I don’t get asked this often, but it’s happened more than once, and it’s something I want to talk about. Occasionally when someone discovers my blog, and sees how involved I am in on-line communities, they’ll ask “why do you spend so much of your personal time blogging, and reading other blogs about your job?…
I have a random question for the audience today. Do you have a LinkedIn profile? Do you list your blog/podcast/other on-line entity as a position in your profile? Why, or why not? Personally, I do list this blog on my profile, because it’s part of my professional persona. This is the place where I can…
While listening to a recent Typical Mac User Podcast episode, Victor’s wife made a comment about her iPhone that struck me as very interesting. Paraphrasing, she suggested that the iPhone’s internet access was very important to her, because when she’s at work the network has many of the things she needs to use to take…
I saw this post earlier this week and I’ve been meaning to point to it since then, but well, the long holiday (not to mention my 40th birthday) weekend kind of distracted me from it. Anyway, here it is, from the Brazen Careerist Employers Mistakenly Reward Longevity When Aiming for Loyalty Ultimately, it’s the small…
Last week I wrote about the message you send to employees when you block access to sites that might be helpful to them on a personal level, that they simply can’t be trusted. Today, over at Real Lawyers Have Blogs, I spotted Kevin’s similar message about law firms who don’t allow lawyers to blog, “We’re…
Seems like I’ve been having similar conversations with folks in my network of friends, be it offline or online. Mostly they go like this: “I just feel like I need to make a change, what I’m doing now just isn’t doing it for me. I’d like to move into “X”” X of course being a…