It wasn't all that long ago that we'd have probably thought it a bit crazy to meet someone online, then have that develop into a real-world relationship. But now, with the rise of dating sites (and in some cases with those, the crazier the better), it's not at all uncommon.What's interesting to me though is that so many people are meeting their significant others via more non-traditional routes on the Internet. There's no arguing that sites such as Match.com, Plenty Of Fish and others are hugely [...]

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Are you curious what other companies are doing to achieve success with Facebook marketing? You've come to the right place. This article highlights nine companies (big and small) that have transformed their Facebook presence by implementing innovative Facebook marketing practices. You're guaranteed to find inspiration for your Facebook marketing efforts here. These tactics will work for [...]

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When we think about social media, it's very easy to keep it sectioned off into nice, little containers. A thought passed along on Twitter might elicit a response, perhaps even a retweet. A Facebook status message is passed along and it gets a like or two.But what about when it becomes something much more than the sum of its parts? What happens when lives change because of social media interaction? That was the question on my mind this week, so I turned (naturally) to social media in order to fin [...]

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Mike Lazerow co-founder and CEO of Buddy Media was hooked on Facebook immediately after logging onto Zuckerburg's social media site during Facebook's early days.

In this episode of Founder Stories with host Chris Dixon, Lazerow discusses Buddy Media's growth and how it coincided with Facebook launching fan pages for companies and brands. Lazerow's team thought "companies [were] going to have to control content and need analytics behind that content ... so we launched ... the Facebook Page Manag [...]

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The following is an excerpt of the first entry in a series on integrated Facebook marketing campaigns. The full version, available in our Facebook Marketing Bible, contains more detailed strategy and walk-throughs for each step of the campaign.Businesses can market the [...]

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Social summary service Summify has passed the two billion aggregated stories milestone, marking the occasion with the launch of slick new email summaries, web summaries and social features.Summify works by automatically identifying the most important news stories for you across all of your networks and tells why they are important, so you can read what really matters. With this in mind, the Summify team has redesigned its email notifications to include clearly indicate the headline, highlight th [...]

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