The brilliance behind the Polaroid camera was instant gratification. No wonder Instagram has adopted the nostalgic camera tech as it's logo. Instagram has indeed captured the childlike wonder of many iPhone users (yes we know, they NEED an adroid app). How many? Well, even though the 6 person company is less than a year old [...]

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This guest post is by Tommy Walker, Online Marketing Strategist and owner of Tommy.ismy.name. Why are you reading this article? Don't get me wrong, I appreciate it, but isn't there something else you could be doing? What are you putting off? I'm going to be straight with you. You are your own worst enemy. And [...]

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Do you put off doing things on your blog that you know you really should invest time into? I do. Yesterday I was out walking and found myself thinking about my "I'll do it one day" list. It struck me that there were a lot of things on that list, and that while some of [...]

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Last week, Twitter's Claire Diaz-Ortiz, the company's leader for social innovation, released her book all about how people can use Twitter to be good global citizens. But the book, Twitter for Good, is only one part of Twitter's focus on social change: Hope140, Twitter's web site for supporting causes, serves as a launch pad for the various ways social media can make a positive difference. Here are the top 5 things Hope140 is doing right at this juncture.

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In one month, Facebook leaped over Microsoft, Yahoo, and Viacom to become the 3rd largest video site in the US according to comscore. This is all good news for the social network, but there are caveats. Unlike other sites, Facebook does not make money directly from the videos. The lucrative video ad industry is one [...]

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Nicole Mastrangelo, Neil Glassman, Cary ChessickUnder ordinary circumstances, I’m not a facile writer. I’ve gotten quite used to staring at a few disjoint sentences on my screen waiting for inspiration.My difficulty writing this post was compounded by two factors that guaranteed I’d have writer’s block. Bad writer’s block. The first is a sense of obligation. Not that having to do something is inherently bad, but it has a way of freezing my fingers. The second is writing about writers. Though I’v [...]

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In the digital age, professional connections are no longer made with a handshake, they begin with a search engine. First impressions are now shaped by the digital footprint you leave online, long before you meet someone in person.In fact, there’s a good chance the last comment, photo or post you left online will have been picked up by a search engine and archived somewhere within the depths of the Internet. When you consider search engines are the first place people go to search for information [...]

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