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1. Attention Montreal bloggers, Tourism Montreal, along with AOR Sid Lee, will be hiring bloggers and vloggers as "brand ambassadors" for the city. Lots of people were wondering about transparency and the ethics of paid blogging. Kim Vallee takes a commonsense approach and shares some insights on the topic of Community Managers.

2. That Google just keeps on growing. New this week, it’s launched Social Web Blog.

3. This is so cool!! Eric Brown, a Detroit-area apartment owner is using MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and blogs to reach out his 500 tenants. He uses social media to solve problems, rent apartments and reach out to his Royal Oak community. Learn from his ups and downs.

4. This week Marketing Pilgrim reported that Twitter is gearing up to charge businesses. Brand Republic quoted founder Biz Stone (Isn’t that the best name ever??) as saying 'We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge for commercial accounts.'   Over at Adland, dabitch raises some good questions on the matter.

5. Gary Vee has some harsh words for CEOs, and tells us all why personality matters.

6. At Mashable, Rick Burns has a great post called “Why Every Company is a Media Company."  Inspired reading.

7. Forced Tweeting? Read what Jen Reeves has to say.

8. Want your SEO investment to pay immediate dividends? Not going to happen. Read Mark Jackson’s article Give SEO Time at Search Engine Watch.

9. Have you been tagged in Facebook for the 25 Random Things About Me craze? Of course, who hasn’t?!  But Slate Magazine digs deep to find out were it all started.

10. For all you web designers out here, Search Engine Journal reports that the Big Three seach engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) have joined forces to get rid of dupplcate content, often caused by variations of the same URL (www.company.com, company.com, www.company.com/index) Introducing the new <link> HTML tag.


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I leave you this week with these wise words I found via Iain Tait's CrackUnit.

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