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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. Do any of these examples sound familiar? If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed !

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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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Experiment: Do Photos With People Perform Better on Instagram?

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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.). Let’s find out. Get the templates now!

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