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The Results of Buffer’s Build Week: Introducing our Open Beta Program and new Transparent Roadmap (+16 More Projects)

Buffer Social

Announcing a New Open Beta Program and Feedback Hub With so many new things being built, it made us wonder; how can we get our community more involved? We decided to add two new Buffer tools to help our community shape the Buffer product. We decided to add two new Buffer tools to help our community shape the Buffer product.

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7 Tips for Staying on Top of the Social Wave

Direct Marketing Observations

1) Look for more content to be produced by “others”. This means look for the rise of the professional content creators masking as citizen journalists. 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.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

Socialized

Location-Based Applications Will Dissolve Into General Social Networks. Location-based applications like Foursquare and Brightkite will not be the darlings of social media as some predict, but will instead turn into features and dissolve into general social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

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Ethics in Social Media: A Glossary | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

When you are conversing on social networks, how, what, and when do you disclose your business relationship? She didn’t last long, as the community questioned her extreme statements and Jeremiah Owyang (a Forrester Analyst) contacted Exxon directly for comment. (I See “Astroturfing&# above for more.