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Fantasy Tennis
UPDATE: This game has been shutdown and is no longer available
Fantasy Tennis is a unique 3D sports MMO with anime inspired graphics. The game's simple controls and varied game modes help create a unique MMO experience like no other. Fantasy Tennis both looks and plays a lot like the Mario Tennis games for the consoles but with MMO elements!
Publisher: Alaplaya
Playerbase: Medium
Graphics: Medium Quality
Type: MMO
EXP Rate: Medium
PvP: N/A
Filesize: ~ 400 MB
Pros: +Unique Gameplay. +Catchy music. +Varied game modes. +Simple controls. +Good single player content. +Fun secondary features (Housing, fishing, etc.).
Cons: -Few items in the shop. -Many non English speakers. -Latency issues. -Limited customization.
Fantasy Tennis Overview
Fantasy Tennis is a unique 3D sports MMO. It was the first tennis MMO to be released and is currently being published by Alaplaya, a European MMORPG publisher. The shorted and most accurate way to describe Fantasy Tennis is 'Mario Tennis Online'. Whether you're a fan of tennis games or just looking for something new to try, Fantasy Tennis is simply a lot of fun and well worth checking out. Just don't expect a serious tennis simulator.
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Fantasy Tennis Review
By, Omer Altay
Fantasy Tennis is an extremely addictive fast paced 3D tennis MMO currently being published by Alaplaya. It is actually the first of its kind and currently the only tennis MMO out there. You'd imagine that with the popularity of Mario Tennis on the Nintendo consoles someone would have released a tennis MMO long before other sports MMOs, but both Shot Online and Albatross18 were released well before Fantasy Tennis and they're golfing MMOs! The MMO sports genre is certainly growing and I'm happy to see that Fantasy Tennis is pushing the genre into the tennis scene.
Starting Out
One of Fantasy Tennis' weaker points is its character creation, but that doesn't really come as a surprise as virtually no MMOs have comprehensive character creation systems. Players first select their gender and then allocate their starting five stat points into the game's four attributes; STR, STA, DEX and WIL. Each level gain awards players an additional stat point that they can distribute. The fact that players only have a single avatar to choose from while making their character is disappointing, as every newbie in the game looks identical to each other. Players can purchase additional avatars in the store, but they don't have any bonuses over the starting one, so it's sort of silly that the game doesn't just have them freely playable at the start.
Pure unadulterated fun
Simply put, Fantasy Tennis is fun. It's light hearted, fast paced and extremely varied. The game has three distinct game modes, Basic, Battle and Battlemon and a myriad of other secondary features like fishing and player housing. The game is certainly no tennis simulator, as it focuses more on whacky, fast paced fun rather than realism. The best way to summarize the game would be a free online version of Mario Tennis with MMO features. Although the game is far from being an actual tennis simulator, players can play both doubles and singles mode against their opponents. The game also has an optional, yet rewarding single player experience that is also worth checking out. Players earn gold in matches that can be used to purchase new rackets, clothes or other fun items in the game's store. Unfortunately, like many other sports MMOs like Project Powder and Upshift StrikeRacer, Fantasy Tennis has a poorly stocked shop as there are only a handful of items available for purchase. The only serious complaint I have with Fantasy Tennis is that the game has some latency issues due to the fact that the current publisher, Alaplaya, is located in Europe. It's also quite lame that most of the players online don't speak English, but that isn't a huge issue as you'll be playing tennis with them not coordinating a massive guild raid.
Fun Fun Fun All in One!
Aside from offering a traditional Mario Tennis like gameplay mode, Fantasy Tennis has a few other fun modes that are worth mentioning. One of the game's more interesting modes is the 'Battle Mode' which is HP based and extremely chaotic. Whenever an opponent scores a point, your hit points are decreased and upon reaching zero hitpoints, your character is out for the round. To make things even more fun, players can collect items which can be used to wreck havoc on your opponents. Items such as meteors and fireballs can deal devastating amounts of damage to your opponents, but they can usually be dodged so players have to aim them carefully. Whichever player or team is left standing at the end wins. Fantasy Tennis has another game mode called 'Battlemon' which requires a 'battlemon', a cute pet, to play. Players can basically partner up with their 'battlemon' to defeat other players in a doubles match, you and your 'battlemon' vs. your opponent and his 'battlemon'. The game certainly has enough variety to keep it from getting stale too fast, but I'd like to see future updates include more content.
