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6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace | facebook | Social.

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MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. But back to MySpace.

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Social Media Lawsuits Protect Yourself From Them | Guest Posts.

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A Policy of Protection While speaking recently to a room full of ad agency folks, I asked the audience if they had a social media policy in place for their staff. If your team uses social media at work, particularly for clients, you’ve got to have a policy. The FTC encourages social media policies be in place and reviewed.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Developers can completely bypass Apple’s money-grubbing, dictatorial policies. More and more I'm seeing sentiments like: 'Developers can completely bypass Apple’s money-grubbing, dictatorial policies.&# These Web-based “apps&# can then be bookmarked on the iphone and run like a normal iphone app. This is a big deal.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Why not work with small businesses and those affected most by this policy change to find something that would work better for them that does not complicate the process or require a substantial financial investment? I think people opted for FB over MySpace because of so many of the reasons people are becoming disenchanted with FB right now.

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6 Required Competencies for Social Organizations | Conferences and.

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You must take the time to build a cross-functional team in your organization, and figure out your policies and procedures. What can your employees do in terms of being “ accidental marketers &# for the brand? Otherwise, you’ll never be able to move fast enough if you’re trying to ponder your options in real-time.

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Kevin Rose is Digg's Biggest Hypocrite » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Infraction #1 : Digg’s FAQ (Submitting Section, Question #3) says that duplicate submissions are bannable violations. At the time they took the user comments seriously, but a few revolts later they decided that sweeping things under the carpet is a better policy. Answers Yahoo! Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Myspace also. Think out a policy and develop a strategy! [.] Myspace also. link] 6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace | Collin Condray's WordPress.com Blog [.] The 7 Steps to Creating a Social Media Strategy Before you begin, commit to worrying about social media tools last, not first. They always do.