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Book Review: The Social Media Strategist

Dave Fleet

” Not words you usually expect to associate with a social media book. For anyone who is looking for a solid primer on social media within corporations, though, those two words perfectly describe Christopher Barger’s book The Social Media Strategist: Build a Successful Program from the Inside Out. “Page turner.”

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The wine blogger kerfuffle

Sherrilynne Starkie

The issue of blogging ethics came to the fore recently when prominent Canadian wine blogger, Natalie MacLean was accused of copyright infringement by the US wine magazine, Palate Press. Trusting bloggers as journalists. Bloggers may be talented writers and enthusiastic about their subjects, but they are not professional journalists.

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Bloggers Block – When The Words Just Won’t Come

SocMed Sean

Blogger’s block sucks more. In my days of writing technical books , the easiest way for me to navigate writer’s block was to just take a break from my project, spend some time resting my brain, and then write something non-technical. Blogger’s block, on the other hand, is a bit more challenging.

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Are Blog Comments Dead? | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Are Blog Comments Dead? Written on July 30, 2010 by Justin Levy in blog , community , facebook , interactions , social media , twitter 23 Comments - Leave a comment! Sometimes the comments are even better than the post.

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One Last Comment About Blog Comments (Hint: They're Back)

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Sadly, I shut the commenting functionality on this blog down on April 16th of this year. In a strange twist of fate/timing the blog comments being shut off happened in and around the same time that the subject of commenting on blogs re-entered into the social media zeitgeist. How have you been? What did I say? was gone.

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Dear Blog Comment Spammer: I Think Your Comment Spam Tool is Broken

Bill Hartzer

Dear Blog Comment Spammer, who just left a comment on one of my recent blog posts: I think whatever software tool or script that you are using is broken. Whatever the reason, you should have noticed that none of the blog comments that are left on my blog actually allow outgoing links to websites. Can you tell? {. {I

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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. This is a favorite topic of mine, and is covered in my book. (In In fact the WOMMA graciously granted me permission to include the full text of their code in the book.)

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