About Connor Livingston

13-Steps to Social Media Success

Social Media Success

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do you have success in social media? One step at a time.

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Is Seattle the Next Silicon Valley?

Seattle Silicon Valley

If there’s one thing in common between Silicon Valley (San Francisco) and Silicon Alley (New York City), it’s cost. These cities are known for having some of the highest costs of living in the world, let alone America. When it comes to tech innovations, centralization is important to keep the various growing companies together, but it’s still relatively-exclusive.

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Social Media Milestones

Social Media Milestones

From Friendster to Charlie Sheen, social media has experienced more ups and downs in the last decade than most would believe imaginable. At times, it seems as if we’re just going through the motions and repeating the same things over and over again. Then, every now and then, something comes along that’s… different.

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Social Media has a Friend in Fitness: Greatist

Greatist Social Media

As social media continues to expand and enter more areas of our lives, the health and fitness segment has been dominated by a handful of major companies and publications. Nike was a trendsetter. Men’s Health made a splash early on. For the pure healthy lifestyle enthusiast who also enjoys a good Tweet or Facebook update, there’s an up-and-coming site that has the right mix of substance and social: Greatist.

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Portable Power: The Progress of Mobile Business Intelligence

Mobile Business Intelligence

In early 2008, just under 20 percent of companies were delivering business intelligence data to mobile devices, but nearly 80 percent had a keen interest in doing so.

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When in Doubt, Blame Twitter

Blame Twitter

How can something so harmless in sound and form be so devastatingly bad for our world. Despite the cute little bird mascots and harmless-sounding name, Twitter can actually be tracked back to be the cause of nearly everything that is going wrong in the world.

Everything.

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Why We Need Wuphf

Wuphf

Some of us need Wuphf. With so many ways through which to communicate, it can be challenging to get the right message to the right person without having to go through several different methods. It was part of a joke on an episode of The Office last year, but there’s real merit in the concept.

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Did Neil deGrasse Tyson Break Reddit?

Tyson AMA Reddit

In the past, emergency outages at Reddit have been caused by an overload of comments. When astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hit Reddit yesterday with “I am Neil deGrasse Tyson — AMA“, the community responded. During the subsequent slow period on Reddit early this morning, the site went into emergency maintenance mode for over an hour. Coincidence?

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Understanding the US National Debt

Understanding the National Debt

Reddit: The World’s Most Powerful Social Media Site?

Reddit Power

This should actually be a long, comprehensive piece detailing the recent meteoric rise, subsequent expansion of power, and reluctant emergence of the site into the same power category as Twitter and even (gulp!) Facebook. The numbers support it. The content is excellent (even though old-school users claim that it’s in decline). Mainstream media and average netizens are starting to take notice.

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