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POPSThe Social Media Quadrant: Where Do You Fit?
Check out this great post by Liz Strauss at Successful-Blog.com. The quadrant that Liz lays out is not unfamiliar to anyone who has attended business school or perhaps a leadership or team-building training. What's so cool is that Liz grafts this model onto the social networking/ social media scene. In doing so, she raises a number of questions that we may not have thought to ask. And depending on the goals we have, our answers here may predict our success or failure in our future endeavors. One of the better ways to use Liz's chart is to identify where our customers lie within the quadrant. What values in the quadrant match the values of your current audience. How about your target audience? What do you have to do different in order to cater to each different quadrant? Or do you want to cater to all quadrants? It may not be worth the time, energy, expense, etc. Perhaps by releasing some of the resources devoted to these customers, you can re-focus them on a more producti
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POPSAboriginal tattoos reflect art, culture The study and comparison between different art forms, has helped find clues as to the social nature of particular tribes, such as whether they were hunter-gatherers or horticulturalists, and degrees to which tribes interacted, and traded.
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POPSThe End of Aging - Still a Controvertial Vision Leon Kass and his friends are contemporary incarnations of an Orwellian nightmare. Besides "War is Peace", I hear also "Death is Life". Of course there are no known social good coming from the conquest of death, we never lived in a social system that conquered death. How could we possibly know? But Kass and his friends, seem to have some privileged knowledge we do not possess, and they already decided for us as individuals and as a society. Well, in time, I believe, they will have the choice to walk their talk. All I want is a chance to walk mine.
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POPSThe Key To Happiness "At this stage, what does a society have to look like in order to create more free choice and more happiness? The study indicates that you need democratization and, most important of all, social tolerance." The study suggests that religious faith and social tolerance are a winning combination. Which leaves me wondering: Perhaps people in the U.S. would all be happier if more ministers, rabbis, imams and priests conducted more gay marriages."