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Thunder SEO Announces Max Thomas to Speak at SMX West 2012 – MarketWatch (press release)
Feb 24th
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Thunder SEO Announces Max Thomas to Speak at SMX West 2012
MarketWatch (press release) SAN DIEGO, CA, Feb 24, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Thunder SEO, an online marketing agency in San Diego, California, announces their Founder and President, Max Thomas, has been selected to speak at the Search Marketing Expo SMX West 2012 conference … |
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Why We Speak Freely on Social Networks
Feb 20th
We message on Facebook but in-person I’m awkward and you’re shy. When our Twitter conversation went from @ messages to direct messages, you seemed more reserved and I felt more open to speak my mind. Let’s follow each other on Pinterest and share the pictures that are in our mind. I just want to be in your head. I just want to feel what you’re feeling. I want to be inside of you, truly. But in real life, I can barely look you in the eye. I know too much about what you know I know.
Social networking sites give us portals into another person’s (user’s) mind, so far as that person (user) makes public their thoughts, ideas, feelings and desires. At times, we are perhaps more honest online, and especially on social networks, than we are in real life. Recent studies suggest that we are exactly the same on Facebook as we are in real life – but that might not be true. We might actually be even more of who we are online than in real life.
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Social networks are both a space of freedom and a place of imprisonment. We are free to say whatever we think and feel. That is the first question Facebook asks us when we go to our profiles.
Yet in speaking our minds on social networks, we not only share information we also embody the medium itself. Or, as Marshall McLuhan famously wrote, “the medium is the message.” And we cannot detach what we say on Facebook from Facebook itself.
The Medium is the Message
There is a symbiotic relationship between message and medium, and that medium influences how the message is perceived. If a user posts that he or she just got married onto Facebook, they are essentially encouraging all of their friends to accept and react to that status update on Facebook. The medium embodies this message – you are married, on Facebook. The translation to offline conversation may not happen as smoothly. “Hey, just noticed that you were married, um, that’s what Facebook told me. Congrats!” This sentence could be followed by an awkward pause, then silence. That conversation might best continue on Facebook itself. We cannot divorce the medium from the message that’s being conveyed. Our entire idea of communication shifts.
“As society’s values, norms and ways of doing things change because of the technology, it is then we realize the social implications of the medium,” writes the anonymous author(s) of “The Medium is the Message”‘s Wikipedia page. “These range from cultural or religious issues and historical precedents, through interplay with existing conditions, to the secondary or tertiary effects in a cascade of interactions that we are not aware of.”
Don’t Look at Me, I Won’t Look at You
When we do not have to look each other in the eye, we are more honest with each other. Such is the case with social networking sites. But why? The Wall Street Journal’s Matt Ridley story takes a look at the ways that other species interact in order to deduce a bit more about human behavior.
“In monkeys and apes, face-to-face contact is essentially antagonistic. Staring is a threat,” writes Ridley. “A baboon that fails to avert its eyes when stared at by a social superior is, in effect, mounting a challenge. Appeasing a dominant animal is an essential skill for any chimpanzee wishing to avoid a costly fight.”
What happens when you put two monkeys in a cage, or two humans in an elevator? The pair, confined to small quarters, will do their absolute best to avoid eye contact and confrontation. Similarly, two human strangers trapped in an elevator or cab together might discuss something as banal as the weather. Even conversation about sports might bring up too many emotions. But the weather is one thing we can discuss with minimal emotional reaction.
You Are a Liar, a Bully and a Freak! You Are Honest, Kind & Generous.
In his article in the journal CyberPsychology and Behavior, Rider University’s John Suler coins the “disinhibition effect,” which suggests that people on social networking sites feel free to share very personal things about themselves – secret emotions, fears, wishes. Conversely, social networkers show “unusual acts of kindness and generosity,” which is known as “benign disinhibition.” Suler also defines “toxic disinhibition,” the idea of people online exploring sites of pornography and violence, places that they wouldn’t visit in the real world (strip clubs, bathhouses, scenes of crime and abuse) but feel free to do online. Suler points out that the overall effect of online disinhibition is caused by several factors which interact with each other, and result in something far more complex.
