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Fake Viral Videos: Is This Good Marketing? – ReadWriteWeb Post raises questions about the practice of advertising via videos which purport to be about real people in real situations but turn out to have been staged: comments seem for the most part to be of the school “if it works, it must be ok” (tags:…
I’m excited about the Social Media Telesummit launched yesterday, partly because I’m one of the presenters but more importantly because I believe that this is a very timely event for many people. It’s timely especially for people who are looking at the effects of the global economic crisis and wondering what they can do that’s…
25 Signs You’ve Got a Strong SM Consultant or Agency » The Buzz Bin Handy checklist for a business wanting to know how to screen potential social media consutancies or agencies, with lots of links to exemplar practitioners. Of potential interest also to those of us who are looking to be seen as belonging in…
Social Media Breakfast Melbourne Ross Hill reports on successful gathering in Melbourne Australia (tags: Australia socialmedia breakfast Melbourne)
Kid Tech Guru: Find Out Whether A Twitterer Is Annoying Or Not?(Update 2011: link for this item no longer functioning) Not sure about the conclusion – i.e. annoying/not annoying – proposed to be drawn from data about how often particular “tweeps” tweet, but interesting, at least for those of us who find info about Twitter…
Social media will not kill PR, but it does expose industry weakness | Feeds | ZDNet.com (tags: socialmedia pr PR20)