Recently, the gaming industry has been taken storm by games created by relatively small or unknown developers. Many small-budget games have gone viral and are being praised for their addictive, yet simple concepts. What has brought on this surge of addicting online and mobile games? Experts say social media is to blame. News travels fast by word-of-mouth and social media gives many mouths the opportunity to reach more people quicker and more effectively. [Read more…] about How Social Media Is Impacting The Gaming World
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How to Address Complaints Posted on Blogs and Social Media
When you run a business, image has a big role in whether you succeed or not. You spend money for building goodwill among your existing clients. You spend money for marketing in the aim of getting new customers. But sometimes, one wrong move might prove to be disastrous, especially if word about certain failures spread virally online. These may be in the form of bad product reviews, bad customer service experience or even rants pointed toward your direction.
The litigious route
We live in a litigious society after all, and oftentimes businesses resort to the law when they feel they have been bad-mouthed. I’ve experienced this one time or another in the course of my involvement with several blogs and new media networks. There was one time when I received a demand to take down some content on a blog that was allegedly libelous to the complainant’s company. Thing is, the blog in question wasn’t even mine. It had been submitted to a blog directory that the company I work for owned. In some cases, the content in question is not even a blog post, but sometimes a comment posted by a third party.
Sometimes these legal cases do prosper. But most of the time, they not. This would only go to show that the business entity involved may not necessarily be well-versed in social media. Being quick to do damage control through the courts would give the impression that you are a bully, and that you are using lawsuits as a tactic to scare off anyone who dares talk or write about you in a bad light. [Read more…] about How to Address Complaints Posted on Blogs and Social Media