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The Marketer’s Guide to Periscope. Everyone and their mom knows that Periscope is becoming more and more popular.

The Marketer’s Guide to Periscope

In fact, according to TechCrunch, over a million people signed into the app in the first 10 days after the launch on March 26. That’s just incredible! Want to know the best part? Periscope still “fresh”, and you (as a marketer) have a HUGE opportunity to start growing your network. This is why I decided to create this guide; to show you step-by-step where to start and how to crush it with live video streaming. What Is Customer-Centric Web Design? Do you know what makes a good website?

What Is Customer-Centric Web Design?

Maybe you have an idea that your website should be eye-popping, with stunning images and a design that makes your visitors go ‘Wow’. Of course, none of that hurts, but it takes more than a beautifully-designed website to convert visitors into leads – which could be where you’re going wrong. The idea behind customer-centric web design An effective website isn’t about you or even the web design itself – it’s about your customers. After all, that’s who your website is really for, isn’t it? Guest blog: Dr Paul Klimpel, lawyer and cultural heritage activist. I would like to welcome Paul Klimpel in this guest blog on cultural heritage, film history and copyright.

Guest blog: Dr Paul Klimpel, lawyer and cultural heritage activist

Paul stresses the importance of good regulation for preserving our cultural heritage. Preservation by ensuring legal access instead of locking it away – a welcome reminder as we are discussing copyright reform for Europe. Linktipps für die Recherche in Social Media. Google News Lab. 10 Most Innovative Companies In the Internet of Things. The belief that a product or service can radically change our lives is the driving force behind the Internet Of Things.

10 Most Innovative Companies In the Internet of Things

Proof for such innovative leaps is thin and payoffs are long in coming (if they come at all). Some overvalued companies and overhyped inventions will eventually tumble and money will be lost. Yet breakthrough progress often requires wide-eyed hope. These are the best companies that pushed the Internet of Things to new frontiers in the last years. 1.

Global Diplomacy Lab - Members. Since October 2014, Peter Japelj has been an adviser in the office of the State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia.

Global Diplomacy Lab - Members

He took this position after finishing his mandate in Brussels, where he was the Slovenian representative to the RELEX working party, which is in charge of the legal, financial and institutional affairs of the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy. His previous postings were to Vienna and Berlin, and he has held various assignments in the Foreign Ministry in Ljubljana. During his career, he has dealt with, to name a few examples, international treaties, UN agencies in Vienna, secession after the dissolution of former Yugoslavia, minority questions and the fight against terrorism. In 2008, while posted in Germany, he was involved in most activities of the local Slovenian Presidency and the Trio Presidency of the European Council. Huffington Post, BroadbandTV Try Citizen Journalism in Video.

In 12 months, The Huffington Post hopes that 50% of the content on its site is video.

Huffington Post, BroadbandTV Try Citizen Journalism in Video

To meet that mark the AOL-owned publisher is creating its own network of video creators as companies like Disney's Maker Studios have done. The Huffington Post has signed a deal with digital video network BroadbandTV to create a network of citizen video journalists called Outspeak. People who join the program will be able to create and upload their own news videos to be distributed on The Huffington Post's site and YouTube and -- unlike CNN's similar iReport service -- make money from the ads sold against their videos or videos they end up making for advertisers.

The Huffington Post helped to popularize the idea of citizen journalism -- normal people on the ground covering news events the way paid journalists do -- and for its titular co-founder, Outspeak is an extension of that work. Tim Berners-Lee: We must take to the streets to protect the open web – video. Playing leapfrog and werewolf with Google and Facebook.

First Google made its friendship pact with eight old, European publishers, vowing to innovate together.

Playing leapfrog and werewolf with Google and Facebook

Then Facebook leapfrogged Google — by a considerable distance — launching its Instant Articles with nine publishers, old world and new, inviting them into its mobile News Feed and helping them make money to boot. Now it’s Google’s turn to leapfrog Facebook. We like this game. That opportunity for publishers — to build upon these positive steps — is what I, for one, emphasized this weekend in more than one session at Google’s excellent gathering in Helsinki, Newsgeist Europe, an unconference where we the participants chose what to talk about.

The Internet of Things 2014 [Slideshare]  Responding to her Friday morning alarm, Stacey gets out of bed.

The Internet of Things 2014 [Slideshare] 

Simultaneously, items throughout her house begin preparing for the day. Although it is cloudy outside, the interior is lighted with tones of a beautiful sunrise, per Stacey's personalized lighting scheme. The water heater makes sure the shower will be to her preference. Meerkat - diese App ist das nächste große Ding im Internet. Internet of Things. When technical meets creative- the four principles of digital product design. Related topicsData Design Development Process Methodology Principles Process technology vendors Related articles Share article 118 67 7 34googleplus0 Short of time?

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The Secret Behind The Most Innovative Tweeters. Twitter can feel like a crowded subway station at rush hour—everyone pushing past each other to get where they need to go.

The Secret Behind The Most Innovative Tweeters

But in the Twittersphere, where exactly is the destination? "People really have defaulted in social media to just putting out content," says Gary Vaynerchuk, founder of social media brand consulting agency VaynerMedia. Digital Media Conference 2015: Digitale Zukunft für die Medienbranche. Uk.businessinsider. Search Stops Here, Starts Afresh On Mobile. Editor’s note: David Senior is the CEO and co-founder of Lowdownapp. When Yahoo started, it was just a flat hierarchical directory of new sites on the web – “Cool Site of the Day!”

Was actually a thing. But the web quickly outstripped the ability of that structure to keep up to date: the Cool Site of the Day would have to be site of the hour, or minute, or second, as the number grew exponentially. The Web We Lost. Internet Of Everything 2015 BI - Business Insider. The Internet of Things 2014 [Slideshare]  Smarter Service - Inspiration, Ideen & Impulse für die Gestaltung vernetzter Services. 6 New & Innovative Social Media Campaigns to Learn From. We're always on the lookout for innovative social media campaigns at Mashable. This week we scoured the web and our Twitter feeds to find some of the most interesting campaigns out there. From utilizing online video in an inventive way to creating a unique presence on Facebook, these six social media campaigns are some of the most original pieces of work as of late.

Let us know about your favorite recent social media campaigns in the comments below. Intelligent Head Quarters. “More relevant and valuable connections will change the world.” Or at least, that is the viewpoint of Cisco’s Chief Futurist Dave Evans (2012), discussing the importance of the Internet of Everything (IoE) and what this will mean for us all. Importantly, as Evans clearly points out, despite the developments of the past 50 years and with tremendous improvements in communications, medicine, science and more there are still some very basic, fundamental problems that remain with the human race.

Not least of which is the fact that the human race has itself nearly tripled in the past 50 years. Evans details these well-known problems as being hunger, access to drinking water and disease. Additionally the global financial system has demonstrated itself to not be as stable as we thought. Netzkultur - Das digitale Kulturgut. The 101 Most Useful Websites on the Internet. Wonach die Deutschen 2014 im Internet suchten.