Other Distractions
Unlike other MMOs, Fantasy Tennis has some interesting secondary features that aren't really a part of the main game. It has an interesting player housing system that has a lot of potential and a fun fishing mini game. The game's housing feature, although limited, is quite interesting. Players can use the gold that they've earned winning matches online to purchase furniture and other upgrades for their virtual homes. Currently, the game's has an extremely limited selection of furniture, but hopefully future updates will add new items to the store and expand the game's player housing system. Fantasy Tennis also has an interesting fishing mini game that players can take part in to collect fish. Fish can be combined to create items by utilizing recipes that can be purchased in the game's store. I'm not exactly sure how combining two types of fish can make a potion, but heck when have MMOs ever made sense anyway?
Final Verdict: Great
Perhaps I enjoyed Fantasy Tennis a bit too much, but the game did what it intended to do very well, and that was to create a casual Mario Tennis like MMO. The only real complaint I have with the game is that the publisher is located in Europe, so latency issues aren't uncommon and a lot of the players don't speak English.
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Today's Online Commentary & Diversions:
• Review: "Sala's work is like a fusion of Hergé and Charles Addams, yielding a simple, cartoon-like style that makes his moments of gothic horror all the more disturbing. ...[The Hidden] is a beautifully pulpy and incredibly imaginative book that gives a fresh spin on a well-used set-up." – Publishers Weekly
• Review/Interview: SF Weekly's Casey Burchby, who says "Richard Sala's new full color graphic novel, The Hidden, fuses two classic horror tropes — the story of Frankenstein's monster, and the ever-popular zombie apocalypse — into a new form that is surprisingly free of cliché and enriched with a strange sensitivity, owing far more to the classic horror literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries than it does to more contemporary EC horror comics, slasher flicks, or Stephen King," talks to Sala, who says "...as I began to write the book, elements of it started to seem oddly autobiographical — on some kind of psychological level, that is — and I realized the story had become less about Frankenstein specifically and more about the act of creation and its consequences."
• Review: "This French artist's unabashedly campy tribute to Jules Verne's proto-steampunk adventure yarns [The Arctic Marauder] is all about the art — spectacularly composed black-and-white evocations of arctic landscapes and Victorian contraptions.... Tardi has drawn a tribute to a venerable genre that partakes of its wonders while poking gentle fun at its preposterous twists and turns. The result is pure fun." – Laura Miller, "The Best New Graphic Novels," Salon
• Review: "Ryan's line work is at its best in some parts of this volume, showing the ability to continually come up with inventive weird visuals. The first half of the book is nothing but new forms of violence and strange creatures that become different strange creatures. Every page brings a new visual that you will never, ever be able to forget. The second half shows off more minimalist compositions, giving the book an interesting asymmetry. The only bad thing about Prison Pit Book 3 coming out is that it will be another year until Book 4 is released, especially with the cliffhanger that this volume ends on." – Chad Nevett, Comic Book Resources
• Review: "Johhny Ryan's artwork on Prison Pit could be described as cartoonish, but to be honest it's better described as looking like the insane doodling of a madman, as found etched upon the walls of his padded cell — I would not be surprised to find out that this book was ghost-written by Charles Manson!... Ryan draws gore like no one else, and his creature designs are the stuff of nightmares — one of the monsters in the latter part of the story makes Cthuhlu look like a character from a children's story!... Prison Pit: Book 3 is a comic unlike anything you've ever read before — the plot is outlandish, and the artwork is violent, bloody, gory, and completely unapologetic in its brutality.... Rating: 10 out of 10" – Edward Kaye, Newsarama
• Commentary: Robot 6's Sean T. Collins comments on the must-read Comics Journal interview with Johnny Ryan: "I've spent years enjoying Ryan's scabrously offensive humor comics like Angry Youth Comix and Blecky Yuckerella, as well as his extravagantly vicious action comic Prison Pit, and I've often wondered where his search-and-destroy ethos originated.... Thanks to Pearson and Ryan's jawdroppingly candid conversation, I finally feel like I understand..., at least a little."
