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Crypterium converts bitcoin arcana and cryptocurrency confusion into practical magic

Biznology

since 2009 when I played miner. There’s enough of a barrier to entry–tech, cost, and expense–associated with converting government-backed fiat money into cryptocurrency that it’s like owning 400 troy ounce ( 27 pound! gold bars like they have in the movies. Sure, you’re rich as hell at $515,778.38-per-

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Some organizations merely want IT to play cop: guard against threats, lock down data, etc. Or, paradoxically, they claim to embrace social media while forbidding their employees from being on Facebook or Twitter. As you know better than I, we are in the early innings of social media. Change takes time. IT projects.

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Information Literacy in the Workplace - Special Libraries Association

Buzz Marketing for Technology

And while I dont like to dwell on labels (the debate over the word "library" comes to mind), the reality is that part of the success in selling the information literacy concept within a corporate environment is the branding. > June 2001. > > Information Literacy in the Workplace. Information Literacy in the Workplace.

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Social Media Lawsuits Protect Yourself From Them | Guest Posts.

Convince & Convert

Those who create content in an environment of “sharing&# often find their ideas, photos and sometimes entire paragraphs repurposed without their permission. All that stuff? It’s called intellectual property and in each case it belongs to somebody. We all know how much “lifting&# goes on in the Internet.

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How to Get More Done by Doing Less

Hubspot

If we’re lucky, we work in teams and environments where that perspective is at least softened by combining it with a measure of efficiency or impact, but even then we don’t fully escape the rat-race-like pursuit of more. Productivity is generally thought of in terms of, “How do I get more done?”. In fact, we usually answer “How are you?”

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Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google. Written by Bernard Lunn / May 21, 2008 11:15 AM. / 12 Comments. I just found a more useful way to search than Google. It only works for a defined use case, but, in a search market that is 85% going on 90% Google-dominated, this can still be significant. Business social network LinkedIn.

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6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace | facebook | Social.

Convince & Convert

MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. Coincidental timing too, as Yahoo ! gave up their search engine duties in U.S. and Canada to Microsoft’s Bing last week.