Tag: social media
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Peter Enns “6 Helpful Hints for Blog Commenters So You Can Avoid Looking Criminally Insane”
Peter Enns: 6 Helpful Hints for Blog Commenters So You Can Avoid Looking Criminally Insane Enns writes: I’ve been blogging for a couple of years now, and most of the comments I get are engaging–whether pro or con–and it’s been great fun and I’ve learned much from many of you. But over the past year,…
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Is Facebook Killing Holiday Photo Cards?
Time: Why I’ve Stopped Sending Holiday Photo Cards "… I didn’t know it then but my world, my social world, was changing. Today, my 1,500 Facebook friends — 1,300 of whom I have never actually met—have already seen the best of the year’s haul of pictures of my kids. They also know where I’ve gone…
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Saturday Links
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in Business, Christian Life, Demography, Economic Development, Economic News, Economics, Education, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, History, Links – Saturday, Politics, Social Media, Sociology, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction))Like the Kruse Kronicle on Facebook if you want links to daily posts to appear in your Facebook feed. Here are this week’s Saturday links. 1. To celebrate the Christmas season, Deck the Halls with Macro Follies 2. The Explosion of 15th Century Printing: A Data Visualization “… Drawing on data from the [Harvard] university’s…
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How Facebook and Twitter Are Making Developing World Cities Better
Atlantic Cities: How Facebook and Twitter Are Making Developing World Cities Better … In Latin America, Mexico City is not unique. Use of social media is growing at a breathtaking pace across the region. When Facebook passed the 1 billion user mark in October, few people noticed that 19 percent of those users live in…
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Saturday Links
Here are the links for this week. 1. Ever thought about starting your own blog? Michael Hyatt has some advice: My Advice to Beginning Bloggers 2. Is gender inclusive language taking hold? Good News, You Guys Everyone! English Is Becoming More Inclusive 3. How New Yorkers Adjusted to Sudden Smartphone Withdrawal 4. Paying for What…
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The Definitive-ish Guide for Using Social Media in the Church – Book Review
How can my Church effectively use social media? Which social media services should my Church use? Aren’t we opening our congregation to abuse if we venture into social media? I’ve been blogging for seven years, and because of that, I frequently get questions like these from pastors and congregation leaders. I can offer some help,…
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Saturday Links
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in Christian Life, Crime, Gender and Sex, History, Links – Saturday, Politics, Poverty, Public Policy, Science, Social Media, Sports and Entertainment, Technology, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Weatlh and Income DistributionI spend considerable time scanning headlines each week as I look for stories to blog about at the Kruse Kronicle. I clip them into an Evernote Notebook and usually twice a day, I select one or two to link and discuss. Several interesting stories never make it onto the blog. So this week, I’m beginning…
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Death to Email!
Fast Company: Email Is The New Pony Express–And It's Time To Put It Down Email, like paper letters delivered by horseback, has become an unproductivity tool and may just be the biggest time killer in the modern workplace. Here's where companies are headed next. … So what's the solution? Our idea: Turn email into a…
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Politics, Social Media, and Christian Witness
USA Today: Political spats on Facebook spill into real life Unfriending, blocking and ignoring: Political spats on Facebook affect real-life relationships with family, friends, colleagues and neighbors as the 2012 Election Day battle between Obama and Romney draws near. 12:25PM EDT October 13. 2012 – Jason Perlow thought it was just a spirited debate. A…