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Thank you Google, for the Antithesis of a More Social Network

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Unless, of course, you are another Guru , pushed compulsively to opine on recycling and rehashing “content.&#. We agree mutually to allow someone to consume our feed of information, while consenting to consume theirs. That is, assuming we haven’t hidden/blocked them from News Feeds. Fair enough? (By

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Tweet After Death: How to Use Social Media to Live Forever [Redux]

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There has been talk of how we should manage profiles of people who pass away , penalizing certain feeds for immoral behavior , even post-death management of your accounts similar to a will. There are stories here and there of feeds automatically updating by retweeting on automated settings.

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Free Culture and Attention as Currency

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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. Fifty years ago, when content producers were a privileged club, the ratio was probably 1:10 million.

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How Google Instant Might Impact Your Small Non-Profit

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Image: Greig Christie via Flickr, Creative Commons Since Google Instant’s launch just over a month ago, digital marketers have been scrambling to figure out how search engine marketing strategies might need to change. Bing offers an excellent guide on how to optimize sites (PDF) for its search engine. received 13 percent.

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Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News

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This isn’t another overview post about how to search engine optimize a news release. Yet I often find that communicators don’t realize that priorities for SEO for Google News are actually slightly different than SEO for Google’s main search engine. Write original, timely, relevant content , says Google (heard this one before ?).

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What I Learned from My TestMasters (And TheGreensheet) #SocialMadness Experience

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They came into the tournament with a fairly robust Facebook page , a Twitter feed with good momentum, and a new but fast evolving LinkedIn profile. The company started the tournament with a big Facebook presence, a modest Twitter feed and a small presence on LinkedIn. Global, which sells beauty products and services.

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How Pink Panties Heralded India's Social Media Movement

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With the number of dialects numbering over a thousand, these invite customized content delivery. Amrit Pal is an undergraduate engineering student at BITS Pilani in Goa, India. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. India is the cradle of regional languages.