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How to Eliminate the Echo Chamber and Add New Dimensions to Your Blog

ProBlogger

Read books, see movies, buy the newspaper, take a class or… if you’re really game… talk to a friend. Like Chris acknowledges in his post – it’s not easy to get out of the patterns we (as a blogosphere but also as individuals within it) have gotten into. Look outside the Blogosphere.

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Why Are Advertisers Embarrassed by Advertising?

Bare Feet Studios

They take things and make them into something they are not, to trick us into buying them. People love to buy and advertising is one of the most powerful ways of helping people find things to buy. To make great products people will want to buy, from the brands they consider to be friends if not always peers.

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Insurance of goods comprised in hire-purchase agreements 27.

Writtent Blog

The American lender announced in February plans to move further from its core origins with an agreement to buy the discount brokerage firm E-Trade for about $13 billion, joining the battle for middle Americas wealth management market.

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6 Things Parenthood Taught Me About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Your child may get sick, he doesn’t like his green beans, he might be very unhappy when he’s teething, or he might have a rough patch and revert to a previous sleeping pattern that isn’t ideal. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. As a parent, your job is just to stick with it. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Just like Digg doesn’t like anti-Digg content reaching the front page in order to control its brand, if anyone buys Digg and there’s a negative article about said company reaching the front page, it won’t look very good for them. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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IBM SJ 45-4 | Ethnographic study of collaborative knowledge work

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Business Collaboration Volume 45, Number 4, 2006. 6 Grounded theory is a qualitative analysis method used in the social sciences to find relationships and distill patterns from loosely connected data. Concepts that would account for perceived patterns in the data were developed for each group. Related links. Muller et al.

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Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

Webbiquity SMM

” Social Networking Growth Stats and Patterns by Social Media Today. of respondents said they’d be either somewhat less likely or far less likely to buy from that brand.” And most B2B buying cycles are 70%-80% complete before the salesperson is even aware of the buyer. hours to 6.3 for the year). .”