She let Congress' own words speak for itself -- albeit in a 2013 political and social lens.

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Such tools like paper.li and Social Lens deal with the increasingly important issue of how we manage our attention.

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What we need is an attention management or filtering tool like the Social Lens project at IBM, discussed in a recent MIT Technology Review article.

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You can customize how it picks content, according to Michael Muller one of the researchers behind the Social Lens project, by changing the initial seed topics, or by selecting an emphasis on people or content items.

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If you have the capability, you can look at the data through a social analytics lens focused on the demographics.

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To paraphrase David Bornstein, author of two books on social entrepreneurship, the element that distinguishes the social entrepreneurship lens is the focus on the role of leaders in building organizations and movements.

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Whether we recognize it or not, most of us get the bulk of our information about the world through the lens of our social networks.

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The more individuals realize they have a vested interest in creating sustainable systems, the more their social networks can filter content through that lens, shifting the balance of opinion towards more sensible policies.

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Through that lens, it might be tempting to view governmental social media activity as solely an exercise of openness.

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