National Review Misses Most Obvious Point in Taking on "Prison/Industrial Complex"

Rich Lowry at National Review tries to
take on the “prison-industrial complex,” with a dull shiv
hastily carved from any old thing he found in the kitchen.
Pensiero / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND
He has some decent ideas–encouraging prisoners to learn work
skills, giving them...

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Craig Kanalley: The Boston Marathon Bombing In 50 Tweets, 5 Videos

Over the course of the past week, we witnessed the power of real-time news reporting with a major story.


We saw the good: helping investigators with tips to find the suspects and informing residents during a manhunt. We also saw the bad: the rapid spread of misinformation, innocent people...

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'Taste Of Home' Partners With Folgers For Live Activation in NYC

Taste Of Home is partnering with Folgers for the third year in a row to install a
holiday-themed live activation called Gingerbread Boulevard in NYC’s Madison Square Park. This year, Taste of Home and Folgers
will also launch a digital advertising campaign featuring user-generated c...

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Stronger Border Enforcement Backfired

ReasonPractically the first campaign promise that Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump made was that he would deport all 11 million undocumented migrants living in the United States. An interesting new study looks at why so many migrants came and, but more crucially, also at why they...

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You Don't Have To Be Big To Be Bad

You have probably never heard of Tele-Media Corporation and its affiliates, but according to its Web site, the company has “grown from a single system cable operation into one of the industry’s
largest privately held communication companies, focused on broadband cable and radio b...

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Facebook Adds Instant Games To Mesenger, News Feeds

Trying to increase user engagement, Facebook is adding Instant Games to Messenger and News Feed.
On Messenger, Instant Games can be accessed through a new game controller icon just below
where users typically type a message. There, users can find score-based games, leaderboards, and...

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Using Social Media To Improve Productivity

Does it surprise you that only 23% of men and 21% of women aged 18 to 70 believe that social media decreases their productivity at work? Not really? Okay, how about this: 37% of both genders across
all those ages believe using social media actually improves productivity. The rest see “little ...

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Kudos To The NHL For Doing It Right

I am not a big hockey fan because 1) I grew up in the South, where when it got cold you went inside and drank bourbon until it warmed up again in March; and 2) one of my kids played travel hockey,
which was a hellish life of weekend tournaments 300 miles away and 5 a.m. ice time....

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The Commoditization of Influencer Tools

There’s a tremendous amount of commoditization in influencer marketing tools, Scott Linzer, Vice President of Owned Media, iCrossing, explained to the audience during the “Cool Kid
KPIs: Optimizing the Social Influencers” panel at OMMA Denver. Even though it’s a relatively new space, brands a...

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Using Social Media For 'Sexy' Family-Planning Social Marketing

Chris Purdy, the president of DKT International in Washington D.C., is used to people saying something like, “Oh, you’re in social marketing, you must work with Facebook.”
Yes, DKT does utilize Facebook — along with the whole gamut of other social media and traditional marketing levers — to i...

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The GOP"s Gen Y Problem: Young Republicans Alienated by Party"s Social Conservatism

Elizabeth Nolan BrownLast week, at the
Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), there was a
guy with a mohawk. I suppose this was notable because the GOP is
generally a mohawk-free zone. Every time I passed said man
throughout the day, a crowd was gathered, snapping his photo....

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Why It Could Get a Lot Harder to Get Divorced in Some States

Moving Picture World/WikimediaAs the great same-sex marriage
debate bumbles on, a smaller, quieter marriage battle is taking
place in state legislatures. Last week, The Washington
Post reported on moves by socially conservative politicians
around the country to
make it harder for couples to ...

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You Are $13,000 Poorer Because of Federal Regulations

Dreamstime: NyulIs America’s accumulating pile of regulations slowing down economic growth? According to a new study from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, the answer is yes: Thanks to regulatory drag, the U.S. economy is $4 trillion smaller than it otherwise would have b...

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Andy Schmookler: We Weren"t Living in a Fool"s Paradise. America Has Changed.

In a strong post-election piece titled “Farewell, America,” on billmoyers.com, Neil Gabler wrote this:
If there is a single sentence that characterizes the election, it is this: “He says the things I’m thinking.” That may be what is so terrifying. Who knew that...

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Rich Nadworny: Women Innovating Africa: Meet Mariatheresa Kadushi

Here is another in my series of women entrepreneurs in Africa. Mariatheresa Kadushi from Tanzania attended my Design Driven Entrepreneurship class in Nairobi, Kenya. She was a participant in the YALI East African Regional Learning Center, a center opened by President Obama in the summer...

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Mark Pinsky: High-Impact Investing

The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) is as important and successful as it is simple: Banks that operate with taxpayer-funded support must reinvest in the communities they serve–that is, their markets. CRA has motivated hundreds of billions of new financing dollars into disinvested...

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Marilynn Halas: 10 Steps For Peace Leaders

The world can be an uncomfortable place. There’s lots to learn and lots to overcome and sometimes no matter what we do, getting along together can be difficult. Given that each of us can easily recall those moments when we felt bullied or misunderstood, most of us wish we could handle...

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Julia Wagner: Future Filmmakers And Educators: What Do You Need To Know?

The current state of film education has been on my mind. I am launching a film studies course in January, based at London’s historic Phoenix cinema and open to the general public. I am looking forward to teaching people who have perhaps never considered film in a systematic way. As I...

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A Man"s Testosterone Levels Could Determine His Parenting Style

Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 
The Background
It’s well-established that women experience hormonal shifts that switch their bodies into mommy mode during pregnancy, ...

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Steven Kull: Americans Would Take These 4 Steps To Fix Social Security

This essay first appeared in The Washington Post on Oct. 27, 2016


In the third presidential debate, moderator and Fox News anchor Chris Wallace asked the candidates whether they might pursue a “grand bargain” on Social Security — one that would include both revenue...

