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Poor guy. He had such big dreams, too:
This is sad.
Two of my favorite quotes from a brilliant writer:
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
I'm glad you didn't.
Americans, I have some bad news for you: You have the worst quality of life in the developed world—by a wide margin. If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you'd be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker. I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home. I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.
America – The Grim Truth (via azspot)
So this is depressing.
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Don't know if I posted this already, but it's still true
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I don't remember if I posted this either, but it IS amazing. And depressing. Happy New Year, America!
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Elizabeth Edwards, who as the wife of former Senator John Edwards gave America an intimate look at a candidate's marriage by sharing his quest for the 2008 presidential nomination as she struggled with incurable cancer and, secretly, with his infidelity, died Tuesday morning at her home in Chapel Hill, N.C. She was 61.
In a life of idyllic successes and crushing reverses, Mrs. Edwards was an accomplished lawyer, the mother of four children and the wife of a wealthy, handsome senator with sights on the White House. But their 16-year-old son was killed in a car crash, cancer struck her at age 55, the political dreams died and, within months, her husband admitted to having had an extramarital affair with a campaign videographer.
She was amazingly strong and a true inspiration. She posted a brief, eloquent message to her Facebook page yesterday telling everyone goodbye. I think she knew.
Rahm Emanuel on Twitter. Real? Well, probably not. Hilarious? For sure. He's your next motherfucking mayor, Chicago!
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R.I.P. Greg Giraldo
He's the vocals on this track. He was a great comedian.


text: I've got a Silicon Dust Prime cable card tuner that is mighty unhappy when my SB5101 is active. The lower physical channels (say 35 and below) have noticeable interference; you can watch the signal & symbol quality bounce up and down on the SD HDHomeRun configuration software. Unplug the SB5101's power or even disconnect the Ethernet cable from the router and the interference immediately stops. I've tried two different routers (a Trendnet and a TP-Link w/Gargoyle) thinking they might be the cause since they have WiFi, but the behavior is the same (all these devices live in the same room in the house). I've tried turning off their radios too, but the Prime is still unhappy.BTW I have talked to Silicon Dust about this and they say that the Prime is very sensitive to RFI.It's taken me a while to figure out that was the internet connection hardware. The SB5101 and the Prime live off the same splitter. I've tried putting 54 MHz block filters on the line to the Prime thinking it was low frequency stuff but it hasn't helped. Even tried a tilt compensator too. So far nothing has worked. I have them apart about by about 5 feet, which would think would be distance enough. I'll see if I can put them in separate rooms altogether, but that would require pulling some cable.I already have a SB6141 on order as it was time for an upgrade anyway and I'm hoping it might make a difference.If anyone has any other thoughts I'll take them!

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In January 1997, a proposal on asthma studies was put forward by a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and a working group consisting of interested investigators from the VSD, managed care organizations (MCOs), and CDC was established to conduct such studies.1 In fall 1997, a paper by Kemp and colleagues (Kemp et al., 1997) suggested an association between whole-cell pertussis vaccine and asthma. Around that time, several articles were published on the hygiene hypothesis (Mawson, 2001), which posits that some infections in infancy or early childhood may protect against asthma or other allergic conditions. That raised the idea that vaccines, by preventing the infections, may increase the risk of asthma. The National Immunization Program (NIP) decided that this topic should be addressed by using VSD data, so NIP-affiliated VSD researchers conducted a pilot study in 1998 (DeStefano, 2004).
The study team was able to conduct data-quality and data-assurance checks of the electronic data and perform chart review on a sample of about 5% of the VSD population. The study team used that 5% sample to do the analyses. The analyses were presented at a meeting of VSD investigators in June 1998 and at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in September 1998. The researchers determined that even though they had reviewed the patient charts, there was uncertainty about the MCO enrollment status of children; some were enrolled from birth, and others were enrolled when they were 2 or 3 years old. The researchers could not determine with certainty the patients' vaccine histories before they were enrolled in the MCO. From the pilot study, the researchers learned that the data were not complete enough to be sure that the children who did not have vaccinations in their records were not vaccinated (DeStefano, 2004).
The researchers revised their study on the basis of what they had learned and restricted the data analysis to children born as MCO members to obtain a complete vaccination history. The initial findings from the new analysis were presented at the May 1999 meeting of VSD investigators. There was still some concern about the validity of vaccination status, and to account for it, the researchers conducted a subanalysis of children who had at least some indication of using the MCO for health care. The findings of the analysis were presented at the International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology in August 1999 and at the September 1999


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Keenan Kampa, Boston Ballet, 2009. Photograph by Gene Schiavone.
Kampa, a dancer with the Boston Ballet who grew up in Virginia and trained with the Reston Conservatory Ballet, returned in 2011 to Russia to dance with the Mariinsky Ballet. Kampa was the first American to join the Mariinsky. In 2010, she was the first American to receive the full diploma from the Vaganova Ballet Academy.
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I was trying out Ascension's "fastest town in the west" tutorial. Here is a cropped image from my result. Not nearly as polished as his, but I think it was a good first effort. Will probably try again later to see if I can improve on the technique.
