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Is Social Currency Counterfeit?

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Now I’m pulling this next blurb from Vivaldi Partners via wikipedia but pay attention to it: Vivaldi Partners defined social currency as the extent to which people share the brand or information about the brand as part of their everyday social lives at work or at home. Check out this image. .

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This week’s #Socialmedia Tweetchat Topic: Social and the New Model For Market Segmentation #sm48

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This week’s discussion is around market segmentation and how social can change how we approach it. Market segmentation is more than what markers do with homogeneous products before deciding which actress to use in the commercial to best reach a desired consumer group. Q1) Is traditional market segmentation still relevant?

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On Influence and Bad Blog Posts

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The second, I will refer to this definition from Wikipedia. You see a compelling blog title tweeted, you click on it and it’s end up being something that you might wrap your dead fish in.

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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

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Wikipedia posted its three millionth article. In just 10 years, our century-old mass-market media model has given way to a new structure dominated by the economics of one. Customers now take their opinions directly to the market. The contraction of mass-market media has brought plenty of pain. The statistics go on and on.

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Children, Parents and Social Media, the need for education

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123people.com -123people is a real time people search tool that looks into nearly every corner of the web to find comprehensive and centralized people related information consisting of images, videos, phone numbers, email addresses, social networking and Wikipedia profiles. UsernameCheck.com Similar to Knowem. Facebook.com/help/?safety-Facebook

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Todays #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: The Social Media RFP: How to Get the Best Results

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As stated in Wikipedia, an RFP is: “is an invitation for suppliers, often through a bidding process, to submit a proposal on a specific commodity or service. I tend to disagree however as it allows you to understand the market better and, done correctly, will provide additional direction for your RFP.

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Social Media thought leader infographs

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wikipedia) Ironically, look at this “other&# definition: In Western usage, the meaning of guru has been extended to cover anyone who acquires followers, though not necessarily in an established school of philosophy or religion. Do you know what the definition of a guru is? A guru ( Sanskrit : ????)