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Michael Ham: How Nate Silver"s Math and Kickstarter Could Change American Politics -- Venture Capital Style

Everyone’s favorite election guru, Nate Silver, crunched the numbers and provided a fascinating look at how insurgent Tea Party candidates were able to take on the Republican establishment with relatively little funding. The key analysis is the following: “the first $100,000 of...

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Starved by Socialist Policies, Venezuelans Urged to Take Up Urban Farming

Tamara Pearson for Venezuelanalysis.comIn once-industrial American areas like Brooklyn and Detroit, the abundance of abandoned warehouse rooftops and eager, earnest hipsters has led to an array of urban-farming experiments over the past decade. But while some such projects are designed to f...

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Obama Warns Against Fake News

President Obama has added his voice to the growing chorus of concern about fake news social media, an issue which attracted sudden attention following Donald Trump’s upset victory over
Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. The president made the remarks during a joint press c...

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Lev Raphael: Famous Things Four Famous Authors Never Said

A lot of people swear by Goodreads. I swear at it. Often. It’s a treasure trove of unsourced quotations, some of them fake, just like Wikiquotes. Take the line that tops the list of George Eliot quotes: “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”


There’s...

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Climbing Out Of The Funnel

Each time I read that as a consumer I am “on a journey through the funnel,” I suddenly feel exhausted. Not just from the “journey” either, but from the increasingly tired notion that each time I
buy something I go through various “stages” of abstract notions like ...

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Black Friday Online Revenue Surpasses $3B, With Mobile Contributing $1.2B

Consumers spent $3.34 billion online on Black Friday, up 21.6% year-over-year (YoY), while Thanksgiving accounted for the remaining $1.93 billion for the two days, up 11.5% compared with 2015.

The biggest surprise, however, came from mobile. The devices drove $1.2 billion in revenue —...

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Social's Impact On Transmedia

Even before MediaPost’s own notification about a piece on why “Sully” had done 40% better than box office analysts expected was posted Monday, I got notice that Anne Zeiser
@AzureMedia had tweeted out the story’s URL. That caught my attention, since
I’d written it.
Clicking through, I learne...

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Against Shaming "White Women" and "Female Misogynists" for 2016 Election Results

White women have “sold out … the world by voting Trump,” Slate proclaimed Thursday, in what’s quickly become popular post-election wisdom. “White Women Need to Admit That We Are Part of the Problem” and “White Women…Failed Other Women.”...

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Millennials Are Social Liberals, Fiscal Centrists

Reason-Rupe has a new survey and report out on
millennials—find the report
here. 
Millennials aren’t liberals; they are social liberals and fiscal
centrists. And it’s largely social issues driving the distance
between millennials and Republicans.
Traditional ideological labels don’t allow mil...

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Ronald Bailey Asks: Are Conservatives Dumber than Liberals?

Associates MindConservatives exhibit less cognitive ability than
liberals do. Or that’s what it says in the social science
literature, anyway. For example, a 2010 study using data from the
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health found that the IQs
of young adults who described...

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Post Election Recap: Expanding Liberty, Not Govt Mandates, is the Actual Way Forward!

The 2012 presidential election was long, but thankfully it’s
over. Promoting liberty is a long-run strategy, and perfect
policies are not adopted over night. Thus we should celebrate when
society makes incremental progress in the right direction, and help
course-correct when society gives in ...

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Conservatives More Susceptible to Bullshit Than Liberals

AfricaOnlineThe new study on voter receptivity to bunkum uses bullshit statements generated by earlier work by a group of Canadian psychologists. The researchers conducted a number of experiments in which they evaluated subjects for their reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit....

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Robert Koehler: A Nation Up for Grabs

And so we are a nation up for grabs.


Racist populism trounces . . . uh, trumps . . . platitudes about America’s greatness. Hillary Clinton, though slightly ahead in the popular vote, is defeated in the Electoral College.


Like it or not, change is not deferred. It’s here, in...

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Alyaa A. Younis: It is Time to Change the Pity Narrative When Solving Social Problems

Why would I–perfectly lucky to be Canadian–decide to move back to the Middle East when millions of people here would literally die to make the reverse trip?


Over a decade ago, my parents had worked very hard to get my siblings and me out of there and to a better life in...

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April Rudin: Wall Street"s Answer to Cancer

It sounds almost too good to be true: making money by curing cancer? How can something so unequivocally good for humanity also yield a financial return? But that is precisely what UBS recommends for its ultra high-net-worth clients. Those who have dollars they can put away for the long haul...

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Dr. Artika R. Tyner: Embracing Diversity and Inclusion: African Proverbs on Leadership

Diversity is needed to bring together the brightest minds to create solutions to business, economic, and social challenges of the 21st century and beyond. This is a call to leadership– the type of leadership which is evidenced by one’s ability to learn from others, develop a...

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simon baldwin: Where"s The Customer? They"re In A Different Place

Last week saw the publication of a survey on British BIDs – Business Imporvement Districts funded by businesses in towns and cities up and down the la…
Read more: Bid, Bids, Town, City, Retail, Shopping, Customer, Social Media, Urban Regeneration, Town Centre, High Street,...

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Why Weighing Yourself Every Day Could Be Messing With Your Mind

Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 
The Background
Stepping onto the scale can be a pretty fraught task no matter how much you weigh. Obsessing over a number that fluctuates ...

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Max Richtman: The Trump Conundrum: He Can"t Keep His Promise to Seniors While Also Repealing Obamacare

Donald Trump made a lot of promises to the American people during the Presidential campaign. For seniors, who supported him overwhelmingly, none was more important that his promise “not to touch” middle-class benefits in Social Security and Medicare. There’s no doubt his...

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Craig Kanalley: Top Social App For iPhone Is Not Facebook Or Twitter

If you haven’t looked at Pheed yet, now might be the time to do so.


It’s now the No. 1 free app in Apple’s App Store under the Social Networking category. Yes, that means it’s ranked higher than Facebook and Twitter. And it’s been there since last week.


All...

