytics Social Media Campaign Viral 292

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JUNE 30, 2014

In the next clip (1 minute, 24 seconds), I offered my views of how Twitter & Facebook will begin to change video distribution (hint: they will unbundled & insert their own ad unit) and I asked Joe how content creators are dealing with the emergence of multiple social media platforms as major distribution channels.

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JUNE 11, 2015

He’s been great at fostering online relationships through blogs and social media for years. I often try to follow product people at interesting companies who engage in social media. I began following him when I realized he was in product at Play Haven, who operated in a space that interested me.

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MAY 4, 2013

The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company. I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging.

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Deal Flow Early Stage Investment Bankers Technical Review 347

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AUGUST 20, 2013

In today’s uber-connected, social media, everything-is-public, people tell you there’s killing it with these new features, investor & mentor whiplash – it’s hard to avoid the latest thing. Yet sadly most startups have “shiny object” obsessions.

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Bandwidth Social Media Portfolio Video 368

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APRIL 30, 2011

And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. We believe that the structural industry changes will continue to create big opportunities for technology firms that enable the changes in media consumption for television, radio, inbound calls, online & social media.

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Advertising Social Media Silicon Valley Media 352

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JUNE 25, 2017

We’re all bombarded with social media campaigns asking for us to Tweet, share, like, change our badge, use a hashtag or generally show outrage at a topic du jour. Fresno State students receive supplies for school with help from Renaissance Scholars staff John Hunt, Jr. left) and Kizzy Lopez (right).

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JANUARY 31, 2015

So it’s a disappointment to me that these esteemed journalists haven’t adapted to the modern media – to social media. NYT Learn How to Use Social Media. Social media affects all public figures and isn’t something that professionals can shy away from. Following 78. All insular.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

Tags: Social Media social networking Twitter.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Given that I hadn’t had time to change out of my t-shirt (I had promised Jonathan Strauss I would wear to support his company), I tried to keep a low profile here [full shirt: Effing Social Media, How Does it Work? Dinner was hosted by Joshua Baer of OtherInbox who held a great event.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Some board members spend all of their time in the meeting on electronic devices doing email or even checking social media. Some boards are designed to showcase each and every member of management by having everybody lead a 20-minute update only to find out that no time has been allotted for discussion or debate.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media. The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. 62% of adult US Internet users check or send email on a daily basis. 73% of those aged 12-17 do so.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

This is why many people are so excited by how much traffic they’re now generating from social media. See Fred Wilson’s post on Twitter referring traffic. The initial data we are seeing at Ad.ly about CTRs even on ads is very impressive. Won’t people just ignore these ads and/or unfollow people who Tweet them?

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Technical Review Advertising Early Stage Internet 286

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions.

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APRIL 21, 2013

This morning I was reading my social media and came across an article that Christine Tsai had posted on Facebook. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. If you don’t like it hot, use less,” he said. “We don’t make mayonnaise here.”

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Vietnam Los Angeles Entrepreneur Thailand 415

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FEBRUARY 22, 2015

I saw him on stage at the event talking about how he used social media to engage audiences. Five-and-a-half years ago I first met Chamillionaire at a tech conference in LA. This was 2009 and his understanding of audience engagement was far beyond anything I was hearing from most people at that time.

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MARCH 25, 2016

You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc. SEO doesn’t just happen – it requires a content strategy, inbound links, relevancy, keyword strategies, etc. And influencers may help once or twice but ultimately nothing is free. Then you need to understand the economic benefit to the user.

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AUGUST 4, 2009

Tags: Social Media social networking technology Twitter.

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Social Network Social Media Valuation Naming 291

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AUGUST 10, 2009

Tags: Social Media social networking Twitter.

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APRIL 28, 2010

They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. I first heard about the company from Dave McClure and have tracked it on the sidelines a bit since then. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

It kind of reminds me a bit of how “social media experts&# are talking to customers today). Use social media to be sure people are aware of it. We listened to the analysts tell us how we were going to change the industry. We instructed customers about how eCommerce was going to change their future.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). ” We explained what we felt the core values of a firm of the future needed to uphold: Provide real operational insights to entrepreneurs (the days of being “money men” are gone).

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MARCH 3, 2018

link] I’m tired of hearing people on social media speak of “virtue signaling,” a term meant to silence well-meaning people from speaking the truth about injustices done to immigrants, African Americans, the LGBTQ community or speaking up on gender inequality.

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AUGUST 2, 2009

So the following list is not exhaustive (if I’ve missed some please feel free to add in the comments section), but here are some emerging companies who are providing tools for brands to monitor, assess and take action on Twitter feeds: PeopleBrowsr , Social Approach , HootSuite , CoTweet , EasyTweets.

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Conversion Management Social Network Philadelphia 235

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OCTOBER 17, 2010

Last year’s passé terms that even entrepreneurs cringe at (and the best are embarrassed to lead with) are social network, social media and social games. I guess “social&# is just soooo last year. I hope they are because badges will run their course.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The best modern brands embrace the sense of community and encourage their consumers to share the brands in social media, which leads both to affinity with other purchasers and aspiration in those who are looking for their friends or icons to help them with selection.

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