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Thumper’s Rule – Knowing When And How To Avoid An Online Argument

SocMed Sean

'Angry bird puts a lid on it' courtesy of etee on Flickr via Creative Commons license If you’re engaged in social media for either personal or professional purposes (and if you’re reading this, I’m betting you are), there’s an important skillset and rule that you might want to think about: The art of not replying.

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Your Blog Stinks! You Should Quit!

SocMed Sean

Photo courtesy of functoruser on Flickr via Creative Commons license. If your blog is for your company or organization, maybe it’s time to find a way to connect with your customers. Photo courtesy of skpy on Flickr via Creative Commons license. Use your blog to help you readers solve problems.

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You Ruined the Internet for the Rest of Us. Thank You.

Firebelly

What this means is that companies and individuals who were doing it the right way all along were able to fill the vacuum left by the Google Panda victims being flushed down the crapper where it belonged. Photo credit: ajc1 (Flickr, Creative Commons). Thank you very much. It means now we can get some real marketing done.

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Shhh…Don’t Tell. You Can Still Post Your Tweets To Other Platforms

SocMed Sean

Shhh… photo courtesy of Sarah G on Flickr via Creative Commons license. For a company that is engaged in the business of social media (which means sharing things), they recently restricted how developers can use their API. Recently, Twitter has been behaving pretty anti-socially with their data.

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Kpop Lessons: Handling Defamation Through Public Relations

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: twchoi11 via Flickr , Creative Commons Though I wouldn’t consider myself as devoted as some fan clubs. In 2008, investment and securities trading company Bear Sterns was forced to sell itself to JP Morgan Chase for $10 a share after rumors were spread about the company going bankrupt.

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Picture This

Social Media Marketing

There are a number of great resources that are either low-cost or free: Flickr The grand-daddy of all image sites. Flickr is a very powerful community with millions of photos at your disposal. A note about using Flickr photos: if you plan to embed a Flickr photo in your site, there are guidelines that you need to follow.

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Five Social Media Haters We Love To Hate

Firebelly

.” The IT Guy won’t allow social media in his company because of the security threats, even though he doesn’t actually have any real power to make money-making decisions like this. Photo credit: sokabs (Flickr, Creative Commons. And whether you tweeted about it later.