How To Get More Out Of Google Circles

URL:  http://mashable.com/2011/07/26/google-plus-circles/

Putting people in circles is time consuming but much better than throwing most people in an acquaintance circle. I should know.

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Theory Is Cheap, Reality Is Expensive

Would that the client knew this too.

Amplify’d from dailyblogma.com

Ever get into a discussion about a project with a client only to find out that someone told them it should be easier, simpler, faster or cheaper than you just stated?

Somewhere between your thinking and their reality is what you are looking for, in both time and money. Don’t leave money on the table, but don’t lie to your client either. If you use their time and their words, you can not go far off course. But taking advantage of someone who does not know the difference may come back to haunt you next time you try to do business with them. Don’t be short sighted.

Theory works very well until someone needs to get work done. Then what should take a minute takes 15 or 15 hours. Sometimes, that is how it happens. Other times it really does take a minute. Be open and upfront with your clients and vendors, and they will be with you too. Read more at dailyblogma.com

 

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Google Search Malware

URL:  http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/using-data-to-pr...

It only takes a minute to read this and test your computer. Worth doing!

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Congress and The Debt Credibility Test

An oxymoron I think.

Amplify’d from www.msnbc.msn.com

In the debt ceiling impasse, the Moody’s bond rating agency added another improbable choice Monday to those facing Congress: why not get rid of the legal limit on federal borrowing altogether?

After all, the debt limit statute hasn’t had a restraining effect on spending or borrowing, as Congress' fiscal watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, noted in a recent report.

To end the impasse, President Barack Obama and Congress will need to muddle through with a plan that commits them to cutting future spending as the price for getting enough votes to raise the borrowing limit.

Willing to compromise, but how? One legislator who as a House member voted "no" to that Medicare expansion in 2003 was Jim DeMint. He's now a senator and a leader of his chamber's fiscal conservatives.

He seemed to hold out some hope for an end to the impasse on NBC’s "Meet the Press" on Sunday. “We certainly are willing to compromise,” DeMint said. “We're willing to give the president an increase in the debt limit.”

DeMint supports a bill to enact a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget and to limit spending to fixed amounts. But revenue isn't on the table. The bill requires tax increases be approved by a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate.

And DeMint said Democrats ought to agree with the GOP that “sometime in the next decade” that “we have to stop spending more than we're bringing in.” But again, he didn’t specify when this ought to occur.

If Congress doesn't raise debt limit Critical to the outcome is the judgment that members of Congress will make as to how — if they don’t vote to increase borrowing — the Treasury could manage for a few days or longer.

The GAO said in a legal opinion in 1985 that the Treasury secretary has "the authority to choose the order in which the pay obligations of the United States" and the department can do this "in any order it finds will best serve the interest of the United States."

“That is an open question. There is no statute that says if the executive branch runs short of cash, it can decide which of Congress’s binding spending laws it will carry out and which it will ignore,” said former Under Secretary of the Treasury Jay Powell, who is now a visiting scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center. He also said there’s no law telling the Treasury secretary he cannot do this either.

Which bills to pay? "There's the legal issue and there's the operational challenge,” said Susan Irving, GAO’s Director for Federal Budget Analysis. “You're talking about intervening in an automated system that electronically pays about 80 million bills" — the approximate number of bills the Treasury says it pays per month.

The Standard & Poor’s rating agency reminded Congress last week that the question for investors isn’t so much whether Congress and Obama can find a stopgap solution to get past the 2012 election. The question is how credible the bond market will find a plan that would pledge to cut future spending.

“There is an increasing risk of a substantial policy stalemate enduring beyond any near-term agreement to raise the debt ceiling," S&P said.

A nation which deserves an AAA bond rating doesn’t allow itself to reach this point, it implied. "We view an inability to timely agree and credibly implement medium-term fiscal consolidation policy as inconsistent with a 'AAA' sovereign rating.”

S&P said it would downgrade Treasury bonds "if we conclude that Congress and the administration have not achieved a credible solution to the rising U.S. government debt burden and are not likely to achieve one in the foreseeable future.”

Credible and creditworthy The crucial question: Are Congress and the president credible enough for the U.S. government to be deemed creditworthy?

