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Sense and Sociability

by Beth Dunn on March 6, 2010

Sense and Sociability

I’ve got a new series launching over at the HubSpot Inbound Marketing blog called Sense and Sociability – Your Guide to Social Media Etiquette. Email your questions to sense at hubspot dot com.

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Everyday Negotiation

by Beth Dunn on September 14, 2009

Everyday Negotiation

Being human is the key to successful negotiations, marketing, and small business success. It also feels really good.

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dance dance revolution

by BethDunn on July 23, 2009

Photo by www.flickr.com/athinaf

The importance of trusting your gut and going with the option that gives you the most joy, in business and in life.

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Image by Srevatsan

Dr. Nora Barnes gave me a heads up last night on the findings from her research on the growing use of social media by colleges and universities to recruit and research new applicants. I met Dr. Barnes at the Society for New Communications Research Symposium in November, where she delivered the keynote address.  The full [...]

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this just in: internet not evil

by BethDunn on November 19, 2008

The New York Times reporting on a study just released by the MacArthur Foundation that found that internet socializing by teens is not quite as harmful or dangerous as it was previously held to be: Those concerns about predators and stranger danger have been overblown,” she [Mizuko Ito, lead researcher on the study] said. “There’s [...]

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the third thing

by BethDunn on July 15, 2008

I’ve always loved the children’s book Miss Rumphius. It’s about a woman who resolves as a girl to travel all over the world, to then live by the sea when she was done, and finally, to make the world a more beautiful place. After she has achieved the first two goals, she becomes very sick [...]

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lingua franca

by BethDunn on June 28, 2008

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Ever since I started writing this blog, I’ve thought about my role in social media in terms of some of my favorite metaphors, like Translator, Interpreter, and Ambassador. As time has gone on, I have only become more convinced that this is what I’m really good at, that this is really what I have to [...]

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social media adoption and its discontents

by BethDunn on February 16, 2008

Check this out from Marshall Kirkpatrick over at ReadWriteWeb: “Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond” 1. I suffer from information overload already. 2. So much of what’s discussed online is meaningless. These forms of communication are shallow and make us dumber. We have real work to do! 3. I [...]

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