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Fashionistas Get Incentives and Games from Bluefly

  • March 14th, 2011 by Tisha Tolar
Bluefly, the online designer fashion retailer, has started a partnership with Badgeville to add gaming experiences to their website visitors that also offers social rewards. Bluefly will start providing their online shopping customers with rewards and incentives based on how they shop. Each time users of the site watch videos, peruse blog posts or write a review, the site will Read more

Avoid Social Media Crimes When Trying Viral Marketing

  • February 21st, 2011 by Ann Smarty
Social media is a great viral marketing tool. What can spread a word more effective than a few hundreds of timely tweets? However, unfortunately, few marketers really “get it” how to execute social media marketing to aid their word of mouth campaigns. A new really huge and in-depth article on linkbait has some great information on how to use social… Read more

Baby Boomers and the Social Media Battleground

  • January 25th, 2011 by Roberta Budvietas
In the 1960s there was a battle going on between the People who wanted to tell people what to do and the People who wanted to be Free. Baby Boomers thought in the 70s that we had found a balance between the two sides.… Read more

Check, Check & Check Again

  • May 13th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Freelance writers and journalists discover fairly early in their careers Wikipedia is generally great for the volume of information it provides, but somewhat lacking in quality and credibility. As with any other endeavor to which the general public can contribute, especially anonymously, Wikipedia is bound to have inaccuracies and exaggerations, to say the least. Politics notwithstanding, President Obama’s Wikipedia entry… Read more