Every time people share an event from Eventbrite with their friends and contacts in social media or by email, they generate $1.78 This figure comes from a recent study by the event ticketing site which analysed their user data and how shares in social media and by email tracked back to ticket sales. Share this on Facebook. MORE >>

make sure to play the game a lot, and I've built my share of towers, and flooded my share of caves. A few of us were at Playful on Friday. There were a number of great talks, but one of the themes that stood out for me was gamification , as elaborated on by Sebastien Deterding in his talk. Whoever *must* play, *cannot* play. MORE >>

I'm attending (and speaking) at Share 2010 next week. On February 19 this year, Steve Morris from Eventful Management got in touch and asked if we could discuss a "new business-focused conference on SharePoint." After eight-and-a-half months of research and planning, the conference is just about here. USA). ". MORE >>

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In a study by CNN of how we share and consume news has found that social media is the most frequent way that we share stories online. In their study of 2,300 people over two months they found that social media was used to share news in 43% of all instances. Social media is the easiest of all these ways for people to share news. MORE >>