She can’t explain what her dad does for a living, but 9 year old Elle has a pretty solid grasp on what social media means for her and her peers as they grow up and take their real-world behavior into the online arena. This week’s special podcast provides a rare and telling glimpse at the [...]
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Jason & Elle Talk Social Media and School (PODCAST)
May 22, 2012
Social Skills vs. Social Media
February 17, 2012
Twice now in the past few months, I’ve come across science that suggests that social media is bad for developing brains. Specifically, researchers including Sherry Turkle of MIT, who I’ve referenced before because she’s been studying this phenomenon since the 1970s and knows her stuff, are finding the following: The connectivity made possible by interactive [...]
The End of Introversion?
February 7, 2012
On social media, you can connect with a large number of people while remaining snuggly in your personal, little cocoon. You don’t have to even engage with your network much, let alone connect with them emotionally. And yet, from that emotionally-detached cocoon, you can engage with many, many people at once and leave them all [...]
Using Online Information in Real World Conversation
January 15, 2012
In the past, meeting someone meant talking to a person with whom you had no idea if you shared any common interests. You’d break the ice and go from there. And loosely speaking, extroverts were people who had an easy time with this while introverts struggled. With LinkedIn and social media, all that is changing. [...]
Let’s Kick Ass Together in 2012!
December 11, 2011
Do you shine? These last few years, the whole idea of what it takes to make you “shine” as a professional has been flipped upside down. The transparent, instant nature of social platforms has turned “polished” into “inauthentic,” and “polite” into something approaching “laughably out of touch.” This isn’t going to change; success in 2012 [...]
Does using social media at work impact turnover?
December 1, 2011
Here’s my take, on Ajax Social Media blog. Jason Seiden is Co-founder and CEO of Ajax Social Media, a training company that shows professionals how use social media to work more effectively.
How What It Takes to Succeed in Business Is Shifting
November 19, 2011
Used to be, the biggest network won. When people were scattered throughout various organizations, and there was no clear way to find any of them, the person who was more ingenious in locating the “buyer” or the “candidate” was often more successful. Investors who knew just the right person to run that new company; recruiters [...]
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