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Quiet – the World is Changing

Jay Williams
4.7.2009
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The past year – particularly the past 6 months – have been an economic and emotional disaster.
Perhaps you’ve heard about it?
The loss of wealth, jobs, homes and stability is dramatically challenging everything consumers believe. Formerly bedrock notions about life and dreams and pursuing aspirations are crumbling.MORE…

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Chicken Little The Sky Is NOT Falling.

4.3.2009
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Rocky P.

Sharpen your pitchfork, there’s a Populist party forming. This particular uprising, which actually features more Peace than pistols, is a natural (or inevitable, still not sure which) backlash for the notorious negativity flooding the news of late.

The economy is in peril. We get itMORE…

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So Sadie, What’s your Status?

Julie W.S.
3.27.2009
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So I’m in Florida for my mother’s 80th birthday, sitting at the pool, in a definitely unprofessional frame of mind. My brother, daughter, husband, and nieces are engaged in a boisterous handstand contest, and I’m reading my mystery one sentence at a time. Mostly I’m listening to my mother schmooze with her neighbors. MORE…

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All Media is Social, aka Your Customers are People too

3.27.2009
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Debi K.

Recently, at the MTLC Social Media cluster meeting, Brian Haven, recovering Forrester analyst and now aspiring entrepreneur, made a terrific, thought-provoking presentation. The first part of the presentation showed how the online behaviors that we call social media today are actually things people have been doing for a very long time, in some cases since the beginning of time!MORE…

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500 Words, but None for ‘Malicious Joy’

Manila A.
3.27.2009
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Did you know there are over 500 English words that convey emotion? Yet the truth is we feel more things than we have words to express. In Germany, for example, people can feel Schadenfreude—a sense of ‘malicious joy’ at the misfortune of others. This feeling is not unique to Germans; ask any Red Sox fan how they felt in October 2004 as they witnessed the Yankees lose the pennant. Sure, we were ecstatic about our team’s historical post-season sweep, but we also felt a sense of delight at the Yankee’s defeat.MORE…

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