• (Not a) Review (Per Se): "This isn't a formal review, per se, but instead a few gut-reaction thoughts on the remarkable new issue of Love & Rockets: New Stories (#4). I've never bothered to do this before in a review, but the nature of this issue demands that I note that there are spoilers below." – Rob Clough, High-Low
• Links: Another comprehensive round of Hernandez Bros.-related links from Love & Maggie (thumbs up for the mug shots)
• Analysis: "I really like the formats of both (Beto's) Love and Rockets: New Stories and (CF's) Powr Mastrs. They are really different but somehow very similar. At least to me anyways." – Frank Santoro, The Comics Journal
• Review (Audio): The Extra Sequential podcast discusses "the whacky and funny Fantagraphics collection of Carl Barks' much loved 1940s Donald Duck stories," Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes: "We tell you why creator Carl Barks is loved for his storytelling prowess and surprisingly funny and absurd humour in his Donald, Scrooge, etc. tales..."
• Interview: Comic Book Resources' Tim O'Shea has a funny and informative Q&A with Michael Kupperman: "Actually I've been hearing from [Twain] a lot. I thought that one meeting would be it, but since then he keeps reappearing, asking for help dealing with today's publishing industry. He's written a new novel called Prairie Rumpus, which I feel is dated in its use of slang and locale. Meanwhile I've got a lot of interest in my novel The Fart Vampires, a lotta heat building up."
• Plug: "The most excellent Michael Kupperman has begun touring in support of his time-traveling Clemens-as-superhero comic, Mark Twain's Autobiography 1910-2010. This Saturday night, Kupperman will take his "Twain in the Membrane" book tour to the Mark Twain House in Hartford for a reading and signing." – Michael Cavna, The Washington Post
• Preview: Graphic Novel Reporter presents a 9-page sneak peek (excerpted from our own PDF excerpt) of Mark Twain's Autobiography 1910-2010 by Michael Kupperman
• Commentary: At About.com Manga, Deb Aoki reports on our publishing announcement regarding Moto Hagio's The Heart of Thomas (note that the "The" was initially left off our announcement by mistake), calling it a "very exciting development" and saying "Fans of A Drunken Dream and Other Stories will also be glad to hear that Matt Thorn, the translator of this critically acclaimed book will also be handling the editing/translation duties on this title as well."


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January 27th is the 75th birthday of Tigran Mansurian, one of contemporary musics most original composers and an important presence on ECM New Series, the label which has helped to bring wider attention to his work.
Born in Beirut in 1939, Mansurian moved with his family back to their ancestral Armenia in 1947, and studied at the Yerevan Conservatory of which he would eventually become the director. In the 1960s he was attracted by the ideas of the Western new music avant-garde but became increasingly convinced of the importance of the spirit of place and of composing in an authentically Armenian voice. Our position on the map of music and culture, he has written, is exactly on the spot where East and West meet. It is this special vantage point that fires his creative imagination.
Tigran Mansurian remains fascinated by the relationship of Armenias sacred music to its folk songs, so powerfully brought together in the work of Komitas, an enduring influence. In 2000, Mansurian recorded his own arrangements of Komitas on
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In 2004 Mansurian worked closely with the Rosamunde Quartet in the recording of his first and second string quartets from the early 1980s as well as a new piece,
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Ars Poetica
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Tigran Mansurian is currently in Los Angeles where his birthday is being celebrated with a concert series. Writing about the event in the Los Angeles Times, Mark Szwed wrote, Transcendence is the nature of Mansurians most mature music. And through stunning recordings on ECM it has made him a cult figure like such other spiritually inclined Eastern European composers as the Estonian Arvo Pärt. Mansurians hard-won spirituality is all the more illuminating for having grown out of an aggressive musical rebellion against Soviet musical populism. Through it all, Mansurians inspiration has been the plight of the Armenian people in the 20th century and their sustaining culture. He is a formal composer who never wastes a note. His sound world is mystical. He knows wherein lies an instruments most hauntingly beautiful sounds, particularly when it comes to strings, the voice and percussion. Once heard, a Mansurian piece is not forgotten.