“When people have the opportunity to separate their actions from their real world and identity, they feel less vulnerable about opening up. Whatever they say or do can’t be directly linked to the rest of their lives,” Suler writes.
The stuff you do or say on social networks in some way feels dissociated from the rest of your life – so, in effect, it feels like it has no consequences. But in terms of its emotional effect, there are reprecussions. Behaviors are still behaviors, whether they happen online or off.
Is what we show about ourselves online more true than what we share with others in our every day lives? Maybe. Or maybe it’s just a pathway into our imaginations, our mindscapes. And if the user feels safe sharing those ideas, then the space in which this happens is not as important.
“In their imagination, where it’s safe, people feel free to say and do all sorts of things that they wouldn’t in reality. At that moment, reality is one’s imagination. Online text communication can become the psychological tapestry in which a person’s mind weaves these fantasy role plays, usually unconsciously and with considerable disinhibition. All of cyberspace is a stage and we are merely players,” Suler writes.
But still, it is important to be careful what you reveal in those spontaneous moments of cyber freedom. Be prepared to defend your thoughts and ideas, to be an open book in a public space. Be safe, be vulnerable, be aware of what you say.
Online honesty cuts both ways,” writes Ridley. “Bloggers find that readers who comment on their posts are often harshly frank but that these same rude critics become polite if contacted directly. There’s a curious pattern here that goes against old concerns over the threat of online dissembling. In fact, the mechanized medium of the Internet causes not concealment but disinhibition, giving us both confessional behavior and ugly brusqueness. When the medium is impersonal, people are prepared to be personal.”
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Thunder SEO Announces Monique Pouget to Speak at SMX West 2012 – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Feb 20th
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Thunder SEO Announces Monique Pouget to Speak at SMX West 2012
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) San Diego-based online marketing agency, Thunder SEO, announces their Senior SEO and Social Media Strategist, Monique Pouget, has been selected to speak at the Search Marketing Expo SMX West 2012 conference. The topic Pouget will be speaking on is … |
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Thunder SEO Announces Monique Pouget to Speak at SMX West 2012 – DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Feb 20th
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Thunder SEO Announces Monique Pouget to Speak at SMX West 2012
DigitalJournal.com (press release) Thunder SEO, an online marketing agency in San Diego, California, announces their Senior SEO and Social Media Strategist, Monique Pouget, has been selected to speak at the Search Marketing Expo SMX West 2012 conference. |
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Want To Speak @ SMX London? Here’s How
Feb 14th
The agenda is live, and we’re now accepting submissions to speak at SMX London on May 15-16, 2012. To increase the odds of being selected, be sure to read the agenda. Understand what the sessions are about. Ensure that your pitch is on target to the show’s audience and the session. Please also be…
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Thunder SEO Announces Gary Magnone to Speak at SMX West 2012 – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Feb 9th
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Thunder SEO Announces Gary Magnone to Speak at SMX West 2012
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) San Diego-based online marketing agency, Thunder SEO, announces their Senior SEO Strategist and Business Developer, Gary Magnone, has been selected to speak at the Search Marketing Expo SMX West 2012 conference. The topic Magnone will be speaking on is … |
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Internationally known SEO expert to speak at marketing event in Oklahoma City – NewsOK.com
Feb 8th
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Internationally known SEO expert to speak at marketing event in Oklahoma City
NewsOK.com These days, many marketers are turning to search engine optimization, commonly known as SEO, as a way to help them get their content viewed by the public. SEO is the process of editing and website's content and building links in it in order to improve … |
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Want To Speak @ SMX Toronto? Here’s How
Feb 6th
The agenda is live, and we’re now accepting submissions to speak at SMX Toronto 2012, on April 25-26. To increase the odds of being selected, be sure to read the agenda. Understand what the sessions are about. Ensure that your pitch is on target to the show’s audience and the session. Please also…
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SOPA Uncensored: You Speak Out
Jan 19th
Several internet giants either blacked out today, or came out strongly against SOPA and PIPA. ReadWriteWeb covered the issue, noting who spoke out, who blacked out and who jumped in to fill any gaps. You can see all of our coverage of SOPA and PIPA all in one place.
