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Twitter Rules vs. Community Values

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Some of these are legislated, and some of them simply come from community values. My rules are based on a combination of factors, like why I am on Twitter, my personal standard of ethics, my perception of community values, and Twitter’s TOS. Rules have numerous origins. There are both moral and legal proscriptions against murder.

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Is Blogging Killing Good Writing?

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I read a blog post today that recommended people forget what they learned in school about writing, and instead, write like they speak, and from the heart. Back to the blog post. If you’re blogging for fun, or to communicate with friends, or as a means of self expression, you should feel free to refer to Volkswagen Jettas as potatoes.

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Panel: Brand Management in the Social Media Jungle

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LizardBoy12 just posted your logo upside down in his latest blog post. Some companies have shied away from the social media arena while others have embraced it and swear it has created numerous opportunities for them to create brand awareness and communities of brand loyalists. Silicon Valley Brand Forum at Electronic Arts.

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Network World: SocialCorp “Must-Read” Social Media Book

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The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Blogs, News Releases, Online Video, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly , Second Edition by David Meerman Scott. The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web by Tamar Weinberg.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

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The concept that e-mail is in decline, rather than dead, is too complex for many bloggers, and the technique of declaring things “dead&# is a tried and true blog traffic generator. The CEO Needs to Blog. Similarly, today, many contend that a truly engaged CEO should have a blog, or ought to be on Twitter.

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Five Things to Do About Facebook Privacy Other Than Closing Your Account

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Use Facebook, Twitter, and your blog if you have one, to inform others of developments in Facebook’s ongoing privacy saga. If you keep your Facebook account, and do these things, you’ll have much more positive impact on your community than you would if you quit. Share a link. Express an opinion.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

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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.