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Five Things to Do About Facebook Privacy Other Than Closing Your Account

Socialized

But we know they will, so until the climate changes, we need to understand the company’s stance, how we can protect ourselves, and how we can effect meaningful change. If you want regular updates, set up Google Reader or create a Google Alert on the words “Facebook&# and “privacy.&#. In the U.S.,

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Many companies partake in this “shiny toy syndrome&# and do it all without a plan or strategy in place. Do study your influencers Want to reach out to influencers ? Thing is, some people don’t really reach out correctly to influencers. Study your influencers out; don’t take the lazy path because you can.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Imagine the World

Kikolani

Klout for Business Aims to Help Brands Reach Social Influencers – At long last, Klout has rolled out its social-scoring service to businesses, allowing companies to better understand who their top influencers are online. Be sure to follow Kristi on Twitter , Facebook , and Google+. Business / Career.

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iGoogle Finished – what’s your favourite RSS Dashboard social media monitoring?

Laurel Papworth

I teach classes on social media monitoring – computer classes – and the students set up iGoogle to find and monitor Media, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, images, key influencers, keywords, CEO and brand mentions and so on. By the way, Google, the classrooms don’t always have Chrome, and it’s not a mobile course.

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This Week in Social Media – 6/12/2013

Social Media Marketing

If you''ve ever gotten pushback from an executive who thinks social media eats into productivity, perhaps you should help them understand what smokers are costing their company, in productivity, downtime and healthcare costs. Could Facebook be working on its own RSS reader ? Check out 10 facts about what people do on the web.

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17 Digital Marketing Experts Share Their Top Tips, Tricks, and Tools

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

And while I am not a consultant with the company, we have a partnership agreement that makes them a preferred vendor for Social Media Explorer and our companion learning site, Exploring Social Media. If a company has a passion for their products and team members, that should be allowed to be organically expressed on the web.

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Is Google becoming evil?

The Way of the Web

Given the high standards Google set for itself with the aims of indexing the world’s information, and the mantra of ‘Don’t Be Evil’, it’s likely we hold it to higher standards than most companies. Individuals can no longer have a basic sharing and following network within Google Reader.

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