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Web Business by Ken Burbary

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Entries from January 2009

Five in the Morning

January 15th, 2009 · Comments · Blogging, Business, Community, Interactive Marketing, Social Media, Web Hosting

For those who aren’t regular readers of StickyFigure (if you’re not, you should be. Check it out), Steve Woodruff has been consistently churning out great discoveies with his Five in the Morning series. Five in the Morning is basically a blog post that highlights 5 of the most interesting and well written posts throughout the [...]

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Social Media’s Mount Everest, Helping Toxic Brands

January 13th, 2009 · Comments · Branding, Community, Social Media

During the past 6 months, I’ve talked and written a lot about how engaging in Social Media can help your brand. There can be numerous benefits. In fact, Social Media Maven Chris Brogan has already written what Social Media does best. And expert Mack Collier wrote a thoughtful article some time ago, describing how Dell [...]

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Practical Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

January 4th, 2009 · Comments · Social Media, Twitter

As an online network grows, it eventually attracts enough eyeballs to warrant the attention and efforts of spammers and scammers. Twitter has both. Over the last several days,  Twitter has been hit hard by a Phishing scam. The only surprise is that it took this long to occur.
The Wikipedia definition for phishing is:
“the criminally fraudulent [...]

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Mine the Gold in Social Media through Conversation Search

January 2nd, 2009 · Comments · Social Media, Twitter

Google has transformed our lives with its uncanny ability to answer the question, “What is X?”.   Enter any term and Google will tell you what it is and/or how it works. If Google’s spiders can find a web page, you can find the content within it using Google Search.
Enter Social Media.
The proliferation of [...]

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