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2020: The Year Data Saved The World

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Ok, many of us still zoned out in front of our screens – those on our mobile devices – but at least we did that outside…!). 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. Photo by NASA on Unsplash.

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5 Social Sites That Aren’t Facebook

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As Facebook struggles to find its monetization strategy, there are some exciting companies that have stepped forward to meet a different set of social needs (and in some cases, pick up the slack where Facebook has stumbled): Connecting on mobile. Cutting through the crap. Networking.

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3 Keys to Layering Content Effectively

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mobile notifications, and LinkedIn. We’re finding where consumers go, content has followed, whether it’s dispersed to a social network or consumed through mobile aggregators. And in terms of where they go to find this content – search engines were at 79%, and Facebook was at 76%. Um… yeah. This is not new(s).

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Like Stuff On Facebook? Say Cheese, You're An Ad!

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Doesn’t it call to mind the Flickr-Virgin Mobile brouhaha from a few years ago? In aggregate they will ad up. This is the most interesting part of the whole thing: while you can determine which of your friends sees what, based on your privacy settings, what you cannot do is opt out of your “likes&# being used as ads.

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