Archive for January 13th, 2009

Social Media: It’s Not The Size of Your Following, It’s What You Do With It

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Profile Optimization

We and many others have been pushing Twitter as a great social networking tool that also has business implications. We have joined a number of sites in talking about business tools for Twitter and marketing success stories there.

It was inevitable that spammers would come along to tout ways to quickly build the number of people following you on the micro-blogging platform. The obvious equation here is that the number of followers you have = success.

Daily insights on Search Marketing, Social Media and SEO by Reprise Media..

Interview: Noah Sow

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

“Germany is a developing country in terms of
racism

Noah tells it like it is when it comes to racism. An interview with the German Noah Sow about her new book Deutschland Black & white. Everyday Racism’.  She talks about her work as an anti-racism activist and about herself as a singer in a punk rock band. And for young people, she has a clear message too.

Noah Sow, born and raised in Bavaria Germany, is a moderater in radio and TV shows. She is also a
radio play writer, author, speaker and producer. As a composer and singer she became well known with the band  “Noah Sow & The Heimlich Maneuver.” In 2001, she founded the organization der braune mob, the first anti-racist media watch dog in Germany.

Germany Black & White by Noah Sow

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

cover_schwarzweiss A book that challenges accepted paradigms.

Non-Germans may be surprised to learn about the existence of numerous Black Germans (Schwarze Deutsche) who have   always     been here. Even the most cautious estimates say that there are far more than 1,000,000 Blacks currently living in      Germany, most of whom are German citizens. This makes up more than one percent of the country’s population

With a background of years of media-watch and antiracist work, Noah Sow puts the finger into the wound of unconscious racism and erects many attention-getting stumbling blocks. Against the backdrop of Germany’s specific difficulties with race and nationality, Noah Sow speaks the uncomfortable truth from a Black German perspective, thereby starting a process of awareness that will lead to changes.

In Germany Black & White, we learn how even German UNICEF advertising campaigns use racist clichés, why Bavaria is a developing country, and why the relationships between White mothers and Black children are more than just a family affair.

Thanks to the author’s unique talent to pair hard facts with humour, the result is a book that teaches about a subject that is as important as it is painful, in a way that is effective, substantial and entertaining.

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KickApps Integrates Meebo, Yahoo Maps Using New App Studio

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

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KickApps, one of the more well known social media solutions vendors has announced the release of KickApps App Studio, the next generation of its widget and video authoring solution. While the studio continues to enable you to develop customized Flash applications, the new capabilities enable you to integrate third party applications, content and web services. And they have a couple of services already integrated to get you moving. MORE…
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  • March 11
    “So they sat in their quiet sorrow: they did not harden themselves against the consolation of the world; they were humble enough to acknowledge that life is a dark saying, and as in their thought they were swift to listen to see if there might be an explanatory word, so were they also slow to [...] […]
  • March 10
    “Dependence on God is the only independence, because God has no gravity; only the things of this earth, especially earthly treasure, have that — therefore the person who is completely dependent on him is light.” ——————————————————– ~Source: Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits: “What We Learn from the Lilies in the Field and the Birds of the Air” [...] […]
  • March 09
    “Worldly similarity, if it were possible, is not Christian equality. Moreover, to bring about worldly similarity perfectly is an impossibility. Well-intentioned worldliness actually admits this itself. It rejoices when it succeeds in making temporal conditions the same for more and more people, but it acknowledges itself that its struggle is a pious wish, th […]
  • March 08
    “My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in [...] […]
  • March 07
    “Now if the learner is to acquire the Truth, the Teacher must bring it to him; and not only so, but he must also give him the condition necessary for understanding it. For if the learner were in his own person the condition for understanding the Truth, he need only recall it.” ——————————————————– ~Source: Philosophical Fragments (1844) Author: [...] […]
  • March 06
    “The secular view always clings tightly to the difference between man and man and naturally does not have any understanding of the one thing needful (for to have it is spirituality), and thus has no understanding of the reductionism and narrowness involved in having lost oneself, not by being volatilized in the infinite, but by [...] […]
  • March 05
    “Imagine hidden in a very plain setting a secret chest in which the most precious treasure is placed — there is a spring that must be pressed, but the spring is concealed, and the pressure must be of a certain force so that an accidental pressure cannot be sufficient. The hope of eternity is concealed [...] […]
  • March 04
    “When the religious speaker, in explaining that a man can do nothing of himself, sets something wholly particular in relation to this principle, he gives the auditor occasion to secure a profound insight into his own inmost heart, helps him to penetrate the delusions and illusions, so as to lay aside at least for a [...] […]
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