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JUNE 3, 2010

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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JULY 21, 2010

A Policy of Protection While speaking recently to a room full of ad agency folks, I asked the audience if they had a social media policy in place for their staff. If your team uses social media at work, particularly for clients, you’ve got to have a policy. The FTC encourages social media policies be in place and reviewed.

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MAY 4, 2010

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. My hunch is that, as more organizations are able to successfully utilize social media, the dominoes will start to fall. IT projects.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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.

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JUNE 11, 2010

We have some other craziness planned, too, and we’ll want to bounce ideas off of you, solicit your genius for marketing the book, and all that stuff. But fundamentally, we’ve done very little in response to social media – perhaps the most transformative change of them all. Here are a few options for titles.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

August 31st, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Mitch Joel , whose blog and work I greatly admire, wrote a very interesting blog post recently that bemoaned the lack of conversation in social media. Yet, Mitch doesn’t see it happening in social media. Remember, social media makes big companies seem small again.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

But, one of greatest benefits of social media is that it puts the shortcomings of your operations department in marketing’s lap, and vice-versa. The customers that take you to task in social media aren’t the ones you need to worry about. Because you’re not on the other end of the phone. Good luck on the move!

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