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8 ways to deal with negative comments in online communities

Laurel Papworth

How do you respond to a negative comment in an online community, on Facebook? Unless they go off and create an anti-community such as Dell Hell, alert the Press and continue to pursue their point of view. Law as bullying tactic rarely works, it just incenses the community. Shut the Page down, ban the commenter, suck up to them?

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Metaverse and Korean Government – Strategy and Budget and Education

Laurel Papworth

I think what that means is to support startups and companies who are going to help with connected worlds that include reality. Or they don’t know that they’re inside an augmented layer or connected worlds they think it’s reality dressed up as usual. So I think Korea is ahead here. I’d love to know some more.

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Metaverse – The End of Reality and the Big Picture plus Sunyata

Laurel Papworth

Is it possible that either the NFT or the digital Twin, where you have both the real world item and the online item, will mean that we release our hold on resource hogging physical products and start to chase more of the online digital version of reality? So I would ask with Sunyata that we consider how much of the physical world do we.

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Revenue: Social media games and virtual goods 2010

Laurel Papworth

While FarmVille is free, you pay for the tractor using real money via credit cards or other payment systems. Other figures from the article: Virtual goods might hit $1.6 Technorati Tags: farmville , Monetization , revenue , social games , social media , virtual goods , zynga. Monetizing: Virtual Goods venture capital 2009 (2).

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Wired Campus: Computer Literacy Doesn't Mean Information Literacy, Report Says - Chronicle.com

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Community Colleges. Community Colleges. Campus Piracy Company Watch Distance Education Gadgets Leadership Legal Troubles Libraries Offbeat Open Access Research Search Engines Security Social Networking Student Life Supercomputing Teaching TechForum2008 Video Virtual Worlds Wikis. Government & Politics. International.

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Whenever I present or give classes on monetizing social networks and online communities people usually have two questions. Virtual Real Estate a tough one again if you are not a virtual world like Second Life but how about a special forum for payment. One, should we monetize other people’s activity?

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What Do We Need to Teach About Knowledge Work? | Computer Writing and Research Lab

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That might involve learning popular time management techniques (Allen 2003) or participating in online communities that face similar problems (Spinuzzi 2003, Ch.6); Gonzalez & Mark 2004) in which they operate, the overlapping work activities that largely share the same tools but different rules, communities, and divisions of labor.

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