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Facebook Eavesdropping Patent and Congress Questions

Laurel Papworth

Why does Facebook have patents to listen (eavesdrop) through the microphone for ambient sound if they are only using it for uploading your video? Mr Zuckerberg Facebook submitted a patent 7 years ago to listen to background noise (ambient waveforms) for the purposes of delivering content. Facebook Eavesdropping Patent #1.

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9 Proven Ways to Improve Your Facebook Marketing

Rebekah Radice

Are you using Facebook to market your business, but struggling to create momentum? But there are proven ways to improve your Facebook marketing results. In this article, I’m going to share a Facebook marketing strategy you can’t afford to miss. 9 Proven Ways to Improve Your Facebook Marketing.

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How Social Media Has Become a Tool For Clinical Research

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Powerhouse networks like Facebook and Twitter can be used to promote specific trials to targeted demographics while significantly lowering the cost per patient. At the same time, there are close to 2 million pieces of content shared on Facebook everyday. Additional recruitment costs. Termination of the trial.

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Case Study and Lessons Learned: App Product Launch and Awareness

Akamai Marketing

At a City of Honolulu sponsored hackathon, a citizen developed a mobile app, DaBus, which adds functionality to the bus system with GPS tracking and to the minute updates on bus schedules and locations. A Facebook page was developed, it wasn’t actively utilized for the short campaign. Results: 958,399 Social Impressions.

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Has Social Media Killed Off Privacy?

Laurel Papworth

What with Tom Tom selling our GPS data to the police that then book us for speeding, and facial recognition connecting our faces to our social networks and the privacy implications that entails, are we thinking enough about the big issues in our rush to upload, tag and share content in online communities?

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How to Leverage a Community of Passionate Fans

Convince & Convert

Jake Jacobson , Social Media Manager at Garmin , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to reveal Garmin’s Youtility-esque goals when it comes to social media and customer service, plus how Garmin has been able to educate its wide and dedicated fan base through specialized content. Please Support Our Sponsors.

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Five Marketing Metrics that are Definitely NOT “Worthless”

Webbiquity SMM

.” But that criteria would ignore many “interim” metrics that, while not directly bottom-line related in and of themselves, are important guideposts to designing and executing financially successful marketing plans—similar to the way a pilot may use GPS or visual landmarks. ” Twitter Followers. Social Mentions.

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