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Sure, it's not mainstream yet, but Google+ is an influential social engine heavily indexed by the search giant. And your business shouldn't be ignoring that

Sure, it's not mainstream yet, but Google+ is an influential social engine heavily indexed by the search giant. And your business shouldn't be ignoring that

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. And a worse student

You re reading a blog. This almost guarantees the fact that you re a staunch supporter, and fan, of open-access publishing. Many of us who publish technical research really do try to publish in open-access venues as often as possible

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Your resolution for 2012 is to finally get into social media.

“I don’t like to scare people,” says microbiologist Paul Keim. “But the worst-case scenarios here are just enormous.” [More]

Poaching of elephants and the illegal trade in their tusks and related ivory products were out of control in 2011, with more than 2,500 animals confirmed killed and thousands of kilograms of tusks seized by customs officials around the world. This was the worst year on record since the international ivory trade ban was established in 1989, according to TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network.

Deep depression that fails to respond to any other form of therapy can be moderated or reversed by stimulation of areas deep inside the brain. Now the first placebo-controlled study of this procedure shows that these responses can be maintained in the long term. [More]

Theoretical physicist Paul Steinhardt did not expect to spend last summer travelling across spongy tundra to a remote gold-mining region in north-eastern Russia. But that is where he spent three weeks tracing the origins of the world’s only known natural example of a quasicrystal--an exotic type of structure discovered in 1982 in a synthetic material by Dan Shechtman, a materials scientist at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa who netted the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the finding.

The new year means new opportunities to grow your business bigger, better and faster. Get started with these six resolutions. It’s that time of year , when we all step back and ponder on what was great about the year and what we coulda, woulda and shoulda done better.

New research shows that a large Facebook fanbase isn't necessarily key to growing a brand.

Are you measuring the interplay and overall performance of your combined paid, earned, and owned digital media channels? Here's a 5-step process to discover which elements are driving the most value. Many marketers have worked hard in 2011 to develop appropriately customized ROI measures for social media

An employee's questionable Facebook post leaves one CEO wondering how to react.

Venture capitalists, corporations, private-equity firms, and more poured billions into private companies this year--a huge boon for titans like Facebook and Groupon. Here, the best of the rest starting 2012 with supersize bankrolls