During my career as a Web strategy consultant I’ve often had people ask me, “How do I do social media?” Unfortunately the answer isn’t simple. But the first step is the same as if you developing any other marketing strategy: know your market. To “know your market” in the old days you needed a $15,000 qualitative market research study that would then need to be quantified for the likes of senior …
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5 Simple Twitter Listening Tips Every Marketer Should Know (ReadWriteWeb)
American media are still missing in action on the controversy currently embroiling the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In addition to the criticisms related to glaciers and natural disasters, the IPCC came under fire last week for a statement in its 2007 report that said 40 percent of the Amazon is vulnerable to even a small change in…
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Criticism of IPCC Continues
For those that shop online, I found another site that allows you to earn cash back while shopping online. This site is called Big Crumbs . Membership is FREE and when you join, you have access to exclusive deals and can earn cash back at top retailers and member stores.
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Make Money With Big Crumbs – FREE Membership
Here are a couple of recent shots fired across the bow of e-book readers and content aggregators. In a conference call, News Corp
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Rupert Murdoch, Mark Cuban talk about content and news aggregators
–Talking Points Memo had a nice catch of Reuters pulling a story headlined “Backdoor taxes to hit middle class” after the White House pointed out “errors of fact.” Reuters straightforwardly explains why here. — The Las Vegas Sun, via Calculated Risk, provides interesting local reporting from the heart of the housing bust: In the last…
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Audit Notes: Reuters Withdraws; Leaving Las Vegas; Reregulation, etc.
Stanza used to allow users to transfers books to the iPhone using a USB cable and WiFi via an accompanying desktop application. The latest update to Stanza removes the ability to sync books through USB, but leaves the WiFi ability alone. The version notes say “Removed ability to share books via USB as required by Apple.” More info here and here
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Stanza iPhone app crippled at Apple’s request
There will be two visual art exhibitions – Legacy and Creations-Power of Ink and Legacy and Creations-Art vs Art. From May, the government will work with public organisations, professional groups, academic institutions and business associations …
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Hong Kong: Hong Kong Expo events announced as countdown clock …
This week (1 st to 5 th February 2010) is National Apprenticeship Week.The week, which is organised by the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS), aims to celebrate the talents and skills of apprentices and recognise their employers. The Government aims to increase the number of apprenticeships available in the future, seeing it as a crucial way of reducing the proportion of 16- to 18-year-olds not in education, employment or training (NEETs). The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has said: we will continue to expand apprenticeships with the ambitious goal that within the next 10 years, one in five young people should be able to take up an apprenticeship. And we are committed to providing an apprenticeship place for every suitably qualified 16-18 year old from 2013 and increasing the number of advanced apprenticeships so that those in vocational learning have clear routes to progress in their careers
Received an email from Allen Lau telling me that Wattpad will be available for the iPad when the iPad launches in March. _________________________ Received another email from Kindle Nation saying that Tuesday was their first anniversary. When the Nation started there were 1,031 recipients of the first issue of the newsletter.
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Quick Note: Wattpad will be available on the iPad; Kindle Nation 1 year old
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama said now is the time to break the logjam in Congress over his health-care initiative and push the legislation through, as some lawmakers warned that further delay could jeopardize passage.
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Obama Says Health Care Needs Final Push in Congress (Update2) (Bloomberg)
News Corp., whose 20th Century Fox movie studio is still riding the tail wind of “Avatar” in movie theaters, said Tuesday it earned a net income of $254 million in the most recent quarter, thanks to an advertising recovery.
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News Corp. reports 2Q profit on ad recovery (USA Today)
Wanna crush your children’s spirits, become the laughing stock of the PTA? Buy them this tree house! At approximately 3 p.m., officer responded to a 9-1-1 report of a badly injured nine-year-old boy, next to a tree in McCarren Park, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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Design Crime: A Flat-Pack Treehouse
Building a teacher home business is perhaps the most practical and convenient investment an educator can have. For one thing, the space is free since you are doing the whole thing in the comfort of your very own home .
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Considering Aspects Of A Teacher Home Business | You Get The Gist …
CLASSES . Classes Overview · Class Calendar · Workshops · Techniques · New Classes · Cooking Vacations · Culinary Skills · Pastry Skills · Instructors · Dining Events · Open House · Photo Slideshow · Cooking Blog …
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Welcome to MCU Park – home of your Brooklyn Cyclones!The Municipal Credit Union of New York City will become the new naming rights partner of the Coney Island stadium where the popular Cyclones, a Class A minor league affiliate of the Mets, play their home baseball games, according to…
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Brooklyn Cyclones get new name for stadium (New York Post)
His love of music led him to work directly with producing duo, Masters at Work , (“Little Louie” Vega and Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez) at MAW Records and later with the legendary disco label, West End Records, founded by disco pioneer, …
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Adam Cruz Live Playlists: PLAYLIST FOR TUESDAY 2 FEBRUARY 2010
New designs by Michael Young and Julien Renault show the future in foil. The early Aughts brought us the rise of plastic . Then there were bubbling threats of a carbon-fiber flashback (soooo ’90s), but thankfully that didn’t go anywhere
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Aluminum’s Big in 2010, Very Metal
Few people can argue over the practicality of using all-electric vehicles for small trips. After all, a quick ride around the neighborhood is unlikely to arouse range anxiety . But what about taking a trip around the world in an EV
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Project EVIE: Around the World in an Electric Car
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama said now is the time to break the logjam in Congress and push his health- care initiative through to passage.
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Obama Says Health Care Needs Final Push in Congress (Update1) (Bloomberg)
In a recent post on her blog , author Lynn Abbey goes into her own reaction regarding the Amazon/Macmillan feud—and it is somewhat different from Scalzi’s take .
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Closed Circle: Lynn Abbey, C.J. Cherryh, Jane Fancher create new DRM-free e-book store