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Put Your Taproot Into the Independent Web

John Battelle's Searchblog

In seminars, writings, conferences, and speaking gigs around the world over the past couple of years, I’ve started using a phrase when asked my opinion of what a brand’s social strategy might be, in particular when it comes to Facebook. . - My advice: use those tools inside your own presence on the web. —-.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

But that was a tiny portion of the education with the vast bulk of it made up of reading books and magazines, going to seminars, hanging out on forums and frankly, also learning by making mistakes. We lost money on shares. We missed opportunities that would have yielded amazing results. We had property deals fall over.

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