On the intersection of culture and technology
New book by Kevin Kelly, on the intersection of culture and technology. A must read.
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Mobile Content Switch Plugin for Joomla
The Mobile Content Switch Plugin is a free Joomla Plugin that will enable you to hide or show content depending if the user is visiting your site from an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, or not. Great to display an embedded Flash video for non-Apple mobile devices, and a QuickTime movie for Apple mobile devices, or other [...]
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Missing the obvious
How do we assess data? What are we biased to see? How many times we miss the obvious? From Jack Uldrich’ blog: “Consider the case of Abraham Wald. During World War Two, he and a team of researchers were charged with protecting Allied bombers from German guns. As part of their work the researchers diligently [...]
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Are you ready to engage
An excellent Survey from Alterian “offers insight into the methods and investments that marketers are currently exploring and implementing to engage with their customers”, namely a study related to the application of social media to marketing.
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“You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure”
Word of Mouth Marketing (WOMMA) Guidebook The WOMMA has published a very insightful guidebook (60 pages, free download) on the different metrics related to word of mouth marketing campaigns and initiatives. The guidebook can be downloaded from the WOMMA site.
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New book: “Harnessing the Groundswell”
Harnessing the Groundswel: Drive Your Business With Empowered Employees and Customers Forresters’s Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler have announced their new book “”Harnessing the Groundswell” — Not really a sequel to “Groundswell“, it focuses on individuals empowered by technology and how businesses can tap into that force for a better business performance.
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Who do you trust?
Deconstructing authority in social context of a wired world Clay Shirky continues to provide insightful comments about the changes permeating our society in the context of the fundamental changes brought forward by social media. Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources, without any [...]
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Gracias a la Vida (in memoriam)
Thank you, Life, for you gave me so much. You gave me two stars for eyes and when I open them I can perfectly distinguish black from white And up above in the skies the constelations And in the crowds the man I love.
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A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work.
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