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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | JOEY STRAWN JUNE 28, 2011  Mind Games: The Psychology of Gamification Feedback Loops have been used for years, even back to the 18th century, when regulators and governors were used on steam engines and then furthered for human psychological study in the 1940s within the field of cybernetics. The Tweet. I’m a satisfied customer of Netflix. Yet, the last two movies that came in the mail for us sat on our DVD player unwatched for almost a month each. | JOEY STRAWN MAY 24, 2011  It’s Just A Game Call it what you will, Gamification, Game Theory, Game Mechanics or whatever, businesses that are learning how to build engagement engines into their brand and business using theories taken from game design are gaining and retaining customers at alarming rates. Tweet. man in love is forcibly separated from the girl of his dreams by a richer, more powerful rival. Or is it? The Bartle Test. | | | | | |
| JOEY STRAWN JANUARY 31, 2011  The LinkedIn Loser’s Field Guide Yours should look more like this: At this point, the LinkedIn engine will provide you with tips to complete your profile. Tweet. Welcome back to our Symposium on Sucking at Social Media. So far you’ve learned how to create a crappy Twitter profile and the basics of how to suck at Facebook. This week, we will be tackling the most professional of all the social networks: LinkedIn. | JOEY STRAWN APRIL 27, 2011  The Tao of UnReview: The Tao of Twitter If you’re not in the right mindset to use the network as a conversation engine, then “No&# , Twitter is not for you. Tweet This month’s UnReview is special for many reasons. Also, I happen to know the author personally. Mark has delved into the art of constructing business in 140 characters or less and lays out practical ways to make it worth your time. Well done, Mark. | JOEY STRAWN NOVEMBER 16, 2011  What Google+ Needs To Do So, I’m doing my trusty Google search on the engine I prefer, but I still have my Circle, Share and Plus options around the side. Tweet There’s a new(ish) kid on the block and he’s got about 40 million friends so far. Are you playing along with him yet? There are a lot of haters against Google+. Google+ A Go-Go. Google+ Profile. Gmail Integration. LOVE Gmail. Hangouts. | JOEY STRAWN JULY 19, 2010  Inception Marketing, An Infection of Ideas John Jantsch has a great book titled The Referral Engine (non-affiliate link) that deals with this specific topic and rather than re-hashing everything he says, I’ll focus on the main issues. Digg Digg “What’s the most resilient parasite? An idea. single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the rules and rewrite all existence.&#. Inception. | | | | | | | |
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JOEY STRAWN | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2010  12 Blogs of Christmas: Day 4 – Content
– Should you make sure that your writing is optimized for search engines? Tweet. This is Part 4 in a 12-Part Series: Read Part 1. Read Part 2. Read Part 3. Content Matters. If your passion drives you and your attitude helps define your strategy, then your Content is going to be the factor that starts to bring everything into focus. Your content is that actual gift you wrap inside that gift box that you’ve spent so much time planning and sweating over. Your content is what makes your customers’ and audience’s eyes light up when they see it. Nobody Cares About You. MORE >> -
JOEY STRAWN | MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2010  A BarCamp Recap For People Who Are Not Me
By adding Apps and pictures, changing up my standards messages and optimizing it for search engines, we could all have a powerful resume working for us online. Digg Digg Two days ago (Saturday, Oct. 16) was a very special day. If you weren’t aware, that was the day of BarCamp Nashville 2010. It was also the day that party was held for someone in John Morgan’s ( @johnmorgan ) family, but since I didn’t go to that, I will be recapping BarCamp. BarCamp was Brain Delicious this year though.). My Romp Through BarCamp. You’re welcome. It was a great list. Sorry Erik. MORE >> -
JOEY STRAWN | MONDAY, JULY 19, 2010  Inception Marketing, An Infection of Ideas
John Jantsch has a great book titled The Referral Engine (non-affiliate link) that deals with this specific topic and rather than re-hashing everything he says, I’ll focus on the main issues. Digg Digg “What’s the most resilient parasite? An idea. single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the rules and rewrite all existence.&#. Cobb (from Inception ). What’s the best idea you’ve ever had? What did you do with that idea? We plant ideas with the hope that those seeds of ideas will grow into appropriate action. Inception. MORE >>
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