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Don’t leave money on the table: How to negotiate your next community job offer

Sep10
by on September 10, 2014 at 6:16 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, How-To's, Insider, Social Media

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Crystal Coleman is the Director of Community at Townsquared. This post originally appeared on CMX Hub. Negotiation certainly wasn’t something I learned when I started out as a community manager in 2006. Back then, I was just excited to get paid to talk about the TV show LOST in an online forum for 10 or 15 hours per week. However, as Community Management shifted from a fun side-gig to the career I pursued, I knew I had to get more serious about my work and my value. I had to learn to negotiate. I have learned a lot since 2006 as my career…

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Flight is Twitter’s first mobile developer conference, costs $140, takes place October 22 in San Francisco

Sep10
by on September 10, 2014 at 5:34 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Mobile, Social Media

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Twitter today announced its first annual mobile developer conference. Called Twitter Flight, the event takes place on October 22 at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, and costs $140. Twitter says Flight is “built by developers, for developers.” The goal is to help mobile app creators build the best mobile apps with the social platform, regardless of whether they are using Java, Objective-C or Swift. Excited to announce @Flight: Twitter's conference for developers. Join us October 22nd: http://t.co/gWOf5ZBEKf pic.twitter.com/Sj8cc6jy3I — Twitter Flight (@Flight) September 10, 2014 The day will start off with a keynote from Twitter CEO Dick…

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Google acquires Lift Labs, the maker of a self-stabilizing spoon for Parkinson’s patients

Sep10
by on September 10, 2014 at 4:47 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

Google has announced the acquisition of Lift Labs, a research group that created tremor-canceling technology for patients with Parkinson’s disease. Lift Labs will join the Google X lab and continue to sell its Liftware spoon gadget, which makes it easier for patients to eat. “We’re also going to explore how their technology could be used in other ways to improve the understanding and management of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor,” Google said in a statement. Liftware uses a neat trick of repurposing the image stabilization technology found in cameras to cancel out the tremors caused by…

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Castround for Android lets you view tweets by location

Sep10
by on September 10, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches, Product Reviews, Social Media

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If you’re a heavy Twitter user, you may well have noticed a shortcoming in the platform – it’s really hard to search for tweets according to where they originated. And that’s exactly the problem that Castround for Android has been designed to fix. Why might you want to do this? Well, perhaps you just want to see what people are tweeting about at a specific spot in town, or perhaps you just landed in a new city on vacation, or maybe you just want to see what people in Scotland are tweeting about this week ahead of the independence referendum. Castround’s…

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Google Hangouts now offers free voice calls to numbers in the US and Canada

Sep10
by on September 10, 2014 at 4:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Product Updates

Earlier today, Google started offering Google Voice users the option to migrate their accounts to Hangouts. Now, we know the full extent of the update: As well as integrating Google Voice accounts, all Hangouts users (iOS, Android and Web) can now make voice-only calls to one another, as well as free calls to regular numbers in the US and Canada. In addition, Google is promising “really low” rates for international numbers. The updated Android app, version 2.3, will be rolled out over the next few days, however iOS and Web users should be able to access these features by simply relaunching…

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