Youtube changes copyright violation treatment?

When I post family videos on Youtube for friends and family to share, I like to add my favorite songs to them.  However, since this seems to be an (Extremely Non-Commercial and) innnocent violation of copyright laws, Youtube used to remove the entire audio track from the videos when they discovered a copyrighted song (they [...]

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The Story of Bill Gates – A very cool presentation

Check out THIS very cool presentation of The Story of Bill Gates, from the folks at TalkPoint. In addition to being a Great story and video piece, the multi0media presentation is very cool…

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New LinkedIn Applications Announced

Well, I got the formal notification from LinkedIn today that they have launched their eagerly awaited Applications, and I thought I would let you know in case you had’nt heard.
I LOVE the idea of having more ways to customize our presence on LinkedIn, similar to what we can do on FaceBook, and I really hope [...]

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New PartnerPoint FaceBook Widget – Point Partners to PartnerPoint :->

We have added a cool new feature to your Facebook account if you have added our PartnerPoint Community Application .  If you haven’t added this yet and are curious, you can click on the previous link to learn more.  We have about 2,200 member installs to date.
This new feature will now show a PartnerPoint icon [...]

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LinkedIn Upgrades

As you are probably aware, LinkedIn has released quite a few new features lately.  One new set of features was the upgraded Group functionality that we have been eagerly awaiting.  It is a great start for sure, and I hope they continue to upgrade it (For example, I wish it was easier to tell what [...]

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The What, Where, Why & How of Social Networking for Business….. in 8 minutes or less

I participated in a Panel recently for the GBTC in Baltimore Md.  The topic was the ROI of Social Networking for Businesses.  Our presentation time was limited, so I thought I would post my short presentation with a bit more detail… but not much more.  Keep in mind that there are many experts on the [...]

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Updated Member Map Launched

We have launched a brand new version of our Member Map today.  The new version provides some nice additions, and will be much easier for us to maintain than our last version.
Because we have so many members (about 6,200), we can no longer show all members on the map when the map loads.  The load [...]

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LinkedIn’s real value, “Trusted Connections”

I’m an active LinkedIn User, and have been tracking it for some time.  I’ve read lots of blog posts and articles both praising and questioning the value of LinkedIn, so I thought I would provide my own contribution to this dialogue (I have the luxury of having two view points to use in my analysis [...]

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“Fanatical Support” for sure

Being in technology services for most of my life, I have come to appreciate good customer service and am eager to acknowledge it when I find it… especially when it comes from a firm that uses “Fanatical Customer Service” as their public Mission Statement. And, I’ve experienced it…. from Rackspace.
I saw an exec from Rackspace [...]

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