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Padding, Spandex, Social Profiles, and Other Bits of Fakery

Maybe I’m dense, but I just don’t get the fakery trend in our culture. It could be just our continuing infatuation with shallowness and outward appearances, I suppose, but it kinda bugs me. Several different types of fakery have recently annoyed me popped up in my world, and because I’m a monkey with a keyboard [...]

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Hide Your Kids: The Social Media Marketers are Coming

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One of my pet peeves is the amount and type of advertising targeting children. Specifically, the ads promoting products that negatively affect their health, such as those promoting junk food (and fast food). I take offense when I see pieces of the marketing campaigns for obvious junk food items (we don’t have a TV, so [...]

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Social Media, Virtual Communities, and Generosity

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As a blogger, I thought I really understood social media and knew the potential for using it for doing good things in the world, but it wasn’t until I became the focus of a social media campaign myself that I felt the true power of it. On January 15th, I took a big fall, which [...]

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#10Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media

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This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell‘s “10 Ways” series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation is an extremely powerful platform for spreading [...]

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10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media

Citizen journalism, open government, status updates, community building, information sharing, crowdsourcing, and the election of a President. Editor’s note: This is first guest post from Max Gladwell. Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media. They’ll take for granted that their voices can be [...]

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Facebook is Putting My Mother Out Of Business

We used to get a phone call from our mothers once a week with the news from home: weddings, funerals, births, stories of who was doing what (and with whom). Now we can just login and have all of that same information in real-time, with social media. My buddy recently heard about a wedding proposal [...]

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About Derek Markham

Personal, Parenting and Natural Living Bio: I’m a husband, a father, and a carrier of things. I think peanut butter on anything is great. I love big mountains and little kids, ’cause they make me smile, and I drink a double americano almost every day. I’m a nature boy, a tree-hugging dirt-worshiper. I try to [...]

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