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JULY 21, 2010

The Lawyers Are Coming Social networks give people the ability to share incredible volumes of content. In other words put a copyright, all rights reserved on your content or the bottom of your blog. If your team uses social media at work, particularly for clients, you’ve got to have a policy. All that stuff?

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MAY 4, 2010

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. My hunch is that, as more organizations are able to successfully utilize social media, the dominoes will start to fall. IT projects.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. Recall that MySpace was the logical heir to the online profile/social network world pioneered by Geocities, Tripod, and Angelfire. Facebook is the Model T of social networks.

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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. Some Bloggers respond to the comments and some don’t.

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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. But fundamentally, we’ve done very little in response to social media – perhaps the most transformative change of them all.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

The public and immediate nature of getting slammed via social is what stings. But, one of greatest benefits of social media is that it puts the shortcomings of your operations department in marketing’s lap, and vice-versa. The customers that take you to task in social media aren’t the ones you need to worry about.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Now, the move is toward “social objects&# which are invariably smaller, more directed pieces of content. If the standard unit of publication becomes something other than the page, but rather smaller social objects like status updates and photos being published and ranked in real-time, Google’s role in that equation is diminished.

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