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7 Tips for Staying on Top of the Social Wave

Direct Marketing Observations

Think of Wal Mart or Astroturfing. Information posted publicly on blogs, Facebook , Twitter , forums and other sites is fair game. They will blur the lines so much-you won’t know where the value lies. We used to marvel at UGC, but what is it when large organization start to pass their content off as UGC? Get serious about mobile.

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Adventures in Social Networking with Mom and Dad | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

Oscar Del Santo´s last blog. ORM and the Dark Side: Astroturfing, Flogging and the Viral Marketing Campaign that never was Reply Irene Koehler says: September 18, 2009 at 3:32 pm You’re absolutely right. I think in the years to come we are going to witness many more amusing interactions of the kind depicted here.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

Socialized

Many enterprises are launching blogs on TypePad or WordPress and building social networks and communities on third-party software or developing it from the ground up using Ruby-on-Rails.

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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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5 Attributes of a Healthy, Real-Time Culture

Convince & Convert

Sadly, Astroturf didn’t.). ————– This is the first in a 7-week blog post series covering themes included in The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter, and More Social - my new book with Amber Naslund , debuting February 1 (pre-orders and first chapter for free available now).

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Experiment: Do Photos With People Perform Better on Instagram?

Hootsuite

But why rely on a gut instinct, when we have a whole special column here on the Hootsuite blog devoted to rigorously testing these suspicions? Astroturf.). Well, the hunch of many a social media manager is that pictures of people perform better than those without. Sorry, landscape photogs.). The secret?

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