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report, commissioned by the United Nations Conference on Happiness

""During one of the keynotes," he explained, "I found myself really wanting to hear what others at the conference thought about the speaker's ideas, so I visited Twitter on my loaner device to do just that. I found that there was a rich back-channel conversation going on there, so I created a Twitter account for myself and jumped in." "It wasn't until that moment," he says, "that I realized that Twitter could be a medium for smart, engaging conversations, too. I've been an active user ever since.""

These free or low-cost education services confer the direct benefit of their programs, and advantages by using the large numbers and real-time aspects of the internet to obtain and incorporate immediate feedback from growing student populations. This is leading to a better education product, and a mechanism for learning about learning.

As individuals and brands, the best we can hope for is to be authentic personas, an ideal that we display for the world to see.  It's not necessarily true.  It's certainly not accurate.  But I believe it as close to "authentic" as we can hope for. Be yourself. Only a little better. Be who you promise to be to your tribe, not necessarily who you are.