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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

It started in 2004 when a legislative committee held a series of hearings on digital copyright reform. This was when groups first started to come together to self-organize online.”. From then the movement grew: The Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook Group was launched in 2007 and soon had 90,000 members. There is no song book.

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How To Start Your Very Own Business Book Club

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On April 15th, 2004, I started something called the Montreal Business Book Review. People were constantly asking me what I was reading, what they should be reading or what I thought about a particular book. While I no longer run the business book club, it was an amazing learning experience. Please read the book selection.

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My Blog got me a New Job and a Book Deal!

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However, I did get a lot of speaking opportunities, PR opportunities, book comment opportunities, even books people would mail to me unsolicited (aka Schwag!) But I am proud to announce I got a book deal of my own!

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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You | chrisbrogan.com

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Use the groups features and find groups where you might want to contribute. Swing by [chrisbrogan.com] for more posts in the series, and if you have topic ideas, feel free to share them, as this is a group project, and your opinion matters. It helped me a lot setting up a group about my passion who was joined by 1000 people.

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Think Like Zuck: 5 Secrets of Success of Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Since 2004 it has grown to over one billion users globally, with over half of those logging on daily. Innovations such as Groups, the Wall, photo tagging or the Timeline have always centered on users’ requirements and have grown out of the Facebook culture of fast, imaginative design.

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What Do We Need to Teach About Knowledge Work? | Computer Writing and Research Lab

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In this white paper, I take a postcritical stance (Selber 2004). Similarly, when everyone is potentially interconnected, border-crossing is constant and collaboration across functional groups becomes more pervasive. Liaisons are workers or positions that develop to provide stable connections across groups. Project management.

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No Straight Lines / Technology makes it easy to remember,' the trick is learning how to forget

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Reading Steven Johnson ’s book Mind Wide Open over Thanksgiving. In her post, she quotes Paul Collins’ book The trouble with Tom : Memory is a toxin, and its overretention - the constant replaying of the past - is the hallmark of stress disorders and clinical depression. December 2004. September 2004.