Category: Digital health

  • Is behavioral science the new ‘Freakonomics’?

    Is neuroscience the new ‘Freakonomics’? – Ideas@Innovations – The Washington Post. Related articles Freakonomics Quiz: Twice Is Enough (freakonomics.com) NBC Buys ‘Freakonomics’-Inspired Drama Procedural Produced By Kelsey Grammer | Deadline (shortformblog.com) FREAK-est Links (freakonomics.com) NBC Buys ‘Freakonomics’-Inspired Drama Procedural Produced By Kelsey Grammer (deadline.com) With SOPA gone, setting Internet advocacy’s next stop @WashingtonPost covers Internet…

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  • Employers put offices in social media pockets

    By Cory Brown, washingtontimes.com It is a man­ag­er’s prob­lem that Henry Ford and even a young Bill Gates never had to deal with – how to main­tain pro­duc­tiv­i­ty when work­ers are using valu­able com­pa­ny time to update their Face­book sta­tus or check their Twit­ter feeds. http://flpbd.it/vKpIL Employers put offices in social media pockets Related articles…

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  • The World Happiness Report

    The World Happiness Report Explains What Makes People Happy BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com What are the secrets from the happiest people on Earth? Some make sense: Be wealthy, married, and have a job. From there, though, it gets more complicated. Editor’s Note The idea of mea­sur­ing and fos­ter­ing hap­pi­ness is a grow­ing idea. I… http://flpbd.it/nQ4zp…

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  • Growth Hacking — Livestream

    eventbrite.com http://flpbd.it/2d4ks Growth Hacking — Livestream Related articles Growth Hacking is Simply Advanced Product Management (johnpeltier.com)

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  • Why Don’t Young Americans Buy Cars?

    Why Don’t Young Americans Buy Cars? Jordan Weissmann, theatlantic.com Auto mak­ers are wor­ried about the Mil­len­ni­als. They just don’t seem to care about own­ing a car. Is this a gen­er­a­tional shift, or just a lousy econ­o­my at work? Kids these days. They don’t get mar­ried. They don’t buy homes. And,… http://flpbd.it/zeQMx Related articles Young drivers…

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  • Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email

        Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email   Jordan Weissmann, theatlantic.com     Unless you hap­pen to get some sort of obses­sive com­pul­sive sat­is­fac­tion from keep­ing your inbox in ship­shape — and hey, if you do, more power to ya — deal­ing with email has got to be one of the…

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  • How Sanofi Is Writing The Social Media Rules For Big Pharma

    How Sanofi Is Writing The Social Media Rules For Big Pharma Without Running Afoul Of The FDA By Ben Paynter, fastcompany.com The biggest chal­lenge to treat­ing patients with dia­betes isn’t dol­ing out med­ica­tions, it’s mak­ing sure that peo­ple con­trol their habits. Poor diet and lack of exer­cise gen­er­al­ly cre­ate com­pli­ca­tions with the dis­ease. To com­bat…

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  • Status People Fake Follower Check

      Status People Fake Follower Check — Social Media Management Platform for Business   statuspeople.com     http://flpbd.it/9tryc   Related articles I Bought 10,000 Fake Twitter Followers. Why Didn’t Klout, Kred (or Others) Notice? (ignitesocialmedia.com) Twitter followers available on the open market (cbc.ca) How Do Those Fake Tweeple Hurt (insideview.ie) Want that Twitter verification badge?…

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  • Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology

      Amber Case’s Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology Jon Mitchell, readwriteweb.com If you want to thrive in the future, it might help to read the man­u­al. Soft­ware design­er, CEO and 21st cen­tu­ry renais­sance woman Amber Case has pub­lished An Illus­trat­ed Dic­tio­nary of Cyborg Anthro­pol­o­gy. It’s a light-hearted guide t… http://flpbd.it/MBMUt   Related articles   The…

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  • Report says 15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes

    Report says 15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes Dan Goodin, arstechnica.com More than 15 per­cent of Mitt Rom­ney’s Twit­ter fol­low­ers may be gen­er­at­ed by paid ser­vices that use fake accounts to arti­fi­cial­ly inflate the num­ber of peo­ple sub­scribed to the pre­sump­tive Repub­li­can nom­i­nee for US Pres­i­dent,… http://flpbd.it/BNd2F Related articles Mitt in…

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