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5 Terrible Social Media Fails in 2016 That You Must Avoid

Brandanew

Brands are closer to their audience with the help of social media. Social media fails can prove to be costly and brands may have to balance a tricky situation to regain their position. Let us see some Social Media fails and disasters of 2016, so far… Create a LOVED brand. These are things your brand must avoid!

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

In addition to speaking at IDCEE’13 in Kyiv, Cooper had another goal in visiting Ukraine (and Russia, a couple of days before that). The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine have been sort of anchors for oDesk on the technical side,” Cooper explained.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Without a clear explanation of why this had been done, startups, which were already being funded by ever-increasing pools of venture capital, abandoned cooperation with the Defense Department and focused on high returns on social media and commercial applications. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities.

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Twitter Link Roundup #76 – 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! What @UnitedLinen learned in 5 years of REAL small business social media - [link]. Social media marketing spending expected to nearly double in next 12 months – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #199 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, 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! Social media “war rooms” strike me as 90% gimmick, 10% value - crowdspring.co/1hZ05KD. 110 People Own 35% of Russia’s Wealth - crowdspring.co/19D9pi8.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

In 2017, we learned about how social media feeds were used to surface biased or planted information. A concept discussed during that time was “ glasnost ,” a part of the new Russia’s restructuring to provide more openness and transparency in information. 1/ Social Network Interference. My goodness, where to begin.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

This category would include among others Yandex, Mail.ru, KupiVIP and Avito in Russia as well as Allegro in Poland. Skype is probably the most famous of them, but there are a lot of other examples including Game Insights, Kaspersky and Parallels in Russia, LogMeIn and Prezi in Hungary and Avast and AVG in the Czech Republic.