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Sometimes Simplicity Leads to Big Innovation

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This post or iginally appeared on Hanley Wood’s HIVE for Housing site. It forces the company’s engineers to understand the end user—how they’re using the software, what they like about it, what they wish it had, etc. This is the genius of Intuit’s “ Follow Me Home ” program.

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Entrepreneurs: Celebrated in the Private Sector, Hidden in Government

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Google , the search engine that processes more than a billion searches a day, was founded by two graduate students. eBay , the most successful online auction site in the world, was started when someone bought computer programmer Pierre Omidyar ‘s broken laser pointer on his personal auction site. Read Fast Company.

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

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Now, take a look at the official support areas for WordPress , Telligent , MindTouch , Jive or any of the dozens of social software vendor sites. Increased “forgive-ability&# – Look, we know that these sites will go down occasionally, especially when they’re first being developed. Notice anything?

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Top Ten Quotes From BlogWorld 2008…thus far! | Social Media Strategery

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I was searching in Yahoo for Accounting software that I had already bought when I found your site, I have to say your site is really informative, I just love the theme, its amazing! I don’t have the time today to fully read your entire site but I have bookmarked it and also signed up for your RSS feed. Thanks for this.

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I Started a Blog But No One Cared | Social Media Strategery

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What drives readership is a slowly building witches’ brew of search engine exposure, awareness within your target community, subscriptions to your feed, etc. What drives readership is a slowly building witches’ brew of search engine exposure, awareness within your target community, subscriptions to your feed, etc.

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