Drew Olanoff, Cancer Survivor, gets Tattoo of Biggest Donor’s Twitter Handle Jay Scott, huffingtonpost.com The name Drew Olanoff may be one that you have heard before. If you are a twitter aficionado (like me!), you may have once utilized the hashtag #blamedrewscancer. If you haven’t, well here are a few things you should know: after … Continue reading Cancer survivor uses social media to improve medical help
S.A.P. | LOS ANGELES, economist.com The Erkernermerst JOHNSON reads Reddit from time to time. Reddit, as the web’s most prominent meme hatchery, is an incubator of new trends in written language. The Internet has changed so much of our lives, but few things have changed … RT @TheEconomist: Reddit, as the web’s most prominent meme … Continue reading Language generation on the Internet:Reddit is the meme hatchery
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Data: Bringing Hidden Healthcare Data Into the Open Sarah Mitroff, wired.com Self-described health IT hacktivist and author Fred Trotter has hatched a plan to bring hidden healthcare data into the open. http://flpbd.it/ncJYs Related articles 'Hacktivist' group Anonymous strikes at Israeli government websites (washingtontimes.com) HIT firm ranks hospitals based on patient engagement tools, social presence & … Continue reading Fred Trotter, health IT hacktivist
The Rising Science Of Social Influence — How Predictable Is Your Online Behaviour? Ferenc Huszár, techcrunch.com Techcrunch recently ran a piece by Michael Wu of Lithium. The following is a response written by Ferenc Huszar, who, prior to joining Peer Index PeerIndex as lead data scientist, was was a PhD student at the Machine Learning … Continue reading We can now predict your behavior using online data
Technology Is Useless If It Doesn’t Address A Human Need BY MEAGAN FALLONE, fastcoexist.com Facebook is great for checking out photos of your exes and all, but for social innovators working in the developing world, there’s no point to new technologies unless they make life better for the people they’re trying to help. Editor’s Note … Continue reading Technology Is Useless If It Doesn’t Address a Human Need
Tiny Housetruck Video Tour Steven, tinyhouselistings.com Several years ago John Labovitz realized that he wanted to live a much more simple life. He realized that living in a small (well, tiny) home would be the catalyst for the simple life he was searching for. He began visualizing and… http://flpbd.it/ydmaJ Related articles Top Tours of the … Continue reading Tiny housetruck tour
Why Better Energy Management is the Key to Peak Productivity Gregory Ciotti, lifehacker.com We live in a culture that seems obsessed with being productive. While increasing our output and doing more with our time is certainly an admirable goal, according to Tony Schwartz, author of Be Excellent at Anything, that misguid… http://flpbd.it/D6hu5 Related articles The … Continue reading Why energy management is the key to growth
Beyond Klout: Better Ways To Measure Social Media Influence Adam Popescu, readwrite.com Measuring social influence online is becoming a more sophisticated, refined and granular process. While the much-maligned early leader in the market, Klout, has scooped up a lot of headlines over the past few years, there’s a better… http://flpbd.it/7Qp5t Related articles Is Klout Gaining … Continue reading Klout and other ways to measure your influence
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Medium wants people to eat their ‘information vegetables’ by Donna Tam, cnet.com Obvious CEO and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams says his new project is about creating content that focuses on quality over speed. SAN FRANCISCO — Evan Williams, Twitter co-founder and CEO of Obvious, wants to change the wor… http://flpbd.it/fk1nt Related articles Biz Stone Working … Continue reading Medium attempts to be a better source of information
Smart Body, Smart World: The Next Phase of Personal Computing Sarah Rotman Epps, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, allthingsd.com In the past half-century, computing has evolved from the mainframe to the desktop to the shoulder bag to the pocket, and now it’s taking over new frontiers: our physical bodies, and the physical environments that we inhabit. … Continue reading Why your body is the next target for social technology
After Sandy, New Jersey Becomes an Unwilling Test Case for Internet Voting Arik Hesseldahl, allthingsd.com Holding an election is complicated. Holding an election eight days after a historically significant disaster? Probably exponentially so. This is the circumstance in which the state of New Jersey will find itself… http://flpbd.it/WCGB4 Related articles Christie to personally call out … Continue reading After Sandy, New Jersey Becomes an Unwilling Test Case for Internet Voting
