Category: social media
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The Future of Social Networking on the Human Tech podcast
In this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk about the recent backlash against social networking companies, and what the future may look like as a result.
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Brexit, Tech, Globalization
The Brexit vote in the UK — In this HumanTech podcast we explore the possible connections among Brexit type votes, technology, and trends in globalization. HumanTech is a podcast at the intersection of humans, brain science, and technology. Your hosts Guthrie and Dr. Susan Weinschenk explore how behavioral and brain science affects our technologies and…
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Are You Addicted To Texting?
One of my early blog posts was about dopamine, and since then our smartphones have become even more capable of triggering a “dopamine loop.” So I thought I would re-visit the topic. Especially because I just did an animated video on the topic for the Brain Signal youtube channel: It’s all about dopamine. Dopamine is a…
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100 Things You Should Know About People: #43 — People Expect Online Interactions to Follow Social Rules
When people interact with each other they follow rules and guidelines for social interaction. Here’s an example: Let’s say I go to a café and I see you sitting by the window. We know each other, and so I come up to you and say, “Hi Richard, how are you doing today?” I expect you…
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Experimenting With Motivation At Blogs
I’ve been blogging for 1.5 years, although I didn’t really get rolling till about 6 months ago. This was about the time I found Yaro Starak’s wonderful Blog Mastermind training (there’s a link (affiliate) to Yaro and the course in the right sidebar). Bloggers are an experimental and very social group — One of the…
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Quick Review of Dan Zarrella's Social Media Marketing Book
I just finished reading Dan Zarrella’s book and it’s good. Small but with lots of info. Here’s a quick video review and then a text summary follows afterwards: In the book Dan Zarrella goes through all the different types of social media and how a business or organization can/should use them. I think it’s geared…
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100 Things You Should Know About People: #15 — If You Use Social Media Without Laughter You Aren't Being Social
If you engage in social media are you being social? You email, you text, you twitter, you leave voicemails for people, so you are plugged in, right? Well, actually not. In all of these means of communication you are not actually physically interacting with another person. True social bonding requires a physical reaction to the…