There’s plenty to reason to doubt: for example, since 2003, Congress has chosen to circumvent a law it had passed in 1997 to control the growth in Medicare outlays that pegged payments to doctors to the growth rate of the economy.

The credibility that would come from reducing the debt rests on someone, whether members of Congress or the members of IPAB, making exactly those kinds of decisions. It's the actual decision to cut or restrain spending, and not the statutory debt limit, that will gain credibility and protect the government's creditworthiness. Read more at www.msnbc.msn.com

 

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Okay I made up Mingle Thursday but I do it. I follow 3 or 4 random people. Really funny? When people you already follow show up. http://bit.ly/nSDEGJ

Superintendent Requests School Turned Into Prison

Brilliant!

Amplify’d from bigthink.com

A school superintendent in Michigan has written a public letter to the editor asking Governor Rick Snyder if his school can become a prison instead. The full text is below. What do you think?

In these tough economic times, schools are hurting. And yes, everyone in Michigan is hurting right now financially, but why aren’t we protecting schools? Schools are the one place on Earth that people look to to “fix” what is wrong with society by educating our youth and preparing them to take on the issues that society has created.

One solution I believe we must do is take a look at our corrections system in Michigan. We rank nationally at the top in the number of people we incarcerate. We also spend the most money per prisoner annually than any other state in the union. Now, I like to be at the top of lists, but this is one ranking that I don’t believe Michigan wants to be on top of.

Consider the life of a Michigan prisoner. They get three square meals a day. Access to free health care. Internet. Cable television. Access to a library. A weight room. Computer lab. They can earn a degree. A roof over their heads. Clothing. Everything we just listed we DO NOT provide to our school children.

This is why I’m proposing to make my school a prison. The State of Michigan spends annually somewhere between $30,000 and $40,000 per prisoner, yet we are struggling to provide schools with $7,000 per student. I guess we need to treat our students like they are prisoners, with equal funding. Please give my students three meals a day. Please give my children access to free health care. Please provide my school district Internet access and computers. Please put books in my library. Please give my students a weight room so we can be big and strong. We provide all of these things to prisoners because they have constitutional rights. What about the rights of youth, our future?!

Please provide for my students in my school district the same way we provide for a prisoner. It’s the least we can do to prepare our students for the future...by giving our schools the resources necessary to keep our students OUT of prison. Read more at bigthink.com

 

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LAPD Stops Arresting Kids on Their Way to School

Are you {expletive deleted} kidding me? For real? Why do we continue to think the best way to deal with kids (of color) is through the justice system? This is un-freaking-believable even if they did stop it.



Grr. Sputter. Mumble. Mumblesputter. Seriously.

Amplify’d from www.huffingtonpost.com

Imagine that you're running late to school -- maybe you forgot your lunch, maybe you had to help your younger siblings get ready for school, or maybe you just overslept.

You hear the late bell ring just as you're approaching campus, but you're met right outside the school gate by a squad of police officers, who detain you for 45 minutes and give you a daytime curfew ticket that carries a $250 fine before letting you go to class. And then you have to miss a full school day several weeks later to go to court to deal with the ticket.

That has been the reality for thousands of students in Los Angeles, which has a daytime curfew that makes it illegal for basically any youth under the age of 18 to be in public while school is in session. Until recently, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) routinely conducted enforcement sweeps around schools first thing in the morning, so that students who were trying to get to school were the ones most likely to be ticketed.

Surprise, surprise -- students of color were also cited at rates far outpacing their representation in the population. According to LA school police data, none of the more than 13,000 tickets they issued from 2005 to 2009 went to a white student. Apparently white students are never late for school.

Figuring out effective strategies to keep students in school is no simple task. Many factors contribute to low attendance rates, ranging from emotional and mental health problems to hostile school environment and lack of appropriate academic supports, from economic pressures and lack of adequate transportation to family issues. But, as Gara LaMarche recently argued on HuffPost, the lack of a simple solution is no excuse for defaulting to punitive law enforcement tactics, especially when so much data and research confirm that they are not just ineffective, but actually harmful to students.

Instead, the real solution is for law enforcement and school officials to put in hard work to collaborate with the community to figure out the best path forward. To LAPD's credit, that is what happened here, and it should serve as an example as we all continue working to improve student attendance in LA and around the country. Read more at www.huffingtonpost.com

 

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Wonder If It Was Worth It

The problem with revenge is you often go just one step too far.

