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		<title>Play Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My &#8216;happy-little-real-world bubble has never consisted of the acronym MMORPGs, Massively Multi Online Role-Player Games, until this week when I read &#8220;Play Money&#8221; by Julian Dibbell. When I heard about gamers making money, I thought it was by developing games not playing games, but Dibbell shows us that you make money actually playing online games.  I could see if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tiertopper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374254&amp;post=92&amp;subd=tiertopper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>80-20: The Long Tail</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve heard of the 80-20 rule as a running joke in relationships that the woman makes 80% of all decisions, but the man will “put his foot down” for the 20% that really matter to him. I grew up watching this in my family, but never considered how else the 80-20 or Pareto Principle applies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tiertopper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374254&amp;post=87&amp;subd=tiertopper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Facts and Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since starting my research friends have helped point me towards some useful information. On Twitter, a classmate shared a link to a Pew Internet &#38; American Life Study, Twitter and Status Updating. It is not terribly earth shattering finding, but necessary and very good starting point. The study found that 11% of American are using Twitter or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tiertopper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374254&amp;post=84&amp;subd=tiertopper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tweeting Locally</title>
		<link>http://tiertopper.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/tweeting-locally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama campaign set the standard for using social media for campaigning. Obama showed how tools like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter can organize and mobilize for a cause, in this case, changing the direction of America. My professor recently wrote a white paper entitled &#8220;The Social Pulpit: Barack Obama&#8217;s Social Media Toolkit.&#8221; One set of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tiertopper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374254&amp;post=68&amp;subd=tiertopper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fargo Flood &amp; Social Media</title>
		<link>http://tiertopper.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/fargo-flood-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friends in Fargo tell me the outlook is not good. The Fargo Forum reports that this could be the worst flood the Fargo-Moorhead area has seen, originally predicting the crest of the Red River to rise to 40 feet was changed to 41 feet. Hundreds of people are sandbagging and securing dikes, helicopters are rescuing people from farms surrounded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tiertopper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374254&amp;post=57&amp;subd=tiertopper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Different Blogosphere: Waiter Rant</title>
		<link>http://tiertopper.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/a-different-blogosphere-waiter-rant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While on Facebook I discovered a group called &#8220;You know you&#8217;re a server when...&#8221;. Having served to make my way through undergrad I clicked on it and found a lot of what the author Shauna Crowe said to be true. Ask any server to tell you a story and the list I am sure you will hear [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tiertopper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374254&amp;post=49&amp;subd=tiertopper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Live Tweeting</title>
		<link>http://tiertopper.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/live-tweeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first experience with live tweeting was following the Grammys on Twitter, but I was watching the feed while watching it live. It was interesting to see what the tweeter tweeted about in comparison to what was happening live on television. Even though the information was obviously delayed, the tweeter posted links to relevant material showing online [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tiertopper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374254&amp;post=46&amp;subd=tiertopper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter vs. Facebook</title>
		<link>http://tiertopper.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/twitter-vs-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend Facebook changed its homepage look more like Twitter. Why does Facebook want to compete with Twitter? Personally, they are two very different social networking sites. On Facebook I follow my friends and acquaintances, I enjoy looking at the pictures most, and acquaintances current info second. I maybe once a week change my status. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tiertopper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374254&amp;post=43&amp;subd=tiertopper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Google It”</title>
		<link>http://tiertopper.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/%e2%80%9cgoogle-it%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first picked up “The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture,” by John Battelle I thought of the common phrase “Google It” which translates into “search for it.” That fact that my friends don’t say the latter shows that Google has created a sense of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tiertopper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374254&amp;post=34&amp;subd=tiertopper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Naked Conversations – Conversational Marketing</title>
		<link>http://tiertopper.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/naked-conversations-%e2%80%93-conversational-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In “Naked Conversations,” Robert Scoble and Shel Israel explain how blogs facilitate a new style for businesses to communicate with their customers. Scoble and Israel praise companies that embrace a blogging culture because blogs are interactive. A blogging culture needs to be open and honest. In a previous post I explained the importance of analyzing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tiertopper.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6374254&amp;post=30&amp;subd=tiertopper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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