Written by Matrix Thompson & Sarika Khambaita and published by the Pamper Me Network, " Who Is Winning The Social Media and Crowd Funding War: The Battle For Good Vs Evil” is the final installment in “The Greatest Con In The History Of The Human Race" ebook series. The three part series takes a fresh look at social networking, crowd funding & Internet-based marketing systems, with a focus on teaching individuals and small business owners how they can level the playing field, share in the bounty the Internet offers and market like multinational corporations. Who Is Winning The Social Media and Crowd Funding War : The Battle For Good Vs Evil quickly summarizes the lessons learned in Volume I and Volume II of “The Greatest Con In The History Of The Human Race”—by drawing upon case studies of two of the largest social media networks and their very different approaches to interacting with their users. One social media network designs, implements and deploys collaborative strategies for users that creates opportunities for everyone, and the other develops collaborative strategies to create wealth for a few. While the “The Greatest Con In The History Of The Human Race” ebook series is extremely critical of some Internet business models and Internet entrepreneurs who are described in “Volume I” as the “Forces For Good” and the “Forces For Evil”, Who Is Winning The Social Media and Crowd Funding War: The Battle For Good Vs Evil attempts to demonstrate that it is indeed possible to engage all Internet users to share in the bounty that the Internet and new technologies offer by supporting socially responsible marketing strategies. We hope that you read all three ebooks with an open mind, and implement some of the ideas to: · Combine your social power with the crowd to market virtually any type of product or service; · Launch more innovative marketing strategies that benefits not only your business but the entire community; · Insure yourself against failure by joining social media networks powered by Social Rewards technology; · Grow your business while helping others to succeed. And for crowd funders, we hope you use the secrets you discover to: · Combine your personal network with that of millions of social influencers to make virtually anyone successful and create generational wealth; · Launch more successful crowd funding campaigns; · Share in the success of competing crowd funding campaigns; · Earn rewards & related bonuses when other crowd funders build their teams. · Reward donors & fans for supporting crowd funding projects, FOREVER; · Share in the revenues realized as crowd funding portals grow; · Share in ongoing sales generated from products pre-sold on a crowd funding platform; · Promote crowd funding campaign to the mass media and, or general Internet community; · Recruit and reward donors; · Enhance donor & fan acquisition with powerful viral marketing tools.

" Crowd Funding Is The Greatest Con In The History Of The Human Race or the Greatest Opportunity" is the second installment in “The Greatest Con In The History Of The Human Race" ebook series. Volume II of the ebook series focuses on the crowd funding industry and encourages individuals and small business owners to open their eyes and question the motives of anyone who is pushing the crowd funding business model. The ebook was written to educate the industry while providing the stakeholders with the tools they need to level the playing field so everyone can benefit from the rapid growth of the crowd funding industry. We wrote "Crowd Funding Is The Greatest Con In The History Of The Human Race or the Greatest Opportunity" to challenge crowd funding portals, crowd funders, donors and related stakeholders to work together to create a better global standard for crowd funding that will ensure a more equitable allocation of the abundance that crowd funding affords. The ebook examines several areas of concerns and offer up solutions. We specifically, encourage stakeholders to question the following: * Rewards-based crowd funders offer backers meaningless rewards of pre-orders of untested products in return for financial support; * Rewards-based crowd funders do not offer crowd funders a share of their future sales in return for their referrals as traditional affiliate marketing systems do; * Crowd funders hide behind the Securities regulations and use it as a reason for denying backers a share in their future success (you don’t have to give up equity in your business to reward a person for helping you—sales commissions or bonuses are just as good, if not better); * Most crowd funders lack influence and, or personal network to succeed—and crowd funding portals are not offering them assistance to enhance their campaigns chance for success; * Crowd funding portals brand crowd funding as a silver bullet that can be embraced by anyone to raise financing, when the truth is it is really hardwork; * Crowd funding portals are using crow funders to grow their brand—appropriate free labour and free content to create value for themselves. Drawing from ideas introduced in Volume I ( Social Networking Is The Greatest Con In History Or The Greatest Opportunity ), Volume II of the Greatest Con In The History Of The Human Race" ebook series is a warning. It highlights the growing disparity and unequal division of the crowd funding bounty—and how backers or donors are being persuaded to support projects for little more than meaningless, short term rewards, when history has proven that crowd funders and crowd funding portals can offer so much more. WE IDENTIFY THE PROBLEMS AND OFFER SOLUTIONS: Although the title of the ebook is provocative, "Crowd Funding Is The Greatest Con In The History Of The Human Race Or The Greatest Opportunity" is an instructional manual for crowd funders, donors and entrepreneurs. It introduces a new form of crowd funding called “Social Rewards-based” Crowd Funding or “Affiliate-Based” Crowd Funding and offers up useful advice on how crowd funders can use existing technologies to: * Share in the success of competing crowd funding campaigns; * Earn rewards & related bonuses when other crowd funders build their teams; * Recruit & reward donors & fans for supporting crowd funding projects, FOREVER; * Share in the revenues realized as crowd funding portals grow including a share of ongoing products sold; * Promote crowd funding campaign to the mass media and, or general Internet community; * Enhance donor & fan acquisition with powerful viral marketing tools. THE EBOOK SERIES IS A ROAD MAP UNVEILED IN EACH VOLUME The Greatest Con In History Or The Greatest Opportunity ebook series provides a road map that can be used by anyone to transform their own personal network into a powerful source of revenue. In Volume II of the “Greatest Con In The History Of The Human Race” ebook series you will discover secrets that will teach how Social Rewards technology and self-replicating online contest technology is revolutionizing the way crowd funding campaigns are deployed. The series of ebooks introduce the revolutionary ideas behind social royalties (social rewards technology), self-replicating contest technology, self-replicating fan networks and illustrates how crowd funding when combined with social rewards technology is helping to create a new generation of entrepreneurs. You will love the entire series of ebooks. Join us on this journey by purchasing each volume individually or pre-order the entire series to be released in 2016.

