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You Decide! Interactivity in New Media

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I recently noticed a Victoria’s Secret ad while browsing Facebook that prompted me to decide whether the character in the ad should spend the night in or go out on the town with her partner. You can see the ad on YouTube here , but this doesn’t replicate the fluid experience of the fully embedded ad on Facebook very well.

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Book Review: Disrupted – The Dark Side of Silicon Valley

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We see this same flow in the early days of major tech companies like Twitter and Facebook. For example, Hubspot claimed that “cold calling is dead,” yet, they had these “boiler rooms” of solicitors calling their website leads. Step one: acquire venture capital. Step two: achieve extraordinarily growth.

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Converting Live Workshops to an Online Course (Part I)

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Facebook and Twitter and especially discussion threads are important to incorporated into online lesson plans. I also use an example from Magna Publications, a publisher that developed and markets a completely asynchronous three-hour workshop on campus safety for administrators and professors (Campus Safety 101).