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Title:  Klick! Dynamic Social Media Enterprises is proud to announce klickdse.com‘s new Free Social Media ePub Pages, filled with Social Media insider Tips and Techniques to build a healthy Social Media Community by Engaging with your own audience.

Press Release:  Maui, Hawai’i – January 22, 2012 – Klick! Dynamic Social Media is giving away Free Social Media ePublications on the all new Klickdse.com/free-epubs page.  Michael Light’s new series is dedicated to providing solutions to common issues surrounding social media, for business, professionals, or just for your craft or special interests. This exciting series of electronic books is based on theoretical hot topics in a media that is dictated by a rapidly evolving community of social sites and the possibility of utilizing it to increase your network’s overall social media influence.

Summary:  It dawned on us, at Klick, that there were very few really richly developed insights available on the real power behind true social media, to help folks really “Get It”. The are of course a thousand avenues out there for information pertaining to Social Media and Social Media Influence, but we found them to be more geared toward how businesses can best use this tool to get ‘something’ from it. While there are plenty of opportunities to use these tools to sell people things, that is not the crux of their highly specialized force. Not understanding this can cause Social Media’s powerful Influence to backfire. In this way, ‘not’ getting it, can work against us, and no one wants that.

Social Media Influence can be so powerful that it can directly shape political policy. This is going to be true no matter where communities gather. The Internet’s force is the fact that the gateway is connected to practically everyone, and public opinion is always more of a force to reckon when it is organized, making the Internet more of a breeding ground for Anarchy than a top down model, which is the very structure of the current-past economic model. The beauty here is being able to tap into this force directly via the computer, which is billions of times more efficient than the printing press ever was.  The obvious problem that goes hand in hand with this mission is getting noticed and found by the right people, is defined by the pure volume of people interacting.

At Klick we spend all of our time collectively sifting the elements of the currents and shifts, in this wide open system, to determine the best way to engage with the right community. Some of these consistencies are things like engaging and developing rich relationships with the community you feel most aligned with. In this series we have taken topics like Blogging and Social Media Campaigns, expanding on them, to help shed light on how they work and how to avoid any systemic backlash that often comes with common mistakes that can be just as easily avoided.

 

The First Free ePub available Jan. 23, Socialmedia Influence – Currency of the Future, is the incredible adventure documenting how social media influence came into being and how it is threatening the very foundation of Capitalism as we know it. The current-past paradigm of financial influence has never had a test like this.

Author, Michael Light, does a great job of reassessing the History of Social Media in a way I don’t think has ever been accomplished. He addresses the ideas behind influence and how Social Media sites like Facebook and Twitter are reshaping the Media, like Napster changed the Music Industry. Michael refers to this book as his first investigation of Social Media Influence.

We will be announcing new releases over the upcoming weeks, including;  Zen and the Art of Blog, and ePub, A Social Media Campaign. We are also considering promoting other social media publishers and authors to submit their own free books to appear on the Klickdse.com website on the authors very own display page. So watch for it over the coming weeks.

 

Klick! wants to thank everyone for supporting the site. We hope you enjoy these Free Social Media ePublications as much as we enjoy seeing people engaging their community in a way that shows they “Get It”!

 

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Occupy Wall Street – Looking Within!

Almost entirely vanishing from the limelight, Occupy Wall Street has begun the metamorphosis, into a well organized institution that will be around forever. Every Occupier website has blossomed into a central hub of support for any surrounding efforts to occupy. This isn’t the beginning of the organizing at all. Occupy Wall Street and the rest of the Occupy Movement, have been incredibly organized, but this is different. This isn’t organizing a camp. This is organizing a working social system that remains non linear and leaderless.

This is the time where people are starting to grab onto the reigns of consensus and pulling toward goals and specific shared focuses that will test the Movement’s vindication. Can a group of unaffiliated members possible start an entirely new social system, while remaining fixed to goals that perpetuate the existing one. Supporting Labor Unions seem like a move to the left and from the numbers that have appeared, under that guise, would suggest socialism isn’t a mutual theme everyone’s behind supporting.

