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There were unknown lifeforms, #moonfruit, Firefox 3.5, and the sale of The Pirate Bay making social media news this week. From the shocking $78 million sale of the web’s pirating hub to the release of Firefox 3.5 and its killer features, social media events kept rolling in.There were also some insightful and useful resourc (Read More)
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He used social media and the web unlike any other presidential candidate in history. Barack Obama’s incredible online presence turned into a grassroots movement culminating in his election as the 44th President of the United States. He was all over YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and the blogosphere.But that was the campaign. (Read More)
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This week we ran a special Summer of Social Good charity promotion and many of you got involved. Mashable and the whole Summer of Social Good team would like to thank everyone who donated, tweeted, retweeted and showed their support. While the promotion might be over now, because of the great response we will be doing this (Read More)
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The web’s response to the passing of music legend Michael Jackson has been staggering. Social media was pounded with tributes last Thursday after the news broke, but next Tuesday could be a huge test for the entire infrastructure of the web, when the memorial for Michael Jackson will take place.The tribute and remembrance (Read More)
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For marketers, Twitter has been a dream come true. It’s an open platform growing at a phenomenal rate. This combination can allow a single tweet to be seen by thousands of potential customers. But as Twitter continues its mainstream ascent, it has been targeted by spammers and scammers, something that doesn’t help legitim (Read More)
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By David Meerman Scott on Social MediaTimes change. Markets change. Technologies change.Fundamentals of B2B marketing don't. (Read More)
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I don’t play World of Warcraft anymore. The doctor ordered me not to. Suffice to say that I actually started reading about TweetCraft 10 hours ago, and then ended up watching the entire BlizzCon ‘08 PVP tournament replay. However, if I did play today, I’d definitely appreciate the ability to tweet in-game. Waiting for 25 pe (Read More)
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Google Blog Search has just added a few features that users of other Google services are likely familiar with. First, you can now subscribe to any topic via RSS or Atom, like you already can do in Google News. This means every time there’s a new story in the “Technology” category, or more specifically a search term like“s (Read More)
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Retweeting, as we explained in our article How To Retweet on Twitter, has evolved as the main way to reshare content you like on the social media service. There’s also a great deal of data we can glean from retweeting behavior, as we outlined in the article The Science of Retweets. But apart from the obvious, what makes a (Read More)
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Corporate Blogs bleiben wichtig und sind ein spannender Kommunikationskanal für die direkte Kundenkommunikation. Obwohl erste Blogger wie Steve Rubel sich inzwischen vom klassischen Blogkonzept zu verabschieden scheinen und lieber auf das Livestreaming setzen, entdecken immer Unternehmen zunächst einmal die Chancen, die im (Read More)
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In mid-May we published stats that measured the scale of the #iranelection coverage on Twitter, as measured by social media tracking service Trendrr. Mashable’s Ben Parr remarked that we were “approaching one million tweets on the situation”, although this only counted tweets mentioning the exact term #iranelection.Now the (Read More)
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Jeff Hobbs is Director of Engineering at ActiveState and works on Workspace and dynamic languages. He blogs occasionally at blogs.activestate.com.One of the best web tools available to businesses for enabling teamwork and collaboration is the wiki. Few things speak more to staying in the flow of one’s work than just clickin (Read More)
: An interesting article that addresses some very simple ideas to increase use of wikis in the enterprise. Definitely misses the mark when describing the value of wikis to business users.
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A new B2B marketing community site, B2B Marketing Zone officially launched today. Conceptually the site is a bit like Social Media Today and other targeted content portals, though it's the first (that I'm aware of at least) focused specifically on providing information for B2B marketers.Hosted by community organizer (I mea (Read More)
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If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage Social Media for Career Success and How to Find a Job on (Read More)