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  • Social media professionals are a fascinating bunch. Sit with them and you’ll realize that there are at least 4-5 different disciplines represented. In my immediate circle, there are those with...

    Collaboration supports successful campaigns

    Social media professionals are a fascinating bunch. Sit with them and you’ll realize that there are at least 4-5 different disciplines represented. In my immediate circle, there are those with...

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  • Its not that I don’t like Google+, I do. I think its elegant. I think its a brilliant integration of Google’s products. I think there are both useful and fun...

    Why I’m not writing about Google+ yet.

    Its not that I don’t like Google+, I do. I think its elegant. I think its a brilliant integration of Google’s products. I think there are both useful and fun...

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  • Eureka. I might have finally “gotten” it. I may now understand why people think its OK to buy Facebook fans. These same people have been buying direct mail and email...

    What’s the difference between buying Facebook fans and buying a email list?

    Eureka. I might have finally “gotten” it. I may now understand why people think its OK to buy Facebook fans. These same people have been buying direct mail and email...

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  • Sites like Namesake and Connect.me are encouraging people to identify those they trust in the social sphere. What's more important, quality or quantity and how is it determined?

    When does social media backscratching currency lose its value?

    Sites like Namesake and Connect.me are encouraging people to identify those they trust in the social sphere. What's more important, quality or quantity and how is it determined?

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  • As if Twitter and Facebook don’t have businesses and users scrambling to keep up, a new type of site is cropping up that engages audiences through Question and Answer format....

    What should business be doing with the new conversation websites?

    As if Twitter and Facebook don’t have businesses and users scrambling to keep up, a new type of site is cropping up that engages audiences through Question and Answer format....

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  • If Alice is the business, then social media is Wonderland. Take a journey through Wonderland and see how the cast of characters compare to social media..and what Alice can learn from them!

    On Alice in Wonderland and Social Media

    If Alice is the business, then social media is Wonderland. Take a journey through Wonderland and see how the cast of characters compare to social media..and what Alice can learn from them!

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  • Patience is a virtue..but business rarely has that virtue. Especially small businesses whose OTHER virtue is flexibility and the ability to be dynamic. Its that willingness to be dynamic that...

    Planting the social media tree

    Patience is a virtue..but business rarely has that virtue. Especially small businesses whose OTHER virtue is flexibility and the ability to be dynamic. Its that willingness to be dynamic that...

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  • Now that Facebook CEO has recapitulated his “Transparency is the default” stance on the world’s largest social media site (with more members than there are US residents), will the discussion...

    Whose job is it to protect our Facebook privacy?

    Now that Facebook CEO has recapitulated his “Transparency is the default” stance on the world’s largest social media site (with more members than there are US residents), will the discussion...

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