(Cross posted at Decision Science News.) Do you know what the #$*! your social media strategy is? Perhaps it's "to facilitate audience conversations and drive engagement with social currency"? Or maybe "to amplify word of mouth by motivating influencers"? Well, given all the lies and damned lies being told about social, fellow... »
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Birds of a Feather Shop Together
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
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Daniel Reeves is a co-founder of
Beeminder and
Sharad Goel is a Senior Researcher
at
Microsoft Research - New York City. They are both former members of the Microeconomics and Social
Systems (MESS) Group at Yahoo! Research.
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