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Is the medical information you get online safe and correct?
Source: ABC Action News

There have been unfortunate incidences where people are given misleading information in part because there's no way of vetting it.

Market-style incentives to increase school choice have opposite effect
Source: PhysOrg.com

As schools compete for students to improve their market position, the demands of the market often trump specific educational policy goals such as increased equality and access to better-performing schools, according to Christopher Lubienski, a professor of educational organizatio …

CPR: ABC's Lost, NBC's Heroes Franchises Tops in Value to Marketers
Source: Media Week

While ABC's Lost and NBC's Heroes have lost some steam in the Nielsen ratings over the past year, they remain two of the most valuable program franchises a marketer can tap into, according to the just released calendar year "content power ratings" (CPR) released by Publicis Group …

Promotional Swag More Effective Than Ads
Source: Brandweek.com

As marketers continue their debate over the next great advertising medium, a new study released today by the Advertising Specialty Institute found it's not TV, print or radio that gets consumers' attention, but good old promotional swag.

Facebook's New Social Ads Turn Your Friends Into Marketers
Source: Wired News

"What does that mean? If you get a newsfeed from someone you haven't spoken to in years who "totally loved Dark Knight!" it's probably because Warner Bros. paid to have it broadcast to you.

Making Social Connections and Selling Cookies
Source: The New York Times

FOR decades, Nabisco has sold cookies called Social Tea and crackers called Sociables. Now a competitor, Pepperidge Farm, is going all social, too, by entering the increasingly popular field known as social media with a Web site devoted to social networking.

Credit Card Companies Gaining Popularity
Source: mcall.com

All the marketers who got success in building entire campaigns about why doing something or buying something makes you smarter, highly regarded and more intelligent than those who don't.

Google Program Enlists Mini-Sites as Selling Tool for Advertisers
Source: The New York Times

Google is seizing on the popularity of widgets — small online tools that function like mini-Web sites — for its latest push into advertising.

Marketers beware
Source: leeiwan.wordpress.com

This is embarrassing. A Corporate public relations nightmare. Incompetence at a very high degree.

Major Weight-Loss Marketers Pay $3 Million
Source: Federal Trade Commission Press Release

FTC Press Release

10 Online Marketing Blunders to Avoid
Source: imediaconnection.com

Part of the fun of working in the online marketing industry is watching marketers try to navigate new territory. In the dozen years or so since the commercial explosion of the web, marketers have learned chiefly by experimentation.

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