Social
Social media. No two words have ever joined forces to create as much confusion as these two have.
Every week, you get invites from co-workers, family members and old friends (who may or may not have actually been your friend back in the day) to join a new network. So how do you make sense of it all?
Easy. Start your reading here and then continue the conversation with us.
We'll help you figure out your objectives, then define and execute the strategies to make them happen. Plus, we'll measure our progress as we go.
So, for now, we invite you to read on. Oh, and uh, join in the conversation, of course.
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This is exactly how they sat the entire time.
You can download…
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When I was a kid, my parents bought a sailboat. My mom, dad and myself thought this was a very cool thing. Actually, I'm just assuming I thought it was cool because I do now and I was only three then. My sister, on the other hand, was 6 and she had A LOT of questions about our new family…
I went to SXSW and all I got was…
Looking back.
…some really awesome t-shirts actually.
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I suppose this post will be the human-interest portion of our blog for the week. You probably won't learn much that you don't already know (word spreads fast on the Internet) in this one, but you might just remember something that you forgot (human kind is in much better shape than we give ourselves credit for).
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