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The 2012 Social Networking Privacy Policy

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If you were to do a Google search for some of the top social networking sites , you’ll almost certainly stumble across a news story concerning privacy issues with user data. In a sub-page Foursquare calls “Privacy 101,” the plan and purpose of users’ privacy is laid out simply. Guest post by Athena Newton.

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

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I’ve always found Foursquare a bit creepy; turns out there’s actually an app named Creepy that aggregates “GPS coordinates for any user (of geolocation services like Foursquare, Twitter and Flickr), pointing out their most frequented hangouts on a map…Essentially, it’s a stalker’s dream app.&#

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50 (of the) Best Social Media Guides, Tips and Insights of 2011 (So Far)

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Greg Jarboe lists nine helpful rules for video marketing, such as “Rule 1: YouTube marketing is the new video marketing…YouTube gets more than 86 percent of visits to 77 video sites in this country.&# (Hulu, at #2, gets less than 4% of visits.) percent of viewers discovered videos by going to a video site (i.e.,

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Best Web Presence Optimization Guides and Tips of 2011

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Derek Gordon notes that “From newsletters to advertising, PR to social media, it’s no secret that a good marketing strategy leverages every available channel to drive traffic to Web sites…And all it really takes is (an) old mantra: work together,” and supplies some excellent tips for what is, effectively, WPO.

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33 (of the) Best Social Media Guides, Tips and Resoures of 2012 So Far

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Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the web, so getting exposure there is incredibly valuable. But the site is not of course, and shouldn’t be, a marketing tool. Claiming that Pinterest is “not ‘just another social media site. How to create and edit articles for Wikipedia by Web Ink Now. ** 5 STARS.

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106 More Amazing Social Media and Marketing Statistics for 2014 and 2015

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Among the largest social media sites, YouTube drives the most highly engaged website traffic (with visitors overall spending on average nearly four minutes and visiting three pages on target sites), followed in order by Google+, LinkedIn and Twitter. And yet – 80% of brands advertised on social media sites in 2014.

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101 Vital Social Media and Digital Marketing Statistics for (the Rest of) 2013

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Three-fourths of marketers planned to increase strategic efforts on social media and social networking sites this year, with 68% also focusing more on SEO and 63% on blogs. As universal as business use of social media can seem to be, 26% of companies still block access to social media sites in their workplaces. eMarketer ). Pamorama ).