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Retailers Beware: Facebook Cracking Down on Access to Data

There have been a lot of calls by government agencies, consumer groups, and individual users for Facebook to better control the information it provides to third parties. Now, it is taking another step. As reported by  Deepa Seetharaman and Elizabeth … Continue reading

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Are Your Public Relations Efforts Working?

How effective are your public relations efforts? The answer to this question has become even more complex in this era of online viral marketing and word of mouth. It’s not enough to just count mentions, etc., as we did in … Continue reading

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Social Media Analytics and Google+

For many people, Google+ is an under-appreciated social media platform. Yet, according to recent data assembled by Craig Smith for Digital Marketing Ramblings (and other sources): Google+ has about 350 million active monthly users. Google + has about 25 million … Continue reading

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