Kickstarter alone has successfully funded over 100,000 crowd funding campaigns. And believe us when we tell you that each crowd funder had to design and implement some creative strategies to meet their goals. But nevermind Kickstarters' clients, what about you? How can you supercharge your crowd funding efforts, sell more crowd funding services or grow your crowd funding portal? Well, “A Better Way To Crowd Fund Directory: The #1 Source For Finding Public Relations & Promo Opportunities For Driving Crowd Funding Success” is the answer. We wrote this essential tool for crowd funding vendors, crowd funding portals, experts, inventors, small business owners, business opportunity seekers and, or entrepreneurs who have heard great things about crowd funding and wish to create their own success story. The ebook catalogues hundreds of media sources, websites, journalists, bloggers and social influencers that will: * Share your message; as well as; * Showcase your projects or expert advice to their followers, viewers, listeners or readers. Use A Better Way To Crowd Fund Directory: The #1 Source For Finding Public Relations & Promo Opportunities For Driving Crowd Funding Success to learn the secret techniques for accessing thousands of additional sources for promoting your crowd funding campaign, expert business, ideas and events including podcasts, blogs, retweet networks, and many more. Reference our sources and implement our strategies immediately—and create your own crowd funding success story. But that is not all. We provide real-life examples of experts that are embracing crowd funding with tremendous success including military veteran and first time author John Lee Dumas who generated $453,803 in pre-orders in just 45 days to finance his book and expert business. Once you have read A Better Way To Crowd Fund Directory: The #1 Source For Finding Public Relations & Promo Opportunities For Driving Crowd Funding Success you will realize that it is more than your standard ebook. It is a dynamic, constantly evolving web and email service that updates you daily with a growing list of: * Online sources that wish to promote your crowd funding projects and business; * Podcast show bookers/producers, radio producers, tv producers, print & online journalists, bloggers and related media sources that are interested in interviewing experts like yourself; * Social media influencers that will retweet or share your announcements free of charge simply by mentioning their account or keyword in your posts; * Event planners that wish to feature you as a keynote or guest speaker; * Websites that wish to feature your crowd funding project(s) or great ideas. With the lessons learned in the A Better Way To Crowd Fund Directory: The #1 Source For Finding Public Relations & Promo Opportunities For Driving Crowd Funding Success you will: * Save thousands of dollars in public relations expenses; * Make money even if your crowd funding campaigns fail; * Generate more retweets, Facebook likes and Google + shares; * Get guaranteed media listings, social media shares & fan support; * Learn how to transform your social media followers into self-replicating virtual sales people whom are rewarded to promote your crowd funding campaign, content, products and services, FOREVER; * Book more on-air (television, radio and podcast interviews); * Identify more speaking & networking opportunities; * Recruit more donors, affiliates and social influencers; * Forge more strategic alliances & build larger opt-in email lists; * And of course, close more business and secure more donations. Choose from the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Directory Edition, that includes over 150 public relations, media and influencer sources or the Success Kit that includes weekly email and web delivered updates of NEW public relations, media and influencer sources (for 90 days).

Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense experts P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking.

Written by Matrix Thompson & Sarika Khambaita and published by the Pamper Me Network, "Social Networking Is The Greatest Con In History Or The Greatest Opportunity" is the first installment in “The Greatest Con In The History Of The Human Race" ebook series. The three part series takes a fresh look at social networking, crowd funding & Internet-based marketing systems, with a focus on teaching individuals and small business owners how they can level the playing field, share in the bounty the Internet offers and market like multinational corporations. Social Networking Is The Greatest Con In History Or The Greatest Opportunity encourages individuals and small business owners to open their eyes and question the motives of Internet companies, especially social media networks, game developers and crowd funding portals that launch self-serving user-generated content business models. Although the title of the book is provocative, Social Networking Is The Greatest Con In History Or The Greatest Opportunity is an instructional manual for individuals and small business owners that want to share in the bounty that the Internet offers. This book revisits the techniques used by successful Internet companies including Whats App, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google, Linkedin and others to build huge opt-in databases as well as create generational wealth. Having explained the origins and founding missions of the World Wide Web, Social Networking Is The Greatest Con In History Or The Greatest Opportunity and subsequent volumes in the ebook series goes on to explain how the Internet has changed—and how it has been corrupted to create a state of instability where some Internet stakeholders are enslaving others. The ebook then demonstrates how the enslavement has expanded into social gaming, mobile gaming and will soon include crowd funding. While the ebook is extremely critical of some Internet business models and Internet entrepreneurs who are described in “Volume I” as the “Forces For Good” and the “Forces For Evil”, Social Networking Is The Greatest Con In History Or The Greatest Opportunity was written to demonstrate that the original noble and achievable goals of the Internet have somehow been corrupted by a new generation and self-serving entrepreneurs—and explains why content creation as well as new innovations like crowd funding must be a true partnership between Internet users and businesses for it to be sustainable, and supporting the growing trend towards social entrepreneurialism. THE EBOOK SERIES IS A ROAD MAP UNVEILED IN EACH VOLUME The Greatest Con In History Or The Greatest Opportunity ebook series provides a road map that can be used by anyone to transform their own personal network into a powerful source of revenue. Read the ebook series if you want to find out the secrets behind the “Greatest Con In The History Of The Human Race”. How and why Google is the only company that has allocated a significant portion of its resources to clean up the mess made by its competitors. And why Google will usher in a paradigm shift and in doing so create a new generation of wealth for everyone willing to work hard. In Volume II of the “Greatest Con In The History Of The Human Race” ebook series you will discover secrets that will teach how Social Rewards technology and self-replicating online contest technology is revolutionizing the way experts and small businesses market themselves. The series of ebooks introduce the revolutionary ideas behind social royalties (social rewards technology), self-replicating contest technology, self-replicating fan networks and illustrates how crowd funding when combined with social rewards technology is helping to create a new generation of entrepreneurs. You will love the entire series of ebooks. Join us on this journey by purchasing each volume individually or pre-order the entire series to be released in 2016. In the end, you will: · Personally experience a new way to finance content production, launch new products and build self-replicating networks of supporters whom are rewarded to spread your message. · Insure yourself against failure by joining social media networks powered by Social Rewards technology; · Combine your personal network with that of millions of social influencers to make virtually anyone successful and create generational wealth; · Combine your social power with the crowd to succeed at fund raising and, or product launches even when your primary initiative is a commercial failure; · Learn how crowd funding technology when combined with social rewards technology will revolutionize, disrupt traditional sources of financing.

Social media platforms have emerged as an influential and popular tool in the digital era. No longer limited to just personal use, the applications of social media have expanded in recent years into the business realm. Analyzing the Strategic Role of Social Networking in Firm Growth and Productivity examines the role of social media technology in organizational settings to promote business development and growth. Highlighting a range of relevant discussions from the public and private sectors, this book is a pivotal reference source for professionals, researchers, upper-level students, and academicians.