Amplify’d from it.slashdot.org

"52-year-old Walter Powell wanted revenge when he was fired from his position as an IT manager at Baltimore Substance Abuse System Inc. So, he hacked into their systems — installing keyloggers to steal passwords. Then, when his CEO was giving a presentation to the board of directors he replaced the slides with pornographic images. Powell has now been given a 2 year suspended sentence, and 100 hours community service." Read more at it.slashdot.org

 

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How Big Is The Web?

I remember when there was an applet that let you look at a random website changing every 30 seconds. I thought that was the flipping bomb.

Amplify’d from mashable.com

There’s no easy way to find out or explain the size of the web.

After all, though there are a few governing bodies and consortia, there’s no real central control system for the Internet. No one really knows with 100% certainty exactly how many websites exist, for example, or how many new websites are set up each day.

GoDaddy is the largest ICANN registrar of domain names, controlling almost a third of the total market and almost half of domains from the top ten registrars. Enom, Tucows, and Network Solutions are next in line, with 5-9% each. [source: WebHosting.info]

The oldest currently registered URL is Symbolics.com, which was registered March 15, 1985. Other notable domains in the first 10 registered URLs include Northrop.com, Xerox.com, and HP.com, all registered in 1985. [source: WhoIs.com]

A top-level domain (TLD) is the part of the URL that comes after the dot. There are currently 324 TLDs. 291 of these are country codes. Only 5 TLDs (.com, .net, .biz, .info and .org) are unrestricted and unreserved for specific types of sites. [source: IANA]

Just how fast is the web growing? In 2009, around 3.7 million new domains were registered each month. As of June 2011, it's not uncommon for 150,000 new domains to be registered with generic TLDs alone in a single day. [sources: VeriSign and DailyChanges.com]

How many websites are there? That's a difficult question to answer, because there's no central control system for the Internet. Here are some tidbits we do know: In 1992, fewer than 15,000 .com URLs had been registered. By 1998, Google said it was indexing 26 million pages. By 2007, one survey of the web found . In 2008, Google revealed it was indexing 1 trillion unique URLs. [graphic source: Netcraft] Read more at mashable.com

 

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Politics and Digital What's Not To Love?

Oh. Wait a minute. lol

Amplify’d from mashable.com

This Week in Politics & Digital: The Confrontation Issue

It was a big week for big names in politics, as high-profile figures and organizations faced off against one another.

Weiner announced his resignation from office Thursday after facing a wall of political pressure that included President Obama and Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader of the House of Representatives.

Republicans had their own media circus with the massive presidential debate that took place last week in New Hampshire. The debate included former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Texas Congressman Ron Paul, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Atlanta businessman Herman Cain and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty. Hosted and broadcast by CNN, the debate featured social media integration such as live streaming the broadcast and fielding questions from Facebook and Twitter.

The Federal Elections Committee ruled that Facebook ads are subject to disclosure rules for political advertising. Facebook was hoping the 160-character ads would earn an exemption since a disclosure would take up the better part of the ad-space, reported the National Journal.

LulzSec, a rogue group of hackers, has set its sights on taking down Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) and other big name targets. They’ve gone big-game hunting, taking down both the website for the U.S. Senate and the CIA’s website with a distributed denial of service attack. Read more at mashable.com

 

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Google Invest $280M In Solar Energy

Pick me! Pick me!

Amplify’d from news.nationalgeographic.com

Google is making its largest investment yet in clean energy, setting up a $280 million fund to finance home solar rooftop installations.

The search giant announced today it was teaming up with the Silicon Valley’s SolarCity—a company chaired by Paypal co-founder and Tesla Motors executive Elon Musk—in an effort to break down the biggest barrier to solar energy adoption: the cost.

"It's a great way to support installations going into more homes," said Google spokesperson Parag Chokshi.

The $280 million fund is the largest fund ever created for residential solar in the United States, according to SolarCity, which has raised a total of $1.28 billion in financing capacity during its five-year history.

Google over the past several years has invested in large, utility-scale wind and solar, enhanced geothermal energy, and other renewable energy projects, for a grand total of more than $680 million in the sector. But today’s deal is not only Google’s largest foray into the sector, it is its first investment in distributed energy. Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com

 

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Crowdsourcing Isn't Just For Social Media

It only takes a few to make a huge difference. Who's in?

