Kent Beatty on December 5th, 2009

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This infographic spans the timeline from 1995 up until today.  The really large social networks exploded into existence during the 2003 – 2006 period:

What’s next?  For one thing: Personal Branding.  According to Chad Levitt, [...]

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Kent Beatty on December 9th, 2008

This is a great video. 
Watching this may be the best 15 minutes you spend all day.  C’mon, only 15 minutes out of 1,440 per day, or 10,080 per week.

Acknowledgement, affirmation, validation, civility – we all need it.  One of the mindless things we do is to withhold ourselves from others.  Not glancing at [...]

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Kent Beatty on August 26th, 2008

We connect, relate, group and network:

Facebook is Number 1 Globally but MySpace is still most popular in the United States. Pingdom.com used Google Insights for Search to compare search volume comparisons across global regions and thereby assess Social Network popularity. They looked at the google data to see where the 12 top social [...]

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