Violent behavior has become deeply integrated into modern society and it is an unavoidable aspect of human nature. Examining peacemaking strategies through a critical and academic perspective can assist in resolving violence in societies around the world. The Handbook of Research on Examining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age is a pivotal reference source for the latest research findings on the utilization of peacemaking in media, leadership, and religion. Featuring extensive coverage on relevant areas such as human rights, spirituality, and the Summer of Peace, this publication is an ideal resource for policymakers, universities and colleges, graduate-level students, and organizations seeking current research on the application of conflict resolution and international negotiation.

Why are we willing to believe that technology can bring about war... but not peace? PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End War is the world's first book dealing with the use of technological innovation to support peace and transition processes. Through an interwoven narrative of personal stories that capture the complexity of real-time peace negotiation, Bell maps the fast-paced developments of PeaceTech, and the ethical and practical challenges involved. Bell locates PeaceTech within the wider digital revolution that is also transforming the conduct of war. She lays bare the ‘double disruption’ of peace processes, through digital transformation, and through changing conflict patterns that make processes more difficult to mount. Against this backdrop – can digital peacebuilding be a force for good? Or do the risks outweigh the benefits? PeaceTech provides a 12-Step Manifesto laying out the types of practice and commitment needed for successful use of digital tools to support peace processes. This open access book will be invaluable primer for business tech entrepreneurs, peacebuilders, the tech community, and students of international relations, informatics, comparative politics, ethics and law; and indeed for those simply curious about peace process innovation in the contemporary world.

In the past, it was assumed that men, as good citizens, would serve in the armed forces in wartime. In the present, however, liberal democratic states increasingly rely on small, all-volunteer militaries deployed in distant wars of choice. While few people now serve in the armed forces, our cultural myths and narratives of warfare continue to reproduce a strong connection between military service, citizenship, and normative masculinity. In Support the Troops, Katharine M. Millar provides an empirical overview of "support the troops" discourses in the US and UK during the early years of the global war on terror (2001-2010). As Millar argues, seemingly stable understandings of the relationship between military service, citizenship, and gender norms are being unsettled by changes in warfare. The effect is a sense of uneasiness about the meaning of what it means to be a "good" citizen, "good" person, and, crucially, a "good" man in a context where neither war nor military service easily align with existing cultural myths about wartime obligations and collective sacrifice. Instead we participate in the performance of supporting the troops, even when we oppose war--an act that appears not only patriotic and moral, but also apolitical. Failing to support the troops, either through active opposition or a lack of overt supportive actions, is perceived as not only offensive and inappropriately political, but disloyal and dangerous. Millar asserts that military support acts as a new form of military service, which serves to limit anti-war dissent, plays a crucial role in naturalizing the violence of the transnational liberal order, and recasts war as an internal issue of solidarity and loyalty. Rigorous and politically challenging, Millar provides the first work to systematically examine "support the troops" as a distinct social phenomenon and offers a novel reading of this discourse through a gendered lens that places it in historical and transnational context.

The Russo-Ukraine War is a vital learning opportunity for military strategists across the globe. The first and clearest lesson to be gleaned from it is this: the soundness of a military’s strategy and the nimbleness with which it can adapt to unforeseen circumstances are the two most important factors in deciding victory or defeat. The War for Ukraine analyzes the war through these twin lenses of strategy and adaptation, detailing how each army has succeeded or failed to plan for and adapt to this twenty-first century war. Author Mick Ryan examines the foundations of Ukrainian and Russian strategy for their ongoing war, looking back over several decades to reveal how both sides have evolved their military strategy and force structure. Each has undertaken institutional-level reforms of their military and national security enterprises in the decade leading up to this war. But because the emergent behavior of military forces after fighting begins cannot be fully predicted, these prewar reforms only constitute a starting point for adaptation during the war. Part I of the book covers the role of strategic leadership, with a focus on evolution of strategy since February 2022. From there, the second part of the book delves into how the Ukrainians and Russians have adapted their tactics, organizations, operational approaches, and strategic foundations for war-making throughout the conflict. Central to this discussion are the ways that, regardless of cutting-edge technology, human elements have remained a crucial deciding factor in Ukraine. Ryan shows how good leadership allows a nation to navigate the ambiguity and uncertainty of conflict, while poor leadership leaves it vulnerable to surprises. Likewise, The War for Ukraine offers case studies of the importance of an institution’s ability to nurture and reward human learning as it relates to combat. The book provides strategists, policymakers, and military leaders with a basis from which to plan for constant adaption in military organizations. General readers of contemporary global conflict will also find The War for Ukraine of great interest.