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Ethics in Social Media: A Glossary | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

The FTC is looking into the practice as well, as I blogged about here and here. Character Blogs or Personas - these are blogs that are written by an alias or an obvious person who is not real. But there is a business case (and an opportunity to have some fun) for bona fide character blogs. Flogs – aka Fake Blogs.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

The explosion of social media has led to a corresponding need for more sophisticated monitoring tools that can crawl the hundreds of social networking and bookmarking sites and millions of blogs across the globe. blogs, microblogging sites, social networks, etc.). Results can be exported to Excel for further sorting and analysis.

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How to Integrate Social Media into Your Website with a Homeland Embassy Strategy

Convince & Convert

Michael Dell spoke about the issue of proximity in an article in Forbes back in 2006: The first step was to add blogs and message boards in the hope that irate customers will talk to the company rather than gripe to the whole Internet. Or do they need to socialize their homeland as well?

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. I got hooked on the Star Tribune Twolves message board in 2002 and haven’t looked back.

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Is it easy to tell if you are a scammer or straight-shooter?

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Home About What We Do PayPal Speaker Contact Subscribe Press / PR Bare Feet Network Internet Literacy for Business: Blogging, Podcasting, Online Video & Social Media Howto, Consulting, Training & Public Speaking Home > Activism , Branding , HowTo , Social Media > Is it easy to tell if you are a scammer or straight-shooter?

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The effective practice of social media marketing requires monitoring all channels, from online cruise message boards to social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIn. Had it been something weird like paid positive blog posts like a few companies had started doing, it would be a different story.

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Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Message Boards. Ready to Start Blogging? May 18, 2006. A single tag can be used across platforms to aggregate links, photos, blog posts, and Web pages. Copyright © 2006  CompuMentor. May 26 2006. Sonny Cloward of CERF has a nice blog post on how hes using del.icio.us May 23 2006.

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