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Troy Larson

Troy Larson is a Marketing Specialist at Ask.com. He enjoys all things tech. You can normally find him eating a burrito at a taqueria near you. @Troy_Larson / fb:Troy.T.Larson / about.me/tlarson

Is Commitment a Good Thing or Not?

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Commitment. Only a few other words carry the same weight as that one. When individuals commit to something, they are essentially agreeing to a set of unspoken presidents which is a pretty big deal. Similarly, when teams commit to projects, essentially they are saying that “you can count on us to accomplish what we have…

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Choosing the Right Advanced Data Viz Tool For You

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“There’s data visualization and then there’s ‘advanced’ data visualization,” writes Doug Henschen in an InformationWeek article. As organizations are able to collect more and more data about…well pretty much everything, making sense of it is becoming a serious concern. It’s one thing to be able to collect vast amounts of data on your customers, it’s…

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Social Media is All about Your Obsessions

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“If you weren’t lucky enough to get promoted by Twitter itself (like, say, Yves St. Laurent), it’s going to be very hard to build a following. And even if you are YSL, most of the followers you got from being on Twitter’s recommended list are dead wood. They won’t actually help you spread the word,”…

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2012 Mappie of the Year Announced!

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Wow, can you believe it’s been a year already?!? Its seems like just yesterday we were announcing the first ever Mappie, and yet here we are a year later announcing the 2012 Mappie of the Year – boy how time flies. After sorting through thousands of amazing entries, we are happy to announce that we have identified and selected the 2012 Mappie of the Year.

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Where’d You Get THAT Info?

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Ever been asked that question before? I’m willing to bet you have. The truth is that when it comes to most projects (reports, slide presentations, or infographics) making sure you have the best information available must be priority number one. No one likes to be singled out for having faulty or inaccurate information, particularly for…

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3 Major Differences between Agile and Traditional Marketing

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There’s certainly no shortage of published articles out there talking about agile marketing. Most of them are chalk full of steps you can take to make your team more agile, or explaining the theory behind agile marketing. However as the case with most explanations of things this new and complex, they can get pretty convoluted…

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6 Tips to Increase Your Team’s Agility

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A good coach can be the difference in winning a championship and being in last place. Take for example the San Francisco Forty Niners. Last year they had a remarkable run, ending their season only one game shy of the Super Bowl. The interesting thing is that make up of Jim Harbaugh’s 2011 Niners was,…

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