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JANUARY 22, 2010

Social media, particularly its use in business communications, is still in its early days, and like anything new and different, there’s plenty of mythology surrounding it. Perhaps social media is not a part of the company’s communication strategy. Social Media Communication Is Informal.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Here are my five social media predictions for 2010. Most AR applications in 2009 were quaint curiosities designed to demonstrate the AR concept. Location-Based Applications Will Dissolve Into General Social Networks. More Social Media Regulation Will Follow the FTC’s October Endorsement Guides.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I’ll be participating Wednesday, September 23, 2009 from 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM (PT) in a panel discussion titled Brand Management in the Social Media Jungle. We’ll talk about the opportunities and risks of managing a brand in the world of social media. Brand Management in the Social Media Jungle.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

About a month ago, I wrote about my five social media predictions for 2010. Social media and careers are covered by prediction #6: “In 2009 we saw a couple of interesting surveys by respected organizations indicating that recruiters are increasingly using or planning to use social media to find and investigate talent.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

When “pitching&# social media marketing and communications initiatives to management, there is a tendency to overestimate the potential response rate based on the sheer number of people on the Internet. Internet World Stats , for example, estimates as of March 31, 2009, there are 1,596,270,108 people online worldwide.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2010

This year, for example, the New Oxford American Dictionary announced that “unfriend&# was its “Word of the Year&# for 2009. Tags: Language Social Media Canadian Press descriptive emoticons grammar language prescriptive SMS students.

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MAY 13, 2010

In fact, the EU warned consumers in January, 2009 that Facebook might compromise their privacy, but said nothing about the company’s obligations. Regulators, ill equipped to deal with the new media new frontier, will make a show of protecting consumer interests. Here’s what’s not going to happen.

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