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Neil Best leaves no stone unturned in the world of sports media.
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Billy Packer is not a sports fan - deal with it
I wrote a brief, superficial column about Billy Packer last week.
Here is a much better, more thorough take on the announcer many love to hate for one month every year.
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The Rice Diversity Project is a collaborative effort to explore the genetic basis of variation in rice and its wild ancestors. The project evaluates genotypes and phenotypes in a diverse set of rice accessions and uses association mapping to link genotype and phenotype. Our genotyping platforms are based on thousands of SNP markers. Our phenotyping efforts use controlled vocabularies to systematically describe a broad array of plant characteristics.
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Anyone that still uses an Hotmail, AOL or Yahoo email address is publicly admitting that technology has passed them by. It is not that they are just uncool, they are a security risk. If you are running a business via AOL or Yahoo email, you need to know that your customers and contacts are at risk from receiving malware, spyware or other damaging payload via your email account.
Most people with Hotmail, AOL & Yahoo accounts have no idea what two-factor authentication is or how to enable it. Because of that, these email accounts are very susceptible to someone cracking the password and sending email to all of your address book and people that you have ever sent a message to or received a message from. Despite the embarrassment of having your account hacked, it is a liability to your continued business success.
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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Two factor authentication means that Google, Facebook, Amazon, twitter, or others want an extra bit of identification, like a zip code, or to send a code to your mobile phone so that you can verify that you are who you say you are.
Personally all of my email accounts, old and new, are forwarded through Gmail. The spam is cleaned out well, and my business email account, has the personalized name REVELN.com, but is really a Google business app. It's been so helpful to keeping spam out of my way and prioritizing messages as "important."
~ Deb
"LinkedIn is an incredibly valuable business connection and resource site. When used properly."
Reach out to people you know for connections. If you want to connect with someone you don't know, tell them why – and make sure it's a business reason:
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
It's important to have a business connection of some sort, and to clarify this in your request to connect. Attempting to use a generic and impersonal request to connect could be suspect, especially if it turns out to be based on the attractiveness of a the recipients business photo. It is not the way to go to build your business.
Make your social media frequency the most valuable. Find out how often you should be posting to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and more.
Via Ally Greer
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
This is another good reference to add to why, what, where, when and how for social media. This one is about how often. ~ Deb
Lee Werrell's curator insight, September 13, 5:00 AM
People who blanket their ads across social media need not read this, those who are professional and courteous should.
Gary Obermeyer's curator insight, September 13, 11:36 AM
Well presented information, but should not be used as gospel. things change so fast in social media that there's a half-life to just about any rules and guidelines. My best advice, have a plan that makes sense to you and pay attention to the analytics.
Nicholas C. Rossis's curator insight, September 15, 8:17 AM
How not to annoy your followers on your social media: interesting for authors and non-authors alike.
"...Visual content can create the perfect balance for your blog [or message.]"
Nearly all of these are free or freemium.
Placeit is a unique tool that allows you to choose from a range of pre-made templates and backgrounds, for you to then 'place' your own images in. …[OR]…type in any URL and Placeit will automatically insert a screenshot of the page into your design.
To get the best size images and unlock more features, you will have to pay. However you can get a decently sized version of your creation to use for free.
This Chrome extension is an easy way to turn any text that you find when browsing, into a striking image that you can then share. The benefits of it being a bookmarklet, means that you don't need to leave your browser or open another tab/window, in order to create highly shareable images.
[Big Feature…it does]… a range of tasks all in one place. From presentations, infographics, animations and much more, it allows you to create some truly stunning visual content, right from your browser. No need to download any clunky software!
[The author's] …favourite graphic image design tool outside of PhotoShop. It has everything ….offering ready-to-go templates for things like flyers, social media covers, documents and more.
Who can deny the power of a great infographic? …They can also tell us a great deal about a subject in a very small space. …With over 30 chart types to choose from, there's bound to be something to get you started.
Others include SlideShare, Gimp, Tagxedo and more.
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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Writing without the power of visuals is flat and boring. These tools bring your ideas to life. Stacey's made some very useful annotations about what is useful about each of the 15 tools. Great list! ~ Deb
Alfredo Corell's curator insight, September 6, 8:22 AM
A short list of tools for creating visual content.
All of them are good, but are much more than these 15.
Few of us realize, or understand, the access we give to programs we use every day.
Via the Washington Post: In Facebook's defense, there are plenty of legitimate reasons for requesting these permissions. Messenger needs access to your camera, for instance, so that you can send pictures, and few people would want to confirm microphone access every time they use the app to place a call.
....Our collective ignorance over this whole app permissions thing probably explains the hullabaloo over Messenger. Yes, it's potentially "insidious," to quote Fiorella, but so are WhatsApp, Viber, MessageMe and virtually every other popular messaging app, all of which request comparably creepy permissions.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
I logged out of my mobile Facebook account due to video data usage. I uninstalled Facebook Messenger too as it was just a bit too intrusive to my taste, Now it's good to review just what you need in order for the app to work in the first place, like most apps. It's all about the data they collect that funds the way they do business. ~ D
Kelly created the acronym, SPLAT, to define the five most ingredients in helping others learn.
