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Best practices for social media shilling

Biznology

These fake grass roots campaigns, called astroturfing, caught on about ten years ago and still haven’t died out. . All this was brought to mind when I recently did some dog food research for a client and it occurred to me that quite a few of the comments are astroturf. Well, from 2003-2006 I was in the astroturfing business.

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5 Attributes of a Healthy, Real-Time Culture

Convince & Convert

The people among your ranks and the employees you’ve brought aboard have to have the freedom and trust to help you evolve your business and infuse your intent in everything they do. Sadly, Astroturf didn’t.). That’s far too much responsibility to place on the shoulders of one strata of an organization. Reward Systems.

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PR and Blogging Outreach: Practical Tips

WebMarketCentral

In my first post on PR and blogging , I had discussed the macro issues impacting the quality of outreach—both traditional media and blogging. Based on these three components, here are 8 Tips about Blogging Outreach : 1. Read the blog first : Don't assume that you know the content of the blog by the title.

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I was a teenage Russian troll OG

Biznology

We would do this across message boards, forums, groups, newsgroups, and even the comment sections of relevant blogs. There’s too much money to be made in spycraft, both in online analysis and also in online “field operations” to ever actually stop, take off the mask, reveal the true nature of one’s agenda and intent.