Wait until the end of my review to see how many Slurpees I give to “The Debt.”

Movie Review: The Debt (2011) is a post from: domingo rogers

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My review of the Edge model skate shoe from Heelys. Check them out at http://www.heelys.com

Heelys’ Edge Skate Shoe – A Review is a post from: domingo rogers

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Starting September 5th, 2011 I’m embarking on a social experiment to find the names of these 8 boys. This photo was published in the March 1980 Smithsonian magazine and can be found on pages 112-113 in the article titled “Wheels and deals keep California Venice spinning“. The article was written by Charles Lockwood with photographs taken by Chad Slattery.

I know that I could probably go about sourcing this information by contacting the Smithsonian, which would put me in contact with the author and photographer. That doesn’t sound challenging enough. I want to see if all this information can be sourced using online social networks such as: Google+, Facebook, Linkedin, Quora, Twitter and my website. To accomplish this, I’m going to need your help!  Please re-post this and share this information with everyone that you know through an online network! You can of course know these same people and having personally met them, but I request that you must only share this information online. I am again striving to learn how quickly I can go from not knowing these 8 guys personally, to learning their names, getting an updated photo of them and learning what has occurred in their lives since this photo was taken and published.  Again, if this project interests you, and you would like to help, please contribute and share!

For questions and/or information, please email: domingorogers (at) gmail (dot) com

Here are close ups of each of the boys from left to right:

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Movie Review: Apollo 18 (2011) is a post from: domingo rogers

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I don’t have any particular reason for posting except that I think it is a funny commercial and I like it!

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Starting out I decided to use Linkedin’s “Answers” service.  Here I posted the following:

Who could recommend a motivational speaker that is be both inspiring and entertaining?

I then listed this question in: Business Development, Communication and Public Speaking

I then proceeded to ask the same question on Google+ on my main profile as well through Twitter.

To date these are the results:

Linkedin: 15 answers

Google+: 1

Twitter: 2

Frankly I was shocked.  However, in hindsight this probably shouldn’t come as a surprise to me and I’ll explain why.  On Linkedin, I network as an Open Networker.  In other words, I connect with all professionals that request to connect and try to help individuals connect with one another so as a whole, everyone can benefit from the expertise and professional services that we all have at our disposal.  This as garnered me to date with 811 direct connections on Linkedin and more than 8.2 million in my extended network.  Comparatively here’s what I’m working with to date on Google+: I have 303 people in my circles, but only 145 people have me in their circles.  And with Twitter, I follow 1,416 with 751 people following me.

What I found frustrating, was even though I posted my question publicly on ever network mentioned, I only got answers on two of the networks and of those only people I hadn’t had any connection with before answer my question.  Let me clarify and say that on Google+ one of my friends from Michigan answered me with a link to Chris Farley’s – Motivational Speaker skit.  As much as the video clip didn’t help in what I was trying to accomplish it had me crying with laughter and a lot less frustrated.  Thanks Loren Michael!

In closing from everything I’m seeing I think that Google+ has a lot to offer but with a 145:1 ratio of people who have me in their circles to answers I think I like the numbers of 54.07:1 much better from LinkedIn and Twitter for that matter.  Do I think that Google+ can and will do better in this area of helping people to crowdsource answers and solutions within their own networks and publicly? From everything I am reading on Google+, I do.  Will Google be able to get it right before the buzz for the general public is gone completely?  I believe the jury is still out.  What do you think and what have been the results from your own attempts at crowdsourcing on these and other networks?

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Watch my full review of Tony Hsieh’s book – Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose!  Please leave your comments below and let me know what books you’d like me to review.

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Hanna is by far one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time.  I give it a sold 5 out of 5 on my Slurpee scale!

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