S = Safety–creating an environment that allows for learning
Remember this from the 5 points in the article:
4. All Audiences Are Visual
Simply talking through content with listeners is not enough.
5. Talking: a reminder that learning almost always happens best when learners talk about what they learn.
…In the school setting… A true assessment is to see if a learner has internalized a lesson enough to effectively tell someone else about it.
…we can keep learning meaningful when we SPLAT:
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Via Stephanie Sandifer, Deb Nystrom, REVELN
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Getting social with learning, powering up by getting diggity digital with it. Why not release the power by empowering in the 2014 learning places? ~ Deb
Stephanie Sandifer's curator insight, July 27, 11:17 AM
I consider myself to be an "experienced" educator -- that means I've spent many years in the classroom and I'm "old." But I've never stopped trying to learn more and to be reflective about what I am doing so that I can improve how I help students learn.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's curator insight, July 27, 7:53 PM
So many webinars do NOT follow this handy SPLAT acronym. Q & A, by "raising your hand" is not the same as "talking is learning." We have a long ways to go to enable full conversation in webinars. The current stay is still MUCH more lecture based. ~ Deb
From nuzzel
There are 22 million people following the top 100 social media savvy universities on Facebook. Which ones are in the top 3? One of them is a certain well-known major research university in the Midwest. Find out via this handy infographic.
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This handy infographic list features the top 100 social media schools that have generated 2,174 followers per day via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Google+ and Instagram. ~ Deb
From reveln
"The cream of the curators are those who can sort through the digital avalanche of noise and find the buried gems. Just like a great DJ on a radio station who DOES have control over what gets airplay..."
Here several examples from the six (6) curation basics that can help you enrich your perspectives of the world, including dealing with media filter bubbles.
Curation Basic #1 - Feature YOUR PERSPECTIVE in a speciality interest area by posting content and commenting on
Curation Basic #2 - Grow your audience by figuring out where your audience is and THEN choose an "anchor" tool that best fits them AND you
When your community values your work to create that niched space of collection & commentary, your followers will grow and share your content in that space. Two newsletters I've created on ScoopIt that each have over 5000 followers are Change Leadership Watch and Change Management Resources on ScoopIt. Followers regularly share this content via tweets and "Re-Scoops" so that others are attracted to the curated "change" content.
Curation Basic #3 - Choose an "integration" tool that best fits YOU and time it with your events
People have asked me to teach them about a specific social media curation or integration tool, like Hootsuite, ScoopIt via this example @Deb Nystrom, REVELN, Instagram (yes, it is an integrator) and Sprout Social. These days, most social media platforms have built in integration. So, here's the thing: No one really cares what you use to integrate, as long as they get your posts and news. It just needs to be something YOU like to use regularly, as in 2-3 times a week to 20 minutes a day or more.
Curation Basic #5 - Your chosen tools are central to the message you deliver
With reference to Marshall McLuhan, "the medium is the message," and referencing Facebook in the spotlight in 2014 for manipulating news feeds, there are also problems with social media tools. From my earlier blog post on filter bubbles, note the message you send what what you tools you choose to use and how you use them:
Read the full post here.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
This is my own post sharing examples, photos and a video of what've I learned in curating for the past 4 years, from twitter, Posterous to ScoopIt and Hootsuite. ~ Deb
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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
I'm glad to pass along this handy, timely branding infographic from Marketing Profs.
From mashable
"LinkedIn is a great platform for finding capable employees, but that's only the beginning of its value."
1. Get involved in niche groups
Becoming active and engaged in micro-niche communities is a great way to be seen as an expert and helpful resource. This leads to opportunities for lead generation, networking, partnerships and much more. — Patrick Conley, Automation Heroes
5. Help others
LinkedIn mutual connections is an amazing tool. It shows you exactly who you are connected to, and how you may be one direct introduction away from your dream customer. — Brewster Stanislaw, Inside Social
Also, in the same light, 3. Export your contacts as Darrah Brustein, Network Under 40 / Finance Whiz Kids does every quarter or so. She shares her LinkedIn contacts with her valuable referral partners. She invites them to go through the contacts and highlight anyone who might be a great resource or potential client for them. Generally this becomes a reciprocal practice and a great way to warm up referrals.
8. Invest more of your time
Logging in and checking out the "Who's Viewed My Page" section isn't going to cut it. Even just 15 minutes a day will really bring in results. I personally use Sprout Social to post frequently, which takes no time at all. I also use their new publishing platform [to get] social numbers on my content. I...So the bulk of that 15 minutes I actually use to comment, chat and reach out personally.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Author Maren Hogan has something in common with Networlding LinkedIn expert Melissa (G) Wilson, it is about purpose and relationships and putting in the time strategically to get results. ~ Deb
From www
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has previously filed complaints against Facebook, and was largely successful in their efforts. Their current formal complaint asks the agency to begin an investigation, and comes in response to the news that Facebook manipulated the News Feeds of 689,003 users.
