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Building Trust: A Relationship is Not a Newsletter Opt-In

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Wouldn’t it be safer, for the sake of maintaining the integrity of your business name or your personal brand, to ask permission first? They understand that the boundaries of the “human world&# have not disappeared in the virtual world. Why should you do now, apologize later ? They see dollar signs.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Lesson # 1 Personal Branding. Dan Schawbel , EMCs first social media specialist, returned to Bentley College to do a presentation about personal branding and social media. Among other things, personal branding involves an understanding that you have a public image (whether you want to or not). Workshop at Bentley.

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Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

Webbiquity SMM

of respondents said they’d be either somewhat less likely or far less likely to buy from that brand.” Meanwhile, dating websites and virtual worlds (e.g. Companies Should Communicate Via Social Media by MediaPost Onlne Media Daily. .” Second Life) are reportedly among the least popular online activities.

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The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Don’t do in the virtual world what you would not do in the real world. Reply megan August 3, 2010 at 6:10 am This is a helpful article.Social media as it means being ‘social’ You don’t want to do things over virtual world what you don’t want to do in real world.

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