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Is It Time for Content Marketers to Abandon Facebook? | Copyblogger
Is It Time for Content Marketers to Abandon Facebook? | Copyblogger.
The answer to a question in a headline is usually “no”, and so it is here. FB, like any social media property, can engage part of your audience if you approach it with an understanding of how they like to use it. But the center of your web presence is your own site — and your own mailing list — and walled-garden, corporate-silo social media sites are to be used for leading visitors to you. Not the other way around.
Posted in Social Networking, Web Mastery
Tagged copyblogger, corporate silo, facebook, social marketing, Sonia Simone, walled garden
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Purple County Cartogram
From Mark Newman, the co-inventor of the cartogram algorithm.
Romney: Elect Me Or House GOP Will Wreck The Economy
Hearing about Romney’s latest, I sent this to my Republican Congressional candidate.
To: gibsonforcongresshq@gmail.com
From: Amos Newcombe <anewc2@gmail.com>
Subject: Mitt RomneyMitt Romney says that if Obama is elected, House Republicans will shut down the economy over the debt ceiling, like you almost did last year. Is that true? Are you going to be a part of that? Because I don’t want to vote for you if you are going to do that.
Amos Newcombe
Kingston, NY
I’ll update with any reply.
Art Business Cards
Each card a unique work of art. Or craft. Or something.
The Largest Social Sharing and Targeting Platform | AddThis
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Thank you for my life, minie ball
When my grandfather was a small child, his leg was severely broken in a carriage accident. Everyone thought his leg had to be amputated. His father, a surgeon, said no, he had cut off enough legs during the war, and he wasn’t going to do that to his own son. The leg, and my grandfather, survived and went on to live a normal life, marrying, raising a family, having grandchildren.
The war was the American Civil War and my great-grandfather, Robert Loughran, served as surgeon to the 20th NY State Militia.
The new minie ball used in battle caused horrible injuries, splintering bones and mangling softer tissues. Amputation was many times the only choice. Thanks to one surgeon’s horror at the things he saw, and the things he had to do, my grandfather was saved and I am here to tell the story.
Some of that horror occurred at the Battle of Antietam, in which the 20th NY was fully involved, 150 years ago today.