Amplify’d from ashleyandme.wordpress.com

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Crowdsourcing isn’t just for social media.

In essence crowdsourcing means that customers help organizations decide what the next product or service or improvement should be.  It’s a way of including the people who matter most – the folks who actually generate revenue.

I’m wondering how we can do that in the juvenile justice system.  Instead of being alone together let’s just be together.  Let’s crowdsource what  we know and feel to be true about our kids in the system and create change.

I’m ready!  Join me? Read more at ashleyandme.wordpress.com

 

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Global Internet Traffic Will Quadruple By 2015

Wait - this internet thing isn't just a fad?!



Click through to Mashable to see the awesome infographic. I couldn't clip it.

Amplify’d from mashable.com

Global Internet traffic is expected to quadruple between 2010 and 2015, according to data provided to Mashable by Cisco.

By that time, nearly 3 billion people will be using the Internet — more than 40% of the world’s projected population. On average, there will be more than two Internet connections for each person on Earth, driven by the proliferation of web-enabled mobile devices.

Internet traffic is projected to approach 1 zettabyte per year in 2015 — that’s equivalent of all the digital data in existence in 2010. Regionally speaking, traffic is expected to more than double in the Middle East and Africa, where there will be an average of 0.9 devices per person for a projected population of 1.39 billion. Latin America is close behind, with a 48% increase in traffic and an estimated 2.1 devices per person among a population of 620 million.

The rest of the world will experience more moderate growth in terms of traffic, but the number of devices per person is forecast to increase significantly. By 2015, there will be an average of 5.8 devices per person in North America, 5.4 in Japan and 4.4 in western Europe.

Somewhat surprisingly, it is neither mobile phones nor tablets that are expected to grow the most in the next four years. Rather, flat panel televisions will experience the greatest production increase globally, up 1063% from 2010, followed by tablets (750%), digital photo frames (600%) and ereaders (550%). The number of non-smartphones and smartphones is expected to increase by 17% and 194% worldwide, respectively. Read more at mashable.com

 

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Facebook Gets Busted In Facial Recognition Rollout

URL:  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/facebook_admits...

Who the hell are these people and why do they keep screwing up??? They don't seem to learn from past mistakes.

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What's The Value of Inbound Marketing?

URL:  http://www.mdgadvertising.com/blog/infographic-where-is...

Spending will go up while cost per lead is 62% less. That's for starters.

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Are FB Fan Pages going to +1 instead of Like? Interesting discussion. http://lnkd.in/RF53Rr http://bit.ly/mbTzSl

I just started a LinkedIn group for +1. It's easy to get on your site and important in search relevance. http://goo.gl/NGQtr http://bit.ly/lmgB74

Google Ups The Ante With +1

I love the wild west feel of the web. I really do. And yet I am starting to feel like the gunslinger who has to look for trouble in every town. lol

Amplify’d from www.cainbrian.com

Marketing with Google|Google is getting Social!

Google is getting social baby! Have you seen the new Google +1? The new Google +1 Button is the answer to Facebook’s Like button. What does this mean for you? Marketing with Google means you need to get social! You have to become popular if you want to get free traffic with your SEO in your attempt at Google Marketing.

Right now Google just has the +1 button, and if it becomes big (which it will), then you may risk another Google Slap if you are not on board which will directly affect your Google Marketing. Now if you are using a PPC method, go ahead and continue to pay a ridiculous amount of money just to reach your target market. We like to do things for FREE. We like to hang out on the left side of the Google page. So if you want to get Free traffic as well, then continue reading.

The Google +1 Button currently just acts as a recommendation to your network of friends. It sort of acts like a big highlighter and says, “hey, I visited this site and I like it – you should forget about all of the other search results and check this site out as well.” This specific button has not yet impacted the rankings on search results, but I guarantee that it will! It would be in your best interest if you already do your Marketing with Google to hop on board now while it is still pretty much in pre-launch.

