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Knowledge Retention: How to Protect Your Competitive Advantage

ConversionXL

Nor is the knowledge loss limited to technical knowledge: It is not simply losing someone’s knowledge if they retire or leave the organization, it is also losing their social network, if you will, in terms of who they seek out for answers to questions in their domain. Internal social networks. The decision-making process.

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Internet/Media: 5 things that will define 2011

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Year of Social Utilities. With over half a billion users and open graph integration, Facebook is the Internet with social graph at its core. This is as much of a game-changer (due to a new distribution model based on the social graph) as going from offline to the Internet was in the 90s. Are you ready? *A

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. Entrepreneur Prerna Gupta believes that there’s a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing “Lean” principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. Brandsforce - Company Website.

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Why Most Online Video Companies Will Fail

Both Sides of the Table

You have to build a large online tech company that distributes video.” And it’s not about aggregating traffic better. Online technology company that distributes video. Online video companies need to know how to get social followings insider & outside of YouTube. Most will fail. Here is an example.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Our publisher distribution network reaches in the tens of millions of unique users and is comprised of “head end&# stars as well as many “mid tier&# and “long tail&# publishers. Social networks continue to drive conversion of marketers.

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[Review] The Art Of Social Media

YoungUpstarts

Focused on content curation (ie finding and sharing other people’s content) as opposed to content creation, the book describes a system of planning, calendaring, finding, and sharing of posts on social media. Be distributed – use tools to schedule and distribute posts like Buffer, Hootsuite and Post Planner.