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Disaster Déjà Vu in Venezuela

Getty ImagesPick up a newspaper these days and it seems obvious that Venezuela’s catastrophic experiment with socialism is at an end. With people standing in line for hours just to buy soap, annual inflation in the high triple figures (with percentages heading into four digits), and...

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Twitter Blocked Trump Ad Over Emoji, Campaign Exec Claims

It’s a sign of the times when a major media company is accused of engaging in politically motivated censorship for rejecting paid advertising from a presidential campaign – and that ad
is an emoji.
That’s what happened when the Trump campaign attempted to run paid ads on Twitter around the fi...

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Zac Thompson: Social Media Is Making Us All Awful and Self Absorbed

It’s no secret that social media has made us more comfortable with the idea of self absorption. Yet, in the wake of the recent election results in the United States many of us have been left to question how we interact online and the nature of our seemingly declining morals in...

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British Postal Service Aims Low With Retargeted Snail Mail

Loyal readers will recall with fondness that I wrote recently about Dumb-Assed
Ideas and how they somehow get to market despite being reviewed and approved by adults who ought to know better. Here is one that could be headed for the Dumb-assed Hall of Shame.
Royal
Mail is the primary postal ...

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Google To Kick off GOODFest Music Festival This Week

Google kicks off its music festival Tuesday, with the first of five shows in five cities taking place live. The event will also stream live on YouTube and Facebook Live.
Presented by GOOD,
a global media brand and social impact company, and Pixel, the phone by Google, GOODFest will take ...

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Moderating A Shaming-Free Experience

Raw but shaming-free conversations are the draw at mom.life, which started as a pregnancy tracker called Preggie and recently relaunched to include moms raising kids from birth to about kindergarten
age.

The above post is reprinted from materials provided by Website. Note: Content may be...

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Effective Content Marketing and Smart Technology Cut Out Costly Steps

 “Here’s the formula if you want to build a billion-dollar internet company,” says Twitter founder Ev Williams, “Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time … identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.” Jay Acunzo of the Content Marke...

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Riots in Portland on Third Night of Protests

Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA/NewscomThere were more protests around the country against the election of Donald Trump last night, with police in Portland declaring the protest there a riot due to deteriorating conditions. Rioters there threw objects at cops, attacked newspaper stands, and...

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Free Markets = Sustainable Development

“The current global development model is
unsustainable.” That is the conclusion of the High-Level Panel on
Global Sustainability, appointed earlier this year by United
Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon to outline the economic and
social changes needed to achieve global sus...

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SATAN! SATAN! SATAN!, or the Brief, Terrible Existence of ReaganBook

edalisseJanet
Porter, president of the “pro-life, pro-family” advocacy group
Faith2Action, launched a social media site “for patriots” on
Tuesday. It is
was called ReaganBook. It’s down as of yesterday, and hopefully it
won’t be back.
The Gipper’s...

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Are Conservatives Dumber Than Liberals?

Associates MindConservatives exhibit less cognitive ability than
liberals do. Or that’s what it says in the social science
literature, anyway. A
2010 study using data from the National Longitudinal Study of
Adolescent Health, for example, found that the IQs of young adults
who...

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The Politics of Empathy and Inclusivity Played Key Role at the Ballot Box

Presidential
exit polls indicate that a majority of voters thought the
economy was the most important issue and that Mitt Romney
would be best able to handle the economy and the federal budget
deficit. Yet a majority of these same voters elected President
Obama. But, among those who cared...

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It"s A Moral Issue! So Just Shut Up!

Dreamstime: Marek UliaszClimate change is a moral issue on a par with slavery. Abortion is a moral issue. Gun control is a moral issue.  Same sex marriage is a moral issue. Genetically modified crops are a moral issue. Human enhancement is a moral issue. Premarital sex is a moral issue. ...

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George Beall: How One Millennial Created #BlackFridayLivesMatter to Benefit the Families" of Fallen Police Officers

2016 has been a year of immense ups, downs, and overall division in both the United States and abroad. We saw Brexit, the bulk of the American election cycle culminating with Trump’s victory, dozens of riots, the rise in prominence of the Black Lives Matter movement, and dozens of...

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Carla Javits: Top Five Steps for Our New President to Increase Public Trust in Government

Facing major headwinds even stronger than the recent hurricane, the new president must act quickly to satisfy voters who are hungry for action and assurance that this is truly our government, and a government we can be proud of. When we think about what needs to be done right away,...

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Bipul Saha: Can Social Entrepreneurship Tap India"s Demographic Dividend?

India is a young country. At present, 66% of India’s population is under the national average age of 26 years. In the next decade and a half, more than 13 million Indians annually will enter the workforce for the first time. By 2030, India is expected to have 28% of the world’s...

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Ciarra: A Note To The Christian Friends I Lost In This Election

There is a kind of pain that not everyone experiences. The kind of pain that comes from communal abandonment. The kind of pain that maybe you would feel if one day you came to school and your whole friend group decided to embrace the kid who bullies you in class. And not only did they...

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Mark Hillary: Better CX Tools For Twitter: Too Little Too Late?

Twitter has recently introduced improvements to their Direct Messaging (DM) functionality to help businesses offer an improved customer experience (CX) when customers use Twitter to get in touch. The new tools allow a DM button to be offered, allowing quick access to DM and when the DM...

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What Causes An 11-Year-Old Girl To Develop An Eating Disorder?

Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 
The Background
It was estimated that the number of hospitalizations for eating disorders in children under 12 increased by 119 percent ...

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Lisa Longo: Elections Have Consequences - Part 2

Well, the purists on both the far right and the far left are having a party online today. Celebrating keeping the woman they love to hate out of the White House. Never mind that they allowed a bigoted, ignorant, racist, homophobic, arrogant prick to be elected. Let’s all just ignore...

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Seyi Fabode: Facebook Marketing When Your Product (Like Electricity) Is Not Inherently Viral

Like every business big or small, Facebook is one of the channels we use to get the word out about our services that help consumers make responsible decisions about their energy (particularly electricity expenses). Last year Facebook IPOd and there was a lot of noise about a few big...

