The Future of Social Networks as Interpreted by 21 Social Media Practitioners | Ignite Social Media

The Future of Social Networks as Interpreted by 21 Social Media Practitioners | Ignite Social Media: "The problem is that many businesses are missing the whole "social" aspect with social networking and are using social networking sites in a way that's not congruent with how their audience (a.k.a. people) is using this medium."

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The Future of Social Networks as Interpreted by 21 Social Media Practitioners | Ignite Social Media

The Future of Social Networks as Interpreted by 21 Social Media Practitioners | Ignite Social Media: "Clearly the photography revolution has taken hold, and brands absolutely have to respond by building or curating visual assets for almost every story they offer. The other big trend that's happened is the mobile revolution, and frankly, businesses have missed this boat, too. There's no excuse for a web site that doesn't offer mobile functionality"

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Facebook Punishes Brand Pages, Instagram Goes Direct, G+ Goes Wild | Social You Should Know | Ignite Social Media

Facebook Punishes Brand Pages, Instagram Goes Direct, G+ Goes Wild | Social You Should Know | Ignite Social Media: "oogle+ Gets into Sponsored Posts In A Clever Way
Unlike Instagram or Facebook, you can’t currently pay to have your content promoted in the stream on Google+. But Google came up with a clever way to promote G+ content anywhere on the web. Called “+Post Ads,” your G+ posts can now run on the Google Display Network of 2 million sites. Brands will only pay when someone hovers over the ad unit to activate it. Google claims that ads gets 50% higher “expansion rates” because of their social annotations. Very clever."

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Leaders and trend-setters all agree on one thing | Code.org

Leaders and trend-setters all agree on one thing | Code.org: "
Mark Surman
Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation
“Code has become the 4th literacy. Everyone needs to know how our digital world works, not just engineers.“"

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Israel Longhorn Project Executive Summary 

Israel Longhorn Project Executive Summary : "Longhorns can eat invasive shrubs and cacti, which are overwhelming the Galilee
Longhorns have higher reproduction rates and very low loss rates
Longhorns have excellent calving and mothering abilities
Longhorns can go further and longer with less water
Longhorns solve the problem of rising feed costs
Longhorns protect their calves from predators
Longhorns are highly resistant to diseases"

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The Blog Flume Filter for February 28, 2013

The Blog Flume Filter for February 28, 2013: "the new Harry Potter expansion will open in 2014. This is the first time we have heard any hint about when the expansion would open…and the source is not one that we normally get news stories from. Transformers: The Ride is now under the 100 day mark before it opens…and yet we have a new rumor. It sounds like the Monsters Café "

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Installing Elgg

Installing Elgg: "you'll end up with a directory (folder) named
/home/your-user-id/public_html/elgg/elgg-X.X.X.X
make a symbolic link (aka shortcut) to this
ln -s elgg-X.X.X.X alpha
(For example, ln -s elgg-1.8.0.1 alpha)
Give user nobody access to this directory
/usr/misc/bin/acl.sh -r -u nobody elgg-1.8.0.1
create a data directory for elgg (get into your home directory first):
cd
mkdir -p elgg/alpha/data
chmod -R 755 elgg/alpha/data"

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