The full article details three allegations:
Count I: Deceptive Failure to Inform Users that their Data Would Be Shared With Third-Party Researchers
Count III: Violation of the 2012 Consent Order
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
This Forbes piece helps us realize there are watchdog groups out there that deserve our support, in order to temper the profit-making motives of the big companies that use our social data, the context for using social media "for free." That it is listed on Forbes is amusing, as well as helpful. ~ Deb
Still a Huge Force for Business Reach: Google, Facebook, Amazon and Others Thrive Despite Objections
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European consumers may criticize Facebook's privacy policies or working conditions at Amazon, but they are still hooked on American technology companies.
Stuart Turnbull, 42, a writer in England, once tried to shut down his Facebook account after realizing that he was spending too much time sharing posts and comments.
"Yet as he looked to build contacts with other writers and editors around the world, Mr. Turnbull, who works from a home office in the small town of Crieff, soon changed his mind. He even opened a second Facebook account dedicated to his literary career."
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Love 'em, hate 'em, using the mixed blessing of social media is via US technology giants is force of business today. Educating yourself to be as fully aware of the news and views, and filter bubbles of social media can help you use it more effectively.
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Content curation is not just collecting, it's also sharing with perspective and commentary. ...we've analyzed all the content curated, published and shared through Scoop.it. This post is about sharing these data and learnings so you can be more effective with your content curation.
4 take-aways anyone can implement:
1. Publish your curated content to a content hub before sharing it on social media: if you share it to social media only, you only get less than half the traffic and you lose a lot of the new visitors who are in your interest graph but not your social graph and that would come from Google Search.
2. Use a mobile-friendly content hub: content consumption is growingly mobile.
3. Use services like Buffer to republish multiple times throughout the day on Twitter: yes, Facebook generates higher clicks but as smart curators have found, the perk of Twitter is it's ok to repeat a post several times because of it's real-time nature.
4. Automate content monitoring to achieve both quality and quantity: use tools like Scoop.it suggestion engine to be in the top publishers both from a quality and quantity point of view.
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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
This research from ScoopIt, and take-aways confirms curation behaviors I had suspected, now confirmed. Guy Kawasaki is a champion of #3 republishing, multi-day tweeting. Good lessons and the full article has great research. ~ D
Those who rely on Dropbox to store their personal files may have lost some of their data. The service has experienced some issues regarding a bug in older versions of its available desktop apps. This bug deleted files uploaded by affected users who activated the Selective Sync feature, leading some to find they'd lost a large amount of files.
...Should you be one of the select few who have been affected by this bug, Dropbox has been reaching out to customers via email with an apology and offer for a year's worth of Dropbox Pro for free.
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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Hacker or bug problems are a drawback if you rely on the cloud, yet storage systems can fail. Saving in two locations makes sense. ~ D
"[There are]t people (and often just machines) whose lone goal is to sell you stuff. Some of them just collect followers for sale. For these reasons, there is no point to follow them.
Type 1: "Following equals followers"
Type 2: "Thanks for following"
[Also note that "Thank-yous"] are just one of [many] normal selling techniques. It's pretty likely, the whole account is just to tweet about nothing, and to target you with a product the guy is selling from time to time.
Type 4: "Tweeting dusk to dawn" - [The Twitter Bots]
But be aware the "user" is not going to read anything you write.
Type 5: "Optimistic spammers"
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Good points by Greg here, especially how to TELL if you are dealing with a TwitterBot, an early version of the Matrix, just ready to lull you into a machine relationship with no benefit to you at all, other than if you just want to buy stuff you may not need.
With the rise of social media, many business owners have sought to control what their employees post on the various social networks. But as the owners of Triple Play Sports Bar and Grille in Watertown, Conn., learned during recent litigation, employers may have less authority than they think.
In August, a three-member panel of the National Labor Relations Board in Washington concluded that Triple Play violated the National Labor Relations Act when it fired two employees over comments made on Facebook about a Triple Play owner. The N.L.R.B. also determined that Triple Play's written social media policy violated the Labor Relations Act.
....the restaurant violated the law by threatening to sue them for their Facebook activity.
Triple Play violated the law when it fired Ms. Sanzone and Mr. Spinella, the N.L.R.B. found that the restaurant violated the law by threatening to sue them for their Facebook activity. The board also found that the restaurant's social media policy was unlawful because employees could reasonably interpret it to mean they could not engage in activities that the Labor Relations Act protects. Specifically, the N.L.R.B. concluded that the word "inappropriate" was subject to imprecise interpretation by employees.
The N.L.R.B. issued an order that required Triple Play to refrain from the type of actions that led to this lawsuit, and to take several affirmative steps. These included:
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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
It is wise to stay on top of how specific you'll need to be in your social media policy and how judicious you need to be before you follow the advice of just your own lawyers, Consulting others in this situation along with the lawyers would have helped. ~ Deb
Scoop.it Introduces New Layout Templates, Full Topic Embeds and Direct White-Label Publishing to WordPress
Scoop.it, the content discovery, curation, distribution and publishing platform has recently added some very significant improvements to its offering, that make it service even more interesting for any kind of online publisher, company or agency looking forward to find, vet and curate the best content available online on a specific topic.
