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JULY 21, 2010

In other words put a copyright, all rights reserved on your content or the bottom of your blog. Marketers have a responsibility to ensure that bloggers are providing disclosure and that statements are not misleading or unsubstantiated. All that stuff? It’s called intellectual property and in each case it belongs to somebody.

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MAY 4, 2010

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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AUGUST 31, 2010

Some Bloggers respond to the comments and some don’t. The increasing prevalence of social media is creating a lock step increase in uni-directional social media chest thumping. Yet, Mitch doesn’t see it happening in social media. He writes: There is not much conversation going on at all. That’s not a conversation.

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JUNE 11, 2010

We’ve worked on this a lot, and since the book is about 1/3 written (here’s a picture of Amber when all the ideas for the outline have been wrung out of her), we need to lock it down soon. Turns out, I’m totally non-musical, so that guitar thing is going to be tough. Your first assignment is to help us settle on a title.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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 ! gave up their search engine duties in U.S. and Canada to Microsoft’s Bing last week.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

Because you’re not on the other end of the phone. If you listened in, you’d be just as angry about that as you are about negative tweets. The public and immediate nature of getting slammed via social is what stings. Ultimately, this will make for stronger companies. And the Ford trucks have the pee on Chevy sticker.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Like a fussy deconstructed salad at a downtown restaurant with ridiculous unisex bathrooms, Facebook wants us to publish in tiny bursts of words, pictures, videos, and single purpose apps, rather than the page-length containers and complicated databases of yore. Do You “Like&# Me in Attack Mode?

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