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Submitted by Simonvreeman from Google Reader: Kevin Kelly is één van de grote namen op TEDxAMS. Zijn verhaal over de toekomst van internet bleef op de plank. Er kwam een veel diepgravender verhaal over technologie of misschien wel Technologie. Over de drijvende kracht van technologie zelf, bijna als een perpetuum mobile. Waar technologie heen gaat en wat het ons opleve (Read More)

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Submitted by Simonvreeman from Google Reader: via xkcd. (Read More)

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TheDieline.com: The Leading Package Design Website  This month marks the 94th anniversary of the iconic Coca-Cola coutour bottle. Now, a treasured hallmark, this single shape of packaging has achieved iconic status since its creation in 1915. The Coca-Cola logo itself is the single most recognizable brand in the world.The first bottle was designed in 1915 by the Root Glass (Read More)

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PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement Our lives are full of things we “should” do but for a range of reasons we don’t do them. Whatever it is – exercise, healthy eating, saving money – most of the time we choose to take the easier road, the road well traveled.While I’m certainly not immune to this, there are plenty of things I don’t do that I know I should, I f (Read More)

2 days ago

Submitted by Simonvreeman from Google Reader: Carter and Paul over at Crooked Gremlins posted this chart, claiming they are both on opposite sides of the spectrum.  I’m ashamed to say where I am on it.  Where are you?Btw the creator of this chart is a comic artist / illustrator / assumedly graphic designer and I spent too long looking through the archive.  It’s now in (Read More)

3 days ago

HarvardBusiness.org This week's question for Ask the Coach:I am having a difficult time leading my team. The team members will not follow my instructions, which I am sure would make our project much more successful. What am I doing wrong?What you're doing wrong is very simple: you have simply forgotten that your team is more critical to the su (Read More)

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Submitted by Simonvreeman from Google Reader: On a recent trip to New York, I visited David Liu, the co-founder and CEO of The Knot, Inc. He's one of the few entrepreneurs to have not just ridden the boom of the late 90s but also to have survived the bust of the early 2000s, and he's still going strong today. Almost from the get go, the Knot has been a category favorit (Read More)

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Submitted by Simonvreeman from Google Reader: Given my intense focus on sales and marketing in recent blog posts, I thought it was time to hear directly from the field. I interviewed Adam Honig, CEO of Innoveer Solutions, a marketing consulting and CRM implementation company. My intent was to get insight on what companies are doing to optimize sales and marketing. Some (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

HarvardBusiness.org Think about your organization and ask yourself these two questions: Are external social media sites restricted or blocked while at work? Is the use of social media in the workplace inhibited or frowned upon?If you answered yes, then your organization is one of the majority of firms with over 100 employees that have yet to e (Read More)

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Submitted by Pink Lisa from Google Reader: We humans are drawn to the shore, with some 40% of the world's population living within 100 kilometers of a coast. Coastal areas have made recent news with the arrival of several storms, concerns about rising sea levels and other environmental and conservation efforts. Collected here are a handful of photographs from around (Read More)

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eCommerce Forums - eBiz Insider Magazine The FeedBurner team has just announced an integration with Google Analytics. We know what many of you are saying. "About time!" We'll take it.If you are using both Google Analytics and FeedBurner, you will automatically see campaign attribution for item clicks tracked by your AdSense For Feeds or your Google FeedBurner acco (Read More)

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Yoast So one of the things I've always wanted to do is use an Analytics tools API to enrich the data about a visit. Clicky is one of the few tools out there that have a well detailed API that allows you to push in extra data during the visit. The extra data bit I really wanted to add is an action that I consider one of the most v (Read More)

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Career Advice Blogs aggregator Anyone who spends any time or resources online has heard the saying “content is king”.  That, though, is so Web 1.0.To succeed in being visible and memorable in the Web 2.0 world, conversation is king. And, it’s about engaging conversation not just one sided “walking commercials”.  The key to anyone’s success is communicati (Read More)

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Submitted by Simonvreeman from Google Reader: Developers use it all the time: easter eggs. Facebook has one too, just try it for yourself:Press up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Enter key, then right click and finally press up, down. Sounds a bit complicated but it actually works, I have tried it for myself… Some magic circles will appear while scroll (Read More)

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