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Higher amount of PCBs in urban soils may cause toxicological health risks (cancer, autism, learning disabilities, immune system suppression, infertility, DNA mutations, deformities, tumors) to urban residents through ingestion, inhalation and skin contact.
Industry uses PFC's (perfluorochemicals) in clothing, furniture, adhesives, food packaging, heat-resistant non-stick cooking surfaces, and the insulation of electrical wire.
New research finds that human pregnancy has declined by 17 to 29 percent for couples in which males were exposed to PCB, and to DDE, from the pesticide DDT (banned 1967), that is still persistent in the environment today and is still in use throughout the world. All of the evidence conclude that pre-puberty exposure to DDT increases the risk of subsequent breast cancer.
DDT and other industrial chemicals are now in the food chain and are now found in animal milk and human breast milk.
DDT was banned in 1967 :: www.edf.org/about/our-mission-and-history
.... ALL pregnant women in the 2011 study were found to have PCBs in their blood... passing to the unborn fetus.
The Child Health and Development Studies comprised of 15,000 women in the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan who have been followed since the 1960?s.
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Elco Lighting LED Lighting
The market today is filled with numerous lighting options for a different range of prices. The lighting has become an integral part of interior design that is aimed for commercial and domestic use. With many companies that exist today in the lighting industry, ELCO Lighting stands out with its 20 years of dedicated growth and search for implementation of new technological advancements. The reason that Elco LED lighting products continue to gain more popularity due to their extended quality features and attractive design.
Energy-saving became a priority for many homeowners. The purchase of LED lighting is the foremost step in energy sustainability and lowering expensive utility costs. Elco LED lighting has proven to reduce the energy wastage by 50%-90% if one compares it to the traditional lighting products. The Elco lighting does not contain any hazardous substances and are completely environmentally-safe. Let's take a look at the LED lighting advantages and features.
ELCO LED lighting Features List:
- Long life-span. Elco LED bulbs and diodes have exceptional working time that equals over 15-25 years of average operations. While the conventional light bulbs tend to burn out, the ELCO LED bulbs doesn't require to be changed due to their really long life-span.
- Energy-Efficiency. The Elco LED lighting is found to be highly efficient and is enabled to save over 80% of electrical energy comparing to traditional lighting. Only 20% of energy is being utilized allowing to save on electrical bills.
- Eco-Friendly. The Elco LED lighting is completely eco-friendly. The materials include silicon and germanium, it is a perfect eco-friendly hazard-free semiconductor materials. The Elco products are completely 100% recyclable without causing any type of carbon emissions.
Having a broad range of LED lighting products, the Elco company has proven to be a leader of lighting sales as well. The products by Elco are highly reliable and moderately priced. They are completely user friendly and are able to bring as much light as needed.
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How to Select
LED Lighting is the most innovative form of lighting on the market today, saving as much as 80% on electrical costs versus conventional lighting.
When choosing your lighting, consider:
- Voltage:
- Low Voltage – low voltage(usually 12v) lighting is typically used for under cabinet lighting, outdoor lighting, or landscape lighting. Ambient lighting sometimes uses low voltage fixtures as well. However, a low voltage fixture will not operate properly in line voltage connections. If connected to a line voltage (120v), it may cause electrical fire or damage to the fixture and surrounding area.
- Line Voltage – Line voltage, is the common term for standard 120v power. Standard household electricity is line voltage. You should not connect low voltage fixtures to line voltage connections. If you plan to install lighting inside your home besides accent lighting, you will most likely use line voltage lighting.
Commercial Grade:
If the installation is a commercial building, consider using Commercial Grade fixtures which can handle heavier duty electrical currents and higher voltage. These fixtures are safer for regular use in commercial situations.
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- Interconnectable:
Certain LED lighting models are designed to be interconnected to a series of lighting for dimming or to connect to a lighting control module.
