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Clay Shirky on balancing emotion in social media (Video)
a youtube.com Clay Shirky's book "Here Comes Everybody" is here. Join over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Be More Successful How To Get People To Like You: 7 Ways From An FBI Behavior Expert
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Inbox Zero
you're having trouble controlling that inbox, check this out. I'm a huge, huge believer in "Inbox Zero." Along the same lines, for being more productive I highly recommend the book Getting Things Done. It's a great companion to Inbox Zero. Join over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Be More Successful How To Get People To Like…
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The Math that Won the Netflix Prize
e of the most important insights is that ratings change over time, as the graphs above suggest. For each movie, ratings increase over time—on average nearly 10% over 5 years. The best explanation for this phenomenon is that people are less discriminating when they rent new releases. To rent an older movie, they need more encouragement—some indication that they will like it—so these end up better matched to their tastes. via scientificblogging.com Join over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update…
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P.R. in Silicon Valley
is is the new world of promoting start-ups in Silicon Valley, where the lines between journalists and everyone else are blurring and the number of followers a pundit has on Twitter is sometimes viewed as more important than old metrics like the circulation of a newspaper. Gone are the days when snaring attention for start-ups in the Valley meant mentions in print and on television, or even spotlights on technology Web sites and blogs. Now P.R. gurus court influential voices…
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6 Lessons From the Best Marketing Campaign Ever
ke it believable. Many marketing groups would never make a claim if they can't provide substantial evidence. How might Tourism Queensland prove that their job is the best in the world? They can't. But it is believable because it is a beautiful place and fits what many people's definition of a dream job might be. It's not about how much you spend. One of the major benefits of smart public relations and social media is that it scales in a…
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New Monopolies in the Digital Networked Economy
minance may consist not so much in cornering a single product as in successively taking over more and more threads of the web of technology." Superwinners can practice a type of crossover where control of one layer of the web leverages control into others. Owning the standard for voice phone calls can ease the likelihood of owning the standard for fax transmissions. The unacceptable transgression of the traditional monopolist was that as a mono-seller (thus the Greek, mono-polist), it could…
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Article about my jobhunt tactics on the Baltimore Sun’s website today.
ic Barker, 36, of Los Angeles, told me how he's been running inexpensive ads on Facebook to target employers he wants to work for. The way it works is he puts up an ad that he targets to employees of a particular company who happen to be on Facebook. When you buy an ad on Facebook, the site offers you granular tools to target your ad to people, say, who claim they work for a certain company. The ads get…
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Optimism: Too Much of a Good Thing for Entrepreneurs?
a bretlsimmons.com: A recent study examined the relationship between entrepreneurs’ optimism and the performance of their new ventures (Hmieleski, K.M. & Baron, R.A., 2009, Entrepreneurs’ optimism and new venture performance: A social cognitive perspective. Academy of Management Journal, 473-488). This study of 207 entrepreneurs with an average firm age of 5.7 years found a negative relationship between optimism of the founders and performance of the new venture. Furthermore, “the negative relationship between entrepreneurs’ optimism and the performance of their new ventures…
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