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 [...]
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The End of Introversion?
February 7, 2012
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. Enjoy this blog? Listen to my new podcast, Beyond Social.It’ll help you use social media to improve the way you work and live.
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 [...]
LinkedIn Profile Tip
November 10, 2011
“I don’t have a complete profile, what should I do?!” You should chew your fingernails down to the nubs, pull your hair out, and scream. Or, you should chill. Like many social media platforms, LinkedIn scores your degree of site usage. In this case, they score you based on the completion level of your profile. [...]
The Bad Social Media Business Model
November 8, 2011
Does your executive team refuse to allow your organization to explore the potential of social media because they’re afraid all y’all will quit? Yes? So… you’re saying that your top management team perceives itself to have such a tenuous claim to employees’ loyalty that mere exposure to the outside world will be enough to convince [...]
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