#The Rules Of Social Media: Contests And Sweepstakes Are Fine, If You Want Short Relationships

 

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English: Infographic on how Social Media are being used, and how everything is changed by them. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By FAST COMPANY STAFF, fastcompany.com

 

When it comes to social media success, the long game is more valuable than the short game, according to Hill Holliday’s SVP of digital strategy, Mike Proulx.

 

“Many brands and indi­vid­u­als mis­tak­en­ly obsess about short­cut tac­tics to gain f…

 

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#The Rules Of Social Media: Contests And Sweepstakes Are Fine, If You Want Short Relationships

 

The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing

 

 

The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing
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Rob van Kranenburg outlines a brief history of the next big thing—the internet of things—and argues that U.S. industry and government should be taking a more active role in its evolution.

About a decade ago, I would stand in the mid­dle of a…

 

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Reddit: Obama visit generates most activity

Barack Obama
Barack Obama (Photo credit: jamesomalley)

Reddit: Obama visit generates most activity ever


by Donna Tam, cnet.com

The pres­i­dent breaks all the rules, breaks a Red­dit record, and draws at least 5.3 mil­lion views, news stats reveal.

Pres­i­dent Barack Obama broke all the cam­paign­ing rules when he held an unmod­er­at­ed Q&A ses­sion on one of the…

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Employers put offices in social media pockets

Henry Ford, standing, and Barney Oldfield in 1...
Henry Ford, standing, and Barney Oldfield in 1902, with the Ford 999 racing automobile. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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.

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Employers put offices in social media pockets

The Next Gen Datacenter

English: The CERN datacenter with World Wide W...
English: The CERN datacenter with World Wide Web and Mail servers. Nederlands: Het CERN datacentrum met World Wide Web en Mail servers. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Big Data: Facebook’s next big idea

By Gery Menegaz for Five Nines: The Next Gen Datacenter | August 1, 2012 — 17:00 GMT (10:00 PDT) Follow @GeryMenegaz, zdnet.com

The Face­book fal­la­cy is that at its core the Social Net­work is real­ly an adver­tis­ing com­pa­ny.

If you look at their quar­ter­ly report, you see that about 82% of their rev­enue comes from adver­tis­ing, so it backs up this asser­tion. Th…

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The Underground Economy of Buying Twitter Followers: Dealers, Abusers & Fake Accounts

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English: Twitter Inc headquarters Deutsch: Twitter Inc Hauptsitz Français : Twitter Inc Siège Español: la sede de twitter inc (Photo credit: Wikipedia)barracudalabs.com

 

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The Underground Economy of Buying Twitter Followers: Dealers, Abusers & Fake Accounts

Evolutionary basis of maximum connections on Facebook (150)

 

Views of spacetime along the world line of a r...
Views of spacetime along the world line of a rapidly accelerating observer in a relativistic universe. The events (“dots”) that pass the two diagonal lines in the bottom half of the image (the past light cone of the observer in the origin) are the events visible to the observer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Robin Dunbar: We can only ever have 150 friends at most… | Technology | The Observer.

 

 

 

Hamilton college alumni weekend features new science center and other innovations

Emerson Hall at Hamilton College in Clinton, N...
Emerson Hall at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I just returned from alumni weekend at Hamilton College and was amazed at the evolution of this school since I completed my studies there. A new science center that looks like an Apple store, expanding visibility for its expertise in writing, media and communications, a dynamic network of alumni and new e-learning platforms connecting it all make this one of the top liberal arts colleges. See more photos on my Facebook albums…

Tangled in an endless web of distractions

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Tangled Up in Blues (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Colleges are limiting access to social media during classes due to concerns about impacts on learning.

Tangled in an endless web of distractions – Boston.com.