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

Health Care Hell

It's the end of the month and you can't pay for your medical bill so you are placed on collections. Free market healthcare Sci Fi movie features Repo Men out to get your organs.
Repo Men Posters Price Out Your Organs

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Chemical BPA Linked to Heart Disease

You might want to consider an alternative the next time you store your food in those plastic containers. A recent study found high concentrations of BPA, a man made chemical used in everyday plastic containers linked to heart disease. Read source

David Lynch to Get Gehry Design in Lodz, Poland

Frank Gehry is to build a very large cultural center in Lodz, Poland. A very interesting addition to the rest of the renovations that Lodz is going through. This is the first time that Gehry will design a building in Poland.

The interior is going to be made up of a large projected screen and it’s roof will complement the gothic cathedral in Lodz.

There will be 4 movie theaters, 1 large concert auditorium, 1 small auditorium and a large courtyard.

Polish Architecture, Frank Gehry and Lodz, Poland
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