I was watching this video of a Google Talk by Max Stossel recently. It’s a bit long by internet standards, and his poetic style might take a minute to get used to, but it’s well worth thinking about. Even if you only watch the first ten minutes, do it. (But really, set some time aside…
All the more reason to make sure all of your social media profiles, not just Facebook, are looking professional and not something that would come back to embarrass you. But that’s just my opinion… 😉 http://www.pcmag.com/news/351794/looking-for-a-new-job-check-facebook
There is quite a lot to think about in this article about Trust, and how important it is to employee engagement. What isn’t mentioned, but is easy to infer, is if the company has broken trust, a half-day employee meeting about a focus on trust isn’t going to improve things. So if you’ve not kept…
This is not remotely surprising. First off, because Facebook owns Instagram, they already have access to the same technology that social network uses to allow for users to create stories that only stick around for 24 hours. Secondly, Facebook and Twitter have been losing market share among young people to Instagram and SnapChat specifically because…
He’s right. We’re so appalled by the technology that allows us to live stream anything, as if somehow that’s the problem, that we’ve forgotten that a 12 year old girl is dead. Live streaming has been around for a relatively long time now, the only difference is that now it’s ridiculously easy. Anyone with a cell phone and a Facebook account can live stream, which means that pretty much anything that can be streamed, will be.
As I mentioned yesterday, the article about how college admission folks do, in fact, check online profiles of potential students, there was another thought that occurred to me. Us older folks like to read something like that, and think that yes, these kids today with their selfies and risque photos, should really pay more attention…