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Digital Branding and Social Media Fraud

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With more and more companies embracing digital and social media as a marketing tool, it is more important than ever to control your digital identity because chances are if you’re not, someone else is.

There have been numerous examples of digital identity fraud in recent months e.g. Phil Spector was allegedly Tweeting from his jail cell; Tony La Russa, manager of baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals, successfully sued Twitter for an unauthorized page using his name damaged his reputation; Kanye West wrote an amusingly irate blog entry about being misrepresented on Twitter. Continue reading →

Facebook offer ‘vanity urls’

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Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, has announced they will start issuing “vanity urls” which will replace the old random numbers.

If you would like your own Facebook vanity url you will need to log on for 12.01.a.m EDT Saturday 13th June where you will be able to choose your url on a first come, first serve basis.  For companies that use social networks as part of their ongoing SEO campaign this is great news. Continue reading →