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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After having read the immensely resourceful book, The Facebook Effect , I’m starting to understand how our world is changing thanks to social networks. You couldn’t join Facebook unless you had a college email address on a particular school’s domain, much to their prospective advertisers’ chagrin.

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10 Tips For Taking A Vacation From Social Media

SocMed Sean

Believe me, it’s difficult to resist the temptation to check your Facebook feed, especially when you have your phone out to search Google Maps for the closest coffee shop. We use them for online boarding passes, restaurant locators, maps/directions to popular tourist destinations, and leveraging the phone for GPS.

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The Marketing Moral Compass

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While too many people try to strike it rich on Facebook and Twitter , the true value of social media is how it acts as a truth serum for brands. But, it is different times and a business'' success in marketing has a direct correlation to its financial health and walking the line, as Johnny Cash would put it. Changing the marketing game.

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Five Marketing Metrics that are Definitely NOT “Worthless”

Webbiquity SMM

.” But that criteria would ignore many “interim” metrics that, while not directly bottom-line related in and of themselves, are important guideposts to designing and executing financially successful marketing plans—similar to the way a pilot may use GPS or visual landmarks. ” Twitter Followers. Social Mentions.

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How to Leverage a Community of Passionate Fans

Convince & Convert

Many casual users of Garmin may only know them as a GPS company, but the truth is that Garmin has been around much longer than the portable GPS has been available, working on equipment for aviation, marine, outdoor recreation, and fitness industries. Next week on Social Pros, we’ll be chatting with Alix Hart from Best Buy.

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The Year Of More

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Through mobile (which are GPS-enabled) and other innovations, there will be a much bigger push to deliver services to the consumer where they physically are in much more effective ways. Look no further than your weekly Best Buy circular to see how almost all new television sets are what they are calling "Internet ready" (aka networked).

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity SMM

Facebook can be a wonderful platform for sharing information, but also a playground for narcissists. Facebook in particular is notorious for privacy issues. Probably better shared over a beer with your buddies than with the world on Facebook or Twitter. Google “Facebook spam&# and you’ll get 246 million results.