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JULY 21, 2010

Facebook substantially degrades image quality that are posted into a feed and merely linking to a piece of content is not infringing on it — if anything, it promotes it. Now if importing a feed of content (e.g. Wikipedia has a good explanation of it ( [link] ).

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MARCH 23, 2010

They were all friends of the host, nervously alternating between drinking Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers, and trying not to break anything. If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As At first, you knew everyone at the party.

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JULY 14, 2010

As our gracious host Jay Baer likes to say, “fight social media fire with social media water&#. Non-profits with limited resources must be cautious in choosing their pathway — likely more advantageous to initially work to engage existing shareholders which can set realistic parameters and limit the noise.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

That’s how people knew you on instant messenger, AOL chat rooms and a host of other places, including MySpace. We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. And that’s why your social media strategy must be tools-agnostic.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

The challenge is the fact that what companies are using to host these ‘faux’ conversations isn’t equipped to do so. I can’t even read all the blog feeds I get, let alone comment on 10 percent of the blogs. I actually wrote a post about that a while back, outlining my method for blog interaction.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook took a major (yet curiously underreported) move in this direction last week, when they enabled companies to publish to Facebook members’ news feeds for anyone that has “liked&# a Web page. If a user can have a single login and it all feeds to one spot (Facebook newsfeed or other place) it is powerful, period.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook took a major (yet curiously underreported) move in this direction last week, when they enabled companies to publish to Facebook members’ news feeds for anyone that has “liked&# a Web page. If a user can have a single login and it all feeds to one spot (Facebook newsfeed or other place) it is powerful, period.

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