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Top 10 Ways Hackers Can Steal Your Personal Identity and How to Prevent Them from Doing So

The Realtime Report

Consumers are often asked to share valuable personal data in order to receive goods and services, and these exchanges increasingly occur online. Here we take a closer look at what methods criminals use to hack into people’s data in order to steal their IDs. Bad actors will create websites with similar URLs to mislead you.

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5 Ways To Grow Your Customer Relationships Through Social Selling

Convince & Convert

Using data capturing and tracking technology makes it easier to qualify prospects and understand when they’re more ready and open for conversation. Campaign URL builders and short URL providers . SMS Messaging . Trackable Touchpoints . But in digital, we can get close with the right tools in place.

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Does QR stand for Quasi-Ridiculous? (an analysis)

Convince & Convert

From a branding and behavior likelihood perspective (the QR code dwarfs the URL, which is more likely to be used), this is misplaced design priorities, Exhibit A. The ginormous headline doesn’t explain anything , and the body copy talks about $75, $300 and includes an asterisk, a URL, two font colors and capitalization on Vacation Pay.

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How to Make a QR Code for Your Web Site

Bill Hartzer

The information encoded can be text, URL or other data. Enter the URL, Text that you want displayed, a Phone Number, or even an SMS (a message). The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. QR really means “Quick Response&#. First, go here: [link]. Generate it.

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Joker Malware Is Back – Here’s What You Need to Know To Stay Protected

Tweaklibrary

The main purpose of this spyware is to silently sign up victims for premium wireless application protocol (WAP) services, steal contact lists, SMS messages, and device information. When these infected applications are launched permission for notification access is asked, this helps get notification and SMS data via the notification.

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Social Media Tools, Apps, Resources and Plugins

Harp Interactive

HootSuite features it’s own URL shortner ow.ly shorten long URLs (using digg.com , bit.ly , snurl , twurl or is.gd ). It works over the data network, so you don’t need to use SMS. So you can subscribe to updates for any webpage simply by typing the URL into the “Add a subscription” text box.

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Greenpeace's Unfriend Coal Campaign Calls Facebook A "So Coal" Network

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Branding Outside The Box | Main September 17, 2010 Greenpeaces Unfriend Coal Campaign Calls Facebook A "So Coal" Network Greenpeace rolled out the  Unfriend Coal Campaign after Facebook chose coal to power its data center in Oregon.

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