We are at the beginning of a long rewrite of laws as a direct result of the rise of the Social Web.
Early this week, the FTC posted updated guidelines governing paid endorsements and sponsorships (first …

If you’re company is building an approach to Twitter – great. If you are focused on using it to meet business objectives – great. If you aren’t thinking about how Twitter can make everyone in your organization smarter – you are missing what I think is the biggest opportunity.

In the 80s and early 90s Total Quality Management (TQM) was all the rage.   As the idea moved from concept to execution – TQM divisions were set up within large organizations.  Then a funny thing …

Today my name  appeared in a blog post from my friend and mentor David Burk as “Josh Ross” — and while I was happy for the mention, and David does know me as “Josh” – …

How you set up your Facebook account has a lot to do with how you use it and how much privacy you need – Just remember, there is no substitute for exercising discrtion and never posting things that you don’t want to go public. You never know….

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?

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I find this question fascinating because with social technologies business IS personal so that line is very blurry. – Think about some …