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How Twitter Can Improve Your Management (in 140 Characters or Less) — Inc.com

It’s said that brevity is the soul of wit, and nowhere is that more apparent than the mandatory 140-character limit of Twitter messages. Inc.com’s Frank Addante takes you how the confined space can actually help you structure your management style and clarify your goals.

Elections, The Olympics and the End of the World: What’s Next for Social Video — Marketing Pilgrim

With political campaigns being broken on the strength of dislikes alone and views of adorable owls skyrocketing to unprecedented levels, it seems evident that Youtube is here to stay. Get the skinny on what leveraging its inherent shareability can do for your social media presence.

Google’s home entertainment foray: Why the Motorola deal may work – ZDNET
With the acquisition of Motorola, Google is developing a home-entertainment system to take on Apple TV. Google has failed in this market before with Google TV. Google TV, to many users, was too much, too soon to succeed. Motorola has the technology in their already-existing cable boxes to help expedite this process. Will you try out this new software?

When it comes to how we consume, things have dramatically changed over the last twenty years. For instance, if your mother and father wanted to go to a restaurant in the seventies, it was probably because they heard it was good from friends or neighbors or simply wanted to give it a shot. 1979 brought about the debut of the Zagat guide, which of course gave people more of a guideline than ever before. Fast forward a few decades, and there’s suddenly more information than you could imagine available for everything from eateries to shopping for clothing. Because of the popularity of the internet as a means of sharing information, people can now log on and leave reviews for all sorts of experiences, making it that much harder to pass off a bad meal or a sleazy transaction than it used to be. In some ways, it’s great. But how is it affecting us as consumers?

The Evolution of Facebook Features — GroSocial

Facebook has come a long way from the humble blue-and-white, bare-bones-HTML, .edu-email-restricted social site we all came to know and love in 2005. Check out this visual map and see how the ‘book has exploded since its inception, becoming a multifaceted “people engine” that has spawned so many imitators.

INFOGRAPHIC: Web Equity – owning your digital presence — Blumenthals

As with any other form of endeavor, the more effort you put into your online presence, the better it will serve your business’s interests. Get the skinny on the major players in the web equity game with this handy infographic.

If you’re anything like me, when you visit a website that’s overloaded with Flash, an abundance of images, excessive menus, and just a general maze of content, your brain shrivels up to the size of a raisin and your eyes glaze over with no focus of what to look at or where to find it. (As far as I’m concerned, the same problem exists for social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter. Creating endless posts and tweets just for the sake of having more content and saying whatever pops into your fingers is the quickest way to get me to block or un-follow your posts. Then I’ll never hear anything you have to say!) The idea that the more there is to look at, the more visitors, friends, likes, and followers you’ll get is simply untrue in many cases.  You can still catch plenty of flies with sweet, sweet simplicity.