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    Most people aren't like us. They don't check social feeds every five minutes and they don't know what real-time marketing is. So, this Social Media Insider is short: In honor of Earth Day, unplug and live life the way most people do.
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    One week you're musing about Twitter's new music service (it launched yesterday, by the way); the next week you're wondering if social media can help catch a terrorist. If that doesn't tell you how all-encompassing social media is, I suppose nothing will.
  • A Tale Of Two Surveys
    I love the opportunity to compare social media platforms. Personal or pet projects are great ways to test theories or flesh out the changing psychological profiles of different platforms' users. Wanting to see how my contacts on Facebook and LinkedIn differed in their responses, I created two identical surveys and sent a different one to each audience.
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    the only social media headline that truly interested me this week is one that I saw this morning. The only problem is that it's so highly speculative that I probably shouldn't center a column around it. But I am anyway, so there.
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