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See all the people you care about: Close Friends

  Another development in Facebook is the ability to star those who are close to you to ensure you get all of their posts. This is another step for Facebook to give you tighter integration with your friends of relevance and also to strengthen what Facebook knows about you. The more data that Facebook is able to have on you,
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Why is Facebook’s Valuation so High?

As we get closer to the IPO for Facebook, many are wondering if the valuation is too high. Indeed with a lot of people seeing this as a must have stock, it may be pushed high, however lets look at the numbers. In six short years, the company has come to amass almost 1,000,000,000 users. I think it is important
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Corporate Social Media Policy

Social media is in it’s best form social. That of course means it leans heavily on the individual. As such social media guidelines should be used as a guide and not a policy. This will allow people to participate in social media in a smart way by being educated rather than being told what they can or can not do.
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How ‘Authorities’ Will Track You with C-30 [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Earth to Social Times: Pinterest is Not in Decline

  Social Times ran an article Pinterest’s Facebook App Is Losing Users – What Happened? today. The article says: The number of daily average users (DAU) had peaked at 1.3 million on April 18, which is also the day that Pinterest released an improved version of its iOS app. But the numbers dropped dramatically on April 20 after Pinterest tightened
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Over 50 Set Using more Social Media in Halifax Study. Quell Surprise?

The main question is, is the older demographic using Facebook more than before, or it is just the last demographic to saturate itself with the use of social media. A recent study in the Halifax edition of Metro somewhat answers that. And somewhat doesn’t. From Metro Halifax [March 23, 2012] The faces on Facebook appear to be getting older. According
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Optimization of Facebook Pages for Search Engines

Organic search results are listings on search engine results pages that appear because of their relevance to the search terms, as opposed to their being advertisements. In contrast, non-organic search results may include pay per click advertising. Unlike a website, we do not have full control over the optimization for search engine ranking on Facebook, however there is some things
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Social Media Training Guide [INFOGRAPHIC]

Internal resources or farm it out. It is a big question these days as more companies are looking to take advantage of social media. Careful. It is not so easy as you think. This infographic from Mindflash can help guide you. Use the socialmedia tag to your right to find more articles to help you figure our your next steps
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Is Your CEO Socially Engaged? [INFOGRAPHIC]

As much as stats will shout out the value of social media, sometimes it still confounds me as to those who see it as only a waste of time where people only talk about what they ate for breakfast. Sort of like how everyone thought the Internet was for geeks and porn and would never be good for anything else
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Updating Your Own Facebook Status

Updating your status on Facebook allows you to project a single message to a large audience. Your status is a reflection of who you are and what you do. You can update your status with press mentions, your latest blog entry, a new project you’re working on or your interest in a particular job. Based on your branding strategy, you’ll
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