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Seven Crimes That Will Get You a Smaller Fine Than File-sharing

Amplify’d from www.prefixmag.com

1. Child abduction: the fine is only like $25000.

2. Stealing the actual CD: the fine is $2,500

3. Rob your neighbor: the fine is $375,000

4. Burn a house down: The fine is just over $375,000

5. Stalk someone: The fine is $175,000

6. Start a dogfighting ring: the fine is $50,000

7. Murder someone: The maximum penalty is only $25,000 and 15 years in jail, and depending on your yearly salary, would probably be far slighter a penalty that $2 million.

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12 Social Media Marketing Myths

Amplify’d from www.pamorama.net
Social media is cheap or free.
You can make a big splash really quickly.
You need to be on all the big sites.
If you create something that’s great, people will find it.
It’s for kids.
You can’t build quality relationships online.
It gives away content and ideas you should be charging for.
It’s a fad.
Anyone can do it.
It’s a cure-all.
You can do it all in-house.
Social marketing results can’t be measured.Read more at www.pamorama.net
 

The 7 general patterns of meme transmission

As postulated by author Aaron Lynch in his book THOUGHT CONTAGION: HOW BELIEF SPREADS THROUGH SOCIETY.

Amplify’d from en.wikipedia.org
Quantity of parenthood: an idea which influences the number of children one has.
Efficiency of parenthood: an idea which increases the proportion of children who will adopt ideas of their parents.
Proselytic: ideas generally passed to others beyond one’s own children.
Preservational: ideas which influence those that hold them to continue to hold them for a long time.
Adversative: ideas which influence those that hold them to attack or sabotage competing ideas and/or those that hold them.
Cognitive: ideas perceived as cogent by most in the population who encounter them.
Motivational: ideas that people adopt because they perceive some self-interest in adopting them.Read more at en.wikipedia.org
 

What’s Hot, What’s Not: IT Skills You’ll Need in 2010

An abbreviated overview of a fairly detailed article on the skills and abilities that researchers are indicating will be the ones to have for current and future Information Technology careers.

Amplify’d from www.globalknowledge.com

Business Domain

  • Enterprise architecture
  • Project leadership
  • Business process re-engineering
  • Project planning, budgeting and scheduling
  • Third-party provider managers

    • Technology Infrastructure and Services

  • Systems analysis
  • Network design
  • Systems design
  • Systems auditing
  • Programming
  • Systems testing
  • Routine coding
  • Support and help desk
  • Operations — server hosting, telecommunications, operating systems

    • Security

  • IT security planning and management
  • Continuity and recovery

    • Storage

  • Storage administrator

    • Application Development

  • Customer-facing application development
  • Legacy skills

    • Internet

  • Customer-facing Web application systems
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Data mining
  • Data warehousing
    • Business Intelligence
  • Business intelligence
  • Data warehousing
  • Data mining
    • Where Will the Jobs Be?
    1
    Web services
    2
    Wireless/mobile
    3
    Business intelligence
    4
    Service-oriented architectureRead more at www.globalknowledge.com
     

    The 7 Deadly Sins of Blogging

    Here they are…as always, for more information and examples, click through to the full article!

    Amplify’d from www.copyblogger.com

    1. Selfishness

    2. Sloth

    3. Impatience

    4. Lameness

    5. Identicality

    6. Irrelevance

    7. Boorishness

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    7 Steps to Building a Genuine Relationship With Your Readers

    No Commentary

    Amplify’d from www.problogger.net
    1. A genuine relationship starts with you — you have to take responsibility for it.
    2. Make your posts as helpful and useful as you can
    3. Be helpful and positive in all interactions
    4. Encourage discussion in comments
    5. Accept criticism with grace
    6. Build relationships in other channels
    7. Give back on other blogsRead more at www.problogger.net
     

    8 Keys to Internet Security

    As always, be sure to click through and read the full article to get more details on how these 8 (and a half) steps will protect you from those who would do your data harm.

    Amplify’d from www.lifehack.org

    1. Use a router.

    2. Do not open email attachments.

    3. Do not download bittorrent files.

    4. Do not download warez, porn, or other dubious files.

    5. Do not download *anything* from sites you’re unfamiliar with.

    6. Turn off Flash, Javascript, and other browser plugins.

    7. Do not click links in email.

    7a. Do not click shortened URLs.

    8. Install all security updates.

    Read more at www.lifehack.org