Occupy, in it’s raw form (GA), isn’t itself a political system. It is however a very advanced form of communication that can help make better decisions about our society and how to best implement them. It seems to be a natural inertial response to “Austerity”. In the countries that Horizontalism has been most successful, it has literally been born out of the fringe of society that are shaved off the duty roster by austerity measures. This is an important factor when you consider that the majority of the thinkers and artist in most societies exist as close to the fringe as possible. It’s a very interesting counter balance that will lie dormant as long as this thin layer of society isn’t ruptured.

Political transitions are in America have been viewed historically as a swing from left to right and back. The difference being the political Party who wins the election represents the mandate of the people. This is really different.  The one thing that makes this different is a bit of the history behind it. The bailouts, the horrible state and economy, and unemployment aren’t totally unusual. What is unusual about this is the state of the state. There are an equal amount of people that believe in opposite outcomes, and when you consider the wealth base of this passing era, I think half of them are correct. This past era of wealth came from flipping real asset values into debt. Several members of my family owned there homes in 1980, when the deregulations started. Now 2 of 3 owe more on their mortgage than there house is worth. That factor has now expired.

It’s not surprising that Occupy in the US doesn’t have more support from the greater community. It also doesn’t surprise me that the Media and the Mainstream have condemned the movement for being homeless or worse, which somehow seems to offer them the option of considering the group unimportant, or worse, a “Class War”. What’s a shame is a society that betrays any member of that society. It was far less of a luxury as hunter gatherers to neglect members of their own tribe. The health and survival of the tribe demanded total support of the entire tribe, while modern society is somehow removed from this rule, seemingly, when in fact it isn’t. Every society in history that have fallen into economic imbalance have eventually collapsed, whether it was self-inflicted or not.

Occupy, over the last month, has proven it’s legs long, and buckled in for the long winter, not like the dormant bulbs, frozen and waiting for the thaw, but more like the entire genre catalog of caterpillars, that will spend the quiet season metamorphosing into thousands of unique butterflies. This time has been set aside for reflection and growth, that will reinvent itself again this coming Spring, but what is success considered along these lines of interest. Is it changing the face of Capitalism, or giving the Middle Class back their voice. Will we move past central banker control and somehow reestablish a true republic governed by the people. Or is this really the failure of Capitalism. Is it suffering the same fate as Communism did in the Soviet Union when it failed? Will it fall into the abyss of disinterest, falling short of it’s massive hunger for productivity and growth, as is becomes less and less capable of providing the same level of abundance equally across society. Failing to influence the loyalty of the public; temptation of  treasures and greatness, when it cannot even support the fringe, the social class most notorious for fostering change.

Obama Ask Congress for More Executive Powers? When Pigs Fly!

“If you talk to regular Americans, they’ll tell you.”, Obama said this at the podium this morning, to an audience he welcomed as “business people”, to start. The theme, requesting more executive power from congress to “streamline” the executive branch, comes at a time when Congress seems more like a lame duck session, than some of the last lame ducks sessions.

Some of the things I noted during the speech was that this disconnect between the support for business and a relationship with the people just seems infinitely vast. Especially when you describe the “regular” American’s as “they”. And it’s not just a simple careless phrase, it’s a symptom of the real issues facing this country.

The real problem in the US is the disconnect authority has with it’s own members. Obama spent the entire speech addressing the wrong audience. His focus and language was entirely meant for congressional members and NOT the American people, or they, but rather itself technically; USA.

To me Obama and his political will is missing the real point of leading the “people”. He is a populous president, under the guise of his campaign promises, that is completely ignoring his power base. The Republicans have actually suggested that Obama is behind the Occupation, which is just insane. The fact is that the so called “liberal” media has successfully ignored any social interest in the movement. They have tried to demonize it, covering the events that may finally turn into the Seattle WTO convention. That’ll spike ratings!

If Occupy Wall Street has succeeded at anything it has succeeded at exposing the divide between America the television program, and America the reality. It seemed much easier to breeze through the day content to get by until it became obvious that the left was quite right of the center, an amazing lie!

So essentially, knowing congress will deny any hope to improve his campaign position, Obama makes a lame duck request, to help America see the lame duck, and get a sense for the lameness of the duck! But what does that make the populous president, whose promise for changed filled so many with a hope that would eventually turn that hope into anger and resentment. I knew when he was running that he was just another politician, but for the people who really believed in him, he was more than just a little disappointing.

