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Monday Morning Links: #SoSlam wrap-up, LinkedIn, Google+, social media and adoption

As I wrote on Saturday, this year’s Social Slam was a blast. From the affordability to the quality teaching to the food, the Social Media Club of Knoxville did a fantastic job putting on the one-day conference. But as with every conference, not everything went off without a hitch. During Tom Webster’s (@webby2001) keynote address, [...]

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Monday Morning Links: Google, Obama and the world’s top web brands

It no longer takes a world of effort to connect with people around world. According to Social Media Today’s Brian Solis, the global degrees of separation is shrinking, thanks in large part to the expanding Internet. “Social networking is the new normal,” Solis writes. “No matter where you are in the world, there are social [...]

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Monday Morning Links: Groupon, job cuts, unemployment, ‘Hunger Games’

Last week was a dreadful week for many in the media business, as three major employers began their attempts to layoff over 3,000 employees. The three major media outlets–Yahoo, CBC and Gannett–began their terminations for a variety of reasons. Yahoo announced that it was going to cut 2,000 jobs to “turn around the pioneering Internet company [...]

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Monday Morning Links: April Fools, 9-to-5 work weeks, Hunger Games

Last year, Google placed  subtle ad in the right hand corner every Gmail account for its new beta technology. On April 1, 2011, the world’s leading search engine announced Gmail motion, a revolutionary new way of sending email using motion detector technology. Or, in other words, an elaborate April Fool’s Day joke. This year, Google [...]

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Monday Morning Links: Pinterest, copyrights, fact checking, Google art

In light of its ongoing growth and changing design, Pinterest’s visual experience was bound to bring up the copy right issue at some point. Last week, Gonzalo E. Mon wrote a piece on how to save yourself the lawsuit when you’re pinning for business. While personal accounts will not likely attract the attention of the [...]

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Monday Morning Links: Apple gives money back, Amazon goes half-off, how to hire

Looks like you won’t have to pay $600 a share for Apple stock after all. After the iPad 3 helped Apple’s stock soar, Mashable reports that the computer company is thinking differently about how it relates to shareholders. “There are several reasons Apple is giving dividends,” Todd Wasserman writes, “but the primary one is that [...]

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Monday Morning Links: Amber Case, SNL, cyborgs and SXSW

There’s always a cool conference I could be going to right now. Tuesday marks the last day of SXSW Interactive, the four-day social media/technology conference based in Austin, Texas. The social world flocked to hear keynote addresses on how technology has not only shaped business, but humanity as a whole. SXSW, or “South By Southwest,” [...]

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Monday morning links (the Wednesday edition): McGrail on social media overload

Last Christmas, I was one of the millions of people who received a new iPhone. I was already a social media addict at the time, but my whole life became social as soon as I saw that Apple logo light up for the first time. With mobile phone usage growing and the expanding world of [...]

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