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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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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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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. The information exchange is asynchronous.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Here, the objective is to change the way we think about information exchange online. Also, Facebook’s enhancements to its Insights analytics product aim to give companies information about their visitors that far exceeds the data available from Google Analytics (another reason Google is freaking out).

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Here, the objective is to change the way we think about information exchange online. Also, Facebook’s enhancements to its Insights analytics product aim to give companies information about their visitors that far exceeds the data available from Google Analytics (another reason Google is freaking out).

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

There seems to be a distinct collection of sessions, parties, and hang-outs for the social media crowd, and then a completely separate collection for developers, entrepreneurs (and of course film attendees). There was no shatteringly impactful takeaway from SXSW 2010, as it seems we’ve entered a (sure to be brief) innovation lull.

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