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Fun-Hating Socialist Magazine Jacobin Says PokemonGo Must Be Destroyed

Screenshot via Pokemon: The Movie / Nintendo / YoutubeMarxists of the 21st century (not an oxymoron; they exist) have identified a new threat to the glorious proletariat revolution: PokemonGo.
Of course, this is par for the course. The Soviet Union banned The Lord of the Rings. Leftist hero...

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Facebook Breaks Linked To Better Mood, Less Anxiety

While there is widespread anecdotal evidence of people signing off social media at least temporarily for the sake of their mental health, there haven’t been any major studies examining the
practice and investigating whether it actually, like, works. Until now, that is: a new study from r...

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Let's Get Beyond the 30-Second Online Ad

I just returned from Cannes Lions with a slight aversion to the Carlton terrace (in one day,  eight hours straight, 12 meetings and more bottles of wine on the bill than could
possibly have been consumed!), a wonder at the amount of different attention-seeking marketing techniques (from ...

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The Saddest Day Of The Year, According To Tweets

An analysis of millions of tweets has determined that the saddest day of the year so far was April 15, the day of the Boston Marathon bombing.


April 15 was also Tax Day and a Monday, so it was sure to generate negative tweets regardless of news events. However, the bombing led to an...

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Peeking Into Piper Jaffray's Taking Stock With Teens

Twice a year Piper Jaffray publishes their Taking Stock with Teens research. It’s become something I look forward to,
especially at this time of the year as the holiday shopping season shifts into high gear. Given that today is Black Friday, it seems appropriate to consider how teens are t...

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Matt Sweetwood: Can Online Networking Be as Successful as In-Person Networking?

As the U.S. CEO beBee.com, a new professional social networking site with over 11 million worldwide users (Bees), I give a lot of thought to social media and networking. Since my goal is to get beBee to 100 million users, I am most interested in is what causes people to connect with each...

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On the Day That Hillary Clinton Accepts the Democratic Nomination, Bernie Sanders Hangs Out at the Hampton Inn

ENBOn Thursday afternoon, I exited the Pennsylvania Convention Center to find myself in the midst of small group of people trailing Sen. Bernie Sanders. He was walking with his wife and four security guards, followed closely by a few camera-pointers and others simply excited to spot th...

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Local Government Watching Social Media

Scores of local governments across the U.S. have bought software to monitor social media, many of them for security purposes, according to a new survey of procurements by county and city
governments conducted by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. The report comes close on...

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Chrissy Teigen Comes For Her Haters With Hilarious Thanksgiving Clapbacks

If we were sending a Thanksgiving telegram to our relatives about Chrissy Teigen’s latest Twitter clapbacks, it would simply read “TEIGEN TWEETS, LEAVES NO SURVIVORS.” 
The supermodel and TV host went on Twitter to host a Thanksgiving Q&A, which quickly turned into a lesson on how to ro...

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#ShopSmall Keeps Getting Bigger

American Express’ Small Business Saturday returns Nov. 26 for its seventh iteration. I’ve watched the #ShopSmall movement grow with the same sense of appreciation we all feel when a
much-needed store or service opens in our neighborhoods, like the bike shop where you can get that flat fixed w...

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Email May Not Be New or Cool, But It's Still the Killer App

Although we’re increasingly being told that email is outdated and largely ignored by anyone under thirty, a new study from the UK shows that email marketing is six times more effective than social media. Shopping and price comparison website Give as you Live, a shopping and price-comparison s...

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This Professor’s List of ‘Fake News’ Sites Goes Predictably Wrong

Fotum | Dreamstime.comWhen a rash of news stories and analysis suggested that Facebook has a “problem” with “fake news” from pretend media outlets and wondered if something needed to be done about it, I warned about the potential consequences. In short: If Facebook...

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Stop Demonizing Preppers

My friend Ceredwyn Alexander lives on a homestead in the
mountains of Vermont. Her family raises a lot of their own food,
from chickens to cabbage, and they heat their home with wood they
chop themselves. They worry about peak oil. They try not to buy
things on credit. They keep a great deal...

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The Virtues of Libertines

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Cato’s Jason Kuznicki offers a valuable contribution to the
“libertarian morality” discussion that’s been meandering around the
Internet of late. In a post on his personal blog, Kuznicki says,
“but
of course I’m a...

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Gay Marriage-Bashing Not on Red Meat Menu Served by Cruz, Paul at Value Voters Summit

CSpanThe annual Value Voters Summit,
taking place right now in Washington, D.C., and hosted by the
Family Research Council (FRC), gives Republican politicians the
opportunity to fire up the party’s social conservatives with a
heaping helping of red meat.
Senators Ted Cruz (Texas) and...

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J.D. Tuccille Discusses Culture War on HuffPost Live

The Warriors/Paramount PicturesRemember the 1990s, when Pat
Buchanan went mano a mano with Barney Frank in a duel to
the death over the drection of American society? No, neither do I.
Yet the supposed “culture war” between liberals and conservatives
keeps resurfacing as a...

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Liberals, Not Conservatives, Express More Psychoticism

Mcpics/DreamstimeSocial science can be so amusing. There is a bit of a contretemps over several recent articles that used datasets supposedly measuring the personality traits of liberals and conservatives which has resulted in several abashed corrections. The researchers used the data in an...

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Diane Smith: Millennial Mobile Metrics

A well-presented and compiled set of numbers can tell a fascinating story. I learned this early in my career as a corporate executive. The value of metrics was reinforced during my time as a tech entrepreneur and CEO. I believe in leading from the heart and old-fashioned ideas like...

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Jennifer Love: Women Leaders Are Redefining Business - On HER Terms

To ensure the success of women and girls is to ensure that they attain literacy and self-confidence in financial matters big and small. And it’s happening! The International Day Of The Girl was celebrated in early October; Canadians are celebrating Financial Literacy this November....

