A recent article in the Wall Street Journal caught my eye, Facebook, Twitter Updates Spell Trouble in the Small Workplace. More examples of the potential dark side of the blurring lines between our personal lives and our professional lives as lived (and broadcast) online. Several examples were cited of employees making less than flattering comments about… Continue reading There Are Two Kinds of People on Facebook: My Employees and Those My Employees are Talking To
Tag: social networks
Facebook’s Openness and Your Privacy
Innovation is critical to business success. Innovate or die. I think we all understand that, right? Especially on the web when yesterday’s hot, new place is forgotten in the dust of today’s hot new place. And a market is a terrible thing to waste. Hence, we have Facebook’s latest announcement on OUR new privacy tools.… Continue reading Facebook’s Openness and Your Privacy
College Admissions Through the Social Media Looking Glass (Part 1 of 2)
So, you know you are a social media mom when late one night, you Tweet your son’s college acceptance (or totally lame if you ask the son). And you also know it when your social media pals Tweet back their congratulations @danielabarbosa, @ckEpiphany, @tishgrier. But then in the morning, you find that your yaaaay was… Continue reading College Admissions Through the Social Media Looking Glass (Part 1 of 2)
The Network 2008: “There IS Nothing So Powerful As An Idea Whose Time Has Come”
We are in the final countdown in the campaign that has eaten us whole over the past two years and it seems a foregone conclusion that Barack Obama will be our next President. To some, this is a deferred dream, finally fulfilled; to others it is a nightmare of constitutional proportions. If nothing else, Mr.… Continue reading The Network 2008: “There IS Nothing So Powerful As An Idea Whose Time Has Come”