Tag Archives: LinkedIn

Cross Group Bleed Over (and other disasters)

I am not sure if this is happening to you, but it is to me, and evidently to many others as well. It is the dreaded incidence of having a conversation you are involved with in one group, bleeding over … Continue reading

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Vocabulary (and the Social Quagmire)

OK, I am only going to write about this one time, and then I am going to let it go. I start every presentation I give on social technologies with the same slide, and each time I review it, the audience nods their heads as if to say, “now I get it…” This slide is a simple vocabulary lesson to try and bring some coherence and sense to the jumble of terms people are now using in the social space. It seems that each new day brings some new variation on an activity with the word social pasted in front of it. Continue reading

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What was wrong with plain old email?

I get a lot of email everyday.  In fact I get enough that I can actually gauge how the American workforce is doing based on the flow and quantity.   For example, one Friday afternoons, the velocity of email drops in half.  On Sunday … Continue reading

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What Would Jesus Do

I have always believed that one of the really important responsibilities a writer has is to ask interesting questions. Questions make us think about life in new ways, and once we do, our minds cannot snap back to what they … Continue reading

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Humanity and the Socialtech Storm

There are moments in life when I am very conscious that I am an animal at heart. When I get hungry, there comes a point where I cannot focus on anything other than hunting prey – or at least a … Continue reading

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Corporate Social Media Policy

I cannot stop myself from writing this specific message for you to because I am becoming frustrated that organizations are moving so slowly on this subject. I have been asked to speak to quite a few audiences lately about social … Continue reading

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Measuring the Results of Social Media Participation

A question from a reader sparked this new stream.  Jeff Hurt from NADP asked me if I has written anything on how to measure the success or failure of working with social media as a tool.  Or, put another way, … Continue reading

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The Crowd Is The Cloud

People are talking about the Internet morphing into a Cloud based technological organism, but it has always been a Cloud of sorts.  It is just lately that we are all becoming part of the Cloud.  Micro-blogging has erupted into an … Continue reading

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Are You My Friend?

I was reading a self help column today (not because I need it) and saw and letter written in from a young man who had friended his girlfriend’s mother on Facebook. His girlfriend was livid at this and demanded the … Continue reading

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Social Community Rant

I am a fan of social community sites and I think that the social networking aspect of the Web 2.0 trend is at the forefront of innovation right now.  I love the feel of a community when it has a … Continue reading

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