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#1

“It seems perverse that we can be more social than anyone would have thought possible when we are at our most anti-social, locked away from the world and silently staring at a computer screen, but that, as psychologists will tell you is the way we operate. When we are at the maximum of our disconnect we also are ready to connect and feel the need for interaction.”
― David Amerland, The Social Media Mind: How social media how social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order.

tags: disconnect, loneliness, social, social-instinct, social-networks

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#2

“Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual.”
― David Amerland, The Social Media Mind: How social media how social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order.

tags: social-media, social-media-addiction, social-media-qualities, social-network-tropes

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#3

“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

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#4

“Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system.”
― David Amerland, The Social Media Mind: How social media how social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order.

tags: definition-of-social-media, social-media, social-media-mind

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#5

“The web and its technologies are digital representations of everything we did before in a more private, bigger, faster and more empowering format than ever before.”
― David Amerland, The Social Media Mind: How social media how social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order.

tags: social-imperatives, social-media, social-media-behaviour, social-networks

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#6

“Search is the means through which we navigate the Web. If your business is not visible in search it is difficult for it to be found by your customers. Search, above all else, is marketing, and it is undergoing a massive change.”
― David Amerland, Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic

tags: search, semantic-search, seo

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#7

“I am a firm believer that knowledge is power but only if it leads to comprehension.”
― David Amerland, Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic

tags: search-marketing, semantic-search, seo

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#8

“A pair of eyes attached to a human brain can quickly make sense of the content presented on a web page and decide whether it has the answer it’s looking for or not in ways that a computer can't. Until now.”
― David Amerland, Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic

tags: intelligent-web, semantic-search, semantic-web, seo

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#9

“Ever since I was a child I have been a strong believer in the principle that to under-stand how anything works you need to take it apart and look at it in detail. This principle that worked with toys also works pretty well with search.”
― David Amerland, Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic

tags: semantic-search, semantic-web, seo

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#10

“What we learn from behavior economics is that the moment a metric is created it generates an incentive for people to pursue it.”
― David Amerland, Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic

tags: gaming-search, google-semantic-search, semantic-search, semantic-seo, seo

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#11

“In truth search can no more be considered independent of the Web than the Web can work without search. This symbiotic relationship brings forth all sorts of issues because it becomes part of a traditional push and pull where the Web, represented by those who actively work in it, wants to push all the wrong things, while search wants to pull in everything.”
― David Amerland, Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic

tags: google-search-engine, google-semantic-search, semantic-search, the-semantic-web

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#12

“At its most basic level semantic search applies meaning to the connections between the different data nodes of the Web in ways that allow a clearer understanding of them than we have ever had to date.”
― David Amerland, Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic

tags: google-search-engine, google-semantic-search, semantic-search, semantic-web

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#13

“In many ways semantic search takes us back to the golden days of the Web when in terms of working online anything was possible as long as you had passion, belief in yourself, and energy to work at it.”
― David Amerland, Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic

tags: google-search-engine, google-semantic-search, semantic-search, semantic-web

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#14

“It is not wrong to think that the traditional buying of a product has been replaced with an unwritten contract of shared values between a business and its customers.”
― David Amerland, Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic

tags: google-search, google-semantic-search, google-seo, marketing

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#15

“Companies that cannot successfully answer what they do fail to then understand how they can continue to do it in the face of change.”
― David Amerland, Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic

tags: change, marketing, semantic-search, semantic-web, seo

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#16

“Real search is about providing valuable information when it’s really needed to those who are actually looking for it.”
― David Amerland, Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic

tags: search, search-engine-optimisation, search-marketing, semantic-search, semantic-seo, semantic-web, seo

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#17

“The connectivity of the cloud and the prevalence of tablets and smartphones have eroded the traditional online/offline divide. Within a short time we will most probably stop thinking of it as 'online.' We will simply be connected, all the time, everywhere, and the online world will be notable only by its absence when that connection breaks.”
― David Amerland, Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic

tags: cloud-computing, connectivity, digital-life, semantic-search

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#18

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare

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#19

“The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on.
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother...I want to...fuck you”
― The Doors, The Doors

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#20

“She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?"
"In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Range of Ghosts

tags: compassion, killing, mercy, necessity, philosophy

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#21

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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#22

“I guess there are never enough books.”
― John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

tags: books, reading, sufficiency

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#23

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#24

“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.”
― John Steinbeck

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#25

“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: value

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#26

“To succeed in the digital realm, technology has to provide a strong disruptive element right from the start. If things cannot be done differently , a transition to digital is not going to be compelling enough for a wide enough adoption to create sustainability.”
― David Amerland, Google+ Hangouts for Business: How to use Google+ Hangouts to Improve Brand Impact, Build Business and Communicate in Real-Time

tags: disruptive-technology, innovation

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#27

“We are hard-wired to engage with those we trust, and this hard-wiring has led to a constant push for greater interaction and connection on the Web.”
― David Amerland, Google+ Hangouts for Business: How to use Google+ Hangouts to Improve Brand Impact, Build Business and Communicate in Real-Time

tags: trust, video-conferencing, web-interaction

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#28

“Real-time marketing is not for everyone. To take advantage of it, you need to have a clear idea of what it is you want to achieve through it.”
― David Amerland, Google+ Hangouts for Business: How to use Google+ Hangouts to Improve Brand Impact, Build Business and Communicate in Real-Time

tags: branding-culture, marketing, real-time-marketing

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#29

“Communication without a specific focus is just noise. It achieves little beyond taking time and energy.”
― David Amerland, Google+ Hangouts for Business: How to use Google+ Hangouts to Improve Brand Impact, Build Business and Communicate in Real-Time

tags: communication, communication-theory, connections, value

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#30

“The greatest challenge on the Web in the twenty-first century is to connect with your target audience in a way that enriches both them and you.”
― David Amerland, Google+ Hangouts for Business: How to use Google+ Hangouts to Improve Brand Impact, Build Business and Communicate in Real-Time

tags: audience, connection, identity, marketing

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