The first and long-awaited new feature is the availability of multiple layout templates that Scoop.it publishers can now utilize and which can be swtiched to instantly.
The second one is full embedding of curated topics onto any web page to make it easiest for any publisher to rapidly integrate and display scoop.it content directly on their sites.
The third and most powerful new addition is the availability of a new white label direct publishing feature for WordPress-based publishers.
Although I have not had the opportunity to test this new feature, which is available only through a new Marketers subscription plan, it surely looks as the perfect fit for all those publishers who wanted to use Scoop.it more as a backend for producing curated content for their site than as a final publishing destination.
With these new additions Scoop.it consolidates itself as feature-rich, reliable and affordable content curation system that can satisfy many different types of needs: from education, to content marketing, news publishing and community building.
Find out more: http://blog.scoop.it/2014/07/23/introducing-templates-embedded-topics-and-website-integration-through-scoop-it/
Via Robin Good
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
ScoopIt keeps looking for ways to integrate and be highly relevant in the service it provides. Integrating with Wordpress is worth a good look. ~ D
wanderingsalsero's curator insight, September 5, 4:17 PM
Nice to see SI moving along. I haven't read this and I wonder if it's the news I read a few weeks ago. At any rate I think SI is getting a bit ahead in the race between them and RebelMouse.
I've had an issue in the UI with RM for almost 2 months and they don't seem inclined to do anything about it....but SI has always worked fine.
The fastest growing audience on Twitter is adults age 55-64. (Deb: They also have money, resources and great networks.)
1. Be direct and detailed. This audience tends to see though the fluff.
2. Utilize customer testimonials. But only if they sound sincere and real.
3. Make it clear what you offer them specifically. Mature audiences are not susceptible to peer pressure.
6. Tell a story with your marketing. Copy can be longer, just make sure it's readable.
8. Make yourself accessible. Give lots of different ways for customers to reach you and [ask questions.]
As always in our ScoopIt news, click on the photo or title to see the full Scooped post.
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It's always a pleasure to share " how-to-respond tips when new data becomes available on the fasted growing demographics, in this case, the boomers who have strong buying power. ~ D
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Filter bubbles are an unconscious or conscious choice in shaping our information choices. What is your stewardship of your inputs, filters and sharing in the social world? ~ Deb
Terry Elliott's curator insight, August 16, 7:23 AM
The image above amounts to a template for curating a digital space:Find something timeless to curate.Fit it into a pattern that makes sense.Find a larger context for why this matters.Share widely.
I think this fits into Harold Jarche's simpler seek-sense-share framework.
Why does this matter? If curation is all that Tufte and Bhatt say it is, then why aren't scaffolds like these being used more often for training and in learning systems? I am using the curation tool Scoop.it to do curation with my freshman comp students. They use Scoop.it as their introductory platform for beginning to acquire the skills Tufte enumerates above that are part of the academic and business spaces they will eventually live in. I am hoping they will demonstrate why it curation matters as they seek-sense-share their way to long and short form 'texts' that they will be writing all semester. That will include essays, tweets, G+ community posts, blog posts, research papers, emails, plusses, favs, instagrams, zeegas, slideshares, pictures, and a massive mobile presence from their own digital spaces. Wish me luck.
Interesting links from article and from comments:http://curation.wikispaces.com/General+References"Digital Media and Learner Identity: The New Curatorship": http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137004864http://www.lkl.ac.uk/people/potterhttp://digitalcurationandlearning.wordpress.com/http://digitalcurationandlearning.wordpress.com/2014/02/01/curatorship-is-a-new-literacy-practice/http://luke-callahan.com/students-must-curate-create-a-portfolio/
Terry Elliott's curator insight, August 16, 7:26 AM
The image above amounts to a template for curating a digital space:
1. Find something timeless to curate.
2. Fit it into a pattern that makes sense.
3. Find a larger context for why this matters.
4. Share widely.
I think this fits into Harold Jarche's simpler seek-sense-share framework.
Why does this matter? If curation is all that Tufte and Bhatt say it is, then why aren't scaffolds like these being used more often for training and in learning systems? I am using the curation tool Scoop.it to do curation with my freshman comp students. They use Scoop.it as their introductory platform for beginning to acquire the skills Tufte enumerates above that are part of the academic and business spaces they will eventually live in. I am hoping they will demonstrate why it curation matters as they seek-sense-share their way to long and short form 'texts' that they will be writing all semester. That will include essays, tweets, G+ community posts, blog posts, research papers, emails, plusses, favs, instagrams, zeegas, slideshares, pictures, and a massive mobile presence from their own digital spaces. Wish me luck.
Interesting links from article and from comments:
http://curation.wikispaces.com/General+References"Digital Media and Learner Identity: The New Curatorship": http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137004864http://www.lkl.ac.uk/people/potterhttp://digitalcurationandlearning.wordpress.com/http://digitalcurationandlearning.wordpress.com/2014/02/01/curatorship-is-a-new-literacy-practice/http://luke-callahan.com/students-must-curate-create-a-portfolio/
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Earlier this month, Facebook dropped a bombshell by not only acknowledging that Facebook pages' organic reach was declining but also by telling us we should not expect them to recover.
