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Bloggers: Would You Rather Be First Or Right?

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To all my blogger friends, I would love to hear opinions on whether it is more responsible for us to be right vs. first when reporting information. Is speculation okay? Is it useful? So, can we just apply the same tenets of journalism to blogging? –Sean Share this on Facebook Tweet This! Email this to a friend?

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Pinterest Revises Their Terms Of Useā€¦But Are The Changes Enough?

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While Pinterest has not adjusted the Terms of Use placing the liability on the user, they are rolling out tools to help report infringement and, hopefully, this will make it easier to get content removed. The onus, however, is still on the Copyright holder to locate their shared content on Pinterest and report it.

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Shifting Focus From The Traditional Marketing Funnel To Personalized Messaging Using Social Media

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In their article Friending The Social Consumer , Nielsen reports that: More than 40% of consumers go online to check reviews and consumer feedback before purchasing consumer electronics. 60% of those going online have visited a social network, with half going back everyday according to Facebook. Email this to a friend?

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Social Media Ostriches ā€“ The Corporate Hypocrisy Of Blocking Employee Access To Facebook and Twitter

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There have been quite a few situations where folks on Twitter have reported news before the local or national news outlets. Earthquakes , plane crashes , even (ironically) the closing of the Rocky Mountain News are all news items that are being scooped by Twitter before being reported in traditional media. Email this to a friend?

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BrainDump: 101+ Things You MUST Know About Social Media For Business

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Social Bookmarking Sites (Digg, Delicious, Technorati, etc.) 95) ShareBar is great tool, but it hasn’t been updated for quite a while and some are reporting issues with it. If you are marketing hammers, they had better be hammers that are attractive to women as consumers. There are so many other places to spend your time.