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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

G & S: Downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application; Computer hardware; Downloadable software for social networking and creating and interacting with online communities; Downloadable software for creating, managing and accessing groups within virtual communities; Software development tools; Downloadable software to enable development, (..)

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This Week in Social Media – 5/29/2013

Social Media Marketing

Not too surprising is the fact uncovered by Forrester Research and Kenshoo, in which they found that more brands rely on branded pages (73%) than paid advertising (56%) on Facebook. The authors note that brands could be doing better by implementing targeted advertising. Stuck on how to use Google+? Image credit: hugovk (Flickr).

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Election 2.0 – List of social media election sites to watch.

Laurel Papworth

The ABC has done a hybrid site – not really a community conversation build but aggregating information from multiple communities. If your camera takes a GPS position (and a lot do) a map will also be displayed for the location of the brochure. is a bust – Advertising doesn’t work (7). Related posts.

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