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50 Questions to Get to Know Someone | Humor That Works
by Andrew Tarvin on June 2, 2010 Want to get to know me better (or anyone really)? Just ask one of the below “get to know you” questions… they’re meant to be fun, interesting questions that can help you learn more about the person you are talking to. These questions can be great for team-building, learning more about your fellow co-workers, and for spicing up your standard introductions. A quick caveat: there are thousands of interesting questions to get to know someone, but I’ve found that the below questions (pulled from games like Table Topics, shows like Inside the Actor’s Studio, and from my own brain) are unique or interesting enough to force a person to think. Favorites Questions Asking someone about their favorite blank is a great way to get know them better and learn about their preferences and opinions. What was your favorite food when you were a child? If you could throw any kind of party, what would it be like and what would it be for? Which celebrity do you get mistaken for?
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Does a Successful Niche Social Network Threaten Facebook?
In light of the privacy concerns and expanding user base on Facebook, niche sites have been stealing some of the spotlight from the reigning social network giant. VEOMED is one of the latest attempts to bring together a community outside of Facebook. Targeting the medical community, VEOMED appears to have found success in mixing features of Facebook, Twitter and Youtube to create a balanced network that enables members to have scientific dialog across a variety of multimedia formats. Social Features of VEOMED VEOMED works by allowing organizations and professionals to set up portals where they can add PowerPoint presentations, videos, articles, and other multimedia. Other Niche Social Networks This type of social network specialization has been tried before. uSurvive is a social network designed only for college students. These sites are growing in popularity, and as VEOMED illustrates, they can find success by integrating the best elements from competing networks.
Eight Questions To Ask Before You Start A Business
Are you thinking of starting a web business? Starting a PPC Management agency? Setting up your own site and selling things, or building a web publishing empire? Before you start, ask yourself the following eight questions. The advantage of this Q&A is that you can quickly see if the idea you’re going to throw your money and soul into is likely to work. 1 . Define what service the business provides. Try to focus. McDonalds could, no doubt, provide up-market meals, but they focus on selling quick, cheap food. That is what they do. 2. Who are your customers? Create a mental image of your typical customer. 3. What is your unique selling proposition? If your customers can buy the same services for less elsewhere, or more easily, they will. There is a tendency to model yourself on others. This is not to say doing something wildly new or different is any guarantee of success. 4. This point is so important, it really should be number one. Businesses may have great ideas. Then the bank manager calls.
Trends: 5 Engagement Factors For Gamification And The Enterprise
By R "Ray" Wang on January 20, 2011 Gamification Will Drive Future Enterprise Software User Experiences The Gamification Summit kicks off in San Francisco today. Gamification represents another consumer tech innovation entering the enterprise. Game-like mechanisms can improve engagement and participation in the enterprise for all stakeholders (i.e. employees, customers, partners, and suppliers). TrainingCollaboration and knowledge sharingCustomer loyalty programsAd network optimizationVirtual goods and currencies. The Bottom Line: Enterprises Considering Gamification Should Focus on 5 Key Elements of Engagement Successful gamification requires the users to be engaged. Figure 1. 5 Elements For Engagement In Enterprise Gamifcation Intrigue. Your POV. Can you think of other elements that enterprises should consider for engagement? Reprints Reprints can be purchased through Constellation Research, Inc. Disclosure Although we work closely with many mega software vendors, we want you to trust us.
quot;Top 5 Niche Social Networks"
Imeem is a free social network built around music. Users interact to post and discover new artists, share playlists and watch videos. By building personalized playlists (something imeem calls "social mixtapes"), users can share their favorite music and artists with the community. Other members are welcome to browse and comment on everyone else's playlists. Imeem offers streaming songs from just about every major and indie label, so it's easy to locate your favorite songs. Once a user locates a song, he or she can rate it according to how much he or she likes or dislikes it. The site, currently kept afloat by private investors, started in 2003 and has about 25 million visitors per month [source: Sandoval]. Musicians and artists are encouraged to set up profiles on imeem.
10 Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web
Not everything on the web will show up in a list of search results on Google or Bing; there are lots of places that their web crawlers cannot access. To explore the invisible web, you need to use specialist search engines. Here are our top 12 services to perform a deep internet search. What Is the Invisible Web? Before we begin, let's establish what does the term "invisible web" refer to? Simply, it's a catch-all term for online content that will not appear in search results or web directories. There are no official data available, but most experts agree that the invisible web is several times larger than the visible web. The content on the invisible web can be roughly divided into the deep web and the dark web. The Deep Web The deep web made up of content that typically needs some form of accreditation to access. If you have the correct details, you can access the content through a regular web browser. The Dark Web The dark web is a sub-section of the deep web. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
8 Significant Developments in Social Media You Should Watch
stock.xchng by bigevil600 While I don’t have a crystal ball, here are some developments that I think are worthy of our attention and will affect how we do things in the social mediasphere over the next few years. Many of the things on this list will not be news to the very well-informed social media consultant types who live and breathe this stuff. MySpace: CEO Leaves; MySpace will die. I could also add the concept of location to this list, but I’ll leave that for another column. What developments in social media are knocking your socks off? Photo by stock.xchng user bigevil600