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Bob Stammers: Investing With a Purpose

In today’s world, the typical investor is no longer satisfied with simply choosing investments that offer maximum financial returns. In fact, several are adapting their investment strategies to account for personal interests and values. Is it really feasible to attempt to “do...

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Atif Choudhury: "Chin Up and Fight Back America, We"ve Been There" -The World plus John Oliver

My mom once shared with my sister and me a harrowing experience she endured right after Trump clinched the GOP nomination. She was in the waiting room of a car repair shop when another customer, watching a Fox News story about ISIS, loudly talked about banning Iraqis and Muslims-while...

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People Are Taking Part In A "Guerrilla Campaign" For Tolerance Using Three Words

Britons are taking part in a “guerrilla campaign for kindness, tolerance and understanding” using the hashtag #thisisthoughtful. 
Daianna Karaian, the daughter of Venezuelan immigrants, had the idea to spread a message of unity using small table cards with the words “a place for…” print...

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Companies May Like Hiring One Female Executive -- But Not Two

Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 
The Background
While women represent 47 percent of the American workforce, they make up only 14.6 percent of executive officers, 8.1 ...

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Social Security Advocates Pin Hopes On Donald Trump

WASHINGTON ― In what would have been an unimaginable scenario in past years, a group opposed to cutting Social Security benefits is pinning its hopes on a Republican president.
Social Security Works, one of several advocacy groups that fiercely opposes even modest reductions in Social S...

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Sheena Koshy: Why Startups Will Save the World

Is there a more oxymoronic culture than the startup culture?


It’s collaborative. It’s competitive. There’s the insistence on knowing/using/being with the latest everything — music, technology, news, people. There’s also a feeling that you’ve wandered...

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Is The Sharing Economy Enslaving Or Liberating Mankind?

Umair Haque, the director of the Havas Media Lab, “which has a charter to develop experiments with venture capitalists, start-ups, and clients to find new ways of reaching consumers in digital
channels,” has written (in a personal blog apparently not related to Havas)  a ...

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FACT CHECK: Is Facebook Really Losing Users?

You may have heard that Facebook has lost millions of users in a short period of time and that its growth has halted. Not true.


Here are the facts. Facebook itself released numbers for Q1 2013 during its earnings report Wednesday. Daily active users, monthly active users, mobile active...

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Subaru Highlights Inspiring Stories

Subaru of America is launching an ad campaign featuring real stories from people who have been positively impacted by the Subaru Share the Love program over the past nine years.
The effort assists the automaker’s national charity partners: the ASPCA, Make-A-Wish, Meals
on Wheels America and ...

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Hey Boomers, Give Thanks To the Millennials We"re Like Totally Ripping Off!

Retiree clip art, public domainHow bad are baby boomers—who rightly rebelled against their parents’ repressive ways—ripping off millennials, i.e., The Next Big Thing in American Culture?
Over at The Daily Caller, Mark Tapscott does the math (and it’s not that fancy “New Mat...

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Venezuela"s Maduro Decrees All Workers Subject To Forced Labor

Wikimedia, Valter Campanato/ABr – Agência BrasilContributing Editor Glenn Garvin (Reason archive here) reports on the latest dispiriting developments coming out of Venezuela, a supposed socialist paradise that long drew postive notices from American lefties such as actor Sean Penn, ...

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Merkel Joins Chorus Warning Against Fake News

Another world leader is raising a red flag over fake news distributed via social media in the wake of Donald Trump’s upset victory over Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election. On
Wednesday, Germany’s powerful Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a speech to Germany’s Parliament blasting m...

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Obama, Merkel Blame Social Media For Being Politically Disruptive

White HouseAt a joint press conference in Berlin earlier today, President Obama and Germany Chancellor Angela Markel blamed the internet and digitizationon making a “clash of cultures” more direct and instilling uncertainty in people about their identities and economic...

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Don't Tell Millennial Women What To Do

The following post was first published in an earlier edition of Social Media Insider:
Although it’s not breaking news that Snapchat is on the rise as a social media
force among younger Millennial women, it’s helpful to step back and understand why it has gained popularity so rapidly against F...

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LinkedIn's InMail Change Rewards Quality Content Marketing

If you’re still thinking of LinkedIn as a place to build your career rather than your business, you’re missing out on what the professional networking site has to offer—LinkedIn has become an increasingly important content marketing platform, especially for B2B companies. Now, as Julian Chow r...

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Hate Crimes, Hoaxes, and Hyperbole

William C Lopez / Splash News/NewscomSwastikas spray-painted on softball dugouts. Steve Bannon getting appointed to the White House. There’s been lots of spooky stuff going down in America since Donald Trump was elected president. When I reported last Friday that there had been...

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Pathological Altruism: The Road to Hell Really Is Often Paved With Good Intentions Argues New Study

Credit: A_poselenov/dreamstimeIn a remarkably interesting new
paper, “Concepts
and implications of altruism bias and pathological altruism,”
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Oakland University systems engineer Barbara Oakley argues
that intentions to help people all too...

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Mike Huckabee, Social Conservatism, and Hypocrisy in the GOP

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Less than a week after former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee 

threatened to leave the Republican Party over its allegedly
soft approach to dealing with gay marriage, Huckabee called out
Republicans again over the weekend on his Fox News Channel ...

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Republicans are Shifting on Social Issues. That’s a Lesson for Democrats.

Photo credit: National Constitution Center / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND
Over the past week or so, we’ve seen two strong hints as to how
the Republican party will handle social issues going forward—the
combined effect of which is to offer reminder of how thoroughly
political coalitions and party pow...

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There Should Be No "Punishment" Phase When a Culture War Ends

credit: washington_area_spark / photo on flickrDozens of supporters of gay
marriage, including many noted journalists and scholars, have
signed on to a statement today calling for an end to the kind of
public outrage that haunted ex-Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich when people
discovered he once...

