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Why Facebook’s Community Pages Could Give Brands Headaches

Dave Fleet

Right now the content from the pages is pulled from Wikipedia (if available) and from your friends’ updates, so they’re often pretty bare but apparently Facebook plans to enable users to add content in the future. Let’s take Roots, for example (not where my friend works). The social network launched roughly 6.5

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Monday Roundup: Moving Forward

Waxing UnLyrical

Bryce uses the examples of Weight Watchers, SiriusXM, and Encyclopedia Britannica to illustrate why sacrificing some revenue by offering a free product to compete with services such as FitBit, Pandora, and Wikipedia can contribute to companies moving forward rather than behind. How to Apologize Like a Boss.

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9 Criteria For Selecting A Social Media Agency

Dave Fleet

Good agencies will not only provide a way to manage the inter-agency relationship, but provide examples of times they’ve worked productively with other agencies to achieve the best possible results from the client. Look for these examples and for their suggestions on how to work collaboratively with your other agencies.

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Free Culture and Attention as Currency

Waxing UnLyrical

Most web assets from the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google, Tumblr, Foursquare and a gazillion others appear to be free, opening floodgates of content, ranging from the genius of Wikipedia/ Ushahidi to the apparently innocuous LOLcats. we imply an Open Source culture, where the ratio of creators to consumers is shooting up faster than ever.

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11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

To have credibility, you need to have other people in your field willing and able to testify to your competence. People will expect you to back up your brand with the truth, so when you fail to perform, they immediately begin to question your competence. Rather than stay in your own zone all the time, get out there and meet people.

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What makes an effective knowledge worker? (Gurteen Knowledge)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Books Amazon.com Books Wikipedia Collegiate Dictionary Collegiate Thesaurus Daypop Google Google Images Gurteen Hotbot HyperDictionary Translate to French Translate to German Translate to Italian Translate to Portuguese Translate to Spanish Yahoo. How does someone learn not to need praise for example and just how important an attribute is it?

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6 Innovative Digital Marketing Tools for 2024

Convince & Convert

For example, if the majority of URLs ranking in the top 20 for that keyword are articles, the “context” will be determined as informational. This is where there’s an official site,gov page, Wikipedia (in most cases), etc. Keyword Insights also uses a proprietary “ Keyword Context ” metric. Smart competitor’s identification.

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