This is the action you should take right now, create a Gmail account; set-up your Google Buzz account within your Gmail account; start to +1 all of your sites and sites that you feel would be beneficial as an association (this one maybe? lol). You also want to build your connections on Google Buzz so that others can view your +1′s. Google Buzz is similar to the social site, Twitter. It doesn’t seem as functional …yet. However, it would be a good idea to incorporate and use Google services as well so that you can soak up the benefits, especially if you want to Market using Google for Free. Read more at www.cainbrian.com

 

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New Google Analytics

URL:  http://skyje.com/2011/05/google-analytics/

Love the idea of having multiple dashboards! You go Google!

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I amp’d a post yesterday “Save The Customer”. There was a lot of good discussion about the 80/20 rule, kicking wasteful customers to the curb, setting boundaries.



This was brought home to me in a big way yesterday with a former client. Long story short (you’re welcome) this client asked me to call and then we set a day and time to meet. I gave my best advice and suggested what I could do with the small amount of money available in the budget. When I got home I discovered the real request. It did not occur to me the whole thing was simply an elaborate set up to acquiesce to the request. I sent a detailed proposal. Then yesterday other stuff started spilling out.



Here’s the thing: I would have done it anyway. It wasn’t a big request and I benefited. What flabbergasts me is the idea that people think I need to be bought off with a meal. That I sent a detailed proposal that was probably used negotiate a better deal for a contract with someone else. That my b http://bit.ly/mp7dyY

When The Customer Is Right

URL:  http://smallbiztrends.com/2011/05/business-mistake-cann...

Save face.

Save the sale.

Save the customer.



What's not to love?

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I do this especially when I'm feeling stressed.



Don't spend time worrying.

Don't take fear out on loved ones.

Don't look back and try to imagine a different outcome.

Don't focus on the problem.

Don't let anyone say failure is an option.



I keep looking at it until I get past whatever was using up the creative cells in my brain. http://bit.ly/m4wgS2

Meeting Notes - New School

Love new productivity tools. Makes up for distractions like co-workers, email and planning for raptures.

Amplify’d from www.readwriteweb.com

Whether you meet with colleagues in person or from remote locations, there's still a need to keep an accurate record of what was discussed and what next actions are required. You could go the old school, pen-and-paper route, but those notes will still need to be typed up and shared with colleagues.

To simply the process, you might want to try minutes.io, a Web app that lets you take meeting minutes online and easily share them with others.

The app doesn't do anything more or less than you need it to. Its simple interface consists of a few text fields for pertinent meeting information like attendees, location and agenda. Beneath that is an area for adding minutes, categorizing them (Is it a to-do item, idea or comment?) and giving them an owner and a due date. In the upper-left sit three buttons: one for emailing notes, one for printing them and one that takes you back to a listing of previous meeting notes.

Since the app's functionality is built with JavaScript rather than Flash, it works nicely on tablets. We tested it out on the iPad and had no issues. The only challenge might be keeping up with the meeting while typing on a touch screen keyboard, but it's nothing a wireless keyboard can't fix.

Minutes.io is free to use and doesn't require a user account, so giving it a shot could hardly be more painless.

See more at www.readwriteweb.com

 

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Core Content SEO Tools

URL:  http://www.toprankblog.com/2011/05/content-seo-tools-ke...

Great basic resources even for those of us who are experienced.

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I started thinking about two-tiered systems after watching a little Morning Joe.



A two tiered Medicare system means instead of $1200/year cost with all expenses paid I would get $15000 to get private insurance. Of course if older people could get private insurance we would not need Medicare. Let's just call it, oh say, a death panel.



Two tiered pay systems are not unusual now especially in unions. All for one and one for all...unless you ask me to take less to make sure my local brothers and sisters are equals.



There is a two tiered gold price. Really? Yes it was designed to keep international gold reserves at a fixed price while regular old run of the mill gold is sold at commodity prices.



The American Rental Car Association want a two tier system for dealing with recalls on vehicles. The government would designate which recalls were serious enough to pull cars off the road and the rest could be driven and fixed later. WTH?!



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Website Do Not Track Law

URL:  http://www.readwriteweb.com/biz/2011/05/how-would-a-web...

I love the wild west state of the internet. Don't want to be followed? Don't click.

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Treating Kids As Adults

It's not the crime really. It's where you do the time.

