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Richard Bach

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.popularitytruthtrueSEOsocial media— Richard BachThere's No Such Place as Far Away (1978)

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The Basics of Building And Strengthening Your Social Network(s)

The most important aspect of social media is sharing. Sharing is how information traverses the great gobbly-gook of servers and social networks to other human beings. As Yermo Lamers was helping me out...

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Taran Rampersad

Taran's 3 R's: Rethink, Recreate, Reiterate. designweb designsocial mediaquotequotationrethinkrecreatereiteratereformevolveevolution— Taran RampersadKnowProSE.com

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The Facebook Solution

Anyone who is using Facebook these days have probably clued in that they aren't seeing as many posts as they used to - and the whole 'Promoted Post' thing isn't necessarily useful. That Facebook issue...

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The Problem of Atomizing a Social Network

I started writing last night about the Facebook solution and wanted to follow up on it in a more technical way. Most geeks will take a look at this and say, "Yeah, I know that", but there might be one...

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Meandering Thoughts on Tags

I've been playing a lot with the concepts and implementations of tags because they are probably one of the most powerful tools we have for finding content that we still don't use that much. This is...

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Matrix of Intimacy, Part I.

While juggling fragments of reality, I've been juggling the 'Matrix of Intimacy' concept and how best to explain it, particularly since people are on the railroad track of how social media works. I'm...

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Matrix of Intimacy, Part 2: Noise

If you missed Matrix of Intimacy, Part 1 you may want to read it.So. We're all matrices of likes and dislikes, and with social media this is more apparent since we have interactions with more people...

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Chasing A Marshmallow Hedgehog On The Internet

I came across this candied hedgehog a few days ago on Facebook, where it was uploaded to someone's pictures. I found it of interest because it's a powerful metaphor for the Hedgehog Project. Blunting...

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Russell L. Ackoff

I do not deny that most managers lack a good deal of information that they should have, but I do deny that this is the most important informational deficiency from which they suffer. It seems to me...

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Malcolm Forbes

The art of conversation lies in listening.Malcolm Forbesconversationsocial media— Malcolm Forbes

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Your Digital Signature: Who Do You Want To Be Defined By?

The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people. - Tim Berners-Lee, Tim Berners-Lee Speech before Knight Foundation, 14 September 2008 Often people involved in any type of Internet...

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Nikola Tesla

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term. Misunderstandings are always caused by the...

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Farming Facebook: Go organic.

One of the things that people still hang on to as a metric - for whatever peculiar reason - is how many 'likes' they get on their Facebook page(s) - a flawed metric, to be sure.Engagement in social...

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Grupo Cooperativo de las Indias

“Under every communication architecture, there hides a power structure.” That’s why communication technology is closely linked to social movements and governmental structures and, on the other hand,...

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Stopping Troubling Cheap Popularity Algorithms

One of the more silly issues of popularity algorithms is that they do  not degrade over time - and it's really simple to fix.In the context of social media and the internet, the cheap and easy...

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Small Biz, Rainbows, Unicorns, And Social Media/Websites

People parading around as ‘social media experts’ and ‘web designers’ often stop at people’s places of business, hop off their unicorns and point at the rainbow they just rode in on. “You can do this...

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Enriching Social Media

There's a lot that can be said about social media as it is right now and much of it has already been said, written and regurgitated all over the internet because, paraphrasing Douglas Adams, the...

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The Trouble With Tagging

I've been quietly considering a new method of navigation by tags and, ultimately, while everything I want to do is technically possible... the trouble is with the tags themselves.Just the word 'tag'...

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Anecdote: eCommerce, Social Media and Customer Service

I'm a fan of R.A. Salvatore for a variety of reasons, but suffice to say that he writes things that I enjoy reading. Some weeks ago, I came across his page on Facebook - and as a human being, he's...

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