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Fact Checking Facebook: How to Do it and Why You Should | Danny Brown
http://dannybrown.me/2012/12/05/fact-checking-facebook
There's more to life than social media. Fact Checking Facebook: How to Do it and Why You Should. December 5, 2012. His is a guest post by Jennifer Dunn. It’s back. Last week grandma posted the old, With this status I hereby declare that all my Facebook content belongs to me and only me…” and all of a sudden the mythical Berner convention is gunking up your Facebook feed again. Wouldn’t it be better if everybody was armed with the tools to fact check Facebook themselves? The other day a friend posted this...
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Why You Need a Responsive Blog Design Instead of a Mobile-Friendly One | Danny Brown
http://dannybrown.me/2012/11/15/responsive-blog-design
There's more to life than social media. Why You Need a Responsive Blog Design Instead of a Mobile-Friendly One. November 15, 2012. When you read a blog, what’s your preferred method – desktop browser or mobile (say, smartphone or tablet)? According to the analytics for this blog, my mobile browsing traffic accounts for just over 6,000 visits per month (or around 10% of my traffic), and they tend to stay on the site longer than desktop visitors. I could also install a plugin like WPtouch Pro. The problem ...
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Why Being Obvious Can Be Original Too | Danny Brown
http://dannybrown.me/2010/05/17/why-being-obvious-can-be-original-too
There's more to life than social media. Why Being Obvious Can Be Original Too. May 17, 2010. Sometimes we look for the smartest ideas and the way-out-there jumping off points to tell a story. We look for the abstract to make people think that our products must be worth knowing, since they can’t be told in a simplistic manner. And yet sometimes being obvious can be original too. Take a look at this picture of a parking lot opposite the Kansas City Library in the U.S. state of Missouri. Your email address ...
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Social Media, Bullying, and the Growing Lynch Mob Mentality | Danny Brown
http://dannybrown.me/2014/01/07/social-media-bullying-and-the-growing-lynch-mob-mentality
There's more to life than social media. Social Media, Bullying, and the Growing Lynch Mob Mentality. January 7, 2014. One of the biggest benefits of social media, whenever you raise the topic of what changes social media has enabled in the bigger picture, is that of freedom of voice for everyone. On the one hand, this is a great leveller – if brands are guilty of questionable practices. Now they can be held accountable through blog posts, public forums and social communities. The Bear Pit Frenzy of Socia...
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Twitter Advertising on Facebook? No Thanks | Danny Brown
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There's more to life than social media. Twitter Advertising on Facebook? August 12, 2009. Have you signed up for Sponsored Tweets on Twitter? Do you offer sponsored posts and paid reviews on your blog? If so, you might have to re-think how you share this information, thanks to a Terms of Service update. Why does a Facebook update affect you if you’re on Twitter, or writing on your blog? And other paid blogging services, Facebook would be in their rights to see that as part of their. Do you sync accounts?
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How to Build Identity and Trust in Social Media | Danny Brown
http://dannybrown.me/2014/07/21/how-to-build-the-commodities-of-identity-and-trust-in-social-media
There's more to life than social media. How to Build the Commodities of Identity and Trust in Social Media. July 21, 2014. Depending who you listen to or read in the social media space, the best reason to use social media for your brand varies. It can be for listening; resolving issues; lead generation; focus groups; recruitment; and much, much more. All good reasons. All good value. And yet. So how do you build that most valued of commodities in social media (and business in general) identity and trust?
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Blog Comments and the Future of Social Conversations | Danny Brown
http://dannybrown.me/2014/08/07/blog-comments-digital-universes-and-the-future-of-social-conversations
There's more to life than social media. Blog Comments, Digital Universes, and the Future of Social Conversations. August 7, 2014. Back in “the good old days”, conversations around a blog post would happen at source – the blog itself. This led to a few direct results:. The blogger would be seen as an “authority figure”, since the ability to spark conversation meant his or her thoughts were worth listening to and debating;. For bloggers, this was seen as a major problem – just Google. For brands, who used ...
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Your Product Will Catch Me, Your Service Will Keep Me | Danny Brown
http://dannybrown.me/2015/07/17/your-product-will-catch-me-your-service-will-keep-me
There's more to life than social media. Your Product Will Catch Me, Your Service Will Keep Me. July 17, 2015. I’m a marketer by trade. It doesn’t matter if it’s traditional marketing, or digital/online marketing at the end of the day, the tools may differ but the trade stays the same. Yet in a previous life, I also headed up the main call centre for the U.K.’s largest communications company, and that was based around the service side of things. And you know what? But that’s where they stop. Anyone that&#...
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