Then there is a whole group of people who feel that social media is something more fundamental than simply a marketing tool. Some people believe that social media is not a channel to sell things but it is something that should be used purely to engage with your customers. An extension of ethics – something so core to your business that you should be just “doing it” and not thinking about what you get back from it. I’m of the mind that it’s a pretty diverse platform; you can use it to sell just as well as you can use it to listen.
—Social Media ROI
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Polizei
Something I already knew but that was much reinforced throughout the last two and a half months, especially in Germany; European police are frickin’ scary! Forget the short women we have here and the somewhat relaxed demeanor and uniforms. Over here it’s army like dress and kit, guys usually my size (6’2”) and up with broad shoulders and serious/menacing faces and who come out in numbers pouring out of vans at any sign of the slightest trouble. Don’t fuck with the pOlice.
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Les Québécois francophones se comportent de plus en plus comme une majorité solide plutôt que comme la minorité fragile du passé. Pour eux, l’anglais n’est pas la langue du colonisateur ou de la «grosse madame de chez Eaton», mais la langue d’une minorité qui a beaucoup contribué à l’édification du Québec.
—Le nationalisme d’ouverture
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The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through twitter.
—#iranelection cyberwar guide for beginners
Behavioural Innovation
Umair Haque is probably the closest thing to a maître à penser I have right now. His examples in this presentation are, like the ones Malcolm Gladwell uses, sometimes too simplified or tweaked to better fit his theories but they don’t invalidate what he is saying. Some fascinating stuff about innovation and the 21st century economy.