Amplify’d from ashleyandme.wordpress.com

We weep over the ignorance of a girl who has a baby at 12 but believe she knows exactly what she is doing when involved in holding up a convenience store.  We shake our heads at violence in music, movies and games then feel shocked when teenagers internalize that violence and act on it.  We drink and smoke and have random sex as adults and are incredulous when our kids follow suit underage. Read more at ashleyandme.wordpress.com

 

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Not A Family Tree - A Family Bush

Well, that explains a lot.

Amplify’d from www.futurity.org

IOWA STATE (US) —Talk about extended families: Houseflies have more than 152,000 relatives—and those are just the ones that researchers know about. Read more at www.futurity.org

 

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Panda Means Cuddly Right?

Hmmm. Not for those who disregard good content or love to spam.

Amplify’d from www.websitemagazine.com

If you happened to see Google’s interactive Earth Day doodle on Friday, you undoubtedly noticed the pair of Panda bears frolicking behind the omnipresent “G”. Do not be misled – those cuddly creatures mean business, and they are a not-so-subtle reminder to every company on the Web that the recently updated search algorithm nicknamed Panda is here to stay.

Clean your own house first The goal of the Panda update is to improve the quality of content on the Web, thus improving the quality of Google’s search results. Sites that engage in content farming or otherwise low-quality, “spammy” content creation have been the primary targets, and the updated algorithm was designed to punish those sites by significantly lowering their SERP rankings.

New content strategy, new content Panda does not require that all Web professionals suddenly become Pulitzer nominees, but a re-evaluation of your current content strategy is still a good idea. Even if it requires a temporary or part-time hire, ensuring that all existing content meets the above criteria before embarking on any new link building efforts is critical.

Be social, but smart The first, and most important, part of building links in the Panda era is about producing useful content to which quality sites throughout your niche will want to link. The second and next most important part is about forging and building those relationships that will be the most valuable to your business. Read more at www.websitemagazine.com

 

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Myers-Briggs and Social Media Staffing

URL:  http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/social-media-marketi...

HR departments take note.



How do you help organizations hire the right type of social media staff? Good ole Myers-Briggs. I like it!

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A Life Sentence

The forgotten victims of crime.

Amplify’d from ashleyandme.wordpress.com

The elderly lady gets off the elevator.  She is wearing a pink hat and dress.  She walks slowly, leaning on her cane.

Her grandson, the man’s son, is being sentenced today for second degree murder.  He didn’t actually kill anyone but he was there and had some part in it.

“The lawyer couldn’t get him tried in juvenile court? He was only 17″, she says indignantly. Read more at ashleyandme.wordpress.com

 

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I just downloaded an Internet Marketing e-book with that title. I am going to follow the instructions and see where I am on July 20. Should be interesting, yes?



Stay tuned! http://bit.ly/dSzbL9

Opportunity for SEO copywriting. Liked the topic. Sent in a sample. They loved it. Thought the pay was $50 per article. It was $50 for 100 articles. The end. http://bit.ly/dE11Fa

Unforgettable Conversations

We often live in parallel universes.

Amplify’d from ashleyandme.wordpress.com

“That would be just as stupid.  Drug dealers don’t play and they aren’t gonna put up with someone saying that.  That’s how they feed their families and pay their bills.  It’s their money and nobody’s taking it or pretending to.” Read more at ashleyandme.wordpress.com

 

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Google Shuts Down Google Video

URL:  http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383691,00.asp

First Tags and now Video. Hope they don't shut down search. lol

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Trust Can Be A Four Letter Word

Amplify’d from ashleyandme.wordpress.com

Follow the logic.  I demand Ashley stop her destructive behavior.  She agrees because she wants the hassling to stop.  I am thankful and start saying nice things.  There is harmony for a while.  See Mom?  I can do it! Read more at ashleyandme.wordpress.com

 

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Theory: Website Design As Contract

The law hasn't done a very good job of keeping up with technology. Here's an opportunity to have a little input.

Amplify’d from cyberlaw.stanford.edu

Few website users actually read or rely upon terms of use or privacy policies. Yet users regularly take advantage of and rely upon website design features like privacy settings. Could these designs be part of the contract between websites and users? A draft of my new article argues just that by developing a theory of website design as contract. This article is coming out in Volume 60 of the American University Law Review later this year. In sum, I argue that in an age where website interactivity is the hallmark for many sites, courts must re-think what constitutes an online agreement. This is particularly true with respect to user privacy. Read more at cyberlaw.stanford.edu

 

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This is the best we got? There has to be a better, more common-sense way!



http://ashleyandme.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/the-school-to-prison-pipeline/ http://bit.ly/gRCUkb

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How To Fail

Ain't it the truth!

