Archive for the ‘Social Networking’ Category

Social Learning: More than Collaboration

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

This morning, I attended Bellevue University’s Human Capital Lab quarterly colloquium, where Sue Todd, President and CEO, Corporate University Xchange, spoke about Social Learning. She offered some tremendous insight into how leading companies are fostering a collaborative environment for their people, and embedding learning in execution.

 I found myself sitting between an industrial engineer, and a measure & evaluation analyst. I’m sure you can imagine the level of conversation. Words like data points, optimization, quantitative analysis were flying back and forth. This quick view into their world was fascinating. I was hard-pressed to keep up with the content of their discussion, however, the context was well within my grasp. As I listened, I noted a couple of themes, and finally called attention to them, connecting what I was hearing with what I do understand about performance and execution. (more…)

Have you met Sockington yet?

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

 

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Twitter users have probably met him, but if you haven’t started tweeting, you may be missing one of the fastest rising celebrities on the internet: Sockamillion, aka Sockington. Socks is a housecat with his very own Twitter account. He keeps the world posted on his professional activities, with Tweets such as

“and so I slept and then I walked around and then I slept again and then I saw a cobweb and OH FINE YES IT IS A SLOW NEWS DAY”

“excuse me pardon me up stairs not explaining why going around corner WHO HOO RUNNING LIKE MANIAC back around corner excuse me pardon me”

“time for sockington talk show WELL MORE LIKE I AM YOWLING IN THE LAUNDRY ROOM still I make an excellent musical guest”

Did you think there was nothing but banal airheaded celebrity conversation on Twitter? You were so wrong! Join Socks’ army of 1,000,000 and rising. Go to http://twitter.com/sockington and click Follow.

 

Three Secrets to Make a Message Go Viral | Fast Company

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Not sure what Viral Marketing is? Want to know how to use viral marketing? This article will get you started.

Three Secrets to Make a Message Go Viral | Fast Company.

Twitter is more than a recreational conversation

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
For those who are still trying to figure out if Twitter has any value beyond entertainment, here is a hint of the incredible potential of social networking tools.
In requesting that Twitter delay a scheduled outage, the Obama administration acknowledged that the message service could change history in Iran.
via http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/world/middleeast/17media.html
Washington Taps Into a Potent New Force in Diplomacy
Published: June 17, 2009
 

The Obama administration says it has tried to avoid words or deeds that could be portrayed as American meddling in Iran’s presidential election and its tumultuous aftermath.

Yet on Monday afternoon, a 27-year-old State Department official, Jared Cohen, e-mailed the social-networking site Twitter with an unusual request: delay scheduled maintenance of its global network, which would have cut off service while Iranians were using Twitter to swap information and inform the outside world about the mushrooming protests around Tehran. (more…)