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How Mike Tyson Became a Social Media Heavyweight

Mike Tyson

Tyson has gathered some 4 million combined followers on Twitter and Facebook, and his Youtube  has amassed nearly 23 million views. He posts photos to Instagram, too, and is one of a growing number of athletes to embrace social games as the next frontier in personal brand-building and marketing. Recently, the 45-year-old Tyson functioned as WWE WrestleMania‘s “social media [...]

Facebook Agrees: The Key To Its Future Success Is Design

Facebookdesign

Facebook is playing a different design game than the rest of Silicon Valley. Instead of obsessing about making tasks like posting a photo easier or making the interface more beautiful, Facebook is getting its product out of the way. The goal, explains Cox, is to “make the experience of using Facebook as seamless and easy [...]

10 Ways to Humanize Your Brand On Social Media

Mashable

1 Think Like A Social Network-If the world’s largest social network believes companies and people are on equal fitting, maybe you should too. 2 Start With Stuff-In Smart Business-Your employees are the most authentic expression of your brand. Start with them. 3 Keep the Suits in Check-The executive team is simply too far removed from [...]

Jer Thorp : The Weight of Data

Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. Coming from a background in genetics, his digital art practice explores the many-folded boundaries between science and art. Recently, his work has been featured by The New York Times, The Guardian, Scientific American, The New Yorker, and the CBC. Thorp’s [...]

Google Now Accepting Student Applications For Its 2012 Summer of Code

Summer Of Code by Google

Google has officially opened registration for this year’s Summer Code. Started in 2005, the program offers paid internships for students who want to code open-source projects. The three-month-long global program pays university students a stipend to work on open-source projects with mentors in the field. Students apply to be part of the program and, if accepted, [...]

10 Top Execs Share Their Social Media Secrets

Social Media

Think About Community “Encourage a social culture: Culture and change management is the foundation of true social business transformation. Create a social business agenda, an integrated plan to be more competitive and have a measurable ROE (return on everything) an organizations does socially. – Sandy Carter, vice president, social business evangelism and sales at IBM Careful [...]

100-Mile Houses Expand the Locavore Movement From Food to Architecture

100 Miles House

The idea of a 100-mile house shouldn’t be shocking: Historically, most homes were made using local materials simply because it was more practical. But in an age when even middle-class homeowners can order marble countertops from Italy and bamboo floors from China, creating a home entirely from local materials challenges builders to carefully consider every [...]