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2020: The Year Data Saved The World

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In a sea of dashboards and trackers following COVID-19’s path, the lack of aggregated data for schools in the state of New York led me to create my own. As he wrote on Medium : Searching for the number of COVID-19 cases in NYC schools in my neighborhood shouldn’t be this difficult. Photo by NASA on Unsplash.

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The Evolution of our Social Media Team

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When you look online at the way people aggregate they don’t aggregate around age, gender and income,&# she said. “They aggregate around the things they love, things that they like and if you think about it shared interests and values are a far more powerful aggregator of human beings than demographic categories”.

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On The Death Of Google Reader

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Our networks are much more efficient at aggregating and gathering information relevant to us because they’re different from us. There is no way I could ever match the richness of those information streams on my own, which is what an RSS feed requires. The way we consume news has changed from when RSS feeds debuted.

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Map to Business Strategy: Geoff Livingston on #measurePR

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1:In short, social has become a game of the aggregate. . — Geoff Livingston (@geoffliving) February 5, 2013. On Q2 (why he believes social is moving more in the direction of advertising than PR): A2 Pt. Influence & search are determined by #s of RTs, impressions, etc. Geoff Livingston (@geoffliving) February 5, 2013.

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5 Social Sites That Aren’t Facebook

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It aggregates all the ways that you currently keep in touch with your special someone and really taps into the desire to never be apart from the one you love. Google+ was betting on this, but hasn’t succeeded in switching over users, perhaps in part because it’s not exclusive enough. Networking.

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Thank you Google, for the Antithesis of a More Social Network

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The need for a social network that automatically aggregates all my “friends&# and then cuts off the irrelevant noise. One doesn’t really marry a random person just because there’s an option for divorce, do they?). Google+ cuts out the noise by adopting the “follow/unfollow&# conundrum, very similar to Twitter.

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Blogging Upstream

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But Tootzypop is part of the Glam Media network of sites, and I know from placement on Glam verticals that it’s our posts on exactly these topics that tend to get the highest aggregated traffic. I’m pondering ways to be make us even more indispensable to our audience without falling victim to the watering down of all-things-to-all-women.

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