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7 Tips for Staying on Top of the Social Wave

Direct Marketing Observations

We used to marvel at UGC, but what is it when large organization start to pass their content off as UGC? 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.

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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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5 Attributes of a Healthy, Real-Time Culture

Convince & Convert

That’s far too much responsibility to place on the shoulders of one strata of an organization. To move as fast as you’ll need to, you must develop a healthy, real-time culture that pervades all corners of your organization. As scale increases culture becomes harder to disseminate throughout an organization. Reward Systems.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

Socialized

A few AR applications have been rolled out by progressive marketers and other organizations this year, but 2010 will be the year AR explodes. 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.