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7 Tips for Staying on Top of the Social Wave

Direct Marketing Observations

Think of Wal Mart or Astroturfing. 3) Mobile will be THE social platform.The global mobile market is expected to reach $1 trillion by 2015. Get serious about mobile. Get serious about mobile. Information posted publicly on blogs, Facebook , Twitter , forums and other sites is fair game. Your competitors?

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Ethics in Social Media: A Glossary | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

The FTC is looking into the practice as well, as I blogged about here and here. One of the better known cases was “Janet&# who created a Twitter profile for Exxon Mobile. Character Blogs or Personas - these are blogs that are written by an alias or an obvious person who is not real. Flogs – aka Fake Blogs.