Tag: Social Media
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Thinking About The Newsstand of The Future
Following along with some more PodCamp Toronto discussion that happened this past weekend (most of it at the party sponsored by Molson), a lot of the content at the sessions that happened tended to lean on what might make an important topic at other unconference to come. The problem of perception. So much of the…
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Facebook, Fear, and The Risky Devide
When you use Facebook to have fun and screw around with your friends, it’s easy, and you need not worry too much about it. That’s a very comfortable and confined little world. Breakdown the walls and then Facebook suddenly exposes you to so much more uncertainty. Risk of embarrassment, employers looking through your information, people…
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Investing In Yourself: A Practical Guide
There’s been a lot of talk about how in down-times like these when you might be having a hard time finding work, that investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Which I say is absolutely true. I want to try and take the idea a step further with a practical resource on…
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Students Are Faced With An Education Problem
It’s not an ambition problem, an intellectual problem, or an ability problem. Those are merely the symptoms. I want to be clear in getting my message across that it’s an education problem that students face more than anything else. All the problems of ambition, of motivation, having a hunger for knowledge and learning, it all…
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Social Networks as Trust Building Tools
This is something I’ve been meaning to write for a while, though one of Chris Brogan’s posts finally got me around to doing it. Social networks have no feature or even general importance besides to the way they can be tools to help us build trust in one another. There was a video that came…
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The Real Limit Of Social Media
The idea of social media has helped people and companies identify unmet needs which didn’t exist prior, and create value by solving them. Without the concept of producing and sharing videos online as activity for people to do, YouTube would be non existent (does anyone know what the real idea was behind YouTube?). After that…
