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Should Honesty Be the Policy in Your Office?
The (social) networks to organizational hell are wired with good intentions. Maybe a politically incorrect comment, boozy photo, or unflattering blog materialized via Google or Bing. find it sadly amusing how many college graduates honestly think prospective employers shouldn't be allowed to Google them or judge their Facebook profile. Would I lie to you? Probably not, but forgive me for preserving the option.
HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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Twitter, SXSW, and Building a 21st Century Business
That's Twitter's new foundational principle — and it's interesting because it takes Google's foundational principle and does it one better. Social tools can lead, through bandwagon effects, to bubbles and crashes — just like in markets. Tags: Disruptive innovation Economy Social media SXS So, how was your week? Mine's been interesting.
HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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TSA Leading Charge to Co-opt Blogging, Twitter for The Man?
Now the big guys are using the same tools to criticize the critics. Twitter's been a breath of fresh air in the social networking space, seeming a free and relatively user-centric system, with the patriarchal Corporate and Governmental "Man" conspicuous for his absence. More recently, Toyota's been using social media to quash worries about the stuck accelerator pedal affecting a number of Toyota vehicles. Twitter and blogs started as way to give voice to the little guys. But is the TSA trying to change this?
Fast Company - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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  • How Social Is Too Social?
    While this scenario is extreme, it seems to suggest that maybe not everything is better with friends, despite the fact this seems to be the approach, so far, of social networking services. Over the past few weeks the technology world made big steps forward in making your world even more "social." Google Buzz was introduced and caused a firestorm of mixed reactions as it automatically connected Imagine walking up to an ATM — you insert your card and begin to check your balance before you put in the amount of cash you want to withdraw from the machine. As you do this,
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, February 22, 2010
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  • Google Buzz and the Five Principles of Designing For Meaning
    Google Buzz : revolution, evolution, or devolution? Google's working hard to fix the issue, but its fixes still rely on people "following instructions" . Once upon a time, Google laid down the law: we'll never bundle stuff the way Microsoft does — because that's evil . think Google Buzz is actually really, really cool — it's just Many of you have asked me for my take. So Here's how it stacks up against my five next-generation product & service design principles — the principles of "design for meaning."
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, February 12, 2010
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  • Hire Smarter with Social Media
    Social media can help you focus your recruitment efforts to get great results in any economic climate. Here's how you can use social media tools to make the most of your next hire: Reaching To make efficient use of your time and attention, reach out through the social networks you and your employees already use, and through the online channels that reach your key audiences. A recession might seem like good news for employers looking to hire: with unemployment rates up, you've got more people to choose from and the opportunity to hire at a lower price. While the current
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, July 13, 2009
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  • Search Wars: Twitter Versus Google
    With Twitter's meteoric rise, the question has emerged if it can pose a serious threat to social network and search engine incumbents; or, if not a threat, then perhaps a compelling acquisition for the likes of Google. According to Compete data, Twitter is now at about 20 million monthly unique visitors, which makes it a distant third to Yahoo's 135 million and Google's 150 million, but the velocity of community development at Twitter is impressive. Just one year ago it had fewer than 2MM monthly uniques, so there is more than a good chance it can approach or cross 100MM within the next 24 months.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, July 9, 2009
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  • 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009
    "Social media" was the term du jour in 2008. We have social media gurus, social media startups, social media books, and social media firms. It is now common practice among corporations to hire social media strategists, assign community managers, and launch social media campaigns, all designed to tap into the power of social media. Consumers, companies, and marketers were all talking about it. But social media today is a pure mess: it has become a collection of countless features, tools, and applications fighting for a piece of the pie.
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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  • Anthropology: The Art of Building a Successful Social Site
    Joel Spolsky told a group of programmers at Google last month. "What What we do have to think about [in the era of social networking] is human to human interaction," he said. Anthropology and the Social Web "In Obsolete results: Google, for instance, will oftentimes give an older page priority. Picture if you will, a collaborative site that runs on two servers, is managed by four people, and has attracted a third of its target demographic within six months of launch. A site that has had 800,000 posts submitted by its users in its short lifetime and has 16 million
    ReadWriteWeb - Saturday, May 2, 2009
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  • 10 Social Media Travel Tools
    Thankfully, a host of social media tools can help you get the most out of every business trip you take and more clearly show ROI. Here are 10 ways social media can help you travel less but do more: Set up your computer with an RSS reader that works offline (thanks to Google Gears , that now includes Google Reader ). Travel budgets are under serious pressure right now. Trips that were once approved via rubber stamp now must pass through the Politburo Standing Committee to get a green light.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, March 6, 2009
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  • The Future of Search: Social Relevancy Rank
    Everyone, including Google and Microsoft , recognizes the value of using trusted contacts as filters. What was once called social search is now called real-time search, but this time it will really happen. What we are about to get is a Social Relevancy Rank . FriendFeed has recently launched a search feature, and so Facebook search must be coming soon. Real-time Web search (of streams of activities) is a hot topic right now .
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, July 16, 2009
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  • The social media I use
    Recently I wrote a post that received a lot of attention - more than I would have expected: How I use social media . At At the end of the post, I promised to write about WHAT social media I currently use. started making a list of all the social media I use.  So here it is. I
    Full Circle - Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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  • Scoring with Social Media: 6 Tips for Using Analytics
    Want to know your social media score? If that equation sent you scrambling to look at your Twitter stats or Google analytics, it's time to take a big step back. You've fallen prey to the greatest peril of social media: analytophilia. spend hours poring over Google analytics--hours I could have spent blogging or with my kids--in search of the number that will Fill in the following equation: (Twitter Twitter followers + Facebook friends + LinkedIn contacts) x (Total tweets + Twitterers you follow + Months on Facebook) ______________­______________­______________­___
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, September 21, 2009
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