Tag archives for social media

How do we prevent our teams from being overwhelmed by social media?

I’ve seen lots of posts, and been in lots of discussions recently from this thing Cammy Bean has pegged as SoMeFat- or social media fatigue. Cammy describes it as the burnout from constantly being in the public eye. @SANPenguin posted a link to an article about the dichotomy between sharing information and actually building someone [...]

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Social Media for small businesses

Since I do social media in an Enterprise company, many times my friends, family, and owners of the small businesses I frequent ask me for help getting started in social media. Most times I don’t have the time to really help them out. Once I win the lottery maybe I will spend all of my [...]

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Curating = filtering signals

I really like this presentation from Janet Clarey about facilitating learning through the social web. Her ideas on curating and wayfinding are really similar to my ideas about a learning GPS. She’s right, tech + social has fundamentally changed how we can be together… the question is will we allow ourselves to take advantage of [...]

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10 reasons NOT to ban social media (a twist on the meme)

Jane Hart posted a satirical video – 10 reasons to ban social media the other day. Shortly thereafter, she challenged everyone to come up with 10 reasons NOT to ban social media. Of course I can never just follow the rules, so here is my contribution with a twist. I am doing social media full-time [...]

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Talking about social media at Mass ISPI

Last night I was the speaker at the Mass ISPI (International Society for Performance Improvement) meeting. I talked about how we convinced our executives to use social media. I deconstructed the actual presentation we used. Many thanks to Jean Marrapodi for live tweeting and creating the backchannel. At first I was nervous because no one [...]

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