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Social Media Stock Talk: Five Reasons to Buy Facebook

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The biggest news in the history of social media took place Friday when Facebook had its IPO, becoming the biggest social name ever to join the public market. What has surprised me a bit is the amount of negative comments in the Facebook conversation. Facebook is the standard. Facebook is buying like crazy.

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How Facebook Could Become Irrelevant

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After surpassing 1 billion users this past month, Facebook has become an institution that appears to have some staying power. But there is a lingering issue that threatens Facebook’s dominance even more than advertising revenue and stockholder discontent. I’m a grown-up and I’m on Facebook. And so is my mom.

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Could the Survival of Facebook Depend on Its Privacy?

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Facebook stock is not doing very well. Some are even beginning to question whether Mark Zuckerberg can continue as the leader of Facebook (somewhere, the Winklevoss twins are howling with laughter). In the past, I’ve made the argument that your privacy is not Facebook’s responsibility, and I still believe that.

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Should You Brand Your Business Email Address?

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I have clients right now who use their personal email addresses for work, and have seen quite a few other iterations of a business name incorporated into a popular email provider, e.g. “MyBusiness” [a] yahoo [dot] com. So I posed the question on Twitter and Facebook to see what others think. Before and after.

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The Right Way to Build Your Email List

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One of the first things I learned was that you can use something like Yahoo! Mail to consolidate all of your email contacts from Facebook and Gmail, and I already knew you could export email addresses from LinkedIn. Jim explained that email services such as Yahoo! If people mark your email as spam, you’re toast.

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How Google Instant Might Impact Your Small Non-Profit

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Seven Tips for Adapting to Google Instant Regardless of whether you are a small non-profit or a larger organization, there are a few steps you can take to prepare for possible affects over time resulting from Google Instant: Don’t forget about Bing and Yahoo! received 13 percent. Click here to try reconnecting the live stream. | pts Settings.

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

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Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Like Stuff On Facebook? 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.

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