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Social Media Lawsuits Protect Yourself From Them | Guest Posts.

Convince & Convert

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. In 2007, a breach of contract suit was brought against 1-800-Flowers.com Inc. Ad Chickadee ? Wikipedia has a good explanation of it ( [link] ).

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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Additional information on this project and extended case studies will be published in a forthcoming book, Science on the Internet (Olson, Zimmerman, & Bos, 2007). Wikipedia uses community vetting in a different way. Author Index. About JCMC. Zimmerman, A., Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication , 12 (2), article 16.

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

In the aggregate, the company may be able to justify its practices in the form of higher customer satisfaction and repeat sales, but we doubt the support manager who charters the midnight express is required to justify the added expense in advance. That’s an impressive result, but it isn’t a return. Profit margin. Net profit.

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