This latest reference by Mr.Rudd, who is likely to face a general election later this years, has been dismissed as early electioneering by members of the Japanese government.

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

That quote comes from military affairs author and expert Roger Cirillo in reference to the difficulties people who advocate change face.

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This finding flies directly in the face of something I wrote about just last week in which I made reference to a recent study by Satmetrix that showed just 17% of US-based companies track, or monitor, what consumers are saying about them in social media.

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In fact the findings of the Econsultancy survey fly in the face of those I wrote about in When It Comes To Content Marketing, Seeing Is Believing where I made reference to another survey which revealed 95 percent of marketers believe visual content is very important for online marketing.

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