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		<title>What Does Social Media Success Mean For Your Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Twitter</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Did you know that some 53 percent of businesses are now using social media, and 88 percent of these say that exposure is the biggest benefit? While measuring the return on investment (ROI) of social media has always been problematic (certainly when concerned specifically with the bottom line), marketers have been bullish about other benefits, ...<br/>
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		<title>Pinterest Will Boost Your Referral Traffic, But Can It Boost Sales?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ReadWriteWeb</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here’s a statistic that may make you do a double take: Pinterest (which is still in beta) sends more referral traffic than Twitter despite having a user base only seven percent as large as the microblogging service&#8217;s numbers. That was one of the findings in a study released last Wednesday by Eloqua as part of ...<br/>
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		<title>HootSuite Adds Industrial-Strength Social Media for Corporate Teams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Things D</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Time was that when companies first got serious about managing their brands on social media — Twitter, Facebook and the like — the social media “department” was one person. Now that big companies have figured out that there are big opportunities to drive incremental sales, put out customer relations fires before they start and to ...<br/>
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		<title>Angry Birds maker rakes in the revenue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CNET</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Rovio, the company behind the hit-the-pigs game, says it generated $106.3 million in revenue and posted a $67.6 million profit on the franchise in 2011. Angry Birds is officially a financial powerhouse. The franchise&#8217;s creator, Rovio, today announced that it generated $106.3 million in revenue last year. And thanks to a profit margin of about ...<br/>
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		<title>Google+ Hangouts On Air: broadcast your conversation to the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Google</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.imsocial.com/?p=10022</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last year we introduced Hangouts On Air to a limited number of broadcasters, enabling them to go live with friends and fans, for all the world to see. Since then, this small community has grown the feature in lots of creative ways. And they’ve made one thing crystal clear: when groups of passionate individuals can ...<br/>
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		<title>Study Says Facebook Privacy Concerns Are on the Rise – Is It Accurate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 14:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mashable</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.imsocial.com/?p=10019</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Consumer Report’s annual State of the Net study found that people are increasingly concerned with their privacy on Facebook. The report breaks down social privacy into a handful of categories: over-sharing by users, underuse of privacy controls, over-collection of data, over-sharing of data by apps and cyberbullying or harassment. 2,002 online households were surveyed, including ...<br/>
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		<title>How Flickr’s overhaul kept me from fleeing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 14:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CNET</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.imsocial.com/?p=10015</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8216;m encouraged by the signs of change at Flickr &#8212; enough so that I&#8217;ve decided my photos are staying put there. After years of what amounts to neglect, it&#8217;s now clear that management of Yahoo&#8217;s photo-sharing site is aware of what it needs to do &#8212; and that it&#8217;s doing it. Step by step, the ...<br/>
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		<title>Why Google Is Not Going Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 14:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>All Things D</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.imsocial.com/?p=10013</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Eric Jackson wrote in a Forbes article earlier this week that Google and Facebook might disappear in the next five years. Anything is possible. But his analysis of Google misses the mark. I’ve written my own critiques of Google. But the big G is more on par with Microsoft, IBM and other perennial brands than ...<br/>
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		<title>Why “Instagram For Video” Apps Will Go Big</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 13:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ReadWriteWeb</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The latest trend in smartphone apps is social video. That&#8217;s because ever since Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 Billion, attention has focused on video sharing apps and whether one of them will win the next Zuckerberg lottery. The two leading contenders are Socialcam and Viddy. ReadWriteWeb&#8217;s Alicia Eler profiled those two apps, along with a ...<br/>
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		<title>The Path from a Social Brand to a Social Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 13:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Solis</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I’ve been a long-time supporter of MediaTemple’s (MT)Residence program along with Gary Vaynerchuk, Neil Patel, and many others whom I respect. I wanted to share my “7 questions to answer to become a social business” with you here.. Social Media is pervasive and is becoming the new normal in corporate marketing. Brands who get this ...<br/>
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