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Facebook: Iceland Constitution and Gov 2.0

Laurel Papworth

Iceland have turned to social media to ask the population to crowdsource writing Iceland’s new constitution. Compare to Australia’s Future of Melbourne wiki or New Zealand crowdsourcing their Police Act. In 2009 6 times as many people as in 2005 emigrated from Iceland. Metagovernment is alive and well. Not much fun.

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Metaverse – The End of Reality and the Big Picture plus Sunyata

Laurel Papworth

When social media, before it was called social media, it was called Web Two and online communities as opposed to Web Three in the metadata. 00:05:43.650] I’ve been involved in decentralised currency since 2005, so before Bitcoin and have tracked how economies have been built through using different items for exchange.

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Copyright – Social Media SAVES your IP from plagiarists

Laurel Papworth

I think we are crowdsourcing this unIndustry association in an adhoc movement of anti-marketing anti-PR communities. It was either 2005 or 2006. A few years ago,I called for an “unIndustry&# association to protect user generated content (the little guy) from being ripped off by agencies and big content providers.

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Real investments in virtual worlds continue

The Way of the Web

Don’t forget back in 2004, David Storey paid $26,500 in Entropia , then Jon Jacobs invested $100,000 in a virtual space station in Entropia in November 2005, and of course Anshe Chung became a millionaire via Second Life in 2006. Apparently both David and Jon have made their money back and more.

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How to Utilize Social to Manage Customer Expectations

Convince & Convert

Scottish brewery BrewDog is has created a crowdsourced microbrew called #Mashtag (mashing is the first step in the beer brewing process). He joined social media toward the beginning, in 2005, and so learned along with everyone else the ins and outs. Holy Social. via BrewDog. “#Mashtag is a 7.5% Four Your Information.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

Not only leaders in their professional lives, nearly all these women use their social profiles to express their passions outside the workplace, which range from NASCAR, art, travel, billiards, wine and music to community service, politics and, of course, family. ” She was named B2B Magazine’s 2012 Digital Marketer of Year. Liz Bonilla.

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