- Color:
When refining by color, you will notice that it refers to several color variables whether it be the finish on the metal trim, or the color of the LED elements.
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Tracing Numbers & Counting: 11
On this worksheet, kids trace the number 11 several times, then write their own. After tracing and writing the number, they count the number of pears they see in the picture (11) and record the information in a graph. This worksheet offers practice writing whole numbers, counting objects, and making a graph.
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Most likely you're not only missing your hidden folders, but a lot more. Recursive indexing is broken in 4.10.0.
Well, most people likely use -O2 and march=native. It works with -Os wich is normally used only by people on embedded or old Geode CPUs (like me) or VIA C3/C7 (like me). Okay and these are 32bit anyway. But on all other computers (AMD 64) that would probably be a problem. And most (average) people today use an intel or amd on amd64. Gentoo still has KDE SC 4.10 in unstable. maybe that is the reason.
KDE is PURE GARBAGE! It's overbloated crap. It freezes my machine after a while, especially with Firefox.
Also, who gives a crap about widgets?!? All of a sudden, the time will only show UTC. I wonder how many people switch from KDE to something else. I bet that is that is the highest of any DE switch. KDE to *anything*.


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This list is sew awesome! Created by Leah Buechley of MIT, and introduced commercially with SparkFun back in 2007, the LilyPad was the first board to feature sew-through contacts for stitching soft...
Yeah these are going to be fun. Can't wait.
As first noted by MAKE: Magazine's Boris Kourtoukov, "there's a plethora of options" when it comes to these microcontrollers. What's more, they all possess one common trait: they're powered by Atmel. These so-called body boards are now giving Makers the ability to easily (and affordably) produce their own projects in ways that otherwise would have been unimaginable. - Great set of prototype boards for the wearable domain.
Great new HBO documentary about Bobby Fischer captures triumph and tragedy of a chess genius. Nostalgic during the Spassky match, sad after.
The top 10 best state tax rates for small businesses and the 10 worst state tax rates for small businesses.
North Carolina Ouch
Wow North Carolina is on the WORST list here, but this list and post shows there is more to starting up a company than taxes. Try finding VC support or a good CTO in Alaska or Montana.
I'm sure VC and great CTOs exist in all of these states, but I'd rather pay higher taxes and have what is needed to create a company (I've created 4 companies in NC).
NC has COLLEGES and a growing investment community. We aren't Austin or Boston yet but we have large numbers of people starting companies and supporting those who do.
Our taxes may be higher than some of the "best" states, but you get what you pay for. Being an innovator and entrepreneur is easier where you don't have to burn resources to establish the startup road. This is why the rich get richer such as Boston, Ausin and Silicone Valley.
Having started 4 companies here I've found the colleges to be a huge help in creating an ecosystem where startups are understood and for producing some big winners such as SAS (started at UNC) and Sharefile now owned by Citrix started just after Duke.
Having Duke, UNC and NC State within a stone's throw of one another creates the kind of ecosystem that you want to LIVE in and start a company. Alaska is too cold, Utah too Mormon and Nevada too hot for me I don't care what their taxes are.
I pent weeks traveling through Utah and Nevada during Martin's Ride to Cure Cancer our 2010 ride across America to cure cancer and can't imagine living in Utah or Nevada.
Utah is beautiful but desolate. I've never felt so alone on a "highway", a good feeling on an early morning bicycle ride a lousy feeling if you are starting a company. Nevada was so depressed I'm not surprised their taxes are so low. Nevada is a one trick pony and their alliance to gaming makes the sate untenable for living for many.
I realize these are someone baseless prejudices since I only rode a bicycle through these states, but this list proves there is more to starting companies than taxes.
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Overlooked is definitely the right word here, especially when it comes to tip #2. Each social network serves a different purpose, so it's important to keep that in mind with marketing campaigns.
Also, #3 (have fun) is a great piece of advice. Social media shouldn't be a boring chore. See everything you do on social platforms as a continuation of your offline work. Share stories that inspire you, for example.
Love this article written by Megan Ritter!
