Keeping the “Social” in Social Media: How to Interact with Your Customers Online

Companies are increasingly turning to the Web to reach their customer bases, in part to get in on the hype surrounding social media. Unfortunately though, using social media tools isn’t enough for effective PR or social media marketing. You have to use them well. (more from Directory Journal.com)
http://www.dirjournal.com/guides/keeping-the-social-in-social-media-how-to-interact-with-your-customers-online/

Office Politics

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Zen Habits

 The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People

“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for contructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” ~Rollo May
Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow on twitter or identica.

http://zenhabits.net/creative-habit/

Corporate Content Control...A Social Medium Without Conversation...

"Do not attempt to remove critical; even defamatory comments and do not try to shut down “negativity groups / spaces” – you will immediately be branded a “controller” and it will always backfire, as more than one organisation told us." .H. Andreasen
http://www.jboye.com/blogpost/from-control-to-conversation-corporations-and-social-media/

Chef Boyardee Print Campaign

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Art and Medicine at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (Part 2)

 

Gilles Barbier, L'Hospice (The Nursing Home), 2002. Detail

When American superheroes get too shabby, they are sent to vegetate in Gilles Barbier's Nursing Home. The work refers quite straightforwardly to our societies' obsession with eternal youth. Should medical research be geared towards the fight against the loss of youthfulness? Or isn't medicine's most noble mission to provide us with better lives? Will our society ever revert to respecting old age?
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The Exhibit