The Real Blind Influence

Socialnomics has put together a video driving home the reality of how social media is fundamentally shifting how we communicate, connect and consume culture in the 21st century.  Share it with anyone who tells you that social media is a fad, technology is isolating people rather than facilitating face-to-face meetings, or that Twitter is stupid.
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Have you heard of Brian Keith Voiles? Probably not, but if you have eyes you’ve seen his ad campaigns and you probably even bought products that he created ad campaigns for.
Would you like to have the formula he gets paid $12,500 to put into use for Fortune 500 Companies?  Are you curious as to how [...]

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Technology has rocked our world repeatedly in profound ways. This will happen many more times and is about to happen again with Google Wave.  It’s going to be a tidal wave!
Imagine email, instant messaging, document sharing and much more integrated into a real time platform.  Or don’t imagine it and just wait a few months [...]

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Laws are not selective, unless you’re either rich, powerful, a celebrity , politically connected, or know someone who is when you break one.
Gravity is a law. It works 100% of the time with no excuses whether you like it or not.  In fact, you don’t have to buy a book or movie to see how [...]

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One of the best marketing books ever written is Seth Godin’s latest: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us.
In reading this book I was reminded of the tribes I’ve gravitated to and been a part of throughout my life.  They ranged from a church youth group, cliques in school, friends who liked the same music, [...]

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This book review was contributed by Lena Phoenix:

The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives is a book about randomness, a topic that most people, unless they happen to be mathematicians or have a strange fascination with statistics, probably don’t think too much about. As a species, in fact, we generally prefer not to dwell [...]

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This book review was contributed by Lena Phoenix:

I was not at all in the mood for another non-fiction book about human behavior when my husband asked if I wanted to read Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior before he returned it to the library. I half-heartedly decided to scan a few pages before saying [...]

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Yesterday Alan Greenspan told congress `That is precisely the reason I was shocked because I’d been going for 40 years or more with very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well.” This is a great example of how we are blindly influenced by the way our brains make meaning in the world.   What [...]

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This book review was contributed by Lena Phoenix:

Kluge is a slang term for “a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem.” In this new book, Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, psychologist Gary Marcus argues that the human mind itself is a kluge, and then goes on to discuss how this explains why [...]

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Have you watched your local nightly news lately?  Probably not if you’re like most Americans under the age of 61, but you’ll still get my point.  I’m guessing you’ve watched more financial news in the last month than usual in reaction to fear around money, stocks and the economy in general.
I accidentally saw the first [...]

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