Read it at http://justcreative.com/2014/10/16/social-media-tips-to-boost-branding-clicks-conversions/
Great personal branding tips here. Don't agree with all of the as they feel like you would be branding like everyone else. Keywords are neutral and informative.
The cover photo tips is right and wrong. It feels a little "we are Borg" , but a big smile and a look directly into the camera goes a long way to what works online.
In January I received a call from my friend and mentor, he asked me to join him in starting a new company. Marty is in his mid-fifties and has cancer, multiple sclerosis and a work ethic that would
Marty Note
So thankful for this inspirational note from my Curagami (http://www.Curagami.com ) Co-Founder Phil Buckley and the many stories, notes of encouragement and shares Phil's post is prompting. I head to Ohio State again soon for treatment of my leukemia and do so with a pocket full of inspiration, new friends and courage. Thank You. M
Thank You Nick & Smashing Boxes & Iron Yard Code Academy
"I'm drowning," my brother Drew Smith said on the phone yesterday, "but it's good" he quickly added. Thanks to visionary leader of the Durham, NC web development company Smashing Boxes my brother Drew is learning Ruby at The Iron Yard Code Academy.
Nick, teachers and the Iron Yard and the team at Smashing Boxes is what makes the Triangle area of North Carolina such a special place to life, create and learn new ideas. People willing to take a risk and help others is what life is all about. I learned that lesson the hard way, glad Nick and The Iron Yard learned it so well.
THANKS. Marty
Picture is my brother Drew wearing the #curecancer jacket he helped create for his older brother (me :).M
Good there are REASONS for the clutter :). M
What about you? Share your "messy room" pictures. Use #messisthebest hashtag and we clutterbugs can unite knowing there were good reasons we didn't want to clean up our rooms.
Shared my "messy room" picture on G+
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Visual Marketing
Recently I did a multi-year analysis of my 10 Scoop.it feeds in order to create a top 10 list for curation, marketing, startups and BI. One of the most fascinating results was the prevalence of infographics.
Every top 10 had several infographics. Think on that for a minute. My 10 feeds span many different topics from content curation to social media. In EVERY case infogrpahics played a major leading role.
YES, this means we are moving toward visual marketing, but such a dominant result also shows how important infographics have become. Lately its popular to push back and say infographics aren't what they used to be.
I agree that there is some piling on going on - people creating infogrpahics that aren't really infographics. We don't throw out TV as a medium because there are good and bad TV shows. Infographics as a "lean content" medium are important and this infogrpahic on how to create infographics is helpful.
I would add, remember to TELL A STORY that highlights and creates interesting juxtapositions. Surprise use, visually amaze us and teach us and infographics will be on your top 10 content list too.
The production process is efficient with only 10% for full draft
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When it comes to proving the ROI of social media it isn't as hard as you might think. The key is to ensure you are tracking and collecting data effectively.
First we need to set our objectives.
What are you trying to achieve from your social media activity? Here are some typical examples:
- Lead generation
- Sales
- Retention
- Email signups
- Cost reductions
Social Media Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) make ROI easy to see, track, analyze and improve.
Sean Clark shows how to measure your social media ROI easily.
Mid to Small Companies Still Struggle With Social Media
First-hand experience as a digital analyst working with companies of all sizes reveal there is still a great deal of poor execution among mid to small companies when it comes to practicing social media. Strategies, tactics and community management all too often are misaligned to the realities of how best to leverage social media.
Several things to keep in mind to realize ROI.
Don't Act Impulsively
There is a big difference between understanding the marketplace & knowing when to leap into the latest platform.
• Is this new network a fad or does it have potential longevity?
• Does the purpose of the network align with our brand and social identity?
• Is our current or potential audience on this network?
• What content and tools do we need to successfully manage on a daily basis?
• Will we see a return on investment / energy if we join this network?
And remember Social media and the strategy applied is no longer just a micro-segment of marketing. Think beyond the basics and take into account your company's general business objectives, fiscal plans and sales goals, then align your strategy to that agenda. If no metrics currently exist—be proactive!
Establish benchmarks, create metrics, track progress and merchandize appropriately.
• Do my social goals support greater business goals?
