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Productivity Paradox In The Age of Social Networks
September 19, 2009 – 8:57 am | View Comments

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 …

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How to Balance Personal and Professional on Twitter
September 16, 2009 – 2:42 pm | View Comments
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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 …

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To Tweet Or Not to Tweet – Handling Employee Use of Social Technologies
September 14, 2009 – 2:31 pm | View Comments
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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:
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How should I deal with employees using tools like Twitter for …

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Social Sense and Sensibility – New Video Series on Forbes
August 26, 2009 – 9:36 am | View Comments
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This is a new video series that I have begun with Forbes.  I have long wanted a larger forum to discuss the issue of social media etiquette.  While the term “etiquette” often conjures an image …

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