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The statistics and changes in Social Media, featuring Facebook and their filters are worth a good look for business marketing reasons.
This is a ScoopIt piece, emphasizing the ScoopIt platform's advantages for content curation. The research featured and the freshness of content shared, often shared by others a month or two later, is why I moved from the now defunct Posterous to ScoopIt. ~ Deb
As a blogger, you may not always get to produce content as much as you want, so to keep your social accounts fresh and updated, you may need to curate other people's stuff.
Plus you can't just always promote your own posts 24/7 especially if you're a newbie or you'll become repetitive and eventually bore your followers.
But remember, you have to be picky with what you curate. Share content that your audience cares about. Don't just randomly post anything or you'll just frustrate your users. And this is why I'm writing this post, to help you find great stuff....
Via Jeff Domansky, Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
You'll see from my own posts on REVELN.com that I often mention, and certainly cite sources on where I get my statistics, great quotes, photos, and more. It's the ethics of social and is about about building trust.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight, July 14, 3:45 AM
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malek's curator insight, July 14, 7:37 AM
No mater how social media savvy you're, you're missing at least half a dozen of tools to discover new content.
This infographic features an 8-step social media strategy to generate high quality leads.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Useful infographic. However, with those statistics, conversely, 76% of companies using social media did NOT see an increase in revenue, which points to the need for a multi-faceted, integrated approach to marketing that is not over-weighted on social media, at least to start. ~ Deb
Critics have targeted a recent study on how emotions spread on the popular social network site Facebook, complaining that some 600,000 Facebook users did not know that they were taking part in an experiment. Somewhat more disturbing, the researchers deliberately manipulated users' feelings to measure an effect called emotional contagion.
Though Cornell University, home to at least one of the researchers, said the study received no external funding, it turns out that the university is currently receiving Defense Department money for some extremely similar-sounding research—the analysis of social network posts for "sentiment," i.e. how people are feeling, in the hopes of identifying social "tipping points."
The tipping points in question include "the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the 2011 Russian Duma elections, the 2012 Nigerian fuel subsidy crisis and the 2013 Gazi park protests in Turkey," according to the website of the Minerva Initiative, a Defense Department social science project.
It's the sort of work that the U.S. military has been funding for years, most famously via the open-source indicators program, an Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) program that looked at Twitter to predict social unrest.
If the idea of the government monitoring and even manipulating you on Facebook gives you a cold, creeping feeling, the bad news is that you can expect the intelligence community to spend a great deal more time and money researching sentiment and relationships via social networks like Facebook. In fact, defense contractors and high-level U.S.intelligence officials say that social network data has become one of the most important tools they use in the collecting intelligence.
Via Chuck Sherwood, Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
You always have choices, being aware of the context and track record of the tool you are using is one major choice.
I share this because of my own military connections and the importance of OPSEC and PERSEC, acronyms for operational and personal security practices. That said, the military prefers social conversation to better understand what is going on via the way people are "talking" to each other.
Facebook's declining organic reach for businesses corresponds precisely with its increase in stock price. No surprise! Here's 4 ways to combat declining Facebook effectiveness.
Clear-eyed business observers have been raising the alarm about building your house on rented land for years, but Facebook has still been able to pull off the greatest Gillette scam ever (you give away the razor, and then sell the blades).
From a helpful artcile, "Facebook's Declining Organic Reach a Real Nightmare for Marketers" from CIO Magazine online.
this quote from an agency media strategist: "It's become a real nightmare because your fans and likes can't even find you in some cases. When I post to Instagram I have a much better idea of how many people I'm going to reach."
2 of 4 Things You Can Do About Your Facebook Problem
You have 4 options at this point:
1. Stop using Facebook as your key social media hub
Google + is looking better and better, right?
2. Pay for the reach you used to enjoy at no cost
(DN: Those Facebook ads are still quite affordable and MAY be worth a good look.)
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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Facebook's reach has been evaporating for business pages for SOME TIME now. From the article: Your employees and current customers now the very best way for you to distribute your message on Facebook.
Make it SUPER easy and FUN for them to enjoy, share and talk about the successes and benefits of what you do, the service and product gems you provide. Today I noticed three shares from a poster & comment that really connected with those following one of my business pages. That's what it's about! ~ D
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Why social media matters: "Unlike most forms of paid marketing, content marketing has a cumulative and compounding return. Each of the posts of a blog continues to attract traffic from SEO and social channels long after it has been published."
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Maintaining a drumbeat of content creation requires discipline and persistence. But the compounding benefits of creating this library can drive sustained growth and awareness of your product, brand and company.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
This popular, recommended venture capitalist blogger, who posts on LinkedIn and Forbes, among others, appears to be a very helpful data nerd who knows his tools, and recommends the Google Analytics developer tool found here. I'm a regular visitor of my own Google Analytics, and this savvy blogger takes it to a very useful new level for me, and perhaps you too. ~ Deb
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Contract bundling seems to be a difficult issue for people to understand. The June 16 issue of Federal Computer Week is a case in point. On two successive pages 18 and 19 you find squibs relevant to the raging contract-bundling debate.
