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Polywork gets $3.5M to blend professional and social networking

TechCrunch

But if you take a look at the site it’s a lot more Twitter in look and feel than LinkedIn. In short, Polywork sums to a Twitter-style social feed where professionals can post updates about what they’re up to (in work and, if they like, in life too). . So the social element is really being put front and center here.

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The Six Signs That Twitter Isn't For Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Twitter reflections and insights have been the air. Chris Brogan's post says, " Twitter has changed my life." " I might also say that Chris's life changing experience on Twitter has had a ripple effect on two young Cambodian college students, Leng Sopharath and Champerom. re just using Twitter to scrape data?

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Four Recommendations for Personal and Professional Branding

Amy Sample Ward

“ 72% of the 209 respondents describe their approaches to personal/professional use of social media as either ‘blended’ or ‘segmented by channel’ ” Facebook friends aren’t created equal; or, rather, Facebook gives you the options to treat your friends differently. Set your own tone!

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Are B2B SaaS marketers getting it wrong?

TechCrunch

Share on Twitter. Blending into the competition. Konrad Sanders. Contributor. Konrad Sanders is founder, CEO, and content strategist at The Creative Copywriter , a tech-specialist copywriting and content agency. Which terms come to mind when you think about SaaS? It’s a jungle out there.

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Great reads from around the web on August 24th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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12 “it” social and content careers to watch for in 2014

The Next Web

In just a few months, Twitter went public , Google Glass showed up on our train route to work, and YouTube hosted ‘live’ music video awards. There are so many jobs out there now that revolve around social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, and now, it’s Instagram’s time to shine. Doreen Bloch , Poshly Inc. . Content Marketer.

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Does Social Media Help You Be Human Through Your Computer?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I look at what was being tweeted and the voice used (institutional versus personal versus a blend). And finally, Dana Boyd debunks a study that found "Twitter is 40% of Useless Babble." She goes on to say that conversations on Twitter are, well, human. We like the fact that humans are social.