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How Social Is Your Company, Really?

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Your company is truly social, isn’t it? Being social, or being engaged with consumers, is a deep cultural attitude that a company either has or doesn’t have. Company Contact Info. Do you have company social media contact info (your Twitter, Facebook, etc. Do you have a company blog? Contact forms suck.

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FTC to Penalize Questionable Blogging Practices

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Specifically, the agency now requires bloggers to disclose relationships with sponsors, whether the blogger is paid or merely receives “free” products and services; and for celebrities to disclose their paid relationships with sponsors. an advertiser hires a blogger to test out and then review a new body lotion.

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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. Gizmodo, for example, responded with Email is Dead? E-mail is far from dead, particularly in large companies.

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Who Are Your Twitter Fab Five?

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Vruz is an example of what makes Twitter amazing: You’ll meet people from different walks of life, half way around the world, that you would never have met IRL. She’s one of the auto industry’s best observers and bloggers. Christopher’s web site “showcases the letters he writes to luminaries and companies with their responses.”

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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

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Here are a handful of the many reasons a blog gives you more control and more power: With a blog, you control the agenda, whether you’re communicating on behalf of a company, or for personal reasons. Your blog can cater to a sub-group of your Twitter friends or a different audience altogether.

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Live Tweeting Requires Ethical and Legal Considerations

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Last year, the Associated Press announced it would “attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.’s Who knows — it could lead someone to buy my book or choose to engage my company. ’s copyright.”.

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