One article used the expression "contract bundling." It reported results of an FCW.com reader poll that posed the question, "Does contract bundling have a negative impact on small businesses?" The poll tally: 78.8 percent of respondents said yes, 21.2 percent said no.
The other squib was a Circuit item with the headline, "Lessons learned: Smart contracting." The item discussed a new report from the General Accounting Office on the Defense Department's service contracting, titled "Best Practices: Improved Knowledge of DOD Service Contracts Could Reveal Significant Savings." That squib never mentioned the expression "contract bundling."
The GAO report, according to FCW, stated that DOD could generate huge savings if it followed the successful practice "of several large commercial firms that have reduced services costs by analyzing procurement data across different divisions and finding places where they can capitalize on their buying power." This concept, as GAO notes, is called spend analysis, for which a robust nongovernment business exists.
Does anyone want to guess what that money-saving, GAO-endorsed concept means? You guessed it contract bundling! Companies look for opportunities to consolidate, or bundle, smaller contracts into larger ones because they know that doing so capitalizes on their buying power.
Anyone who buys giant economy sizes at the supermarket instead of single-servings knows the underlying common sense of this approach. Yet this runs afoul of the anti-bundling mantra.
FCW's poll question was misleading. With all due respect, asking this question is similar to asking if the automobile had a negative impact on small-business buggy whip manufacturers or horse manure sweepers, and then using the results to make conclusions about the overall impact of the auto on small business. It is probably true that contract bundling has a negative impact on the volume of small-business contracting with the government, though even that statement is somewhat controversial.
Even though small businesses held certain contracts in the past, there is no guarantee that those contracts will continue. If small businesses are losing ground on bundled contracts, they are gaining ground elsewhere in the system.
Friends of small business in the federal marketplace should concentrate their efforts on promoting the ability of small business to sell to the government in areas where they are competitive. They should not prop up uneconomic ventures kept alive only by contracting decisions made on shaky business grounds.
Kelman is a professor of public management at Harvard University's Kennedy School and former administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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After a dramatic, heart pumping ending , those thoughts fans had prepared get thrown right out the window, and we end up on the other side of the spectrum. Among the overreaction seen and heard after the game on Saturday, a few of my favorites and on a scale of 1-10 I am ranking them on the way out there is crazy dream town.
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"Kenny Cooper is going have 25 goals this year baby!"
Way out there scale:7.5
After the game on Saturday there was quite a bit of chatter about how good Kenny Cooper looked, and how he might lead the team in goals and chase Chris Wondowloski's record from a few years back. Hell, why not just go with it. He has had two seasons with career highs of 18 goals, 2011 and 2013 with two separate teams, the New York Red Bulls and FC Dallas. Coincidentally in both of those seasons he averaged 101.5 shot attempts and he is currently on pace to take 134 shots through 2014 (wink, wink, nudge nudge). If Cooper ended the season with 18 goals, a couple of scenarios could have played out, but lets face it the team was unable to find a replacement for Fredy Montero from 2012. Eddie Johnson was supposed to be that answer in 2013 but was unable to get anything going due to injuries, call ups to the national team, and rumored inter-squad/organization issues.
Cooper also offers a blue-collar mentality to his game, and the small differences it made in the game against Sporting KC were noticeable. There were no hands thrown into the air because he did not get the ball (Eddie Johnson) and he was following through on 50/50 balls, one of those he slotted to Clint Dempsey in the second half, albeit slightly to far, which Dempsey was able to put across the face of the net. Those slight nuances, that extra bit of push, and hard work, pays big dividends in a season long en devour. Cooper is my dark horse player of the year to watch. If he has a good year, so will the Sounders.
The start of the season is the best time of year, its like being a teenager again with your life still yet to be lived. Well maybe not like a teenager but you get my point.
Seattle may not go out there and go undefeated, but one thing we learned about the 2014 team which differs from their predecessors, teamwork. We got a little glimpse into some possible combinations between Obafemi Martins and Cooper and from Martins, Cooper and Dempsey. That trio has the potential to do some pretty exciting things, and I for one am all for overreacting in a positive way to the first game of the season.
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SAINT ALBANS, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A suspected drug dealer in Saint Albans is behind bars again. This time, police are hoping the charges stick.
Timothy Basham was arrested previously for selling drugs, but last month, the Saint Albans Police Department found out the charges were dropped.
The Kanawha County Prosecutors Office failed to submit evidence or respond to the court in a timely manner.
"It's frustrating in the sense that when you know you did everything right, everyone says you did everything right and yet it still happens," St. Albans Police Capt. James Agee said.
Despite their hard work being thrown out, the police department didn't give up. On Thursday, Basham was arrested again, along with Jessica Harmon and Shawn Harmon. All three are charged with possession with intent to deliver Opana.
Basham and his home at 2246 Grant Ave. in Saint Albans have become familiar to police.
"Myself and other officers that have been here that long have been dealing with criminal activity in and around that residence for our entire careers," Agee said. "It's been a focal point of criminal activity."
Since last month, they've been keeping a close eye on the neighborhood, specifically near Basham's home. Agee said he hopes to see this case to the end.
