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  • Make Your PDFs Social Media-Ready

    Making it Easy to Share The mere presence of email and social media sharing buttons in PDFs may prompt readers to share the PDF with others when they otherwise wouldn’t…

  • Understanding what motivates users of social networks

    If the ongoing social networking revolution has you scratching your head and asking, “Why do people spend time on this?” and “How can my company benefit from the social network…

  • Seth Godin on Success Starts With Strategy

    The hierarchy of success I think it looks like this: AttitudeApproachGoalsStrategyTacticsExecution We spend all our time on execution. Use this word instead of that one. This web host. That color.…

  • Numbers Worth Tweeting About (eMarketer 9/14/09)

    In 2009, there will be 18 million US adults who access Twitter on any platform at least monthly. That represents a 200% increase over 2008 levels. Usage will reach 26…

  • A Good Way To Change a Corporate Culture

    “So, Peter, how do you change the culture of a company?” Such a simple question. I wanted to give him a simple answer. But a culture is a complex system…

  • Growing Old in America: Expectations vs. Reality – Pew Research Center

    via pewresearch.org 66% of us think a person is old when they can no longer drive a car. Great research report by Pew – lots of bar charts and yummy…

  • We Are Social Media Sharecroppers | Conversation Agent

    Friendfeed was (and still is) arguably one of the web’s most interesting and reliable applications, particularly in comparison to Twitter’s legendary flakiness. The service aggregates pretty much any RSS feed…

  • YouTube Now Bigger Than MSN

    http://mashable.com/2009/08/10/youtube-july-growth/ —————————————————————————————————- Bridget McKinley Manager, Strategy Organic, Inc. D: 248.454.4503 | M: 313.231.2779 | E: bmckinle@organic.com 2600 S. Telegraph Rd., Ste. 100, Bloomfield Hills, MI  48302 AIM: motocross33 www.organic.com www.threeminds.com…

  • Using Twitter as a Collective Mood Ring

    Two Vermont researchers are using Twitter to study crowd interactions and public opinion, intend to establish a public sentiment index (akin to the Dow Jones Industrial Average). http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/using-twitter-as-a-collective-mood-r… —————————————————————————————————- Bridget…

  • Your “Real” Friends are Your Online Friends (or so Says Gen Y)

    via an August 10, 2009 article on:

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