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You have power to change the world through social media

05/22/2013

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No Hype. Social Media’s Just Helping Change the World
A lot of social media consultants say they’re “no hype”. This resonates with hiring leaders because they’re tired of hearing what they don’t believe. Namely, that social media is the unbelievable phenomenon that is going to change the world all on it’s own. 
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Picture: Woman standing in front of binary code and pictures of people, representing social media.
Social media has the potential to effect change in the world.
Mines the real potential that social media has to change the world, which is more moderate than some of the hype anticipates.

Notes that still, one cannot discount the power for change that social media holds. The author clarifies his controversial statement at a conference: He said that you are able to change the world using social media, not that social media would change the world by itself.


You have to be the one who takes the responsibility to initiate the change you want to see. Margaret Mead said:“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.” 


Gandhi's famous quote “Be the change you want to see in the world” fits perfectly  with the status of the social media. The individual needs to be the force to make change happen.


Jay Baer is cited, saying “Content is fire, social media is gasoline,” and leaders who have the power to control the flame can create positive change in the world.


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Source is ModernServantLeader.com

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By Darin L. Hammond
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Darin Publishes across the web on sites like Technorati
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How the internet triggers your emotions

01/01/2013

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Internet Psychology: 5 Emotions Invented By The Internet [Infographic]
Not only do I think there needs to be more awareness about how the Internet can affect our brains, I’ve personally experienced the wackiest and weirdest Internet-related situations ever. I guess that happens when you’re plugged-in and online for almost all your waking hours each day like I am. 
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Complex Emotions Unique to Internet Life
Mines five of the emotions uniquily created by interaction  with the internet in order to arrive at some of the unique psychology with time spent on the web.

Notes that we feel anxiety when waiting for a response to a message sent instantly, and a spontaneous  illogical rage after reading something by a random user of social media, a reflexive, guttural anger.  

Another is the strange feeling that you should not be doing or saying something attached to powerful need to do so, shame and desire meshed. Finally, the impotent, tired, and fragmented  mental exhaustion you feel after spending  a considerable amount of time at the screen on a project.

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Source is BitRebels.com

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Social media and individuals rock science, improving the world

12/05/2012

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Can Social Media Strengthen Science? A Panel Discussion
... a [Forbes video] panel discussion on how social media can be used to gather investment money, make scientific data more accurate, collect patient data, and even allow regular people (not just multimillionaires) to get in the venture capital media game.

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Science power to the people.
Mines the current means of funding science through the academy, government, and private funding in order to show the possibilities that are being realized through the use of crowdsourcing and social media.
Notes that private organizations are currently employing social media  for scientific  research, involving the public in science as subjects, researchers, clinicians, data collectors, reporters, and venture capitalists. This facilitates new, unprecedented research and provides for the spread of more information freely to the public. Drawbacks they are dealing with include reproducibility of results and questions of authority, as science and research makes its way into the hands of the people. Panelists suggest that these problems are solvable through collaboration.
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Source is a Forbes panel discussion. The link is to the full video (approximately 53 minutes).

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Should you really post that? [infographic and review]

11/29/2012

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To Post or Not to Post
There are 900 million social media users plugged into Facebook alone, and nearly 500 million of them log into the social network every single day.
Mines the temptations we experience in sharing too much across our social networks, the wrong kind of information.

Notes that "forward-thinking" is required in planning the trajectory of one's career and life, remembering always the potential for prospective clients, colleagues, and employers to encounter your posts in the present or future.

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Source is OnlineClasses.org.

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Critical Thought Is Endangered

07/18/2012

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"I could have told you there were 42 reasons. Or 13. Or 6 steps. There aren’t. Or there may be, but I’m not going to list them out here. But headlines like that are just one contributing factor to a big problem: the continued erosion of critical thought and deliberate consumption and the hive-mind sharing that mocks the very independence of thinking that we praise the web for giving to us."
Mines critically the contemporary state of our thinking, which is influenced heavily by our media and technology dominated culture.
Notes that are level of thinking critically has declined, especially in blogging, and his assessment seem overly harsh and biased. But, thought provoking.
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