• Are the social strategies and tactics outlined attainable?
• What is our brand voice and how do we adapt that for social?
• What resources, human and technological, do we need to flourish?
• What processes are in place to test, learn and adjust as necessary?
Be smart. Track, analyze and report on results to prove ongoing value and return for the company and ROI will start to become evident if social media is practiced well.
Haiku Deck Presentation inspired by Triangle Healthcare Startup Weekend "Kickoff Talk" 8.8.14 Durham, NC.
Great tips here on how to set up a green screen. Green screens help project images into your videos. Sounds easy, but follow tips outlined here by Touch Cast.
Like the Klout Profile view. Bound to be cool ways to use such a visual summary of trending social media shares.
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Share in comments on Scoop.it or email martin(at)Curagami.com.
Magical Vice
Shame Smith's magical behind the scenes look at how we will cure cancer in our lifetime for Vice is inspirational, amazing and life affirming. Curing cancer is here and now and it involves wizard thinking, blinding new technologies and the kind of "out of the box" thinking that defines America and Americans (not to slight our creative neighbors to the north as Canadians are fully represented too).
Great show and inspirational for all but especially for cancer patients , their friends and families.
Taylor Swift was right to leave Spotify. We must update America's antiquated music licensing system.
The music biz is a mess.
This level of mess is what happens when an entire industry attempts to deny the web's tide - everyone's sandcastles get swept away and the good get hurt right along with the bad. We need to find a way to create fair compensation for artist who create art we love, listen to and that helps enrich our lives. My friends at http://www.Moon-Audio.com are working on a new movement called Music Is A Movement and Aloe Blacc's plea is bound to be part of what they end up creating.
*Curing Cancer On My Father's Birthday is On Me :) *
Tomorrow my father turns 82 and I turn 57. My father and I share more than a New Year's birthday.
My friend @Kelly Hungerfordinspired me to create a spontaneous social network event. For every happy birthday or new years received on social media I will give $10 to Dr. Byrd's amazing effort to cure my father and me.
This is not an ASK it's a TELL. You or your friends wish me happy birthday or best wishes for 2015 and the James Cancer Center gets $10. How do we cure cancer? One $10 donation at a time :).
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Thanks to everyone who makes my life possible and best wishes for an amazing 2015.
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Paper.li Interview
Love the questions and editing Cendrine Marrouat, Kelly and team at Paper.li created from our interview about the new ecommerce I added it to my LiinkedIn page. Paper.li as an important "get more, do less" tool for any online merchant. Thanks to team for a great experience.
We invited Marty Smith, co-founder of Curagami, to choose his favourite link. Marty's story is amazing.
Marty Note
When Ed Rhys asked me to share my favorite link on the web the request was overwhelming at first. I share several hundred links a day across six different social nets and blogs. Then I thought about the story BEHIND my favorite link and one link stood out:
Fear, Shame and
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https://klout.com/#/ScentTrail Never really noticed this page before, but love it. Can't figure out the algorithm that controls it and that makes it kind of fun. Can't figure out how to make it work as it acts like a pass through - content goes to other nets like Twitter or Facebook - but cool page. Bound to be a way to use it. Has anyone? How?
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Math is the ultimate puzzle with its own language. Wish I'd had "Lego Lessons" when I was learning algebra. Would have been much less painful :). M
Not an app but close enough - love it.
In addition to using Lego for maths, I've taken my sons (extensive) Lego collection into History and Society & Culture to have the students (high school) demonstrate their understanding of concepts such as globalisation, communism, nationalism, capitalism. Worked really well and classes sooo happy.
Having been broken up into groups and given a concept each, They created cities or environments demonstrating the concept then talked the rest of the class through.
Fantastic ideas for using lego in mathematics. Simple hands on tasks.
My friend, fellow Durham, NC resident and occasional Startup Factory visitor Mark Traphagen figured out something we ALL need to understand. Mark gets paid to be MARK Traphagen. Adding Mark to Eric Enge's formidable Stone Temple Consulting was a brilliant idea making both brands stronger, wiser and better.
How do YOU get paid to be you too? Read on..
