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Facebook PPC: Finally, True Demographic Targeting! (Part 2)

How to optimize for the best possible ROI in your Facebook PPC campaign.

By Melissa Mackey · 08 Jul 2010

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Promising Numbers From Facebook Video Advertising

At OMMA Video, Brett Wilson, co-founder and CEO of TubeMogul, presented some new research on the tradeoffs between video ad types on…

By Greg Jarboe · 28 Jun 2010

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Measuring Audience Engagement in Social Media

Providing a framework for measuring audience engagement while also soliciting feedback for additional metrics that should be factored into such a calculation.

By Nathan Linnell · 28 Jun 2010

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9 Ways to Control Your Privacy on Social Media Sites

A look at the top ways online security experts say you can restore or maintain your privacy on social networking sites.

By Johnny Widerlund · 26 Jun 2010

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Social Ranking in Search — Opportunities and Potential Problems

Reinforcing existing preferences and biases is a concern, but truly personalized search will revolutionize the way people interact with the online world.

By Mark Drummond · 24 Jun 2010

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Facebook Privacy: What You Need to Know

Steps Facebook users and publishers can take to avoid letting private information get into the wrong hands.

By Kaila Strong · 21 Jun 2010

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Social Media: The Privacy and Security Repercussions

How risky is our online behavior? A closer look at social media's privacy and security vulnerabilities.

By Johnny Widerlund · 19 Jun 2010

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10 Things You Need to Know to Get Started on Twitter

Doing social media badly is far worse than failing to do it. Tips on how to get started on Twitter and use…

By Kevin Gibbons · 16 Jun 2010

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‘Facebook Privacy’ Searches Plummet

Keyword data indicates searchers have moved on or lost interest after outcries over Facebook's policy privacy and some online people publicly deleted…

By Matthew Ncube · 15 Jun 2010

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What Can Social Media do for Your Small Business?

Social media can work as a marketing tool, if used wisely, and you can make sales directly from it. But it can…

By Rob Chant · 11 Jun 2010

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Facebook PPC: Finally, True Demographic Targeting!

Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft all come up short on demographic targeting, but Facebook PPC ads make it easy for advertisers to market…

By Melissa Mackey · 10 Jun 2010

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Yahoo Steps Up Social And Content Strategy With Facebook Deal

After having integrated Twitter to its user interface, Yahoo announced it has also entered an agreement with Facebook to cross-share content and…

By Liva Judic · 07 Jun 2010

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Search & Social Media in the Dutch Elections, Part 2: YouTube

Holland's political candidates have embraced YouTube this election, but are they using it well to have real discussions with voters, or are…

By Bas Van Den Beld · 07 Jun 2010

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Search & Social Media in the Dutch Elections, Part 1: Twitter

Do Dutch politicians understand Twitter, and are they using it to interact and connect with voters? Part one of a series observing…

By Bas Van Den Beld · 02 Jun 2010

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A Day in the Life of a Trending Topic

Looking to gain insight into real-time trending topics? Here's how you can use a real-time trending feature to track the development of…

By Mark Drummond · 27 May 2010

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What History Tells us About Facebook’s Potential as a Search Engine, Part 2

The search behaviors developing on Facebook suggest it has the potential to become a viable search engine, and possibly even could redefine…

By Eli Goodman · 24 May 2010

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How to be a Social Media Medic

Fixing a broken social media strategy takes a lot of hard work. Here are five tips on how to start repairing the…

By Kevin Gibbons · 19 May 2010

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Can Facebook Drive Great Traffic to Websites?

Data from April suggests maybe sites don't need to be as beholden to the big three search engines as we may think.

By Simon Heseltine · 19 May 2010

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UK Election 2010: Personal Democracy Forum (#pdfge2010) Action Replay

Mark Hanson, Labour’s new media strategist and former associate editor of LabourHome.org, wangled me an invitation to a formal review of how…

By Greg Jarboe · 16 May 2010

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Labour’s View: The Word-of-Mouth Election

Labour chose to use the Web to motivate and mobilise its supporters and activists. Everything Labour did in terms of new media…

By Mark Hanson · 11 May 2010

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Labour’s View: Motivate and Mobilise — the New Media Strategy

The Labour Party harnesses the efforts of its candidates alongside its online activists with the help of Twitter and Facebook.

By Mark Hanson · 06 May 2010

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UK Election 2010: Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats Win the Facebook Election

According to Benjamin Cohen of Channel 4 in the UK, “Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats win the Facebook election.” Film at…

By Greg Jarboe · 05 May 2010

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Lib Dems’ View: How Much of an Internet General Election Has it Been?

Local U.K. online campaigning is more an evolution of existing political campaign than a whole new approach, and it's changing what an…

By Mark Pack · 05 May 2010

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Social Media Influence on Consumer Behavior

Steps marketers should take to gain influencer status in social media channels.

By Nathan Linnell · 03 May 2010

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What’s the Job of a Real-time Search Engine?

What do we expect of real-time search, and how are those expectations different from what we expect of traditional reference search? When…

By Mark Drummond · 29 Apr 2010

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