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Neighbors have had enough of the drugs and crime in the area.
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Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee said that is the most significant change to the draft plan, which was based initially on community consultations following a series of earthquakes which largely destroyed the central business district and rendered thousands of homes uninhabitable.
Releasing the full Recovery Plan this evening in Christchurch, Brownlee called it "a blueprint for a smaller, greener central city that will set Christchurch apart from any other urban centre."
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The city will take shape around a "large L-shaped green space", with low-density open space running along an "eastern frame" from Kilmore Street to St Asaph Street, encapsulating a block-width of land between Madras and Manchester Streets.
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"It's expected new urban living apartments will be developed along the edge of this space," said Brownlee. "The most significant change from the draft and is likely to enhance the economic value of the area and promote denser central city development."
The southern part of the frame will be an educational, health and innovation area, from Madras Street to Hagley Avenue. This will cover a block-width of land between Tuam and St Asaph Streets will be a campus-style area, with a walkway and cycleway, sited between the hospital and the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT) site.
Brownlee described "a light, airy, college-campus style feel for the home of numerous innovative Christchurch companies and public sector agencies," understood to include the Christchurch campus of the government's new innovation agency, the Advanced Technology Institute.
Facilities for high performance sports, health and innovation, and a new convention centre are also included.
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"The focus should not be on what's wrong with the plan rather it should acknowledge its vision. It should also have the flexibility to include community needs as the recovery progresses," said the forum's chair, Trevor McIntyre.
"The business community and interested investors finally have a broad-brush urban plan that recognises a way forward that can provide confidence to reinvest capital back into the central city."
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And this tepid scheme will kickstart the recovery?? Make everything smaller and low rise with the promise of an overpriced stadium in 10 years.
It is simply beyond belief that this is a serious proposal! Where did the vision and ambition go?
Small minded thinking like this doesn't cut the mustard in the 21st century - next idea please!
My first reaction is that this is a brilliant concept which encapsulates the clearly stated preferences of the people. We can't all agree on everything so we need to support this and forge ahead with building a new city. My congratulations to the planners.
Screams of Etzioni style Communitarianism i.e. a synthesis of corporatism and socialism. Local government is the soft vulnerable underbelly for all kinds of international treaty sourced (Agenda 21) interference in sovereign Kiwi affairs such as high density housing, restrictions on where to live, work and play over the next few years and what we can no longer do if we own a rural property.
I note that Jim Diers from Seattle is going to be in NZ in August teaching Asset Based Community Development to Auckland Super City staff and local sustainable neighbourhood groups. He's great at creating fractious communities!
Why is Auckland Council using ratepayers money to get a self-confessed Alinsky-community organiser to teach Council how to set up sock-puppet 'faux' community groups with Auckland Council facilitators leading same to a preordained consensus in 'what needs to be done in our community'. Was this the kind of community consultation on offer in Chch?
This Delphi technique manufactured consensus stuff is really rearing it's head in Auckland at the moment. One suspects that Penny Hulse's former position at Waitakere Council, where they signed an MOU with ICLEI, is one reason.
Given ABCD is all about high density housing, sock puppet community groups and ultimately an attack on single family neighbourhoods and homes why are we allowing Auckland Council to use our rates to consult with those who are against us.
Nothing super about super city socialists and sock puppets!
Looks sensible to me.
Can someone tell us which private investors will put money into a city that won't stop shaking???
Only the private investors who can find tenants that won't mind leasing space in their new buildings in a city that won't stop shaking
Have the planners explored the option of moving the city center off the swamp to surrounding stable ground?
Saw some great spots to hide and then jump out and rape / bash / rob innocent passers by from. How will the 32 police that are working at any one time in this city make all this space safe?
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The words "seedy" and "Larry King" have never really gone together before. "Grumpy", "old", "boring", "patsy", -- definitely yes, but never "seedy". Even with the long string of mostly much younger, ex-wives. Until now.
In dirty laundry news breaking faster than, well, dirty laundry, Hector Penate, the Little League Coach for Larry and current wife Shawn Southwick's two boys now admits that he was having a torrid, sexual affair with Shawn only weeks after meeting her. But, wait, there's more. Hector claims that he and Mrs. Larry King got all erotic and body-bumping while in Larry's bed....watching Larry King Live on CNN!
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- The City of Knoxville's State Street Recycling Center and Goodwill Attended Donation Center will close on Friday, April 18, due to private redevelopment of the property, which is adjacent to the State Street Garage.
Both the recycling center and the Goodwill donation center will relocate to a new site in a parking lot in the 200 block of Willow Avenue in the Old City. People can continue to donate items to Goodwill Industries at the new site, as well as place cardboard, mixed paper, newspaper, plastics, glass, and steel and aluminum cans into containers for collecting recyclables.
The new recycling center is expected to be open on Saturday, April 19.
The State Street site is closing because of the Marble Alley Lofts redevelopment. The project calls for more than 200 apartment units bounded by Central and State streets and Commerce and Union avenues.
City Council earlier this month approved a $650,000 capital project for Marble Alley Streetscape and State Street improvements.
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