What is a #blogchat? The idea of group learning has fascinated me since high school when I realized how much faster and better I could prepare for a test if I studied with friends. Maybe that’s why when I happened upon the first Plurkshop last spring, I was hooked. And then when I heard Mack […]
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“I think women put more emphasis, focus and time into their social media browsing than men. Men seem to be very ADHD with social media, jumping from news story to story, whereas I’ve noticed women take slow time and incorporate what they read more into their daily life and lifestyle planning.” Loren Baker, Search Engine
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We are all used to “Sound Bites” – a short few seconds of words which are normally taken out of context to create sensational headlines. Few people realise that speech writers have for years worked on developing speeches to include a couple perfect “sound bites” for use by others. Of course while some social media
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Many of you have heard of the 3 P’s of marketing: pills, porn, and poker. They are the bane of most people’s online existence, as we are constantly bombarded with seeing these kinds of “offers” being sent to our spam filter. Enter Twitter. As you know me by now, I like to look at the
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You may have noticed a few small social changes that we’ve instituted for 2009: Twitter. We’ve been quiet on this front for far too long. While it won’t be all of us running the account, expect some solid updates from @nowsourcing and @thegypsy. Why follow? Well, we have some interesting things to say and will
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Image by gem fountain It seems that now-a-days we can do most things online… clothes shopping, looking for Colleges, buying Holiday gifts, doing our banking… pretty much anything. But there is something else we can do online….. something much more personal and sacred. We can even work on mending our inside pain and turmoil. Before
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Hey hey and a ho ho ho to all (or any other festive feeling that may apply:0)… just a quick post to highlight the winners of the Mashable Web Awards from today. There are likely a few new sites for you to check out as I’ve found a few nuggets already. Of interest YouTube came
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We decided to skip the perfunctory “Happy 1st Birthday, Collective Thoughts” year in review and turn it on its edge. We were all talking and wondered the last time you saw a birthday post that you’d refer to later on. Birthday post are formulaic and predictable. You can usually expect: contests and giveaways highlights of
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First let me apologize for muttering the R-word but it goes without saying, it’s currently an influencing social and economic trend. The recession indicators I’m going to talk about aren’t your typical indicators as seen through the eyes of economists like the stock price of Starbucks or lipstick sales. What I’m going to point out
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Collective Thoughts has partnered up again with Mashable for the 2008 Open Web Awards! Nominate your favorites at the bottom of the page with their cool new widget! Nominations for the 2008 Open Web Awards begin Wednesday, November 5th, 9 am PST till Sunday, November 16th 11:59 pm PST. (THIS MEANS VOTE NOW!!!) Open Web
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