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	June 21st, 2012 7 Facebook contest ideas for small businesses Posted about 6 hours ago by Lily Koi to Holy Kaw! Faceook contests are a great way to drum up some excitement about your small business. If you want to run a contest, but aren't sure what to do, Open Forum offers seven contest ideas. For example: Run a photo contest During the summer, pizza company Fresh Brothers runs contests using their mascot, the Slice (a giant slice of pizza). They tell fans where and when Slice will be at events, and if they snap a picture with the Slice and post it, they get a gift certificate as a thank you. Wine website Snooth.com created a Facebook landing page on their Fan page using the Wildfire app—Facebook guidelines say brands should run contests like this through an app. To promote one of the Australian brand wines, they asked people to submit pictures of people showing their Australian pride. Fans posted pictures of themselves enjoying the wine and using the Australian recipes from their website. People voted on the photos, driving new exposure, and as a result, traffic continued even after the contest ended. Full story at Open Forum. More tips for small businesses. Photo credit: Fotolia トランス Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 3 ドライブ。 Good News in Food Posted about 21 hours ago by markbittman to bittman 2 Certainly there is plenty wrong with our food “system,” and it’s easy to point that out week after week. Every day there’s more bad news, and when credible people say that 900 million Indians are hungry — really hungry, not “dying” for a Snickers — the tendency is to get so depressed that one overlooks progress. (Perhaps, too, New Yorkers are born to kvetch.) But here in the United States at least, every week there’s evidence that the pendulum is swinging. One could allow pessimism to reign, but it’s my sworn duty to occasionally point out some of The Good Stuff. And there’s been plenty the last few weeks. (All tempered, of course, but we’ll try to tame the inner curmudgeon here.) Read the rest of this column here. Bicycle beats [video] Posted about 21 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Most people who spent a significant part of their childhood on the seat of a bike remember putting a card in the spokes to give it a bit more growl, but what about the rest of the orchestra waiting to be tuned in? Stephen Meierding heard those often overlooked sounds and put together this video, which took home the prize at NYC’s Bike Short Film Festival Spring 2012. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at Vimeo via Laughing Squid. Sounds of cycling. 'Paddle' stroke is faster for Olympic swimmers Posted about 20 hours ago by Futurity to Holy Kaw! Legendary Olympic and collegiate swim coach 'Doc' Counsilman had the right idea: 'Lift' is critical to speed in the water. But after new analysis, Johns Hopkins University engineers now believe he was wrong about which stroke technique produces the most lift. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Harvey Weinstein about Chris Tucker on 'Opie & Anthony' Posted about 18 hours ago by erockradio to erockradio's posterous Harvey Weinstein about Chris Tucker [06-20-2012].mp3 Listen on Posterous Muévete Justin Bieber: Científicos crean la canción pop perfecta utilizando la teoría de Darwin Posted about 20 hours ago by Carlos Valerio to Conozca Más Pues no. El hit más grande la historia pop no será creado por ningún artista plástico de la actualidad, sino por el mismísimo Darwin. Así como los seres vivos más fuertes del mundo pasan sus genes 'positivos' a las futuras generaciones, los expertos coinciden en que los músicos evolucionan al copiar los mejores aspectos de otros artistas. Esto significa que cada vez que alguien compra una canción, está contribuyendo al proceso de selección natural. Los científicos del Imperial College de Londres, probaron su teoría mostrando una serie de sonidos aleatorios –de ocho segundos cada uno– a un total de 7,000 usuarios que las calificaron según sus preferencias. Enseguida, un programa eligió los fragmentos más populares y creó nuevas canciones, eliminando los ruidos indeseables. "Así es como la selección natural creó la vida en la Tierra; si esta variación puede hacer esto, entonces puede crear una canción", asegura el profesor Armand Leroi, coautor del experimento. La investigación publicada en la revista Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences podría explicar por qué la música pop está en constante evolución, mientras que las piezas clásicas se mantienen intactas. Escucha la canción aquí. FUENTE telegraph.co.uk On 'Opie & Anthony': Harvey Weinstein @WeinsteinFilms [06-20-2012] Posted about 18 hours ago by erockradio to erockradio's posterous See the full gallery on Posterous Lo que circula en la red: The Dark Knight Rises Posted about 18 hours ago by Gerardo Torres to Conozca Más Nuevo avance: Embedded media -- click here to see it. Where the hell is Matt? Still dancin' around the world. [video] Posted about 17 hours ago by Annie Colbert to Holy Kaw! 1 Where the hell has Matt disappeared to this time? Lebanon, Thailand, Spain, Syria, Papua New Guinea, and Pennsylvania, just to name a few places the YouTube star journeyed for his latest dancing video. Warning: Matt's travel adventures may spark the desire to pack up your dancing shoes and skip across the globe. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Via YouTube. Explore our little planet. How the Nature Conservancy helps companies help Earth Posted about 17 hours ago by SmartBrief to Holy Kaw! 1 Water conservation, energy use and the effect of agriculture on the Earth are key areas of common interest for beverage and food companies and the Nature Conservancy, which began working with beverage brands on water conservation projects in 2008, says Director of Corporate Practices Michelle Lapinski. "Companies viewing conservation as a key business strategy is the next wave." Full story at SmartBlog on Leadership by SmartBrief. More SmartBrief stories. Above: Nature Conservancy of Tennessee's William B. Clark Sr. Nature Preserve Submittable (YC S12) is the easiest way for publishers to handle submissions Posted about 13 hours ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous If you’re a publisher looking for submissions (whether they’re stories, essays, videos, or whatever), what’s the best way to manage the process? It sounds relatively straightforward, but once those submissions start piling up, trying to track and sort them can turn into a headache. It’s a problem that Submittable, part of the latest class of startups incubated by Y Combinator, may have solved. Read the full article on Techcrunch Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.