Prepare For The Warren Buffett Test
Buffet doesn't hire people because you've had a nice chat. When you apply to work for the Oracle of Omaha expect to be tested in key dimensions including:
* Creative Smarts - Solving Puzzles (and playing bridge lol).
* Energy - Present and the Present Again Better.
* Improvisation - Be flexible and open to what's happening now.
* Get WHACKED and Keep On Ticking.
That last bullet is my interpretation of what interviewing at Berkshire must be like, but bet you learn about yourself fast. The implication I love is highly credentialed people taking a test in real time.
Buffett could care less about what is on paper. He wants to take you out for a test drive and see how you tick. I've been in a similar interviews. Here is 5 Tips For How To Prepare For A Buffett-like Interview:
* Challenge your habits and assumptions daily. Do something NEW or try something new every darn day.
* Achieve a BHAG so you get to know yourself in that special way only BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) teach (riding a bicycle across America did this for me).
* Look for situations where you lose patience and rinse and repeat until you have patience, listen better and hear the subtext that is always there but rarely heard.
* VIDEO yourself presenting CONSTANTLY. Ask for feedback and the NASTIER the better (see the point about patience).
* Practice LISTENING daily (repeat and summarize for agreement, learn to ask great "open ended" questions and have someone grade you on listening - make that someone your significant other and you will listen better or get divorced...I'm divorced btw :).
Another helpful reference is to remember the "Rules of Improvisation". Sounds like an oxymoron right? Actually I've used the rules of improv to help train Internet marketing too:
Rules of Improvisation
1) Don't Deny
2) Don't ask open ended Questions
3) You don't have to be funny.
4) You can look good if you make your partner look good.
5) Tell a story.
Practice those 5 skills and mix in rules of improv look forward to getting hired by Warren Buffett or whoever :). M
Killing Your Brand Softly
Its so EASY to KILL an online brand especially in the fledgling stages. And what online brand is NOT in a "fledgling" stage? When the board can be swept clean in a moment best to create policies and procedures sure to WOW the Ambassadors any brand needs to succeed these days.
Don't trip over the $100 bills to pick up pennies. Don't KILL your online brand with bad partner decisions or poorly trained customer service. This G+ post explains why we LOVE and believe we can make a winning P&L argument for any online store to be shipping FedEx.
Don't as the "what does it cost us" brand killing question. Ask, "What can we BUILD?"
Inspiring Startups Friday Night
"Your job is to inspire everyone," Todd Mosier one of Triangle Startup Weekend''s creators explained a week ago. That got me thinking about what inspires me and I came up with a few ideas:
* RISK - Someone willing to walk the wire like Man On A Wire Philippe Petit who strolled between the World Trade Centers. Inspiration goes up with the STAKES.
* REWARD - Not the "reward" itself but the story of how reward was achieved is inspiring.
* LOSS - There is never a free lunch, so LOSS and our human bullheaded stubbornness to keep getting up is inspiring.
- Handicaps & Odds & Humor - I think of HOH as a subset of "loss" or perceived loss. My cancer made be better and stronger, but most perceive having cancer as a loss or as a negative.
In David & Goliath Malcolm Gladwell notes how many high achievers are dyslexic. When a dyslexic reads or a cancer survivor rides a bicycle across America we believe in our ability to be successful too.
Humor is important in all of these ideas but especially in handicaps and against long odds because LAUGHTER on the other side of the Rubicon, over where it is safe and the experience exists in the retelling, signals our triumph over pain.
* LOVE - Knowing love exists inspires our ability to love and be empathetic.
The problem is NO ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition. We miserably don't know what we don't know. Do I think our Startup Factory Funded startup Curagami is in the middle of an ecommerce revolution? Yes, but we can't KNOW for sure. When an inspiring thing is happening you often are blind to its inspiration.
Tomorrow night I will share experiences from starting 4 companies, riding a bicycle across America after being diagnosed with leukemia, the creation of our latest "movements" (TechCuresCancer & Curagami) and my intention, desire and WILL to never, ever give up.
Hope you will be able to join us in downtown Durham Friday night. Should be inspiring :). M
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