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Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics?

Vox Open Sourced

But before long, a little voice in your head will whisper, “Click away for just a second” — just long enough to take a quick glance at your email or Instagram feed or group chat or 401(k) or chatbot’s answer to “how to tell if a mole is cancerous” or Amazon results for “ joint-smoking garden gnomes.” And I am not alone.

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Obsessive step counts are ruining walking

Vox Open Sourced

They walk and check emails. But as social media caught on — the original “ hot girl walk ” clip was posted on TikTok in January 2021 — walks became more performative. Although quantifying an activity (like counting steps or the number of pages read) increases how often you do it, you start to enjoy it less , a 2016 study found.

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Some Gen Zers Are Including Their Social Media on Resumes—Should You?

Success

Gone are the days when job applicants scrambled to update their privacy settings and delete compromising photos of party nights from their social accounts before a job interview. They are even using social media to create their resumes. So social presence was essential, but it had to be appealing to be beneficial.

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Email Copywriter Chris Orzechowski Divulges Some of His Email Marketing Trade Secrets

Success

But that didn’t stop him from writing copy for the luxury timepiece brand Filippo Loreti in 2016, a campaign that raked in more than $5 million in just 30 days to become the 18th largest Kickstarter campaign at the time. The back end: Revenue per subscriber and email automation On average, brands are making around $2.80

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5 Tips for Successful Online Networking

Success

By online networking, I don’t mean seeing how many LinkedIn connections you can get, “liking” lots of other people’s posts or having accounts on every new social media channel that launches—I’m talking quality over quantity. This article was published in March 2016 and has been updated. Photo by GaudiLab /Shutterstock.

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10 reasons to attend Assist 2016

Practically Perfect PA

Over the last few months I have been busy behind the scenes working on the programme for Assist 2016. We have a dedicated social media session run by assistants who are all social media gurus, including Jacqui Quigley from LinkedIn and Jennifer Corcoran, Finalist for Social Media PA of the Year 2015.

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Why Networking Is Not Overrated

Success

He notes the grassroots success stories of Justin Bieber and Adele, whose talents shone through on social media and caught the attention of music executives, and SPANX founder Sara Blakely, whose product rose above all the rest when Oprah Winfrey chose it as one of her favorite things of the year. Call somebody rather than email.