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How Pink Panties Heralded India's Social Media Movement

Waxing UnLyrical

As privacy and choice gained momentum, permission-based Internet activity has led to what we now describe as the social web. All this via one bare-bones blog and a Facebook group. says: January 4, 2011 at 10:01 am [.] Amrit Pal's Weblog says: January 29, 2011 at 6:32 pm [.] Image: Gaurovonomics via Flickr, CC 2.0

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FTC Endorsement Guidelines: What Agencies Need to Know

Shift Communications

The underlying purpose was straight forward – that word-of-mouth advertising campaigns online should, in fairness to consumers, disclose when someone writing a review, talking about a product or otherwise promoting a product of business, was being paid or compensated for their services. Consumer Privacy Is Also an Issue.

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Talking The Social Media Walk

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Lars Plougmann via Flickr, Creative Commons Really, if you just read through the comments, there’s your follow-up blog post… but since I promised you one, you’re getting one. I’ll hopefully be expounding on those in a future blog post.&# A Burke always, always keeps her promises! Interesting.

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Like Stuff On Facebook? Say Cheese, You're An Ad!

Waxing UnLyrical

January 26th, 2011 Tweet What’s the buzz, tell me what’s happening Yesterday’s social media storm-in-the-making (or so it seems to me) was about the fact that Facebook can now turn your “likes&# into ads. To learn more about Platform, read our Privacy Policy and Platform Page.) Say Cheese, You’re An Ad!

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Etsy's PR Nightmare: Greeting Cards Making Light Of Rape

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Etsy’s PR Nightmare: Greeting Cards Making Light Of Rape January 25th, 2011 Tweet Guest post by Steff Metal [Update from Ed.: Image: striatic via Flickr, CC 2.0 Thanks so much for stopping by WUL!

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PR Must Lose Its Reliance on Hierarchy

Where the Fishermen Ain't

Early-to-Mid-2000s: Product manager calls, freaking out about commenters in a blog post on WayTooMuchTech.Com. The tone of some of the comments is abusive and even involve potential invasions of an employee’s privacy. Take a look at how engineer Paul Baran (1926 - 2011) described the progressive topography of networks: .

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PR Must Lose Its Reliance on Hierarchy

Where the Fishermen Ain't

Early-to-Mid-2000s: Product manager calls, freaking out about commenters in a blog post on WayTooMuchTech.Com. The tone of some of the comments is abusive and even involve potential invasions of an employee’s privacy. Take a look at how engineer Paul Baran (1926 - 2011) described the progressive topography of networks: .