Michael T. Abrams Speaker/consultant on Social Media training and business development. Page 2

Developer Tip: Where Can I Get Free Photos and Music?

06.24.2010 by Michael Abrams

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Have you been working on a slideshow, elearning or even your website and been stuck needing a particular kind of picture. You check clipart and come up with nothing. You scan Google and find some good ones, but don’t want to sign up for a stock photo website to purchase them. Or perhaps you are [...]

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Four Core Elements of Incredible Leaders

06.23.2010 by Michael Abrams

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No matter what industry, company or department you work in…there are a few key factors of leadership that will make or break a project. With corporate investment dollars being managed much more conservatively, you can’t afford to have an initiative fall behind or even fail to deliver. The right leadership can make the [...]

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Employee Engagement an Issue? Maybe You’re Paying Them Too Much!

05.24.2010 by Michael Abrams

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In this great RSA Animation, they illustrate a talk by Dan Pink called “Drive” which presents the idea of diminishing returns when trying to improve employee performance. The video demonstrates how money can be a motivator up to a certain point, then becomes a de-motivation tool with performance actually decreasing.
View the video and see if [...]

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Upcoming Seminar: Energizing Your Job Search with Social Networking

01.22.2010 by Michael Abrams

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REGISTER NOW: http://bit.ly/JSAP101
If you are in Arizona on Jan. 30th in the Phoenix area and currently in a job search or considering one in the future, you must come join us! Come join Steve Gilbert, Managing Director of Passivecast and myself for a free live seminar on using Social Networking to energize your Job Search. [...]

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Social Media Debate: Are You Creating Influence or Revenue?

12.29.2009 by Michael Abrams

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Blog Throwdown:
At the last Marketing Technology Summit in Phoenix the conference speakers kept coming back around to two key questions within social media.
They were:
Is social media a great way to drive sales and achieve greater return on investment,
or
is social media a great way to drive sentiment to achieve greater return on influence.
The presenters and audience were [...]

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Virtual Worlds Losing One of Their Own

12.26.2009 by Michael Abrams

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Change is inevitable. Things grow, diversify, consolidate and hopefully better, more focused services rise from the ashes of the consolidation that occurs. We see this is nearly every industry, so virtual worlds should be no different. The timing is good for a change as businesses continue to sift through the virtual worlds waiting for one [...]

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Mister Splashy Pants Drives Business Growth

12.23.2009 by Michael Abrams

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Posted by Michael Abrams (http://www.twitter.com)

I dig the simplicity of this video by Alexis Ohanian of Reddit talking to a Ted crowd about the Ah-haa of Social Media. He’s not talking about the sexy of the tech (except for the Reddit plugs of course) but stays focused on the end results and how it got there. End [...]

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Virtual Worlds too confusing for you? How about Augmenting Your Reality!

12.17.2009 by Michael Abrams

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Posted by: http://www.twitter.com/mikeabrams
I love exploring technology at the bleeding edge and seeing what useful can be brought back to the front lines of the training world and applied. Most of the time the tech at the edge is too new and broad application and usage just isn’t possible. Even so, it’s always fun to explore.
Even if [...]

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