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Linked – Pocket’s Next Frontier: Solving The Internet’s Clickbait Problem
“Gathering good reading material from around the internet is hard. You can’t trust your friends on Facebook. Twitter is too noisy. And even if you’re a master of RSS, you probably spend too much time sorting through filler. This is where Pocket hopes it can make a difference. For the last nine years, the company—originally…
Linked – This Is How To Be a Better Communicator Online and Off, According to a Conversation Expert
There’s a lot in this article that I found interesting, especially for us introverts, but this one sort of took my brain in a different direction. 4. Tech gives us license to throw social boundaries out the window I asked Headlee what’s changed in conversation today versus a few decades ago. She summed it up…
Linked: Crowd-Sourced Suspicion Apps Are Out of Control
I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the last couple of years. We tend to think of the “Big Tech” apps and social networks as being the problem in the digital world, but really it’s all these little places too, because, as they describe, they don’t just keep us informed of actual events in our neighborhoods, they keep us informed of every single instance of something that someone finds suspicious.
This, in turn, makes us go from living in a relatively calm neighborhood to believing we are just one or two days away from the Purge.
Linked: It’s Not Just You: In Online Meetings, Many Women Can’t Get a Word In
A virtual meeting, or an in-person meeting, doesn’t have to be this way, but it takes a strong leader who is good at running meetings. I’ve seen a few in action, and man it’s totally different, but it is a skill that is sorely lacking in the business world.