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But covering a story fully often means turning the lens back to the community. The community of readers here at ReadWriteWeb never cease to amaze us with their smart commentary and responses, so we’ve compiled a list of some of the most intriguing below. One caveat though, is to remember that this is internet commenting, and though there are typos and misspellings, it shouldn’t detract from the overall thought. Inclusion in this list does not necessarily imply agreement.
From What Mark Zuckerberg Says About SOPA/PIPA
i wish #facebook and #twitter join the protest against #sopa like wikipedia .. to reach major portion of internet users..
— sudhir pullamsetty (@sudhirpullamset) January 18, 2012
From Wikipedia Goes Dark, News Orgs Say “I Got This”
b1313536 — “Let them suffer!!!! The suffering done because wikipedia tried to inform people via the shutdown for only one day will be nothing like the suffering from censorship if the bill passes. Boycott Washington Post for trying to take advantage!”
Brendan Blaine — “Thanks for the article Jon!
The idea of an unaware Wikipedia user when it comes to something like SOPA or PIPA is truly frightening. Mainstream media outlets (as general supporters of the online piracy bills before congress) have done an amazingly good job of not informing people about the implications that the passing of these bills will have on the ability of people who turn to the internet for entertainment, information, news, or use the internet as a platform from which they can provide food and shelter for themselves and their families to continue to do so. So much so that the majority of the people in the US (and the world) don’t really know what it is all about and how heavily it will impact their lives.The experiment is interesting though and I look forward to reading the blog post about their findings and experience.”
John Collins — “Really? People can’t take a single day off from looking up how many Twilight Zone episodes Jack Klugman was in?
If your researching a paper your local public and/or school library exists for a reason, folks! Don’t be so dependent on a single access point for your information.”
Margaret E Hazel — “Did you know you can access many public libraries online now, too? We have chat and text reference available, not to mention a slew of good databases to do research in.”
Zack Ambold — “I’m not sure if these three news organizations can do in one day, what Wikipedia has done since it’s creation, but good luck! Ha ha”
Carlos José Teixeira — “Yeap… Trying to redirect attention, but to late. What did they meanwhile wikipedia was working?”
From What I Wish Wikipedia and Others Were Saying About SOPA/PIPA
Danielle Morrill — “Yes yes yes, this is exactly it! I agree and we need to all become more vigilant. I also implore you, as a member of the news media who is paying attention – please help us stay informed. Government is big and complex and we laymen have work to accomplish day-to-day. Help us find information, point us to new sources, new ideas. Challenge us. Its not that we can’t think, but simply that we are busy producing and I personally feel their are few news sources that give me the facts, respect my intelligence, and dig in deep.”
. @jfelipe @jzb @RWW @philshapiro But, from the 10000ft. view, this is the beginning of that wished awareness/action stream. Never too late.
— Pablo Machón (@pablomachon) January 18, 2012
Aaron Alexander — “Agree.
What I find most shocking is that one minute I’m getting the “what-a-conspiracy-nut” look, then I’m stating facts that fighten people (NDAA says this, PIPA does that, etc), then the next: we’re talking about the weather. (IRL conversations)
Why it is such a struggle to keep important conversation topics live is beyond me.
When people ask, upon hitting the site, “WHY IS WIKIPEDIA DOWN?” it blows my mind.
I don’t have faith in this protest. SOPA is back. We cannot protest that people _learn_.
