- 5 years ago Sticky: Welcome to the /t/BES tribe! What exactly is this place?
- 5 years ago Sticky: Run a blog, vlog, or podcast? Start your own community like this one (but based on your topic of expertise/choice) and utilize the concept of “strength in numbers” to help you in awesome ways never before available.
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The art of effective trolling
Sometimes you can say more with humor than with a polished speech or marketing spot.
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Remote workers are starting new businesses behind their bosses’ backs
You’ve heard of side hustles. Now, we’ve got side startups.
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The Key to Successful Innovation? Progress Over Product
Tap into people's unspoken needs to create breakthrough innovations.
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Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
Difficult tasks can lead to build-up of a signalling molecule in the brain, triggering fatigue.
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CEO's LinkedIn crying selfie about layoffs met with backlash
"Days like today, I wish I was a business owner that was only money driven and didn't care about who he hurt along the way. But I'm not," Braden Wallake wrote.
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Google: How we're improving search results when you use quotes
How snippets in Google’s search results are being improved by forming them around where quoted words or phrases occur in a web document.
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Instagram knows you don’t like its changes. It doesn’t care.
A quick succession of new features and tests has left even the app's most loyal users wondering what Instagram is for.
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Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping
It’s almost like the internet should have been regulated as a commodity years ago.
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Facebook test lets users have up to five profiles for the same account
Facebook is testing giving users the ability to create up to five profiles on the platform, a major change to its longstanding policy that only allows people to have a single account and identity on the service.
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MrBeast explains YouTube’s algorithm at VidCon
At the first VidCon since 2019, YouTube’s top earner in the U.S., MrBeast, got on stage to talk to YouTube’s director of discovery Todd Beaupré about one of the biggest questions on creators’ minds: How does the recommendation algorithm actually work?
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How Facebook clickbait draws users into engaging with posts
A study of 4,000 Facebook posts by news organizations provides unique insights into clickbait and user engagement.
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How Naps Can Jump-Start Your Creativity
When you're staring at a blank page, trying to figure out where to start a project, or where to take the next scene of a novel, you may find that the best way to get your creative mojo back is to take a nap.
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Better Than Perfect: How to Be Excellent
Exploring the difference between perfectionism and excellencism.
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Is social audio already dead?
Clubhouse has had a rough year, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of social audio.
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1,000 True Fans? Try 100
In 2008, WIRED editor Kevin Kelly wrote that creators only needed to earn "1,000 True Fans"—at $100 per fan, per year—to make a living. I propose an update.
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WordPress sites getting hacked ‘within seconds’ of TLS certificates being issued
Attackers pounce before site owners can activate the installation wizard
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The Magic of Atomic Habits
A 5-minute essay about the long term benefits of small (atomic) habits.
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Why You're Not Doing Creative Work
And how to start again even if you don't have time
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Why RSS is useful and important
Let’s say I want to be an informed, engaged local citizen. Let’s say my town has a website set up where they post local updates and alerts that I might care about...
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Why Creativity And Data-Driven Are Not Mutually Exclusive In Today’s Creator Economy
Valued at over $104.2 billion, the creator economy continues to drive the influencer marketing industry in a way that brings questions involving creativity and user data to the table. However, they don't have to be mutually exclusive, but mutually reinforcing.