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From polls and puzzles to reputation management through wall posts about his work and ideas, Valeria Maltoni shares how journalist Kristof uses Facebook to engage and dazzle his hundred thousand fans.

"Today as a company trying to stay afloat in the business world, you have to meet your customers where they are. Twitter is powerful. Twitter isn't all, though, and you need to seriously consider a presence not only on twitter but every other place there are potential customers for you. The web is bigger than anyone could have predicted. Existing there, is the only way to stay alive."

"The engineering side of building a community is relatively straightforward. First you must determine the community's goals and how the community will want to interact. Next you need to establish..."

Kim Woodbridge shares advance notice that Facebook custom pages using the Boxes tab will need new coding in late 2009 or early 2010, as the Boxes will be gone.

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"Fiji Water is sold as the epitome of chic, but there's a darker side to its ritzy image. The water racks up its carbon footprint by being transported to Scotland from half way across the globe, and its sexy uber-cool image is doing wonders for the country it hails from. Fiji after all is a nation ruled by one of the world's most repressive regimes.

The elected government of the Fiji islands in the South Pacific was overthrown by a military coup in 2006, led by the armed forces commander, Frank Bainimarama. His rule was declared illegal by the Fiji court of appeal in April this year, since he has abolished the judiciary, banned public gatherings and delayed elections until 2014.

In the circumstances, how Fiji Water has managed to maintain its image as the water celebrities like to be seen drinking is a marvel of the marketing age. But now, the cracks are beginning to show."

"YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter are channels for us to post snippets of content to drive folks to a much deeper, more meaningful place of content, and they aren't original.

Twitter, and to a lesser extent Facebook, is a new version of the AP news wire. Since 1846, the Associated Press has sent out snippets of content in rapid succession to its member newspapers. If anything caught a journalist's eye, he'd go research it. That's exactly what even the most esteemed journalists are doing on Twitter and in the blogosphere these days."