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Social Media Is Not Bad: 4 Lessons From Weinergate. When Congressman Weiner sent the tweet read round the world small businesses shunned social media.
But maybe it's not so bad. June 15, 2011 I know that many of you are completely sold on social media and know it’s absolutely necessary for your business. However, I also know there’s many businesses who are very confused and nervous about social media. You’re not sure if it’s useful for your business and even further you wonder if it could be harmful. Every once in a while there is a big blow up about the dark side of social media, such as the latest eruption with Congressman Anthony Weiner.
This scandal demonstrates the power of social media, but the bigger lesson is that social media is not bad, no more than a gun is bad. As you consider using social media in your business there’s several things you should keep in mind to better ensure your use of social media is a thriving success: Technology is only a tool. Train your employees how to best use social media. Connecting to the iTunes Store. QR Codes set a blingin – Is this the coin of the future?
We thought it would all be plastic in the future, that generations to come would never know what it would feel like to hold real gold or diamonds.
The craze of bling would be all but lost. However if these latest developments are anything to go by, then the future may just be worth living in. QR Codes Coins The Royal Dutch Mint has produced what is the first QR coded coin to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the mint in Utrecht. For those who know not about QR code , read up on Wikipedia here – its a brilliant technology that is definitely going to change the world we live in. The coins will be limited edition and will be produced in silver as well as gold. KeepMeOut. A Historical Perspective on Historical Perspective. Via Andrew Sullivan, the New Yorker's Nick Paumgarten provides some perspective on the latest dismal findings about American kids' knowledge of American history: “We haven’t ever known our past,” Sam Wineburg, a professor of education and history at Stanford, said last week.
“Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.” He pointed out that the first large-scale proficiency study—of Texas students, in 1915-16—demonstrated that many couldn’t tell Thomas Jefferson from Jefferson Davis or 1492 from 1776. A 1943 survey of seven thousand college freshmen found that, among other things, only six per cent of them could name the original thirteen colonies. “Appallingly ignorant,” the Times harrumphed, as it would again in the face of another dismal showing, in 1976.....The NAEP results through more than four decades have been consistently mediocre, which may prove nothing except, as Wineburg wrote in 2004, “our amnesia of past ignorance.” Foursquare. Hachi. Remember, Share and Discover places you love. Apple Could Double Market With Free iPhone 3GS, RBC Says - Eric Savitz - The Tech Trade.
29 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE. The DNC - "Electric" (feat. Miss Amani) - Music Video Ramón S. is watching Adopted. Watching the Wheels by John Lennon. Ramonsesma soundtracked "Amazing" by George Michael. Escape (The Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes.
Help. Artistic sweeteners: Takashi Murakami and the great art giveaway. Cardboard creation ...
Murakami's Big Box PKo2. Photo: Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co, Ltd, All Rights Reserved/Mike Bruce/Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery Japanese artist Takashi Murakami is not everybody's cup of triple-sugar cherry cola. To be precise, he is not mine. However, he has cornered some kind of market, presumably of people for whom the kitsch pop art of Jeff Koons is too staid and respectable now.
Takashi Murakami Gagosian Gallery, London WC1X 9JD It's a factory-made cardboard kit that folds together to make your very own miniaturised Murakami sculpture. Murakami, in other words, is playing some insidious pop art head game with us here. Nice idea, but it strikes me that Larry Gagosian, whose King's Cross gallery is staging the Murakami, is also sponsor of Cy Twombly's new show at Dulwich Picture Gallery.
Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse.