Stop back frequently so you can get smarter.
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The Internet can make you smarter, experts say
Though it may not always feel like it, the Internet is actually making us smarter, at least according to a new survey of scientists, business leaders, and technology developers.
So, your business or organization has a Facebook Page, a Twitter account, a LinkedIn Group and/or a blog.
Now what?
Once you establish a presence in social media for your business or organization, you have to establish and grow an online community to achieve marketing value and other objectives you may set.
Sometimes pride gets in the way of being able to partake fully in things we as human beings want to do. What my parents told me was, "Don't cut off your nose to spite your face." I am such a holder of grudges that it is difficult for me to forgive and forget, especially if the offender has not apologized or even acknowledged that they were being offensive.
Interested in learning how to actually use social media tools for business?
Want to meet & mingle with other business and communications folks in town?
Then, mark your calendar and register for Social Media Breakfast-Toledo on Friday, Oct. 2, 7:30-9:30 a.m.
Topic:
Business Power Tools
A smart executive's guide to using Google, YouTube, Linkedin, Facebook & Twitter to drive business results:
* Do you know where searchers turn when google lets them down?
* Do you know the difference between search marketing and find marketing?
Event Description:
The Oct. 2 Social Media Breakfast-Toledo will feature Charlie Wollborg of Curve Detroit. His focus is:
Business Power Tools: A smart executive's guide to using Google, YouTube, Linkedin, Facebook & Twitter to drive business results
> Do you know where searchers turn when Google lets them down?
> Do you know the difference between search marketing and find marketing?
> Do you know how to turn strangers into prospects and customers into evangelists?
and you thought he only did video music awards. HUH... think again.
Just ran across this article, does this alarm anyone else?
The seven dirty words are seven English-language words that comedian George Carlin first listed in 1972 in his monologue "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television". Below is a list of the words and alternate to help avoid the profanity filter!
The words are: Alternates:
For those SB members unaware of the change, our esteemed webmaster has just recently instituted a language policy that restricts words he evidently finds offensive regarding posts and comments. The thread where it was discovered:
http://swampbubbles.com/20090616/carty-youtube#comment-43259
Let opinions and comments be addressed here:
Could this happen here? Mr. Lee's government also is set to clamp down on anonymous online posts by requiring users of popular Web sites to register under their real names. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123982362967022071.html
Okay, I generally detest American Idol/Dancing With the Stars-type stuff, but someone forwarded this to me and thought I'd share. It's pretty damn cool. Turn your speakers up and maybe grab a tissue.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The fast-moving Conficker computer worm, a scourge of the Internet that has infected at least 3 million PCs, is set to spring to life in a new way on Wednesday - April Fools' Day.
That's when many of the poisoned machines will get more aggressive about "phoning home" to the worm's creators over the Internet. When that happens, the bad guys behind the worm will be able to trigger the program to send spam, spread more infections, clog networks with traffic, or try and bring down web sites.
A story surfaced about authorities finding $3 million in cash on a bus bound for Mexico recently. How did they find such a large sum of money hiding on the bus? With a cash-sniffing dog. Wait, dogs can sniff out cash? Specially trained ones can.
If you're peddling bootlegs, beware. Dogs can sniff out black market DVDs.
Since carrying giant sums of cash is often a good indication that chicanery is afoot, law enforcement agencies throughout the world use dogs to help catch couriers for drug, arms, and counterfeiting rings.
NEW YORK - AT&T Inc., the nation's largest Internet service provider, will start sending warnings to its subscribers when music labels and movie studios allege that they are trafficking in pirated material, according to an executive.
The phone company thus joins other major ISPs that either go beyond legal requirements or interpret their duties under the law to mean that they have to forward such notices.
The number of people in Britain with surnames like Cockshott, Balls, Death and Shufflebottom -- likely the source of schoolroom laughter -- has declined by up to 75 percent in the last century.
A study found the number of people with the name Cock shrank to 785 last year from 3,211 in 1881, those called Balls fell to 1,299 from 2,904 and the number of Deaths were reduced to 605 from 1,133.
If you did not already see, the Toledo Blade had a front page story about the bloggers in the area. Yours truly was also in it. I had one quote and it provided a description of what I do and a link to a couple of my sites. Newspapers are limited to a certain amount of space and seeing the print version, that space was rather large. The online version you can't get the same feel for what was put in the print version. The print version of the article also included a photo of me live blogging the TPS meeting last month.
I think this person posts here :) Nate Chan, you should have told us.
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It was only when a would-be guest phoned the next day to accept, that she found out what she had done.
The 44-year-old woman, whose case is reported by researchers from the University of Toledo in the latest edition of medical journal Sleep Medicine, had gone to bed at around 10pm, but got up two hours later and walked to the next room.
I always like to read der Spiegel online because it gives a different perspective from the news over here. Well, in 2002 the magazine ran a cover of GWB and associates that showed them in a Rambo-like setting. Now that the sun is setting on this administration, they've done another cover. It's worth seeing.
