Keep In Mind, “Likes” Are Not Votes.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Each person in the world (at least among the 1.59 billion people active on Facebook) is connected to every other person by an average of three and a half other people.

Sergey Edunov, Carlos Diuk, Ismail Onur Filiz, Smriti Bhagat, and Moira Burke. Research at Facebook. Feb 4, 2016.

Consumer Awareness Grows Over the Internet

Earned media such as Google search, social media and online articles/content are the only growing influencers of consumer product awareness, according to Nielsen. 

No growth in consumer purchase awareness across paid and owned media like TV, newspaper, paid advertising and in-store or brand web content.

Michelle Corsano Pellettier

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The Dawn Of The Age Of Responsive Media

This year's CES announcements were more exciting to me than ever before. Sure, we've already seen dozens of drones, exoskeletons, robots, rollable displays, virtual- and augmented-reality headsets, as well as personalized artificial intelligence for smart phones, smart homes, driver-assisted and autonomous cars (aka autonomobiles) and more over the years. They're [...]

Forget about choose-your-own-adventure. Responsive media will offer immersive experiences that adapt “dynamically to the consumer’s attention, engagement and context”.

Reminder: One day we’ll all return to sand… So find the courage to open your heart to new opportunities, new experiences, new possibilities, and new adventures. When you live with an open heart, beautiful things will happen. I promise.

John Tew (via deeplifequotes)

A cashless future? How technology is erasing the need for cash

How much cash do you have in your wallet right now?  If you’re from Sweden, there’s a good chance that answer is, none. It’s not that the Swedes are broke—far from it. Rather, advances in mobile payment technology have spurred speculation that Sweden may become the world’s first cashless society. And as it turns out, the rest of the world may not be too far behind.

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