This contains a list of Disney movies that have used plots from movies, songs, and books in the public domain. This makes me question how many other movies outside of Disney have followed suit in taking ideas from public domain. Is there actually any original inventive ideas?
The Stagger Effect doesn’t require such intense coordination. It still creates the same illusion that everyone is talking about you, but it is accomplished in a (you guessed it) staggered manner.
Is there a way of predicting if content will go viral? This article, published by Forbes magazine, written by Roger Wu, attributes the viral success of a certain types of media such as videos, images and sound clips into two categories: the "Roadblock Effect" or the "Stagger Effect." Wu explains that viral content can be divided into these two categories and can therefore be used to determine whether or not content will go viral.
This short article takes a critical look at the different types of social media platforms. The author has an interesting take on how social media has evolved over the past years saying that:
"Within the last seven years, we have been through three waves of social domination: The publishing wave (with blogs), the sharing wave (with Facebook and Twitter), and the curating wave (with Quora, Pinterest and alike)."
The author goes on to place further importance on the type of content users post and how that impacts the evolution of social platforms. Towards the end he also touches on the choosing the right social media for different types of business.
Last week Professor McMaster touched on online ecosystems. If you want to know more about it, this Forbes article clearly describes what a social media ecosystem is. The key image depicts the social media landscape in very compact and useful way. It shows all the different ways users interact with their devices.
This article delivers 10 things to do when you don't hear back after a job interview.
Key takeaway: I do not believe that a job interview ends when you walk out of the interview room. Much of the interview process begins when a candidate prepares and ends with the on-going follow up process. The tip that stood out to me was, "Don't take things personally."