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Occupy Wall Street Revisited
You may recall my earlier take on the protest movement, Occupy Wall Street. Given the international and universal call to action from twitter and the Occupy Wall Street web presence, the fact that a...
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the Moneyball Persuasion Play
Combine technology, statistics, and sports to find that sweet spot where science and persuasion meet. Head coach Keith Guy and the Muskegon Heights Tigers headed into Tuesday night’s quarterfinals of...
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Debtor’s Persuasion
I missed the planning for this event probably because I paid my student loans a couple of years after graduating and that was a while ago. Now, all the Other Guys going to college have accumulated an...
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twitter Convictions
We stand in the light of a New New Day brought forth from the New New Things, twitter, Facebook, and the rest. Don’t look for social media much in the next one. As they prosecute hundreds of Occupy...
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All Bad Persuasion on the Barricade
A picture is worth a thousand words, but video leaves you speechless. Watch persuasion (YouTube), sincere persuasion, in action at the there that isn’t there according to Gertrude Stein, with the...
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Persuasion versus Fantasy in Occupy Wall Street and Media Fascination
Let’s begin with a quote. “If you’re able to come up with a very sexy sounding hash tag like we did for Occupy Wall Street, and you come up with a very magical looking poster that seems to have...
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Location Persuasion
Sometimes persuasion is like real estate. Location, location, location. WASHINGTON — The White House abruptly announced Monday that it had scuttled plans to hold the upcoming G-8 economic summit in...
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Persuasion as Niche or Rut
Consider this chart of news hits from Google Trends over the 90 days from August through November 2012. It shows Google news searches on the key term, Climate Change. You observe a nice little cycle...
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OWS Strategic Persuasion Goal: Entering the Lexicon?
At last we know! Whatever the long-term effects of the Occupy movement, protesters have succeeded in implanting “We are the 99 percent,” referring to the vast majority of Americans (and its implied...
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Here’s a really nice NYT article looking at academic researchers looking at the Occupy movement. Quite against the main point of the effort, the article reveals why OWS persuasion is so bad. Consider...
View ArticleA Persuasion Analysis of the Black Lives Matter Movement
As a hashtag, #blacklivesmatter is hitting the first stage of the Cascade. Many Other Guys know about it and if you believe a Pew poll, many Other Guys like it. Roughly four-in-ten Americans support...
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What’s the TACT?
Regardless of your politics, read this column in the NYT that offers a nice little class essay aimed at the objective: 1. Compare and contrast grassroots political movements with particular emphasis...
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The Whole World’s Apping, The Whole World’s Apping
Man, if we’d had this at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, things would have been sooooo different. With modern technology comes modern solutions to perennial protest problems. What to do when...
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Occupy Wall Street Revisited
You may recall my earlier take on the protest movement, Occupy Wall Street. Given the international and universal call to action from twitter and the Occupy Wall Street web presence, the fact that a...
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Dogs Know How To Persuade . . . or Deceive
Dogs are smarter than you think. They understand persuasion and know how to apply it depending upon the Other Guys and the Local. Here’s proof. Researchers grabbed a convenience sample of 27 happy home...
View ArticleiChill for iIntervention with Anxiety
If you review the Case Study on iInterventions you find a lot of persuasion . . . about iInterventions, but not so much persuasion with iInterventions. They just don’t work very well despite the fact...
View ArticleScience as Likes with Elite Journals
I think there’s a difference between doing science and doing persuasion, but if you read some peer review journals nowadays my distinction may be untrue. Consider this introduction from the editor at...
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Almost Another Married Man
I pulled through the driveway into the spacious parking lot looking for the entrance to the restaurant. There. There it was just through this line of parked cars, but I couldn’t glide closer because...
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Ich Bin Ein Gatsby
Simple explanations are desirable when you’ve got a great theory behind them which then means the simple explanations aren’t that simple after all, but if you know the theory, then that simple...
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Cancer and Persuasion with Random Mutations
[Please read Publisher Note at the end of this post.] We’re in the Local called Las Vegas. We’re playing a game with only three outcomes, X, Y, and Z. The Queen of Tomorrow taps you on the shoulder and...
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