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The hidden influence of social networks (TED Video)

Nicholas Christakis:

July 2010

We're all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits -- from happiness to obesity -- can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don't even know.

Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. Ted.com

Interesting Articles

Successful Brand Development

By John D Bloise
President/CEO Digital Architectures, Inc.

Many companies are utilizing fractured or unbalanced marketing plans that don't focus on strengthening their corporate brand. Learn how one successful branding & design firm helps their clients to develop successful branding strategies. ( MORE )

Mike “Zappy” Zapolin on where social media is evolving next
By Sean McMahon on May 11, 2010

If you were to draw up a social media family tree, the lineage that connects Friendster to LinkedIn, LinkedIn to MySpace, MySpace to Facebook, and Facebook to Twitter wouldn’t be that hard to follow in retrospect. Nor would the pace of adoption of these tools for business — very few companies bothered with Friendster, but now even some of the most conservative businesses have jumped onto Facebook and Twitter. Each new tool brought more to the table and contributed to the adoption of social media as a both a personal- and business-communications platform. ( MORE )