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Facebook Cited as Most Effective Social Networking Tool Among Inc. 500 - 0 views

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Meanwhile, there has been explosive growth in the use of Twitter and Facebook by these companies. These were among the key findings of the latest benchmarking study conducted by Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D., director of the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Senior Research Fellow and Research Chair for the Society for New Communications Research.
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Social networking continues to lead the way: 71% have corporate Facebook pages 59% have corporate accounts on Twitter 50% have a public facing corporate blog 44% say Facebook is the single most effective social networking platform they use
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50% have a corporate blog (up from 45% a year ago) 34% have developed policies to govern blogging by their employees
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56% reported social media was “very important” to their business/marketing strategy 57% report using search engines and social networking sites to recruit and evaluate potential employees
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“This clearly demonstrates the growing importance of social media to this segment of the business world,” Barnes continued. “These fast growing companies drive the American economy. Their willingness to interact so transparently via interactive technologies with their stakeholders defines them. It will be interesting to watch as they expand their adoption of social media tools and see if they influence some of their non-user peers to join them.”
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Twitter in the classroom: 10 useful resources - 0 views

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from Angela Maiers Education Service

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Online social networks: Everywhere and nowhere | The Economist - 0 views

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Social networking has made explicit the connections between people, so that a thriving ecosystem of small programs can exploit this “social graph” to enable friends to interact via games, greetings, video clips and so on.
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But should users really have to visit a specific website to do this sort of thing? “We will look back to 2008 and think it archaic and quaint that we had to go to a destination like Facebook or LinkedIn to be social,” says Charlene Li at Forrester Research, a consultancy. Future social networks, she thinks, “will be like air. They will be anywhere and everywhere we need and want them to be.”
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- Darcie Priester on 18 Aug 15
  
  The future of social networking?
  
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No more logging on to Facebook just to see the “news feed” of updates from your friends; instead it will come straight to your e-mail inbox, RSS reader or instant messenger. No need to upload photos to Facebook to show them to friends, since those with privacy permissions in your electronic address book can automatically get them.
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As a result, avid internet users often maintain separate accounts on several social networks, instant-messaging services, photo-sharing and blogging sites, and usually cannot even send simple messages from one to the other. They must invite the same friends to each service separately. It is a drag.
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The early e-mail services could send messages only within their own walls (rather as Facebook's messaging does today). Instant-messaging, too, started closed, but is gradually opening up. In social networking, this evolution is just beginning. Parts of the industry are collaborating in a “data portability workgroup” to let people move their friend lists and other information around the web.
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- Darcie Priester on 18 Aug 15
  
  About social networking not being able to go outside its own walls...its coming.
  
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On Facebook, a social graph notoriously deteriorates after the initial thrill of finding old friends from school wears off.
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