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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

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Of course there are many reasons these people are influential, but a very basic reason is that they are creating original content somewhere other than Twitter. Please share your experiences launching your blog, or ask a question, by leaving a comment below. Who do you see most often retweeted? Guy Kawasaki. Robert Scoble.

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Goldman Sachs Story Highlights Classic PR Blunder

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‘Of course we didn’t dodge the mortgage mess,’ he wrote. Blankfein, the bank’s chief executive, acknowledged in November 2007 that the firm had lost money initially. But it later recovered by making negative bets, known as short positions, to profit as housing prices plummeted. A company must be truthful.

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Microworkers Paid Less Than a Penny for Writing

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In addition to facilitating this process, ShortTask often has questionable tasks like paying for positive product reviews and blog comments, Diggs, Twitter followers , etc. Of course this is for regular employees, not contractors. Some of the inevitable byproducts of this trend are: Devaluation of good writing, research and analysis.

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