Direct Marketing Observations

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The Social Media Pitfall of Assumptive Collaboration

Direct Marketing Observations

The first was instead of creating “a website&# we decided to create it in WordPress so that we would have the latitude to “turn on&# commenting for starters. I had suggested Worpress and a specific WordPress developer. Disqus is a great product for those with social profiles who bop around a lot from site to site.

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The Problem with the Social Web

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I’m generalizing blogs, but if you insist, I could go with WordPress, Typepad and Blogger. I see things being created that are offshoots of the basic premise of connecting, sharing and communicating-but nothing that is transformational. “Come join our community and learn more about us&#. The point is this.

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Protecting Children from Social Media

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This graphic by Forrester Research, refers to the types of people that hang out in communities and what they do in those communities. Create a blog on WordPress. Though the above graphic refers to adults, children are not too far off from this model. We are, and even more importantly they are, in the digital age. Create a song.