Posts Tagged ‘social media’

When Your Social Media Problem is a Management Problem

Electrons are buzzing today about the CISCO 2010 Midyear Security Report, which states that seven percent of the people who access Facebook at work spend more than an hour a day playing FarmVille, Mafia Wars and similar games. 

 

Pick a Little, Talk a Lot, Get Fired

As far as I can tell, it is human nature to gripe.

 

Are You Mistaking Access for Acceptance?

Do you go to networking events to harvest email addresses for your newsletter?  You might want to re-think that strategy.  Read why social media guru Chris Brogan thinks this is a poor way to market yourself.

 

Would You Give Your Facebook User Name on a Job Application?

I’ve written before about being careful about what your social media profile might say to potential employers.  The City of Bozeman, Montana took its vetting process a step further by asking applicants for municipal jobs to provide all login and password information for social networking and blog sites. 

 

Social Media: Where Are Your Boundaries?

Here’s an interesting article  from the Harvard Business Review discussing the struggle some corporate executives face with using social media. 

 

Lessons From the Domino’s Pizza Video: Part I Social Media

Have you seen the prank videos from a couple of bored Domino’s employees in Conover?  Before they were removed from YouTube at the request of the employee who shot it (whether or not she was pressured to do so by corporate), they garnered a million views.