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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

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If you’re relying on Twitter as your social media hub, you’re limiting your potential for impact and influence. Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). A blog is less dominated by spam than Twitter.

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Please Comment on WOMMA’s Ethics Code

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The Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA ) is seeking public comments on its Ethics Code until January 5. If you are involved with any business use of social media (which includes blogging), you should review the code and make suggestions. For some, the business ethics of social media present a quandary.

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Five Easy Steps to Social Media Karma

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It's a tough world out there, and you, as a regular user of social media and social networks, have the chance, every day, to make a difference in someone's life. Here are just five suggestions for how to do that: Leave a comment on a friend's blog. Commenter identity systems have.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

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Social media, particularly its use in business communications, is still in its early days, and like anything new and different, there’s plenty of mythology surrounding it. and went on to cite statistics that show both e-mail and social networking use on the increase. The CEO Needs to Blog. But its reign is over.”.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Here are my five social media predictions for 2010. Location-Based Applications Will Dissolve Into General Social Networks. Oracle has Beehive , Microsoft has added social capabilities to SharePoint , SocialText is in the enterprise, as is IBM’s Lotus Connections , but no category killer has emerged.

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Six Social Media Predictions for 2010

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About a month ago, I wrote about my five social media predictions for 2010. Based on the comments the piece received, I’ve updated it and Talent Zoo published it this morning. They search social network profiles on Facebook, Twitter, etc.; 2010 is about two weeks away after all.

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FTC to Penalize Questionable Blogging Practices

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finally stepped up and issued new regulations affecting commercial use of social media. The pending changes to the guidelines have been made available for public comment for some time, and were discussed in detail by J. The new Guides document is 81 pages long. Thomas Rosch payola.

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