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Slacktivism: Can Cartoons Raise Awareness or Just Make Us Feel Good?

NetWits

In an effort to raise awareness for child abuse, thousands of Facebook users changed their profile photos to one of their favorite childhood cartoon characters (full disclosure: mine was Underdog.) Most of my Facebook friends had jumped on the bandwagon by Saturday night, as you can see by the screen shot below collected from my news feed.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

Many of them track us automatically: Nike Plus tracks my run, Mint.com tracks my finances and spending patterns, and TripIt neatly organizes my travel plans. It provides much needed difference and rhythm we are attracted to, over the often mind-numbing flat Twitter or Facebook feed. Our Stories. Our Collective Stories.

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[VIDEO] How to Overcome Fear, Intimidation and Imposter Syndrome to Raise More Money

Bloomerang

I’ll keep kind of half an eye on the Twitter feed as well. So negativity bias can tend to feed into fear, which is another perfectly normal function of your brain. And, oh, really interesting, this is how it shows up as our brains are scanning for bad news, and our brains just naturally fast track that into memory.

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[VIDEO] How to Overcome Fear, Intimidation and Imposter Syndrome to Raise More Money

Bloomerang

I’ll keep kind of half an eye on the Twitter feed as well. So negativity bias can tend to feed into fear, which is another perfectly normal function of your brain. And, oh, really interesting, this is how it shows up as our brains are scanning for bad news, and our brains just naturally fast track that into memory.

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[VIDEO] Why You Should Ditch The Way You’ve Been Doing Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

I guess I’m on the right track.” And what was happening here was when we were in that traditional family dynamic seat, he was bringing all of his childhood trauma around his own father into the car with us, and that’s what was causing the upsets. . They have to feed. They have to train year round for years.

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