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These slides indicate which states have lost the most productive farmland to sprawl and development but also which states have protected their farming acreage from being paved over for the past few years.  Unfortunately, all states have had significant losses of the land that grows our food.  What does that mean for the country?

Use of the term 'native advertising' has been picking up quite a bit of steam over the past several months ... but do you fully understand what it means? I'll be honest. I wasn't quite sure myself until about a month ago when HubSpot blogger Steve Hall approached me with an idea for a post about how inbound marketing supports native advertising. "Native what?" I asked? Turns out, I knew exactly what native advertising was -- I just didn't know that's what people were calling it.

Well then it occurred to me that there were probably quite a few other marketers out there who were in the same boat as me. So when I recently came across the following infographic from the folks at digital advertising firm Solve Media, I figured it was worth a share. A little hazy about what on earth native advertising is?

Read through the [above] infographic for a little enlightenment. I bet quite a few of you will end up thinking something along the lines of, "Ohhhh yeahhh ... "

interesting take on the shifting role and new skills required of the modern learning professional

Franchise financing infographic created by Balboa Capital has a list of the most common ways for franchise business owners to acquire financing. Balboa Capital specializes in franchise financing, franchise remodeling financing and franchise business loans. This Balboa Capital infographic is free to download and share.

Social nets work on the same dopamine receptors as slot machines. Addictive? You Think? LOL, we will figure a way to balance them out when startup entrepreneurs create a new generation of tools sure to wrest control back from THEM to US. Until then realize that jolt you keep feeling isn't real as much as it is PLANNED and MODELED :).

Are you obsessed with social media? Do you suffer from social network overload? This infographic (from My Life) tells some interesting statistics. Takeaways (40% of people would rather get a root canal than give up their social networks?

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Once is never enough with a video like this

A master class!

Thanks Karen Dietz for finding this.  See her comments below for a great description of what is covered in the video, powerpoint, story template, and the bad and good story example.

This is a comprehensive article that will take time to read and digest.

Die Brille, wie wir sie heute kennen, eroberte schnell die Welt - wenngleich sie wohl nicht sonderlich beliebt war, vor allem bei den weiblichen Kurz- und Weitsichtigen nicht. Es war ein Hilfsmittel, weiter nichts, und sie trug ihren Trägern den Ruf der Klugheit ein...

http://www.pressenet.info/pr-2013/wissen/brillen-kontaktlinsen.html

This conveys some important realities about the demographic necessities of agriculture, the economic impact and the cultural differences in agricultural production. As with all long infographics on this site, you can "scroll down" on the image by putting the cursor in the top right-hand corner of the image and sliding on the translucent bar. 

Tags: agriculture, infographic, unit 5 agriculture.

Social Media 2013 User Demographics – infographic /@BerriePelser

Since social media is more about PEOPLE than TECHNOLOGY this infographic with it's demographic bhreakdown of who uses which platforms provides interesting perspective.

The opening lines are about traditional versus collaborative leaders. I think there has always been collaborative leadership. Great leaders through history surrounded themselves not with sycophants but with those who came with questions. Community emerged, trust revealed, and greatness shone through. We need to believe we are not reinventing the wheel. It exists and needs to be dusted off.

love this - where do you sit?

Kids are just amazingly creative with technology!

I haven't read this article but I knew right away, when I saw the title, that it was a valuable subject.  I think that if more business people knew who much curation helps their 'don't have time' problem, they'd really be enthusiastic about it. 

There's a tendancy, I believe, among business owners to think that people who read their blog, or website (or any other content) expect it to be Pulitzer Prize quality.  I don't think that's true at all.  Nor do customers expect a LOT of content.  They just want to know what the business owner thinks and (in many cases) what they're 'up to'.

Curation makes it so easy for business owners to give them that info.

Add curation in with mobile video and travel blogging and I think you've got a winning combination.