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Online media has been social since the days when people engaged one another via listservs, bulletin boards and chat forums. Today, business messaging and consumer engagement has achieved new levels, including new lows, by the use and exploitation of online channels of communication. These articles discuss how marketers are using new media channels to build brand, attract new customers and build loyalty and how other nefarious actors, including competitors, are using the same channels to attack and degrade competing brands.

Facebook as a Leading Social Media Marketing Tool

Facebook isn’t just for college students anymore. It has now become a valuable marketing tool for businesses as well. Facebook “Fan Pages” have drawn in big businesses from Microsoft to Wal-Mart to McDonalds (who has 2,448,565 fans and counting). Facebook is a critical tool in today’s market that allows you to build your brand’s presence [...]

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Social Media Success Does Not Equal Business Success

Read it again and contemplate it, like a “student monk” at a monestary: Social Media Success Does Not Equal Business Success IF there is someone in your business – maybe YOU if you’re a small business – who has found a new preoccupation with all things social media . . well . . that’s nice. [...]

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Social Media Marketing Is NOT About Relationship Building

I’ve been reading a great deal about social media marketing and building of one’s personal network. There’s abundant advice and gurus ready to speak about how social media and “engagement” is about relationship building. I say that, for the most part, that phrase or concept, as applied to what actually takes place across the vast [...]

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Social Media Educational Event Saturation

Mashable has offered up a long list of social media and tech events to attend in 2010. Reading the list of social media marketing conferences, including the express and implied promises of benefits – and threats to corporate existence (Engage or Die!) if your company doesn’t attend – I’m left once again to wonder: “How, [...]

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