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Content But No Comments?

February 22, 2012 • 2:16 pm • Posted by Jennifer in Social Media

Every once in a while, you put your heart and soul into a blog post that you just can’t wait to publish. Once it’s finally done and you promote the post across social media, you wait for the comments to come in. Sometimes, even when the post is some of your best work, there’s a shortage of people willing to comment. It happens to everyone, but why?

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TED Gets A New Look

February 15, 2012 • 5:00 pm • Posted by Jennifer in Commentary

TED is a non profit that is known for its inspirational. funny, and informative videos from conferences around the world. TED is actually an acronym for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It’s mission is to spread ideas and in my opinion, that’s what they’re good at doing. Every once in a while, I’ll see a tweet or Facebook update about a “must see TEDTalk” and then a link off to the website.

Have you visited the TED website lately? There’s now a new TED Quotes feature on the site. Basically, TED Quotes is a collection of some of the most memorable quotes said in TEDTalks and categorizes them by popularity and topic, and allows visitors to search through quotes as well. The quotes page also makes it very easy to share the quotes on a usability stand point.

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Super Bowl Sunday & Social Media

February 6, 2012 • 2:55 pm • Posted by Jennifer in Commentary

The Super Bowl is a huge event on TV every year—we all know that. The game has always been social offline with all of the Super Bowl parties to attend, talking about the best commercials, and eating and drinking with friends, whether your team is in it or not. What’s interesting is how social the game has gotten the past few years online.

Here are some fun facts about the Super Bowl and social media this year:

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