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Cognitive Surplus - Use Social Connectivity to Change the World.

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Harnessing the power of the collective (crowdsourcing for social change) is a thread woven throughout Cognitive Surplus , and its viability requires two of Shirky’s assertions to be accurate.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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With free membership open to all women, JaneNation combines social networking with opinion collection. So, Lisa Beatty build JaneNation.com , a new opinion, information, and idea community just for women, that launched recently at the Marketing to Women conference.

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Please Help Me Pick a New Look For My Blog

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link] Social Email Guy By the way: nice crowdsourcing / co-creation / collaboration Chris Rogers I initially like #3 best, however, not a big fan of the screened back logo – i.e. if #3 was a bit less busy, it would be my favorite. I also picked 3 because there was no 4. 2 many words I guess?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Thank you so very much to each of the Twitter 20 participants, who gave so freely of their time and their knowledge in the true spirit of social media. I crowdsourced the design using Crowd Spring, and selected Tzeyee and her design over dozens of other contenders. Her design very much adds to the invigorating nature of this book.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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The taboo of never tooting your own horn with a press release about your good deeds clearly has crumbled in corporate America, and companies today are not only promoting philanthropy through social networks, they’re building unique Facebook pages and Twitter profiles for these important programs.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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If we like it we want to pass it around to our network so that they can interact with it. This means your content should be capable of easily sharing through the major social networking sites as well as any niche sites your market is using. This is how we connect with each other online, by sharing content.

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The Truth About the iPad | Blogging and Content Creation | Social.

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I totally get the point of the iPad as a way to make casually web browsing, social networking, and ebook-reading simpler and trendier, but in no way are these things “computers&#. And MiFi is soooo much better than USB dongle. Surprised it hasn't taken off more yet. RevShark Great post Jay.

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