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Link: Social engagement networks could enhance advertising effectiveness, study shows
Social engagement networks could enhance advertising effectiveness
“‘You have to socialize the space before you can monetize it,’ the anthropologist concluded.” Right. I can’t wait for someone to be my friend not because he or she likes me, but because he or she wants my money. But conversation opportunities are promising. Good advertising is not propaganda. [...]
Link: The Rise Of The Social Nervous System – Forbes.com
The Rise Of The Social Nervous System – Forbes.com
From the last setnence: “…reshaping our identities as part of a larger, interconnected whole.”
Here’s how I think the Internet is reshaping identity:
1) More acceptance and embrace of variation in personality because diverse skills are advantageous in problem-solving, and we have more problems to solve as our awareness [...]
Posted in Links | Also tagged future, futurism, identity, Psychology, society, sociology | Leave a comment
Link: Use Storytelling Techniques in Personal Branding: Plot – WebWorkerDaily
Use Storytelling Techniques in Personal Branding: Plot – WebWorkerDaily
It exhausts me just thinking about thinking about my life in the same way I think about constructing a story. I would be frozen by the number of decisions to be made. Ah-ha! Yet another marketing job spat out by the Internet: Narrative Technician. Groovy. Anyone want [...]
Posted in Links | Also tagged branding, Marketing, narrative, stories, Storytelling | Leave a comment
Link: 6 Ways to Stop the Social Media Madness – WebWorkerDaily
6 Ways to Stop the Social Media Madness – WebWorkerDaily
But I might miss something.
Link: CNN Sees Facebook As Major Competitor
CNN Sees Facebook As Major Competitor
The competition for page views will have no winner because the Internet is functionally infinite.
What’s in a search engine’s name?
Microsoft wants more than 10.3% of searches.
Google is in the way.
Or maybe there really is a lot in a name after all.
So Microsoft’s Live is gone. Hello, Bing.
Did anyone in Redmond talk to Urban Dictionary first?
I did two searches. An ego investigation, and the name of the engine. Here’s Google’s version of the [...]
Posted in Web Tools | Also tagged Bing, Google, Live, name, Romeo and Juliet, rose, search engines, Shakespeare | Leave a comment
Even if information is never static, I sure like the illusion of it
Information’s constant change on the Web is great and beneficial miracle, but the locked, discrete and contained knowledge experience of printed information gives me something that I can finish, and finishing, for a number of reasons, feels good.
Reaching the end of a book unleashes the divine moment: a line goes through that piece of knowledge [...]
In shift to virtual life, profit lacks purpose
With a steady flow of information highlighting the news industry’s woes, I couldn’t help but begin to wonder about the Internet’s transformation of the larger economic and cultural structures in which businesses, people and, oh, everything else, operate.
In the most dramatically general sense, the human race is shifting from reality to virtual reality.
This is [...]
Posted in Scarcity to Abundance | Also tagged abundance, beliefs, business, capitalism, competition, Culture, faith, future, information, news, philosophizing, profit, scarcity, transformation | Leave a comment
Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: N.M. online journalists, bloggers predict how news will morph on the Web
When 17-year-old University of New Mexico freshman John Perry wants news about Albuquerque, he doesn’t pick up a paper. Instead, he visits four Web sites, one of which is run by volunteers, employs no journalists and isn’t trying to be a news organization.
It’s called Duke City Fix , and even though Perry enjoys the group [...]
Posted in Portfolio | Also tagged Albuquerque, Albuquerque Tribune, articles, journalism, media, New Mexico, newspaper, Portfolio, Web | Leave a comment
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