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On Youth, Age, and Community Service

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Lee, when talking about her father who passed away at the age of 71, referred to him as a “young man.” And I thought, “That’s incredible, to refer to someone in their 70s as ‘young.’ people will be participating in community service in Dr. King’s memory. “Age is a state of mind.”

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5 Strategies to Build a Network of Bloggers and Journalists

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Image: SalFalko via Flickr, CC 2.0. Look for online communities of bloggers and contribute to their conversations to begin building contacts in your focus area. While you can reference your product don’t make the entire article self-promotional. Do you have a great community building strategy?

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Monday Roundup: Breaking the Cycle of Mistakes

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George Santayana references aside, “moving on” means acknowledging and learning from what we did wrong. Image: Cornelia Kopp via Flickr, CC 2.0. In this post for Steamfeed , DJ Thistle remind us to break the cycle of bad blogging practices by focusing on quality and the company we keep in the blogging community.

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15 Quotes from Shakespeare for Public Relations Pros

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Because it’s thanks to Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” that that phrase – and its most popular historical reference – live on well after the actual Caesar was assassinated back in 44 B.C.E. In PR : Work as a community manager, or have a component of community management as part of your responsibilities?

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Thumper’s Rule – Knowing When And How To Avoid An Online Argument

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'Angry bird puts a lid on it' courtesy of etee on Flickr via Creative Commons license If you’re engaged in social media for either personal or professional purposes (and if you’re reading this, I’m betting you are), there’s an important skillset and rule that you might want to think about: The art of not replying.

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What Compels People to Share Your Content?

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In doing a postmortem of sharing and traffic on my site for the last half of 2012, posts that referred to the U.S. Image: Joseph Swan via Flickr, CC 2.0. They also won’t share anything religious, political, racial , or gender-specific. Presidential campaign had 30% less shares than posts on other topics.

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Harnessing the Power of Big Data for Public Relations

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Image: The IBM Curiosity Shop via Flickr, CC 2.0. It refers to the ability to collect large sets of complex data that are normally difficult to filter. Waze is the community-driven app that learns from users’ driving mannerisms to provide routing and real-time traffic updates. So, what is big data ? Take Waze for example.

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