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There are some significant misunderstandings about failure. A common one, similar to one we seem to have about death, is that if you don't plan for it, it won't happen. Read more at sethgodin.typepad.com

 

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"Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary." Uta Hagen http://bit.ly/h57aZ6

Catholic Nun Or Muslim Terrorist?

URL:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jalees-rehman/catholic-nu...

Oh hahaha!

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Am I the last person on the planet to know that if I embed a client's video on their website that at the end other videos are offered on the same topic? Now would have been a really good time for YT to ask if I wanted to pay to remove these promoted and/or heavily viewed videos. I am simply going to change to another video/viewer source much as I did when I switched from Google maps to Mapquest. http://bit.ly/fyP233

Pocket Dialing and Privacy

URL:  http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=22072

Seriously?



Are we so sensitive that someone's rant at a TV - accidentally recorded after pocket dialing - results in losing a job? We have to STOP believing that every single thing we hear must be analyzed, judged and held accountable to our own standards.



For the millionth time (and not the last I fear) I say the right of free speech is our greatest right.



Seriously.

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How Neurons Get The Message Out

I know how they feel. lol

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CARNEGIE MELLON (US) — Much like a person trying to be heard across a crowded room, billions of neurons in the brain need to figure out how to get their message heard over all the chatter. Read more at www.futurity.org

 

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Entrepreneur Infographics

URL:  http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/entrepreneurship-d...

How do you sustain your business? Knowing what the future looks like. Three infographics show the changing picture of entrepreneurship. What else is changing about entrepreneurs?

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Internet and Politics - Who Knew?

URL:  http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/intern...

Political candidates who think "their people" aren't on the internet looking for information will not win. Period.

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Addicted To Anxiety Adrenaline

Best tip: No is an entire sentence.

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Our world is in the midst of an emotional meltdown. As a psychiatrist, I've seen that many people are addicted to the adrenaline rush of anxiety, known as the "fight or flight" response, and they don't know how to diffuse it. An example of this is obsessively watching the news about natural disasters, trauma, economic stress and violence, and then not being able to turn bad news off. Also, people are prone to "techno-despair" -- a term I coined in my book, "Emotional Freedom." This is a state of high anxiety that results from information overload and Internet addiction. It's also related to our super-dependence on smartphones and the panic of feeling disconnected if technology breaks down and we can't access emails or other communications -- a new version of what's psychiatrically known as an "attachment disorder." I've helped many patients address the adverse effects of techno-despair, such as insomnia, nightmares, restless sleep and ongoing angst. You, too, can break your addiction to anxiety and lead a more peaceful life. Am I Addicted To Anxiety?

If you answered "yes" to all six questions, worry plays a very large, addictive role in your life. Four to five "yes" answers indicate a large role. Two to three "yes" answers indicate a moderate role. One"yes" indicates a low level. Zero "yes" answers suggest that you're more warrior than worrier!

To quiet anxiety and turn off your flight-or-flight response, it's important to re-train your brain to send chemicals to counteract this powerful biological response. Otherwise, anxiety can become an addiction. In contrast, with a calm biology, you can generate endorphins -- the blissful natural painkillers in your body. To master your anxiety, practice the techniques below to quiet your system. They will help you achieve immediate and long-term results.

Being aware of what triggers your anxiety and mindfully making choices to cope with them provides emotional freedom. Then you won't simply be reacting when your buttons get pushed. You will be better able to take charge of your emotions and your life. Read more at www.huffingtonpost.com

 

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Leader Or Manager

VERY excited to be included on Toilet Paper Entrepreneur's list of tips!!

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How To Become A Leader Not A Manager

11. Living In The Past Or Looking To The Future?

Leading is looking forward. Managing is working with the past. You cannot do both effectively. Start ups often have to juggle this at first but in order to grow you have to decide which position you're better at and hire someone to fill the other.

Thanks to Victoria Kamm of Obviously Brilliant Company

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Noteworthy Expenditures of the Week

URL:  http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_10/b421...

All the money in the world is available. Just look.

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