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How Distributed Content Can Help Control Social Messaging

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What is distributed content and why should you know about it? Perhaps you’re familiar with the term “distributed content” ( content that is published to third-party platforms rather than to an owned website). Distributed content is an effective way to have more control over your social messaging.

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Employee Evangelists: Your Secret Social PR Weapon in a Crisis

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The highly mobile 21st century workforce seeks employment with companies that not only espouse, but actually practice, philanthropy, transparency and responsibility. Examples of natural partners include Nestle and Feeding America, DuPont and its STEM education initiatives, or P&G’s Children’s Safe Drinking Water program.

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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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Judging A Blog Post By Its Cover

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In other words, while your content might be fabulous in its essence, your reader is doing exactly what we grew up being told not to do: judge a book by its cover. In the digital world, that’s judging content by its ability to intrigue you in a split-second. I just get kicks out of mobile blogging w/ multimedia.

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Like Stuff On Facebook? Say Cheese, You're An Ad!

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.&# The unit will give brand-related action such as a “like&# or a check-in a lot more visibility on Facebook by adding them to an ad unit in addition to users’ news feeds. These “sponsored stories&# will only appear in the news feeds, and sidebar ads, of your Facebook friends, based on your privacy settings.

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Etsy's PR Nightmare: Greeting Cards Making Light Of Rape

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Walking the transparency talk I WAS going to write about something to do with online integrity, but, like many well-meaning bloggers, I got side-tracked by my Twitter feed. Etsy does not pre-screen users or the content or information provided by users.” “Use Seems simple enough, right? Thanks so much for stopping by WUL!

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6 Frequently Committed Content Marketing Mistakes That You Need to Be Aware Of

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Whether it’s web or social media or mobile apps, it’s still the content that dominates every digital space. With the proliferation of digital channels, there’s been an increased demand for content marketing. Simultaneous to this growth in demand, marketers also have made a lot of mistakes that pull down content marketing output.

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