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Are Social Media Privacy Issues Less of a Problem for Teens?
Anyone worried by privacy issues on social networking sites should ask themselves the question: is the next generation even going to be bothered by online security? Some 21% said that they hoped to cause disruption (as Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg allegedly did at Harvard ). A survey in the U.K.
Fast Company - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Keep Small Bites from Killing Big Innovations
In making his argument, Fallows cites the work of Mancur Olson , a late 20th century economist and social scientist — he died in 1998 — who did pioneering studies on how different groups compete for shares of what is, or ought to be, the public good. Walter Kiechel III is the former Editorial Director of Harvard Business Publishing, former Managing Editor at Fortune magazine, and author of The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World . How is Microsoft like our current government in Washington? You were going to guess that
HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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Warning: Your reality is out of date
This article was sent in by Samuel Arbesman Research Fellow in Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.  The arc of our educational system is to be treated as little generalists when children, absorbing bits of knowledge about everything from biology to social studies to geology. Samuel Arbesman is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. This artist rendering provided by the European South Observatory shows some of the 32 new planets astronomers found outside our solar system. It was originally printed in the
The Long Now Blog - Monday, March 15, 2010
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  • Three Instantly Effective Social Media Strategies
    If you've got an experienced social media team, a solid budget and an appetite for innovation, you can create an original online presence that engages your customers or supporters in an entirely new kind of online experience. That doesn't limit your social media options to a generic corporate news blog or a standard-issue Facebook page. But many organizations lack the time, budget or experience to start from scratch. Here are three great options for robust social media presences that let you manage cost and risk by building on existing tools and established best practices.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, July 27, 2009
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  • Hire Smarter with Social Media
    Social media can help you focus your recruitment efforts to get great results in any economic climate. Here's how you can use social media tools to make the most of your next hire: Reaching To make efficient use of your time and attention, reach out through the social networks you and your employees already use, and through the online channels that reach your key audiences. A recession might seem like good news for employers looking to hire: with unemployment rates up, you've got more people to choose from and the opportunity to hire at a lower price. While the current
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, July 13, 2009
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  • Foursquare Follows The Facebook Model, Takes Its Game To Harvard
    The latest deal between Harvard and Foursquare, falls into the latter category. Harvard is the first university to use Foursquare to help its students explore the campus, the school notes today in its paper. Foursquare has set up a special Harvard page on the site that includes a special logo, and a series of tips. As part of its goal to expand beyond a simple location-based gaming service among friends, Foursquare has been cutting partnerships left and right. Some of these are for good causes, some are for potential business relationships, and some are just interesting.
    TechCrunch - Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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  • Don't Keep Up With Social Technology
    "It seems like there is always another social network to join or another tool I'm supposed to learn. Look for a social network that's widely used in the region, so you can develop new relationships. Compile a shared inspiration file using social bookmarks or a wiki. How can I keep up?" At every talk I give, somebody asks this question.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, August 3, 2009
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  • New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets
    We then compared our findings to activity on other social networks and online content production venues. By comparison, only 60 to 65% of other online social networks' members had at least one friend (when these networks were at a similar level of development). These results are stunning given what previous research has found in the context of online social networks. Twitter has attracted tremendous attention from the media and celebrities, but there is much uncertainty about Twitter's purpose. Is Twitter a communications service for friends and groups, a means of expressing
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, June 1, 2009
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  • Is Social Media Worth Your Time?
    In the latest issue of Business Week , Stephen Baker's article "Beware Social Media Snake Oil" makes a provocative argument. He claims that all the hype around social networks, wikis, and blogs for business neglects the potential risks and time wasted. While I think he is overstating the argument, he is bringing up a vital question all managers and employees need to ask: What's the business value of using social media? In my view, there has to be a crystal clear business impact for using these tools. Consider collaboration inside companies (which differs from using
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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  • Will Social Media Consultants Practice What They Preach?
    In the past eighteen months, most companies have come to accept social media as an inescapable part of their marketing and communications. Social media's just another way to message, advertise and market. As I'm a social media consultant, I'm more than a little saddened that the greatest conversational medium of our lifetime is becoming a one-way messaging tool for selling energy drinks and sleeping pills. And most stop right there. Only a few brands have embraced it as a conversational tool with the power to transform their businesses.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, October 15, 2009
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  • Will the Real MySpace Users Please Speak Up?
    Both traditional and social media have declared MySpace dead. One possibility is that those who opine on the state of social media don't use MySpace and neither do their friends. We see that most locations where national news and traditional and social media are produced get fewer than expected log-ins, while places like Louisville, Tampa and Dayton clock up twice as many log-ins as expected. Even a brief scan of articles reveals that media mavens "don't know anybody who uses MySpace anymore," which reportedly is not a huge loss as the site "is ridden by spammers" and "its atrocious HTML, bLiNgY graphics, and horrific backgrounds" are offensive.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, August 27, 2009
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  • Did Mark Zuckerberg's Inspiration for Facebook Come Before Harvard?
    Interestingly, the stories we hear these days about Zuckerberg in popular media tend to follow a common sensationalist pattern: "super-smart kid invents a tech phenomenon from his Harvard dorm room, drops out, and changes the world." What's most intriguing about the Zuckerberg story we all know, however, isn't that he dropped out of Harvard and became a billionaire at 23. By now, we are all familiar with Mark Zuckerberg's success story. The explosive international growth of Facebook to over 200 million users continues to land the young founder and CEO in top news stories worldwide.
    ReadWriteWeb - Sunday, May 10, 2009
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  • 10 Tips for Getting Your CEO on Twitter
    Lay the groundwork that makes Twitter easy and fun, and your CEO will be able to explore and enhance the value of Twitter to your business. Alexandra Samuel is CEO of Social Signal , a social media agency. compelling online communities and social web presences. from Harvard University. A tweeting CEO is a terrific asset. It puts a human face (and voice) to the company's leadership and it demonstrates the executive team's commitment to customers.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, November 23, 2009
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