Coca-Cola Leveraging Social To Drive Leadership in Social Media Marketing – Forbes

Coca-Cola Leveraging Social To Drive Leadership in Social Media Marketing
Forbes
I've previously written about Coca-Cola turning its focus toward direct engagement with users via social media infrastructure and big data and how embracing social software has empowered big brands like Coke to leverage the powers of social.

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Facebook missing out on social-media stock rally – USA TODAY

Facebook missing out on social-media stock rally
USA TODAY
All the focus on Facebook is diverting attention from a powerful rally in the other social-media stocks. The social-network giant is noticeably absent from a significant upturn in social-media stocks this year that's including even the beat-up members

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