Bare Feet Studios

JULY 8, 2009

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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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

I got hooked on the Star Tribune Twolves message board in 2002 and haven’t looked back. Although I don’t post very much at all these days, I still read the threads on Twolvescentral.com (Star Tribune kind of killed the boards) on my iPhone every day. If you have a photo gallery, it should be everywhere.

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Social Media Content Analysis Sports 120

Proactive Report

JUNE 25, 2010

Blogging: 22% of Fortune 500 have a corporate blog. 500 have a corporate blog. 51% of colleges and universities’ admissions offices maintain a blog for their schools. 51% of colleges’ and universities’ admission departments have a blog. . • 51% of colleges’ and universities’ admission departments have a blog.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

“Participating in social media isn’t just about creating a page, making a blog post, posing a question, or tweeting. Eventful, Meetup, Upcoming, etc.). Forums and Message Boards (the oldest and second-most commonly used forms of social media). Social Events (e.g.,

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Same with the message board trolls, who are all too easy to overlook in favor of bloggers and Twitterers. link] Michelle Johnson Influencers- [link] [link] Chris Syme Good blog post by Jay Baer's on Finding Influential Customers. It’s entirely possible she is a Mass Influencer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

In my upcoming book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web ( Amazon link ), which is slated to be released in late Spring, I talk about the importance of brand evangelism as part of an effective community management strategy. Perhaps we will see better “strategy&# and less “campaign&# in the future?

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Bare Feet Studios

OCTOBER 7, 2009

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