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 to a different group. Or, the situation where you are [...]
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.
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 nights, my email lights up. I find both of these trends [...]
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 were before. So here is my question… What would Jesus [...]
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 doughnut. When someone tackles me on the soccer field, I [...]
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 media and how it can be used by organizations to [...]
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, is our organization benefiting from the fact that we have [...]
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 he de-friend her. The columnists counseled caution and said to [...]
Last night Google announced something that we should all take note of. Google App Engine is a platform that can do all of the things you can imagine your website or web application doing already, and more. If you are building your first startup or writing code for the enterprise, [...]
Is Microsoft Office in danger of losing its monopoly on the business tools category? Yet another company, Live Documents, has come out and announced an impending challenge to Office. For more than a decade, business users have become accustomed to Word, Excel and PowerPoint being the staple tools of choice. [...]