Accentuate The Positives

Image via Wikipedia Can you remember when television was called the root of all evil? How it was blamed for desensitizing kids and breaking up the family fibre? American author and cultural critic Neil Postman wrote a book about it in 1985, called Amusing Ourselves to Death. Postman’s argument was that television lessened the educational… [Continue Reading]

Pale Blue Dots

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Carl Sagan once spoke of our world as a pale blue dot. Of how its size was just a pebble against the vaster landscape that surrounds it. Most of all, he spoke of it as OUR world. It’s up to us how it’s shaped, and how those in it shape it. What part are you playing?

Why 2009 Is Going To Be YOUR Year

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Life can be the hardest journey to take. Setbacks, walls to climb, obstacles to overcome, broken dreams – life isn’t easy and at times it can seem impossible. Yet as life can hold us back, so it can surge us forward as well. For every stumbling block there are a hundred helping hands to guide us past these blocks and onto greatness. How will you get there?

Starbucks – A Lesson in Social Media Branding

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Many businesses are failing to use the benefits that social media offers. Whether it’s misunderstanding how to use social media effectively to not seeing any immediate monetary return, brands are unwilling to step inside. Yet there are companies that are showing how it can and should be done – so why aren’t more?

It’s Nice To Be Nice

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The world moves quickly around us. It’s not always a nice place to be and sometimes it’s hard to keep things going when everything seems against us. Yet one thing that always gets us through are our friends. Do we show them how thankful we are often enough?

Have You Been Tweetbombed on Twitter Yet?

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Twitter is without a doubt one of the more popular social media tools or applications. For making new friends on a personal level, to networking and meeting new business contacts on a professional level. But it can also be a lot of fun, with different users finding different ways to entertain people. Tweetbomb is just the latest and possibly one of the best – so what’s it all about?