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Since being acquired by XING in December 2008, the socialmedian team has been busy working on a number of very important strategic product initiatives which will be launched over the course of this spring. In the coming months we'll be launching a series of new features both on socialmedian and on XING.We're rolling out th (Read More)
: @thelongcount @nigelwalsh Thanks for bringing this up. We've made some changes to the fb-connect behavior. You should not see this problem again. But do give us a shout if you see anything strange. @jasongoldberg @Scottwheaton @nishith
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My RSS Feed is a Thinker and blog is #1 for online personal brand thoughts. Dan Schawbel is Gen Y and geared to Gen Y personal brand, but you will benefit regardless of generation. He has Just Posted the Following on his blog:Today, I spoke with Lewis Howes, who just published his own book on LinkedIn called LinkedWorking (Read More)
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My RSS Feed is a Thinker and blog is #1 for online personal brand thoughts. Dan Schawbel is Gen Y and geared to Gen Y personal brand, but you will benefit regardless of generation. He has Just Posted the Following on his blog:Do you ever feel like you’re doing all the right things with networking, but you’re n (Read More)
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My RSS Feed has a consistent personal brand on, well, personal brand and career topics. Maria Elena Duron has Just Posted the Following on her blog:This is so hard because people come out and they go to networking events. I see them. They try. They think itÂ’s time to be social butterfly and so they think they have to have c (Read More)
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My RSS Feed is a Thinker and blog is #1 for online personal brand thoughts. Dan Schawbel is Gen Y and geared to Gen Y personal brand, but you will benefit regardless of generation. He has Just Posted the Following on his blog:Today, I spoke to Steve McKee, who is a marketing expert, BusinessWeek.com columnist and author o (Read More)
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I know my speech and writing arenÂ’t perfect. IÂ’m as guilty as anyone of grammatical flubs. Sometimes I purposefully twist words, just because it tickles me. Even so, I cringe at misuse of the language.
I can’t take it when people pronounce the “t” in “often”. My skin crawls when they say:
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My RSS Feed is the best resource for all things social media. Chris Brogan has Just Posted the Following on his blog: The first secret trick about personal branding is that first, you have to be known for something. One thing. First. If Gary Vaynerchuk tried starting Wine Library TV and Obsessed TV at the same time, I know (Read More)
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My RSS Feed has a consistent personal brand on, well, personal brand and career topics. Maria Elena Duron has Just Posted the Following on her blog:2. Someone who is active in the community Number two in the 18 people you need to know, is someone who is active in the community and when I say in the community, it could be yo (Read More)
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My RSS Feed, Tom Peters!, is a Thinker and Has Just Posted the Following on his blog:Why did campaigns like the American Express "My Life. My Card." and the Kleenex "Let It Out" efforts so resonate with consumers? It may be the same reason that the recently launched Rockport "Choose to Walk" campaign (as critiqued by Stuart (Read More)
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Positive personal impact is one of the keys to success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success. If you want to create positive personal impact, you need to do three things. 1) Create and nurture your unique personal brand. 2) Be impeccable in your presentation of self – in person and on line. 3) Know and follow the (Read More)
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My RSS Feed is a Thinker and blog is #1 for online personal brand thoughts. Dan Schawbel is Gen Y and geared to Gen Y personal brand, but you will benefit regardless of generation. He has Just Posted the Following on his blog:Now that you know how to brand yourself online, complete your personal branding strategy with ano (Read More)
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My RSS Feed is a Thinker and blog is #1 for online personal brand thoughts. Dan Schawbel is Gen Y and geared to Gen Y personal brand, but you will benefit regardless of generation. He has Just Posted the Following on his blog:Today, I spoke with Charlene Li, who is the bestselling co-author of Groundswell, an ex-Forrester (Read More)
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IBM's research scientists in India have developed a technology that will offer users the ability to talk to the Web and create 'voice' sites using mobile phones according to a news article in the Economic Times today.Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP), a protocol designed to seamlessly connect telephony voice applications (Read More)
: IBM has always been on the forefront of voice-enabled applications. IBM took the early lead with their ViaVoice products. They also offer some of the most natural text to speech products currently available. Recently they have been eclipsed by Nuance's Naturally Speaking line of products. I knew they had more planned in the area of voice-controlled apps, but they have been silent about it until now.
My mother is blind from Glaucoma, and I'm always looking for new ways that might help here navigate and communicate in this increasingly digital world. This might be a solution for her. Most voice options have had too many errors to make them viable solutions for her. Kurzweil has a very nice screen reader, but it is still difficult for her to use and extremely expensive. She currently uses her cell phone, which is voice enabled, for making calls when she is out of the house. Verizon also has been kind enough to give her unlimited 411 connect calls at no additional charge. This helps her, but only to a certain degree. It doesn't allow her to access the web, which is what she wants’ to be able to do.
I remain optimistic that someone will come up with the perfect product for her even if this one is not the right one. Besides, I love all of this too!
: Sometimes (or all the time like Fox News ;), but generally no. Once time has passed, people-produced news sites (digg, socialmedian, friendfeed, etc) will become trustworthy (or readers will recognize the good sources) and replace existing mass media sources.