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Becoming a Social Cyborg  Social media was born from two
disparate, but complimentary organisms – humanity and technology
-- and we’ve have been struggling to find a balance between the
two ever since. Pre-program your participation too much and you
come off as a robotic douche. Try to maintain continuous real-
time engagement and you get fried, fast. But, harness the power
of both collectively, and you take your business to a whole new
level. To master this skill, you need to evolve into a social
cyborg, a better, stronger, faster version of yourself that is
the perfect blend of automation and authenticity. In this
session, we’ll tackle how to make that transformation. We’ll
explore the hottest tools to use for social media content
curation, aggregation, syndication and coordination and provide
tips to improve the quality of your real-time engagement. Then,
we’ll discuss how to seamlessly combine the two to transform you
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