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The Takeaway from Social Media in 2010

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As we head into 2011, are you cool with giving up snippets of your personal data for the sake of playing Farmville? or Foursquare ?Are I am still not comfortable about the purported data leaks, or satisfied that Facebook is doing all it can to value my privacy, but then again it’s a 1000 times better than it initially was.

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The Voice of the Social Employee Inside the Firewall

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However, if companies were all about their employees, why would 84%% of all employees in the workforce be looking for a job right in 2011? Taken a step further if you were to look at Gowalla and Foursquare , and why they are/were successful-it’s based on the notion of a reward system-earning badges for “checking in”.

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