The problem with Washington is it’s full of politicians. People with the power to support Americans, lost to the tide pools of wealth deciding bailouts and buying earmarks and it all hurts Americans, that have placed their trust in the issues and the people, trust in their judgments as fellow human beings living in this miracle of time we share on Earth. The problem is that our president is wasting time with political games intended to get himself re-elected, instead of embracing the America will for change and yielding it. This is someone who could have done that and didn’t! And, it could actually cost him the race.

Occupy Wall Street and the 2012 Presidential Wild Card

When I think about the Iowa Caucus, I can’t help but reminisce on Howard Dean. Not so much that he got slaughtered by the media with a single image, that was taken way out of context and repeated until everyone truly believed that Howard Dean was “angry”. What concerned me was the average age of the state, the number of volunteers Dean had between the age of 18-26, and the fact that he lost that particular bracket to John Kerry. This is a deep concern when you consider that whatever was moving behind the scenes in that event crossed party line support and surfaced in the media, like it was all planned. Dean could have been a serious threat to George Bush’s reelection bid, but we’ll never know will we.

 

This year isn’t really all that different for the Republicans. Last week, for a short few days, Ron Paul was leading the polls in Iowa by a small margin, yet most of the media was reporting that Mitt Romney was leading by the same amount, and that the new threat was Rick Santorum. What amazes me is this deadly accurate prediction, and something else. Reports on the ground in Iowa said this year had far less yard signs than usual, and, ironically, Iowa is claiming a record number of votes this year. And though it may seem like the same old thing, this year is going to be a little bit different. Not because the media will be different, and not because the election will seem more real than usual, but rather there is no telling what the occupiers will do next.

 

Frank Luntz and the Tea Party are so concerned, with this issue, that they worked out talking points to meet with this dangerous class war. In November the PR firm of Clark, Lytle, Geduldig and Cranford sent a memo to the American Bankers Association, titled, “Occupy Wall Street Response“. The concern, that sparked the proposal, was more about the Democratic Party co-opting the movement and converting it into a support vehicle vs. an Occupy wild card scenario. The irony here isn’t so much the idea that their candidate might possibly win, but rather that Occupy was even co-optable. They’ve obviously never tried to get consensus, on a less than interesting topic, in a General Assembly.

 

Personally I like the Wild Card scenario possibilities. In fact why not take it to a crescendo and announce the #OccupyParty, introduce a Horizontal Candidate. And if that’s too extreme for an anarchist movement, what about supporting a candidate who won’t send in the troops or coordinate with the states to suppress Freedom of Speech. Even asking people to vote “undecided” overlooks the realities behind what these caucuses really represent. The fact of the matter is that the caucuses and the elections that follow are so animated by the media and their controllers (the 1%) that believing in elections as the outcome of peoples, well informed, conscious choice, is just slightly naive.

 

Occupy has incredible political advantages in its grass roots. Obama won the last election with a similar infrastructure that had similar energies behind it. The biggest advantage it has is the existing national movement with groups in every city, that could easily put all their energies into campaigning and engaging the greater community. This is a powerful point and I think you’ll begin to see more creative energies and activities, coming out of Occupy, when the culture figures out the secret to building a new society is to build it. Purely resisting what is can’t possibly change anything. In fact, I believe it only succeeds to validate the issues we resist. As the Borg say, “resistance is futile” and if you think about it, their actually right. The fact is that if you plan on destroying something unfashionable to society it has to be replaced with something better. In this instance, better is the horizontal. Better is direct democracy.

 

The Wild Card factor of Occupy Wall Street, coming into play during this election, is almost more powerful than what’s really happening so far in Iowa. It’s a needle in the minds of everyone engaged in the process, on every level. Its potential is being realized in retrospect of the plans and agendas set in play by the 1%, and Occupy would do well to put together a strategic political analysis teams and consider activities that build political infrastructure, while at the same time fulfilling the fears of the Tea Party for them. At this point the act of disruption, which is a great tool for gaining exposure, has already succeeded. Now it’s time for the infrastructure, and the populace synergy behind it, to step up into the Presidential Election of 2012 and consider what’s to be gained by bridging the gap between the 99%.