Article Archive for September 2009
Here is another in my ongoing Forbes series, Social Sense and Sensibility. The idea is to help organizations understand how to properly leverage social tools for business use.
If you have any questions you would …
Open beats Closed states a rather obvious law of doing business on the Internetwork: There is more talent outside your company than within it. Companies that harness the power of relationships using networks to tap …
When I wrote “A Corporate Guide for Social Media“ for my Forbes column this single statement drew the most attention:
Build your policies around job performance, not fuzzy concerns about productivity.
If your employees are using Facebook …
I recently wrote a Radar post that generated a fair amount of discussion titled, “Stop Giving Newspapers Your Advice. They Don’t Need It.” The point in that post was that we should stop doling out …
Answering the question: What percentage of tweets should be personal/professional interests?
Loose Transcript
I find this question fascinating because with social technologies business IS personal so that line is very blurry. – Think about some …
I always appreciate the “Did You Know” series of videos produced by the Shift Happens folks. It is a form of infotainment to sit back and have a wide array of statistics -some are profound, …
The headlong rush into the real-time web means yet another acceleration of the news cycle. At a certain point (some may say the daily paper, others the hourly blog or yet others, the 15 second …
This is a cross-post from Radar.
Speculation about the demise of the news business and advice about what they should do about it is everywhere. It makes for great, self-congratulatory sport but it won’t …
This is the second installment of my new series on Forbes focusing on Social Media Guidelines and Etiquette.
Here is a rough transcript of this segment:
Q.
How should I deal with employees using tools like Twitter for …
I just found The Gilt Groupe. From their site:
Gilt Groupe provides access, by invitation only, to Men’s, Women’s and Children’s coveted fashion and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off retail. Each sale lasts …




