Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 22, 2011

With Circles, you have greater privacy and targeted marketing abilities than you have with any other social networking service. Google+ allows you set the privacy setting for each aspect of your public profile. Google+ has an awesome video chat feature called Hangouts. Google+ is easy to use.

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Picasa Google Privacy Social Networking 175

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MAY 16, 2014

Establish trust by opt-in, privacy-led approaches where the customer chooses to share their data in exchange for rewards or discounts they are interested in. Privacy policies should be in print big enough to read, or the main points in bold plain language headlined over the legal jargon.

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Data Loyalty Policies Privacy 98

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AUGUST 13, 2011

This all comes at a bad time, depending on your viewpoint, for Facebook as it’s come under a lot of scrutiny for its many privacy issues and negative blow back from statements made from founder Mark Zuckerberg. Perhaps the biggest issue that Facebook has is its privacy.

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Google MySpace Privacy Forums 107

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MARCH 23, 2012

It’s an interesting argument – individual privacy versus a business’s right to know. Does that entitle them to invade someone’s privacy to protect that reputation? Most social media profiles don’t include actual employers. A business spends a lot of time and money developing a good reputation.

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Reputation Privacy Applications Social Media 114

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

There’s an interesting article on TechCrunch which, while discussing privacy issues related to Google+ and Facebook, also had this to say: Google’s PageRank algorithm is seriously out of date. Keith Teare, the article’s author, is right when it comes to the privacy issues facing social media.

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Content Forums Privacy Small Business 93

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Google+ has made the sign-up feature very simple, and they seem to have addressed privacy issues fairly reasonably. Users can choose all circles, some circles, or just themselves. Also, they can choose which members of their circles are visible to the website. Cynthia Boris at Marketing Pilgrim explains it all pretty well.

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Google Privacy Engineering Issues 102

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Privacy concerns aside, would a Facebook search engine change the landscape of search ? Facebook announced on Friday that you can now track your searches and delete them if you want. However, that feature hasn’t been rolled out to everyone at this time. But it is comforting to know it’s coming down the pike. Isn’t it?

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Baby boomers value privacy. Direct mail and print brochures can be a good investment IF you have identified this as a preferred contact. Remember to put anything you print on your site as content and link to it, and have your contact information updated. Do you agree with these observations?

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Comparison Buy Privacy Strategy 107

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AUGUST 12, 2011

Specifically, I talked about how Google+ has built in privacy features that Facebook doesn’t and how that could change the social media game. A few days ago I made some comparisons between Google+ and Facebook. But lately I’ve heard some comparisons between Google+ and Twitter. In fact, some Google+ users are abandoning Twitter.

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Google Twitter Comparison MySpace 98

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APRIL 6, 2011

Amazon’s leadership clearly has some clout, but controversies over privacy and several other issues around the world have caused many people to go sour on Google’s leadership even if they like the search product the company is leading its competition with.

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Small Business Reputation Case Study Press Release 93

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APRIL 11, 2011

PageRank Sculpting – A few SEOs taught a couple of years ago that you could increase your link popularity to your best pages by adding a nofollow attribute to links pointing to your terms of service and privacy policy pages. Don’t count on it, especially if your website has only 10 pages.

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SEO Widget NoFollow Case Study 93