They’re just abusing the tools they’ve been given. Microsoft is mass producing the television-computer. Facebook is the new video game for budding adults who would rather defer on their social responsibilities and post LOLcat pictures or pictures of themselves. Big oil companies here in Texas are just leeching from the open source movement’s work (sites that use WordPress as a CMS or MediaTemple as a Webhost, but won’t protest confuses the absolute hell out of me).
Many people think: “It’s _my_ website, so I get to say whatever I please” while the foundation of the whole system on which they’re claiming their rights is under attack. And they don’t even want to educate themselves.
I don’t understand why Wikipedia has to demand that people become politically active and motivated. That seems so backwards. People go to Wikipedia to lift answers and shortcut the academic system. And now we have a problem that can only be solved by more people engaging in academic learning.
None of this makes a lick of sense. I’m not even sure how we could qualitatively say the protest was a success. Quantifiably, sure: Senators’ sites go down. Some recant. But that’s just hitting around balls on a billiard table. Who the heck really knows what’s going on and who’ll win the game?
It’s Congress’ job to review these bills. They can wait all year, and no one understands that. This is how the Patriot Act got passed.”
Orga Price — The fact that a law like SOPA/PIPA got so far is indicative of a populace that is indifferent, blinded, stupid, or some combination thereof.
I don’t wish Wikipedia et al. were saying anything else, because SOPA/PIPA is a symptom. The disease is the ignorance of the American voting populace.”
Mariva H. Aviram — “This is FANTASTIC. I was just thinking about these issues today: what other dreadful legislation have we allowed through, just because protesting them wasn’t as sexy or as popular as protesting SOPA/PIPA?”
From With Today’s Protests, SOPA Becomes a Mainstream Issue
fjpoblam — “Informing the general public is crucial. Putting the issue into easily understood terms is essential. The media giants have given coverage short shrift: by and large, they are pro-SOPA (ABC, CBS, NBC). This presents a major obstacle. Word-of-mouth coverage has been the medium of choice.”
Christopher McHale — Who’s missing Wikipedia? Not me. If I want to to do research I’ll walk across the street to the library.
@rww SOPA’s death rattle makes me very proud to be an American goo.gl/IFtRd We UNITED for freedom: rich, poor, black, white & other!
— Mary Neal (@koffietime) January 18, 2012
From Stop SOPA: What A Blacked Out Internet Looks Like
Dillie-O Bonum — “I want to also point out that wordpress made it easy for hosted account users to do a full blackout or a support label in as simple as two clicks. I did that on my blog today to help support it. It was nice to help empower the users that way.”
From SOPA Resurrected as Google and Others Join Protests
Jennifer Cobb — “Glad to see it and and for a good cause. Makes you wonder — what if the tech giants decided to go dark for some other reason? Good or bad, depending on where you sit? Awesome? Awful?”
From SOPA, GoDaddy and the Bottom-Up Democracy (or Mob Rule) of the Web
BradBell — “SOPA so obscenely stupid that it’s difficult to discuss.
Every stone in the foundation of the analog business model called, ‘selling content’ has been undermined by the transition from analog to digital media – yet we discuss “piracy.”
We discuss the moral failure of consumers rather than the failure of businesses to adapt to a new telecommunications landscape.
SOPA is a bailout. We’re bailing out an obsolete business model.”
iWantMyName — “The online response to SOPA pales when we consider how the Internet has led to greater political empowerment for many in 2011. The more important issue is that government censorship of the Internet at the behest of big corporations undermines online freedom in general. Just ask the young people who protested and broadcast their struggle online from Egypt, Libya, Iran and Russia.
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Last Call To Speak At SMX West
Jan 6th
We’re finalizing the speaker lineup for SMX West, and there are still a few openings. We’re particularly interested in hearing from you if you can speak knowledgeably on the following topics: Best Practices With adCenter For Bing & Yahoo Beyond The Google AdWords Tool Duplication,…
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