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How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

Industrial Marketing Today

Situation turns dire until someone within the company gets an epiphany, “Our site is not optimized” > Quick, call in that SEO expert who guarantees first page ranking in Google > Before you know it, you are locked in a 6-month search engine optimization contract. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.”

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Social Media Lawsuits Protect Yourself From Them | Guest Posts.

Convince & Convert

All that stuff? It’s called intellectual property and in each case it belongs to somebody. We all know how much “lifting&# goes on in the Internet. Those who create content in an environment of “sharing&# often find their ideas, photos and sometimes entire paragraphs repurposed without their permission.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Some organizations merely want IT to play cop: guard against threats, lock down data, etc. Or, paradoxically, they claim to embrace social media while forbidding their employees from being on Facebook or Twitter. As you know better than I, we are in the early innings of social media. Change takes time. IT projects.

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Information Literacy in the Workplace - Special Libraries Association

Buzz Marketing for Technology

> June 2001. > > Information Literacy in the Workplace. Information Literacy in the Workplace. Information Literacy in the Workplace. Information Outlook, Vol. 6, June 2001. Information Literacy in the Workplace. by Julie N. Julie Oman is an Information Steward for The Dow Chemical Company in Midland, MI. Dealing with Semantics.

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A Brief History of Social Media [Infographic]

Oktopost

The Top 8, Birth of Facebook, and 140 Characters: 2003-2009. Over 2008 and 2009, Facebook and Myspace continued to soar, earning millions of unique users across the world. But to better understand where we’re going, we need to look at where we’ve been. Let’s take a look at the history of social media.

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Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Written by Bernard Lunn / May 21, 2008 11:15 AM. / Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google. 12 Comments. I just found a more useful way to search than Google. It only works for a defined use case, but, in a search market that is 85% going on 90% Google-dominated, this can still be significant. That has been totally successful in my case.

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6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace | facebook | Social.

Convince & Convert

MySpace answered in July, 2008 – almost a full year later. MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. Coincidental timing too, as Yahoo ! But back to MySpace.