Defining Your Role

I want you to succeed.
Whatever it is you’re passionate about and want to do – I want you to succeed.
For many of us it’s our career.  You know that 9 to 5, Monday through Friday effort that allows us to support our families and obtain our dreams.  Yeah, that one.
There is something that I wanted [...]


Happiness CCCXIII

Opinion, ideas, debate…? Oh hello my old friends.


Happiness CCLXXXI

Helping peers succeed in a project, all I have to do is what I’ve been asked. Isn’t that what we all should be doing?


Living Without Social Media

A Twitter friend of mine recently, jokingly, chastised me for a post some time back about not needing Twitter and social media. That caused me to finalize a few thoughts on the topic and inspired this post – thanks DV!
On that topic, lots of folks do it every day, and yeah they do quite [...]


How Do Companies Find Their Community Managers?

It’s a new field where there are no experts; no real training for classification or certification, and it’s difficult for folks participating in it to explain how it works. It’s not a lawless field where anything goes, but the cowboys still roam the prairie where social media grazes. Christopher S. Penn describes the problem [...]


Do You Fear The Spotlight?

What’s keeping you from taking the next step? Something more than simply being noticed I hope! If you’ve got ideas, or something to say – to share, you need to do something about it. Do you blog? Do you podcast or videoblog? Are you on a social network? How are you making yourself heard [...]


Your Personal Network

We talk a lot about social networks and social networking these days, but it’s really nothing new. Only the tools are. People have been networking with peers for decades, much longer actually, but we’ve only really called it networking for a generation or so.
While tools like social networks, micro-blogging, or podcasting utilities, and the [...]


Enterprise workers don’t have the bandwidth for social media

In past posts on the topic, I’ve often wondered when the average worker would “get” blogging. I have to admit that I finally “got it” recently, but from a different perspective. While working with larger firms, I’ve again had the chance to observe the average office worker. In doing so, “it” occurred to me [...]


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