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A Social Network For Genetics Research: Can It Help Isolate Parkinson’s Genes?

The Realtime Report

Can social networks help with medical research? The world’s first genetics-based social network – as 23andMe labels itself – is looking to show they can. It started in 2009, when 23andMe decided to do genetic research and invited anyone diagnosed with Parkinson’s to donate their DNA sample.

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Musical serendipity in a digital world….

The Way of the Web

Adam’s experience is that record and book shops provide an element of serendipity missing in online retailers, and this is also a familiar comment on news services, and information via social networks which connect you with friends likely to share your world view. I’ve occasionally get some mileage from Soundcloud.

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Detecting Deception in Social Media

Net-Savvy Executive

If you're reporting on broad trends, you might get better results through sampling, or by focusing on high-quality sources. For questionable sources, think about the different types of data that might reveal something through social network analysis. Is it linked to real people in social networks? Who owns it?

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How to Analyze What Works for Your Audience

Sprout Social

Also make sure you’re sharing each post on multiple days and times, and on different social networks. The easiest way to get started is by searching your preferred social network for keywords related to your industry. You can even see the exact social network people are coming from.

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The 21 Best Content Curation Tools

Webbiquity SMM

Sample review: “Add and curate content from any public webpage. It’s a great way to capture the buzz from the show floor after a tradeshow, event or conference.” — Maximize Social Business (Drive). Sample review: “One of the most important tools in a marketer’s tool belt is knowledge. That’s where Pocket comes in.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In the freewheeling, egalitarian, crowdsourced world of the internet we are accustomed to, and actually feel entitled to get music, art and books for free. These new talents and voices of social networking would often speak for free affecting market integrity. It gave rise to an entirely new breed of speaker. I have not done it.

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How to Curate Content: The Secret Sauce to Getting Noticed, Becoming an Influencer, and Having Fun Online

Buffer Social

Let’s start by looking at a sample curation day (it just so happens to be my day), and all the different detail that goes into the Discover-Read-Share formula. They browse communities where stories are gathered and upvoted — crowdsourced curation, more or less. Here is a sampling of recent tweets. 1eKOPhAPZI.