Other industry insiders and pundits in the room, including tech investor Esther Dyson, author Andrew Keen, and Social Flow founder Mike Perrone, chimed in too.
This is the usual practice in financing Social Security benefits when there is a cash flow shortfall in Social Security.
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The circles of influence in a flock of birds resemble (perhaps not flatteringly) how our online social networks shape traffic flow to content.
We see early examples of this, from catching fraud in financial transactions, to debugging and improving the hiring process in HR: and almost everybody already pays attention to the massive flow of social network information concerning them.
For those not used to seeing social updates as a steady flow of information rather than individual nuggets needing processing, it can be overwhelming to see all the little bits.
Politicians raid Pemex cash flow to pay for social programs--not leaving enough for Pemex to invest in new fields.
The economy actually contracted at a 1.3% average rate in 2008 and 2009, and this drove Social Security into a negative cash flow position in 2010, much earlier than the Trustees had ever imagined was possible.
As brand budgets and campaign funds start to flow more quickly into the social media space, researchers, too, are looking to these questions.
Small scale producers and consumers are often at a disadvantage with information and sometimes social entrepreneurs can find sustainable ways to change the flow of information in favor of the public good.
This is great from a data flow perspective, and remarkable in terms of social science and, of course, marketing.
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Even the best information flow cannot replace old-fashioned trust and social bonds.
This will flow through Facebook as news: this is what social media does, spreads gossip and stories.
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Neither company has a stake in trendy social network Facebook, or the advertising dollars that might someday flow from it.
When the ad units evolve to match the social nature of the communities and communications then the money will flow big.
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Google executives say Buzz will comply with all the technical standards that go into building the social Web, presumably so that as much information as possible can flow in and out of Buzz from the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
One way is to work with social BPM and tie networks into BPM, process management, and work flow tools for end to end solutions.
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The sneaky play here is to minimize the salary paid to owner-operators, who thereby avoid a social security tax (FICA on W-2 forms), and simply flow the income through as a distribution.
BlackBerry 10 provides an ideal platform for social apps such as WhatsApp Messenger to fully leverage innovative new features like BlackBerry Flow, where apps work together, sharing information with each other to quickly lead the customer intuitively to the information they need and to give them the ability to immediately take action.
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Businesses like Google, Zappos, and IBM have been household names as great places to work because they value the free flow of ideas and innovations that prioritize creative talent rather than traditional hierarchical social status.
These are "flow-based" tools such as wikis, micro-blogging and internal social networks, according to Mr Bryant.
The VVD, for example, is campaigning on a promise to limit the flow of unskilled immigrants into the country and to restrict newcomers' access to social services.
Social and collaborative apps reduce the need for face-to-face meetings without reducing the flow of information that is supposed to come from those meetings.
By recognizing this more accurate representation of the corporation, social computing has the potential to make companies more efficient by optimizing the faster, more natural flow of information between people.
The constant flow of Mafia Wars and Farmville requests on Facebook was starting to annoy those of us who are not social gamers.
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