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Google Settles with FTC over Deceptive Privacy Practices Related to Google Buzz Social Network

Bill Hartzer

Google today has officially agreed to settle charges by the United States Federal Trade Commission that Google used “deceptive tactics&# and “violated its own privacy promises to consumers&# when Google launched their social network called Google Buzz , in 2010. For those Gmail users who clicked on “Sweet!,”

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Time To Evolve How We Target Social Media?

Dave Fleet

As social networks become more and more prevalent, we’re at the point now that almost every client brief appears to point, on its surface, to one of a few key networks. Using just a demographic rationale, you could propose similar social media campaigns for all of them.

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Interactive posts for social media: how to approach and engage your audience

Visually SM

Therefore, amid the decline in the engagement of social networks such as Facebook and Instagram — with their mysterious algorithms —, it became necessary to invest more and more in a format capable of holding attention, which would result in positive metrics for the success of a page. Segment content for each social media.

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31 free social media templates that will elevate your workflows

Sprout Social

There are social media templates available for virtually any task you can think of—from content production to reporting to team onboarding. Consider this: When you spend an hour formatting a spreadsheet, you’re losing an hour that you could have spent on your social media marketing strategy. Download the template 4.

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Hiring a Social Media or Digital Marketing Agency? Answer These 10 Questions First

Pam Moore

Many business leaders struggle with budget allocation for social media and digital marketing. They think that if they contact a ton of different agencies and request proposals from as many agencies as they can, that they will eventually get a proposal that is low price and delivers higher value than all the rest.

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Laws to Stop Customers and Voters from Doing #SocialMedia Activism Campaigns #TPP

Laurel Papworth

Here’s the proposed legal changes. Illegal: Better Roads Chalk Social Media Campaign. The NSW Parliament has this month proposed a new law outlawing graffiti on NSW sidewalks. Is it a coincidence that the new anti-chalk laws are proposed a month or two after AAA aggressive election campaign to get more funding?

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

Socialized

Location-Based Applications Will Dissolve Into General Social Networks. Location-based applications like Foursquare and Brightkite will not be the darlings of social media as some predict, but will instead turn into features and dissolve into general social networks like Facebook and Twitter.