Springtime is a rebirth. It’s a time you want to go outside and enjoy the spring day – see the trees blooming, the green grass returning, breathe in the fresh air. Well, if it’s not snowing. This year when you do your spring cleaning, add social media to the list. Spring Cleaning List Spring cleaning [...]
I used to joke with my Information Technology (IT) buddies that they had the best job in the world. They could tell us anything Most of the world wouldn’t know if they were right or not Well, step aside IT. Meet the new “best job” – social media expert. Hot New Job With a 9 [...]
No, that is not a typo in the heading. It’s a play on the recently released report, The New New Inbox – How Email and Social Media Change Our Lives. The report captures feedback regarding the effect of email and social media. 1,000 business professionals participated They came from a broad range of industries Results [...]
Monday kicks the week off with hope – and apparently lots of social media. Daily Blog Tips cites internet studies that show Monday and Tuesday generally receive the highest amount of traffic for blogs. Hopefully, that means most people enjoy their weekends and are raring to go on Monday. Monday Morning Quarterbacking Perhaps Monday signals [...]
Today’s Health Care Tuesday topic on tweets and other forms of social media touches on business and health care. So, today’s post, Employees Say No to Tweets on Health Benefits, is here and at my health care blog. Perhaps it’s a work/life balance issue. Maybe employees just want information that is more detailed or they [...]
Do the architects of social media platforms believe users are incapable of knowing what’s good for them? The evidence seems to indicate that. It’s Your Choice – Sort Of Right on the heels of my post on unannounced changes by various social media platforms, I learned of yet another Facebook change. While reading the local [...]
Remember the good old days when you felt red-faced over a misrouted email? Today, the lack of security on what we post through social media can have a much more devastating effect. Under attack from a barrage of criticism over its privacy settings, Facebook announced a change in its privacy policies. A favorite saying of [...]
Recently, I came across a pretty startling statistic. A survey of 120 major American corporations estimated firms spent $3.1 billion on employee deficiencies in business writing. The survey reported that two-thirds or more of salaried employees had some responsibility for business writing. Conducted by the National Commission on Writing, the survey occurred in September 2004. I wonder how [...]
Just about every blog has some variation on sharing. It’s the value behind the whole social media revolution. But, how often do we forget about that? What got me thinking about this whole “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours,” evolved from a recent phone conversation I had with a customer. Before we started our discussion on our next project, my client wanted [...]
It is the social media mantra – be yourself! But, are you really succeeding at that or are you just following the crowd? I recognized a long time ago that my resistance to doing something just because everyone else is stems from being the middle child of seven. This saved me a lot of money on [...]