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Tall People Vote Conservative, Says New Study

Shannon Fagan/DreamstimeBeing the in 99th percentile in stature for American males, I was mildly intrigued by the new study, “Height, Income and Voting.” The study finds that in Britain “taller individuals are more likely to support the Conservative party, support...

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Stephan Said: The Answer To Nationalist Populism is Global Populism

Bring out the inspirationBring out the new American poetic traditionThe new global poetic and musical movementsThat unite people of all races, colors and religionsIn the fight for global economic and social equality


This is the populism that tramples the demagoguesNot a fake populism that...

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Njideka U. Harry: Celebrating the Unbreakable Tenacity of Women Entrepreneurs

Over the next 10 months, Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF) has the privilege of hosting Narges Khoramshashi, a next generation leader. A native Iranian, Narges teaches entrepreneurship at universities in Tehran and is recognized for having started the first university-based female...

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Jason Saul: "Pray" for Success: How to Take the Guesswork Out of Social Finance

The high-profile failure of a Social Impact Bond (SIB) experiment at Riker’s Island begs the question: how can we de-risk investment in SIBs, and social programming generally?  SIBs are largely predicated on private investors assuming the risk that programs will succeed at producing ...

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L. Kay Wilson: Experiencing Post Traumatic Trump Disorder? What To Do Now

It’s just two weeks after the election and people everywhere in our great nation are reeling. Spinning, even. Dangling and grasping for understanding of how President Elect Trump could triumph.


Very simply, people are experiencing Post Traumatic Trump Disorder. Maybe it is not...

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Caragh Little: Post-Truth, Postscript

So the Oxford English Dictionary’s 2016 Word of the Year has been announced. Where last year the word was actually a pictogram, the ‘crying laughing face emoji’, this year the word is a two-word phrase: Post-Truth.


Lots of people have commented that Post-Truth seems...

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Straight Men May "Show Off" In Front Of Women By Eating A Lot

Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 
The Background
Men have been found to engage in some arguably misguided behaviors, like showing off their wealth or eating incredibly spicy ...

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Trump Vowed Not To Cut Social Security, But His Transition Team May Have Other Ideas

WASHINGTON ― President-elect Donald Trump said during his campaign that he did not want to cut Social Security benefits, but the Republicans he has hired to manage the program have made no such commitment.
Tom Leppert, the Trump transition team’s point person on Social Security, has in the p...

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Jack Nadel: Entrepreneurs: Help Others to Help Yourself

“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.” — John Wooden


When people hear the word philanthropy, what usually comes to mind are wealthy donors and seven-figure donations. However, any contributions of...

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Has Technology Really Improved the Ad Business?

A marketing technology company fielded a study that — SURPRISE! — found that marketing technology has grown and impacted the lives of CMOs. Said a story on the study: “About half (49%) of
respondents think that their responsibilities will continue to rely on marketing technology the sam...

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Twitter Alternative Makes A Move For More Members

The subscription-based, ads-free Twitter alternative that lets you post messages up to 256 characters long has a new app that lets anyone join for free.


You can start a limited App.net account — without an invite or immediately paying for a subscription — by downloading its...

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Customer Collaboration, Involvement In Complex, Luxury Markets. Is It Possible?

The first thing a lot of people think about when they hear about customer collaboration and co-creation is, “That’s great. But I work in a very complex industry.
There’s no way this will ever work for me.” However, Harley-Davidson, BMW and Ducati have all found success in running customer col...

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Cameron Schaeffer: Dear Other Millenials: We Are Still The Future

Today I woke up and i mourned for the minorities of my country.


Not only are they not represented by their government, they are now openly discriminated against by their government.


I mourned the loss of actual policy.


I mourned the hope of economic equality.


I mourned for...

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Craig Kanalley: Rising Stars You Should Watch In Social Media & Journalism

If there’s one thing I can tell you definitively about the future of journalism, it’s that young people of the present will be the leaders of that future.


Those in college now, who have recently finished college, or maybe a few years out of college, they’re the leaders...

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Majority Of U.S. Adults Use Facebook

“Ubiquitous” may be a slight exaggeration, but only slightly: Facebook is basically everywhere, with a large majority of online U.S. adults (79%) saying they have accounts on the
world’s largest social network, according to a survey of 1,520 Americans conducted by Pew. That’s up from 72% in 2...

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Getting Beyond Vitriol And Conflict

Social media came of age as a political tool in this election. What a troubled and unruly man-child it has turned out to be.
Donald Trump’s attention-grabbing tweets played a key role
in getting him the Republican nomination. According to a tally by the New York Times,
Trump insulted 282 “...

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Social Media Users Self-Segment: Where to Find the Young, the Female and the College-Educated

The social media landscape is changing, according to the survey findings from the Pew Research Center. Over the past year, Facebook’s growth has slowed while Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn have seen notable increases in new users. More importantly for marketers and other c...

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Stop Sharing News That Trans Teen Suicides Spiked Post-Election—It"s Not Just Wrong, But Dangerous to LGBT Youth

Calls to mental health and suicide hotlines spiked this week after Donald Trump was elected president, according to four major crisis-prevention hotlines, with much of the increase coming in calls from LGBT people. Even worse, the election results allegedly triggered the suicides of at least...

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Betting on Humanity’s Future

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Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble Over Earth’s Future,
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Mike Huckabee’s Long Battle Against Libertarianism

Former Arkansas governor Mike
Huckabee
announced this weekend that he’s quitting his Fox News
show while he
thinks about whether to run for president again. If
recent history is any guide, there will be space in the GOP
primaries for a Huck-style populist social conservative;...

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Conservative Group So Terrified of Gay Republicans They’re Endorsing Democrats

Carl DeMaioDemocratic partisans are probably concerned at
what might happen if the Republicans get over and get past their
anti-gay history (though they’ll never actually admit it). Just
think of the votes they might lose! Fortunately for them, a
political organization has been...

