After Sandy, New Jersey Becomes an Unwilling Test Case for Internet Voting

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 is the best podcast app keeps the news flowing

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

LinkedIn disrupts biotech pharma recruiting

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

Recruiters who know social media are in demand

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

The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100

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

Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing

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

50 Amazing Job Perks

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

Measuring debate performance on Twitter

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

Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online

Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online Related articles Reality Check: 10-15% Of Brands’ Social Media Fans, Likes And Reviews Will Be Fake By 2014, Says Gartner (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com) Facebook cracking down on fake ‘Likes’ (cnn.com) Operation Unlike Is A Go: Page Fan Counts Are Dropping Because Facebook Is Deleting Fake Accounts (techcrunch.com) Facebook deleting … Continue reading Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online

Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends

Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends Dan Rowinski, readwriteweb.com You know who you are. You are the employ­ee who ignores man­dates from the IT depart­ment. You use your own devices and apps to get the job done, com­pa­ny poli­cies be hanged. The IT man­ag­er might call you a prob­lem employ­ee, but actu­al­ly y… http://flpbd.it/Y1i7Q Related … Continue reading Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends

#The Rules Of Social Media: Contests And Sweepstakes Are Fine, If You Want Short Relationships

  By FAST COMPANY STAFF, fastcompany.com   When it comes to social media success, the long game is more valuable than the short game, according to Hill Holliday’s SVP of digital strategy, Mike Proulx.   “Many brands and indi­vid­u­als mis­tak­en­ly obsess about short­cut tac­tics to gain f…   http://flpbd.it/NcEEF   #The Rules Of Social Media: … Continue reading #The Rules Of Social Media: Contests And Sweepstakes Are Fine, If You Want Short Relationships

How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder

  How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder With Clever Social Media     Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com   Pres­i­dent Barack Obama man­aged to steal an impres­sive amount of Gov. Mitt Rom­ney’s press cov­er­age with a few, cheap social media tricks, includ­ing the most retweet­ed post of the con­ven­tion. In com­par­i­son to the Repub­li­can Nation­al…   http://flpbd.it/x1nqQ … Continue reading How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder

Reddit: Obama visit generates most activity

Reddit: Obama visit generates most activity ever by Donna Tam, cnet.com The pres­i­dent breaks all the rules, breaks a Red­dit record, and draws at least 5.3 mil­lion views, news stats reveal. Pres­i­dent Barack Obama broke all the cam­paign­ing rules when he held an unmod­er­at­ed Q&A ses­sion on one of the… http://flpbd.it/NRaon Related articles How To … Continue reading Reddit: Obama visit generates most activity

Welcome to the new reputation economy

Welcome to the new reputation economy (Wired UK) By Rachel Botsman, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Sep­tem­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… http://flpbd.it/oQYQN Related articles TrustCloud: Harness Technology to … Continue reading Welcome to the new reputation economy

Status People Fake Follower Check

  Status People Fake Follower Check — Social Media Management Platform for Business   statuspeople.com     http://flpbd.it/9tryc   Related articles I Bought 10,000 Fake Twitter Followers. Why Didn't Klout, Kred (or Others) Notice? (ignitesocialmedia.com) Twitter followers available on the open market (cbc.ca) How Do Those Fake Tweeple Hurt (insideview.ie) Want that Twitter verification badge? … Continue reading Status People Fake Follower Check

The Underground Economy of Buying Twitter Followers: Dealers, Abusers & Fake Accounts

  http://flpbd.it/6C2q0 The Underground Economy of Buying Twitter Followers: Dealers, Abusers & Fake Accounts Related articles The 'Twitter Underground Economy': Buying (fake) Twitter followers (nextlevelofnews.com) 10 Career Experts You Need to Follow on Twitter | CareerBliss (careerbliss.com) We Tried To Fly A Drone But Failed Miserably (businessinsider.com) The Drones Are Here! (And You Can Buy … Continue reading The Underground Economy of Buying Twitter Followers: Dealers, Abusers & Fake Accounts

Report says 15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes

Report says 15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes Dan Goodin, arstechnica.com More than 15 per­cent of Mitt Rom­ney’s Twit­ter fol­low­ers may be gen­er­at­ed by paid ser­vices that use fake accounts to arti­fi­cial­ly inflate the num­ber of peo­ple sub­scribed to the pre­sump­tive Repub­li­can nom­i­nee for US Pres­i­dent,… http://flpbd.it/BNd2F Related articles Mitt in … Continue reading Report says 15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes

Ultraviolet photography – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ultraviolet photography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Related articles Butterfly Vision: Robert E. Silberglied's Photographic Explorations Most of my Leica photography gear for sale Water Drop Photography JunoPrints.com Canvas Prints review Water Drop Photography II

Evolutionary basis of maximum connections on Facebook (150)

    Robin Dunbar: We can only ever have 150 friends at most… | Technology | The Observer.   Related articles   Social Media Maximum: 150 Friends (forbes.com) This Man Knows Exactly How Many Friends You Should Have (businessweek.com) The Dunbar Number, From The Guru of Social Networks | Drake Bennett | Business Week | … Continue reading Evolutionary basis of maximum connections on Facebook (150)

IIR ePharma Summit

I've been a speaker a these conferences and they do a good job of covering new developments in life science and social media. IIR USA - Events Deliver Business. Related articles Viva the Healthcare (Social) Revolution! (gigipeterkin.com) Profiles of Drug Companies "Doing it Right": AstraZeneca (medmeme.com) #ePharma Annual Summit: leveraging innovative digital marketing strategies (pharmastrategyblog.com) … Continue reading IIR ePharma Summit

Cornell scientists use Twitter to capture global mood, chronobiology

Most adults I know dismissed Twitter, with only 140 characters at their disposal, as a waste of time just a year ago. But after the Iranian revolts, the Arab Spring and the London riots in which Twitter played a key part, it is not so easily dismissed anymore. But its seemingly brief and trivial nature is … Continue reading Cornell scientists use Twitter to capture global mood, chronobiology