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Bob Pickard
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If they are to grow significantly, mobile social networks will have to work overtime to convince potential users that sensitive information about their movements is being kept safe from, say, burglars.
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Consistently demonstrating relevance over time and continually striving to earn resonance will contribute to the level of significance of any businesses in the long run. In the social economy,
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Now 80 million households earn at least the equivalent of $5,000 annually, the point where discretionary spending commences—an increase of 80 percent in eight years. Meanwhile, the continent’s GDP has been rising steadily, at around 5 percent a year, for the past decade, reaching $1.6 trillion in 2008. Last year, Africa was one of just two regions (the other was Asia) where GDP rose. Is all this good news sustainable?
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August 24, 2010
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the paradoxical nature of President Sarkozy's media management style which is at once controlling and dynastic (for example the President's decision to nominate the directors of public broadcasting himself and the leaning on media owner friends to remove unflattering stories from their papers) and at the same time which is also apparently liberal (in that in opening up his private life to media scrutiny, Sarkozy has offered the French press a far greater transparency than it has ever previously enjoyed).
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The debate in the years ahead will not be about how to continue with our baby boomer liberalism, but over how and where we need restraint around some shared principles and rules.
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“Nobody watches commercials anymore, and it’s cost-prohibitive to buy ads online, so we approached Ace with the idea that if we created branded-entertainment pieces, then the content itself would be a marketing vehicle for the hotel.”
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Bosses matter. They matter because more than 95 percent of all people in the workforce have bosses, are bosses, or both. They matter because they set the tone for their followers and organizations. And they matter because many studies show that for more than 75 percent of employees, dealing with their immediate boss is the most stressful part of the job.
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Just as Ma Bell divided itself up into dozens of baby bells back in the 1980s - and arguably to the benefit of consumers and the telecommunications industry - many media companies will need to do the same to cope with the new digital dynamic.
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Always use the word ‘war-torn’ in your title. Subtitles may include the words ‘tribal,’ ‘Taliban,’ ‘corrupt,’ and ‘Sharia.’ Also useful are words such as ‘shuras,’ ‘fighters,’ ‘refugees’ and ‘insurgency.’ Do not distinguish between different ethnic groups with different languages, religions and histories, or regions with different landscapes and livelihoods. If people in Kandahar tell you something, assume people in Kabul feel the same way, and vice versa. Whenever possible, mention Pashtunwali. (Note: you do not need to understand what Pashtunwali is. You get points for mentioning it anyway
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August 23, 2010
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"What Edelman brought back was extremely strategic, it told a story and took into consideration all of the different spaces -- earned, owned, paid and social. It hit on everything. I felt like they got our voice and maybe because their roots are in PR it was never just about buying banner ads with Edelman."
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THE “ground zero mosque,” as you may well know by now, is not at ground zero. It’s not a mosque but an Islamic cultural center containing a prayer room. It’s not going to determine President Obama’s political future or the elections of 2010 or 2012. Still, the battle that has broken out over this project in Lower Manhattan — on the “hallowed ground” of a shuttered Burlington Coat Factory store one block from the New York Dolls Gentlemen’s Club — will prove eventful all the same.
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August 22, 2010
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An unprecedented analysis reveals that the micro-blogging service is remarkably effective at spreading "important" information.
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what is missing today in so many places: leaders who surprise us by rising above their histories, their constituencies, their pollsters, their circumstances — and just do the right things for their countries.
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Always use the word 'Africa' or 'Darkness' or 'Safari' in your title. Subtitles may include the words 'Zanzibar', 'Masai', 'Zulu', 'Zambezi', 'Congo', 'Nile', 'Big', 'Sky', 'Shadow', 'Drum', 'Sun' or 'Bygone'. Also useful are words such as 'Guerrillas', 'Timeless', 'Primordial' and 'Tribal'. Note that 'People' means Africans who are not black, while 'The People' means black Africans.
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August 21, 2010
August 19, 2010
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e has me sit at his old console to go through the final steps required to wipe out several million Americans: Open a little door on the instrument panel. Press the gray button inside. Nearby, a launch officer at another console presses a similar gray button. Then each launch officer opens another door on his console, revealing a small metal fitting into which each inserts a key. At the same moment, each twists his key while holding down a button. Ignition.
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August 18, 2010
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Anderson and Wolff elaborate that though the Internet and the World Wide Web are often used interchangeably, they are two different things. To cite an example, users accessing Twitter, instant messages, iTunes, etc., via apps on their mobile handsets are surely on the Internet, but they are no longer accessing the World Wide Web.
While a decade back, the Web browser was inevitably the pivot of the computing world; the last few years– especially after the smartphone flurry - have seen a notable shift in the digital world. The focus has moved from the wide-open Web to semi-closed platforms which make use of the Internet for transport, but without the browser for display.
who has superior innovation and more entrepreneurial savvy and is grappling with and expanding in the most intensely competitive conditions. And, at the end, it might come down to just one deciding factor: can India fix its governance before China repairs its politics?
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August 16, 2010
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Trebor Scholz slideshare presentation
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slideshare presentation
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