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Ronald Bailey Compares Immigrant and Native-Born Antisocial Behavior

ReasonPolls suggest that most Americans believe that
higher immigration results in higher crime rates. After all, good
old-fashioned “root causes” sociology would suggest that since
immigrants are more likely to be male, poor, younger, less educated
and live in cities, they should be more pro...

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Smart People Tend to Be Lazier, Says New Study

Antonio Guillem/Dreamstime“Whenever I get the urge to exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes away” is a quip variously attributed to Mark Twain, University of Chicago President Robert Hutchins, and cartoonist Paul Terry. They are all smart people, whichever one said it....

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Paul McNeil: The Economic And Social Media Aspect Of Donald Trump"s Victory

Democrats and Republicans alike, parallel to big corporate media across the United States, were nearly 100% certain Hillary Clinton would be the first women elected into White House. The percentage was somewhere near 98%. Yet Donald Trump proved them flat wrong with a mantra of making...

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David Briggs: Saying "I do" can reduce religious ties, but parenthood boosts rate of return for couples AND singles

Religious communities seeking to win back millennials may have to wait a little longer.


Even as young adults increasingly put off marriage, the traditional assumption that saying “I do” at the altar can help pump new vibrancy into congregational life no longer appears...

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How Meditation Could Help Make People Less Racist

Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 
The Background
Eradicating racism is no easy feat, to say the least. Luckily, there’s a whole body of research devoted to figuring ...

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Brad Reid: Why Social Security Benefits May Be Abolished

Individuals may incorrectly believe that their Social Security benefits are a fixed property right (“vested”) that cannot be modified or abolished. Without discussing the public policy, political, or economic aspects of Social Security, this comment briefly quotes some...

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Ari Nessel: Lifting Up Communities: This Week in Daily Giving

Every day, along with 40 other daily givers, I have the privilege of making seed grants to up and coming social change leaders around the world. Our team at The Pollination Project is happy to share the extraordinary people and projects that our community of daily givers is honored to...

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Venezuela"s Latest Response to Food Shortages: Ban Lines Outside Bakeries

Gmeviphoto/Dreamstime.comThe tragedy of Venezuela continues unabated, but that doesn’t mean the government of President Nicolás Maduro has stopped trying to fix problems like the devastating scarcity of food which has led to malnutrition, riots, food truck hijackings, vigilante ...

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Zuckerberg Dismisses Claims Facebook Helped Trump Win

As the political establishment and news media cast about for explanations for Donald Trump’s upset victory in the presidential election – better known as “the blame game”
– Facebook has emerged as a surprisingly popular target, on the theory that it allowed “fake news” stories to circulate, a...

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Fred Raillard : #FredinChina: Chinese netizens slightly worried by Donald Trump"s victory

I’m Fred Raillard, Creative CEO, Co-founder and Creative Chief Officer with Farid Mokart of FRED & FARID, a social, content, tech solutions for brands company based in New York, Paris and Shanghai. #FredinChina is an essential social media podcast to know and understand the...

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Even I Wouldn't Have Published That Gawker Story

Every once in a long while, I write a column that I know would be highly controversial if published — so I send it to my editor and a couple of other folks I trust and ask them for their
reactions.  Often they suggest just a few minor fixes like “OMG, you have to kill the entire ...

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Donald Trump’s Plan to Preserve Social Security by Eliminating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Doesn’t Even Come Close to Adding Up

Donald Trump has staked out a position as the GOP primary’s most ardent defender of Social Security. He has promised not to change the benefit in any way, and insisted that he will both defend the program, which is on track to insolvency, from any cuts or changes and reduce annual...

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Natalie d"Aubermont Thompson: Letting In The Light

The sun seems to rise late this morning; it’s a sort of pale late-fall light, the kind where one doubts its ability to lighten up the entire sky, but in the end, the light seeps through the windowpane and a new day dawns again. By this time my brain has absorbed the election news of...

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Pioneers for Change: Sharing personal values as a basis for social entrepreneurship

By: Lara San Gil and Julie Kervadec





Years ago I met my best friend, Julie, whilst studying for a Master in International Marketing in Madrid. Towards the end of the programme, Julie and I took part in a competition for L’Oréal, making it through as finalist. Although we did not ...

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Donald Cohen: The Nod to Wall Street Buried Deep In Paul Ryan"s "Anti-Poverty" Plan

House Speaker Paul Ryan released a new “anti-poverty” plan last week that would only make it tougher for poor and working families to get by. As expected, the plan cuts from public programs that help low- and moderate-income Americans, while protecting tax cuts for the very...

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Ronnie Citron-Fink: One Mom"s Story From The Frontlines Of The Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance

Photo credit: Emily Arasim


Tensions at Standing Rock Camp escalated last week. With intensifying clashes between law enforcement and the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters, members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and allies continue to stand strong. The pipeline’s route threatens...

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14 Reasons To Embrace The Brilliance Of JOMO

For so long FOMO (fear of missing out) played havoc with our wallets, our expectations, our intestines and our sleep patterns. So hallelujah it’s finally become acceptable to openly declare for JOMO – the joy of missing out – (a bandwagon we jumped on back in 2014, t...

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Scott Yancey: Personal Networking is King in Real Estate Investing

I’m talking about the tried and true human interactions that build relationships that deliver opportunities. Meeting people with like goals or similar interests has always been one of the most productive business-building activities.


The Real Estate Investment Club


There...

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Men Are Assumed To Be Good Managers, But Women Have To Prove It

Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 
The Background
While some women have been able to break through the glass ceiling, far too often women are stereotyped as the more ...

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Craig Kanalley: Ads On Social Media: Something We All Need To Get Used To

For those who grew up during the time social media was “free” and there were no ads (or hardly any), consider yourself lucky.


While it’s true social networks often start with relatively few ads, it’s a given that’ll change in time. The Facebook ad platform...