Stitcher keeps the news flowing for desktop users with new web-based app Zachary Lutz, engadget.com Stitcher is already a heavy hitter in the world of mobile apps, but users will now find their favorite radio shows and podcasts are accessible from the desktop. Today, the company announced an HTML5 version of its popular app that’s… … Continue reading Stitcher is the best podcast app keeps the news flowing
Structure Your Presentation Like a Story Nancy Duarte, hbr.org After studying hundreds of speeches, I’ve found that the most effective presenters use the same techniques as great storytellers: By reminding people of the status quo and then revealing the path to a better way, they set up a conflict that needs … http://flpbd.it/HmuZW Related articles … Continue reading HBS on why you must tell a story in presentations
LinkedIn: The Quiet Force Transforming Biotech & Pharma Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com Luke Timmerman Mark Levin’s business is biotechnology, so it’s no surprise he knew zilch about a tech company called LinkedIn as recently as two years ago. But these days Levin sounds like he can barely do his job without… http://flpbd.it/TIANz Related articles LinkedIn: Revolutionizing … Continue reading LinkedIn disrupts biotech pharma recruiting
Recruiter Job Demand Remains Strong http://www.recruiter.com, recruiter.com According to a new survey by WANTED Analytics, there were over 14,000 jobs posted online in September for recruiters and other staffing professionals. The number represents a 12 percent growth over September 2011, but a… http://flpbd.it/WuLdr Related articles Using Twitter As A Social Recruiting Tool (windmillnetworking.com) LinkedIn: Revolutionizing … Continue reading Recruiters who know social media are in demand
Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net I really enjoyed reading a recent story in The New York Times Magazine about attempts to understand extreme longevity — the weird tendency for certain populations to have larger-than-average numbers of people who live well into their… http://flpbd.it/cEMb5 The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100 Related articles … Continue reading The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100
The Biggest Sites In Social Publishing info@buzzfeed.com (http://www.buzzfeed.com/about), buzzfeed.com The goal for websites, more than ever, is to get content to go social. These are the ones who are succeeding. Update: More data added below. Image by Beck Diefenbach / Reuters One way to measure how well a website is doing is by the… http://flpbd.it/TZ1H5 … Continue reading The Biggest Sites In Social Publishing
Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing: This… tumblr.com Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing: This attention to status … started when I was in graduate school and I was in a program called American Studies, which was a mixture of different disciplines but one [in which… http://flpbd.it/CjoBc Related articles Tom Wolfe's … Continue reading Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing
MoneyTalksNews, huffingtonpost.com MoneyTalksNews: Tech companies will go to amazing lengths to recruit talented employees – and keep them from jumping to competitors. An increasingly important part of the equation is benefits. A recent New York Times… http://flpbd.it/fG8hC 50 Amazing Job Perks Related articles Get Creative with Job Perks (business.time.com) Looking for a Lesson in Google's … Continue reading 50 Amazing Job Perks
Hackert0wn: The World’s First Eco/Hacker Village? By Stett Holbrook, makezine.com Alpha One Labs co-founder Sean Auriti and a group of like-minded hackers have launched a campaign to build Hackert0wn, a Brooklyn hackerspace the likes of which the world has never seen. As planned, Hackert0wn will be an entire hacker… http://flpbd.it/8muih Related articles Twitter Account of … Continue reading Hackert0wn: The World’s First Eco/Hacker Village
Measuring debate performance on Twitter - POLITICO.com Related articles Things Get Rough on Twitter Over Gun Debate (mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com) Social Media Strategy for Small Business 2013: A Totally Honest Look at Social Networks (amsterdamprinting.com) Shocking NASCAR Crash Video Raises A Serious Debate (businessinsider.com) Infographic: 2012 Service Desk Industry Round-Up (sunrisesoftware.co.uk) oLyfe Reveals Social Media Sentiment around … Continue reading Measuring debate performance on Twitter
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