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SHERRILYNNE STARKIE JANUARY 19, 2013  Our Hamilton public engagement campaign turns PR disaster “We specialize in civic engagement situations of high emotion, conflict or controversy.” This claim made Dialogue Partners website was shown to be 100% true last week. The Ottawa-based public engagement consulting firm behind the disastrous ‘Our Voice, Our Hamilton’ campaign certainly learned a lot about high emotion, conflict and controversy within a few hours of its launch. High emotion. | ENGAGING BRAND JANUARY 19, 2013  Ways to Use Google+ Hangouts for Business One of the most useful and underutilized tools offered from Google is Google Plus Hangouts. Hangouts are free and easy to access from a Google account, making it a versatile and flexible tool for businesses. While some companies are using Google Plus Hangouts for conducting meetings, here are five additional ways any business can benefit from Hangouts: Use Google Plus Hangouts for Mobile Meetings. | CREATIVE RAMBLINGS JANUARY 19, 2013 This week in social media (January 14-18, 2013) In social media, there is never a dull moment! Check out the list of headlines below. Facebook An introduction to Facebook’s new Graph Search (Creative Ramblings) Facebook for Android updated with faster photo viewing, broader story sharing, and voice messages (The Next Web) Dropify Aims To Make File Publishing Via Facebook A Social Activity (AllFacebook) Storify Curator [.]. Facebook Google LinkedIn News Social Media Twitter social media headlines | THE RELATIONSHIP ECONOMY JANUARY 19, 2013  What LinkedIn Endorsements Mean To Intangible Value I happened to be talking on the phone today with my son (a college junior) about letters he needed to get out for summer internships. While we were talking, I received the periodic update email that LinkedIn sends out (yes, I was multi-tasking…). The headline on the email told me that my son had added a new job to his profile, the internship he completed in Shanghai last month. | | | | | | | |
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TWIST IMAGE | SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 2013 The Empty Cup Strategy
A fictional situation (that is all too real). Imagine this: you have an amazing day at work. big project got completed, you were called out in terms of your excellence and other moments of pride and distinction from your peers ensue. You can't wait to get home and share the news with your family. You walk through the door, smiling from ear and ear and you're suddenly ambushed by kids fighting, and a spouse who has spent the day cleaning snot and separating the rug rats. Those two dramatically disparate emotional sides usually leads into some kind of argument or moments of frustration. Not fun. MORE >> -
PROBLOGGER | SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 2013  A New Theme, Part 2: When Your New Theme Crashes Your Blog
This guest post is by Ayelet Weisz of All Colores. Yesterday, we talked about preparing your blog for a theme upgrade. You read it, worked through all the steps, and now you’re ready to go. So you get up on Saturday morning and sit down to work, a breeze coming through the window. You turn on some music as you browse through potential new themes for your blog. You find one and click Install. Excited that you’ve found the perfect match for your blog, you click Activate. You think to yourself, “Fatal error?! better refresh the page!” Is your blog lost for good? Option #1. MORE >> -
TWIST IMAGE | SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 2013 Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #135
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see? " Adam Mansbach , he of the Go The F**k To Sleep , is on tour, promoting his new book, Rage Is Back. The bottom line: book tours are awkward, ill-advised forays into manufactured celebrity. This cut close to the bone for Ben Yoskovitz and I, because we just sent our book, Lean Analytics , to production, and we're gearing up for a few months of speaking gigs around the world. Hopefully more than four people show up." " (Alistair for Hugh). Shut Up and Be Funny! MORE >>
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