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On Influence and Bad Blog Posts

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I like differing opinions, thoughts and comments. The second, I will refer to this definition from Wikipedia. A spam blog , sometimes referred to by the neologism splog , [1] is a blog which the author uses to promote affiliated websites, to increase the search engine rankings of associated sites or to simply sell links/ads.

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Protecting Children from Social Media

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Do some of the following questions and comments sound familiar? Though the above graphic refers to adults, children are not too far off from this model. This graphic by Forrester Research, refers to the types of people that hang out in communities and what they do in those communities. Comment on YouTube. Create a song.

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What Was Your Enchanted Moment?

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The space I’m referring to specifically is the digital/social media, online marketing space. I commented and they commented back. I’d like to think that we’ve all had “enchanted&# moments in this space. I have had at least two, maybe three. Moment #1 possibly occurred when I built my first website.

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The relationship viewed as transactional

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On January 8th Mark Zuckerberg the founder and CEO of Facebook made the following comment: If he were to create Facebook again today, user information would by default be public, not private… Here is the full blown article as found on ReadWriteWeb: Facebook’s Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over.

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