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My Proust Questionnaire

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But certainly perfect happiness might be found travelling for pleasure and not worrying about anything for a few days or weeks. I always liked the dopamine that would kick in from participating in an athletic event. That feeling of accomplishment and being totally spent. That’s bliss. What is your greatest fear?

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My Proust Questionnaire

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But certainly perfect happiness might be found travelling for pleasure and not worrying about anything for a few weeks. I always liked the dopamine that would kick in from participating in an athletic. That feeling of accomplishment and being totally spent. That’s bliss. What is your greatest fear? Creating an unfinished legacy.

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Anti-Social Media-The Anonymous Comment

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Outlets such as MSNBC and Scripps insist on traveling at hyper speed with us on the information super highway. The new iteration of the 4th estate is represented online with gusto. They have embedded the social tools and capabilities into their new web sites to allow us to have a voice.

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The Evolution of Our Data Fixation in Social Media

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Case in point Wal-Marting Across America uses a real journalist and real photographer, and sets them up as your average Wal-Mart fans, who travel across America, park their RV at Wal-Mart parking lots and hang and blog. We were all about doing first and thinking second.

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The Biggest Challenge in Becoming a Social Business

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Have you ever tried getting someone to take the road less traveled? That doesn’t mean that NOT becoming a social business is the death knell, it just means that eventually if you don’t adapt-you will be the fish swimming downstream when all the others are going in the opposite direction.

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Our Shifting Notion of Search, Social and Mobile.

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We use it for online transactions, travel decisions, job searches, purchases, research, and a dozen other activities. Search is and has been woven into the fabric of our daily lives thanks to Google. It is a utility that drives our online and offline interactions.

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The Random on Social Media, Music, Sports, Books and Movies

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When travelling/flying, I’ve been reading 2 books simultaneously one is called Bounce by Matthew Syed which talks about how prodigies are not born, they are made, from hard work. I just watched an analysis about the HP CEO ouster and read that they have had 7 CEO’s sinc 1999…7 in 12 years. Best shoes for running?

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