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Critical Success Factors of A Social Network

20 December 2010

In the Spring of 2009, I wrapped up my graduate degree in part by completing an independent research assignment.  I tasked myself with understanding what made certain social networks succeed, and understanding why some failed.  I hypothesized that if I examined a few in each category, I could see some common threads, and distill out [...]

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Free and Fast Market Research and Keyword Research

5 August 2010

If you’re looking to spin up quickly on a topic, understand keywords or related (secondary) words to a search term, find out what a person talks about, or want to do some market research, keep reading.  You can use two free tools (Twitter and Wordle) to give you a graphical representation of content, all in [...]

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