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Best practices for social media shilling

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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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Your online reputation should be a culmination of you

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Like Jackson Pollock , you’re creating a genius work of Abstract Expressionistic spatter painting; unlike Pollock, you’re probably not being remotely as artful and intentional as he was — and this is a problem. Of course, not just ten or twenty but more like, for me, “about 50,300,000 results (0.32 See what I mean?

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I was a teenage Russian troll OG

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In my early and mid-thirties I worked for New Media Strategies (NMS). I was part of a super-discrete, amazingly-effective, super-covert, mercenary troll army that lived and worked out of two floors of Rosslyn Twin Tower Two in Arlington, Virginia, the United States called New Media Strategies. If there was even a hint of “ Witch!