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Millennials got Mail: 6 ways to successfully target the ‘always connected’ generation through email

The Next Web

Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s 2012 report The Millennial Generation Research Review cites 80 percent of millennials sleep with their phone next to the bed. Comfortable with technology and used to constant emails, can the old-school electronically mailed message stand out midst the noise? Lingenfelter said. “In Content is key.

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Getting Better At Email

YoungUpstarts

Do you ever wonder how we functioned before email? At work, at home, or on the go, a vast majority of us can’t go 30 minutes without sending, receiving or reviewing our emails (I’m guilty of checking through the night, too). That’s why I can’t stress enough the importance of “getting better at email.”

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

March 13, 2012. In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking.

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Why enterprises (big and small) are slow to adopt social collaboration tools

The Next Web

I’m not saying take advantage of your workforce; Twoodo’s data analyst once posted a question about increasing the click rates of our emails, and the designer suggested turning the message from text into a comic strip. Therein lies some of the beauty of social collaboration tools. Imagine if your company never adopted email.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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I wish people wouldn’t take liberties with my social network

The Equity Kicker

Then I switched focus to crunch some email and saw notifications that a bunch of people had retweeted Tweets from me promoting the sites which I had used to get the two new Twitter backgrounds described above. Nic Brisbourne (@brisbourne) June 6, 2012. So I searched some more before finding the Banksy that I went with in the end.

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[Survey] [U.S] Small Business Owners Poised For Growth in 2012; Concerns Remain About Economy

YoungUpstarts

Looking Ahead: The Rest of 2011 and 2012 Outlook. As small business owners look to the future months and 2012, 50-percent say it will be “steady as she goes – continuing much as we are now” for the holiday season. Use of email marketing (40-percent). Use of email marketing (40-percent).