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Nov. 13, 2009

Amber Naslund researched social media job vacancies and, among her findings, wrote:
In my research, I saw several job descriptions (most, frankly) that focused heavily on how social media benefited or could impact the company and their aims to be better known. They were largely focused on tactics and tools, and few actually referenced anything from [...]

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Who Owns the Content?

Oct. 11, 2009

“The aggregators and plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content. But if we do not take advantage of the current movement toward paid content, it will be the content creators, the people in this hall, who will pay the ultimate price and the content kleptomaniacs who triumph.”
Such are [...]

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Why Social Media is a Fad

Sep. 2, 2009

When you hear the term, social media, what do you think about? If you say proper nouns like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter, you’ve proven social media is a fad.
But if you refer to proven best practices like responding to customer inquiries, learning from consumer review, crowdsourcing your employees, boosting product sales, or sharing data, [...]

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Internet Fame: Who Has It and Why?

Jul. 21, 2009

I’ll hazard a guess you might be less familiar with the names of Garrett Camp and Joshua Schachter than their social media startup companies. True or false?
Can you tell me the internet contributions of Charlene Li, Chris Brogan, and Julia Allison? How about Guy Kawasaki, Steve Garfield, Robert Scoble, and Reid Hoffman?
Based on those of [...]

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From a Mom to You: Sharing Your Child Online

Jun. 18, 2009

Responding to an email that questioned whether parents invade their children’s privacy by posting content across web channels, Chris Pirillo created a blog post last weekend entitled, “Should Parents Share a Kid’s Life Online?”
The crux of his blog post is echoed in this video:

At the end, Chris summarizes:
Be honest with your child about what you [...]

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Few Hotel Chains Tell You They Use Social Media

Jun. 15, 2009

In a comparison of 15 twittering hotel chains, Guillaume Thevenot shows you screen shots and lets you decide which company has the right mixture of broadcast information and customer engagement.
But what about the corporate websites? Of seven hotel chains I picked, three make the cut for telling you they use social media. See if you [...]

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