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Social CRM via 8 business use-cases.
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And text to binary. Awesome

Excellent! Tous les jours et heures d'ouverture des commerces, restos, services, etc. en Suisse romande!

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With a 78%/22% male-to-female ratio, the question that comes to mind is why are so many owners male? There is a wide range of Android-powered smartphones for people to choose from, including everything from sleek-and-shiny HTC devices to keyboard-ready Droids from Motorola and Verizon. In other words, there's an Android handset out there for everyone.

via François Georgy

According to the FCC, about 93 million Americans don't use fast, broadband Internet, citing cost and complexity as a factor in their refusal to enter the 20th century. The study, below, found that 80 million adults and 13 million children either still use dial-up or don't use the Internet at all at home, suggesting that either the survey methodology might be flawed or we're in serious trouble

Approche pour les marques sur les médias sociaux :
- Surveiller la présence d’une marque sur les médias sociaux et celles des concurrents.
- Faire participer les managers aux stratégies sociales.
- Développer une stratégie dédiée aux médias sociaux.
- Développer une structure en interne.
- Contribuer à la communauté, participer et inciter à participer.
- Etre présent pour les bons et les mauvais moments.
- Répondre en temps réel.
- Mesurer l’impact de l’engagement sur les médias sociaux.
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Flavors.me, social media aggregator

really good ones!

-Choose a meeting space with a timer
-Don’t wait for late or missing attendees
-Tell the other attendees that you have to log off at a certain time.Make an agenda and enforce it
-Chop the guest list
Common sense but worth keeping in mind every now and again…

Imagine…
-If we stopped automating social media
-If we only shared things we actually liked
-If we looked at social media like a tool
-If we learned how to disagree
-If we paid more attention to the local tie-in

At first there were brands, next came search, algorithms, human links… And then algorithmic authority and predictive creation? Not sure I fully understand and even less agree with the 2 latest points, but very interesting analysis anyway.

Despite the increasing integration of Online Social Networks (OSNs) activity into everyday life, however, there has been no research on the most fundamental question about OSN profiles: Do they convey accurate impressions of profile owners?
A widely held assumption, supported by content analyses, suggests that OSN profiles are used to create and communicate idealized selves (Manago, Graham, Greenfield, & Salimkhan, 2008). According to this idealized virtual-identity hypothesis, profile owners display idealized characteristics that do not reflect their actual personalities. Thus, personality impressions based on OSN profiles should reflect profile owners’ ideal-self views rather than what the owners are actually like.
A contrasting view holds that OSNs may constitute an extended social context in which to express one’s actual personality characteristics, thus fostering accurate interpersonal perceptions.
Which is true? A brilliant study by the University of Mainz.
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Useless but real fun! Music generated using the source code of any given web page. Via korben.info

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Cloud backup system for iPhone contacts. Via Alain Helg