Linked – Your content’s home is on your blog
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Linked – Your content’s home is on your blog

I concur with Kevin’s advice here: “Sure, syndicate the content to other places to increase visibility and delivery to a focused audience, just like you syndicate your content through social media, but make your place – your blog or site – the primary site. When syndicating to third party sites, ask that that your content…

Linked – People do not quit companies, managers, or leaders – they quit organizational cultures. Here’s why.

Linked – People do not quit companies, managers, or leaders – they quit organizational cultures. Here’s why.

This is somewhat counter to what we’ve been told over the years, isn’t it?   “Up until my meeting with Susan, I had always believed that people quit leaders not companies. But then I realized that there is probably another way to look at it.  It is more than just leaders. People do not just…

Linked – To save itself, Facebook must start charging users
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Linked – To save itself, Facebook must start charging users

I completely disagree with this take: First, Facebook should charge users a nominal $5-a-month fee. You can give seniors a discount so you don’t lose them. Netflix does, Amazon does, Apple does. It would make Facebook rely less on selling user data. That’s a misreading of what Facebook is. Netflix, Amazon and Apple charge users…

Linked – No One Wants to Talk About How Completely We Were Lied to
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Linked – No One Wants to Talk About How Completely We Were Lied to

Remember when social networks first came about, and the basic idea was that, as a user, you chose who you wanted to follow, and then your feed, or timeline, etc. showed you what just those people had shared, in reverse chronological order? Had they stuck with that, there would be a lot less to complain…

Linked – Why aren’t chip credit cards stopping “card present” fraud in the US?
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Linked – Why aren’t chip credit cards stopping “card present” fraud in the US?

Credit card fraud is up, even after the US switched to chip-based cards. what’s up with that? “Gemini Advisory now says that 60 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen in the US in the past 12 months, and most of those were chip-based cards. The firm found this information by trawling Dark Web…

Freakonomics Podcast on Open Offices

Freakonomics Podcast on Open Offices

The recent episode of Freakonomics covering the open office is really interesting. You should absolutely check it out in it’s entirety. There were two things that I wanted to mention specifically. (Not to mention the studies that show how less often people in open offices actually talk to one another, or how much more productive…