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Anchors Aweigh: Y&R's Big Idea Hack For The U.S. Navy

In what
the agency is calling a first-of-a-kind event for the U.S. Navy, Young & Rubicam is coordinating a so-called “idea hack” this weekend to develop new approaches for messaging to
potential Navy recruits. 
The WPP agency won the Navy recruiting account last year
and has since set up...

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Creating A Rosier Future For Women In Tech

Images of Rosie the Riveter celebrated the vital jobs women held in previous unlikely areas such as munitions
factories and shipyards during World War II. The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) recently resurrected Rosie as an IT worker for a multipronged campaign aimed at...

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Social Media: Word of Mouth, Amplified Exponentially

It’s something of a truism by now that social media is vital to business success, but the “why” and ROI behind social media’s importance are often harder to pin down. In an article for Chicago Now, Genevieve Valliere explores the “why” and offers this assessment: ‘When it comes to choosing wh...

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The Party of Upworthy

UpworthyIf Donald Trump is the first man to run for president as a Twitter troll, the Democrats are putting on the first political convention that plays like a reel of Upworthy videos. The only things missing are the clickbait headlines. “Hillary Is a Change-Maker. Here’s Why...

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The End is Nigh

doomsteaddinerA majority of people—54 percent—surveyed in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom believe there’s a risk of 50 percent or more that our way of life will end within the next 100 years. Even worse, some 25 percent of respondents in the same poll bel...

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Shikha Dalmia on the Rubio-Lee Tax Reform Plan

Goat4421 / Foter / CC BY-SARepublican Senators Marco Rubio and Mike Lee recently released a tax reform proposal that is a curious mix of principled pro-growth measures and populist middle-class relief. Where it sticks to principle, it is great. But where it veers into populism, the plan...

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Generational Divide: CPAC Gets High and Gay Married

Why is it that the marriage equality debate always ignores one
obvious point? All US citizens are equal under the current law. As
long as people meet the requirements of the law, anyone can get
married. No individual is treated differently or has different
requirements to meet.
What the...

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Immigrants Are Less Criminal Than Native-Born Americans

ReasonImmigration, especially illegal immigration,
leads to more crime, assert some anti-immigrant think tanks. A 2010 poll in
Utah found that 62
percent of respondents  “definitely” or “probably” agreed that
illegal immigrants are responsible for a disproportionate ...

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How Political Extremism Sways Presidential Elections and Public Policy

Chine Nouvelle/SIPA/Newscom“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,” Barry Goldwater famously declared as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in 1964. I have never really understood why some people thought those words were beyond the pale. Yet some more...

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Todd Pollak: Another Presidential Election Season Nearly Come And Gone Again With No Real Discussion Of Environmental Issues

The 2016 presidential election campaign is finally almost over. It’s been nearly a year and a half since Ted Cruz became the first major candidate to launch his campaign on March 23, 2015. Cruz was soon followed by 22 other major Republican and Democrat candidates. During that time...

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Lisa Curtis: The A"s -- 4 Reasons Why Oakland Is a Great Place to Start-up

Startups, food trucks and spoken word intertwined as hundreds of people gathered to celebrate local innovation. No, this wasn’t another San Francisco pitch event, it was Oakland’s Indie Awards, designed to celebrate businesses and artists that have built a prosperous and unique...

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Venezuela Raises Minimum Wage, Public Sector Pay to Quell Protests

Cristian Hernandez/EFE/NewscomThe Venezuelan government announced a minimum wage hike of 20 percent effective November 1, going from 22,576 Bolivars to 27,091 Bolivars, as reported by Caracas Chronicles, which cites the unofficial exchange rate at 1,350 Bolivars to the dollar. The official...

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False Health Content More Popular On Social Media

“A lie goes halfway around the world while the truth is still pulling on its pants,” as the old saying goes, and when it comes to social media the truth may barely get out the door. A
new study of social media sharing patterns, focusing on content about the Zika virus outbreak, found that rep...

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Does Facebook Consider You a Liberal, Conservative, or Moderate?

Nick GillespieIt’s no secret that Facebook, the planet’s largest social-media platform, is constantly gathering intelligence on all its users. What, did you think all those “likes” were just going down the drain at the end of a long workday? Articles you share, shows...

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50 Over 50? 60 Over 60? Where Is Your List?

It seems a staple of most trade magazines to run an annual story featuring 20 Under 20, or 30 Under 30, or 40 Under 40 — purportedly identifying the best people in their jobs, in that industry,
who are under the featured age limit. Most of the lists are highly subjective and often overlook a t...

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Social Security"s IOU Trust Fund

GARY I ROTHSTEIN/UPI/NewscomSocial Security is the largest single program in the federal budget. The retirement and disability program will cost about $950 billion this year, which is about 23 percent of the entire federal budget. Along with Medicare and Medicaid, these...

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Stanley S. Litow: It"s Time for a New Model for Our Schools

An August 2011 study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce confirms what teachers, parents, and public and private sector leaders have known for years: A postsecondary education is now the gateway to the middle class. The Georgetown study indicates that the...

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Systems Changers: Introducing Systems Changers

“Help. A man has just fallen on the floor, has cracked his head open, is convulsing and I don’t know what to do,” came my 20 year old panic stricken words crackling down a walkie talkie. I stood alone and totally overwhelmed on the third floor of massive rolling shelter in...

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Michael Jacobsen: Bratislava leads the way in future thinking at GLOBSEC Tatra Summit 2016

Co-Author Zuzana Palovic – CEE and Migration Expert





As the 2016 Slovak Presidency of the EU winds down, Bratislava has played host to the 4th GLOBSEC Tatra Summit investment forum over October 27-28. Supported by Tatra Banka Slovakia, whose CEO Michal Liday is a leading supporter...

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Michael D. Shaw: Social Impact Investing -- The Woman"s Touch

It was William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin aka Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) who said, “To measure is to know.” So, let’s look at some measurements, shall we?


In Silicon Valley, flush with pride in its progressivism, we find that only 7% of partners at the top 100 venture...

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