Chris Elliott talks about the reason most speeches suck on his Toastmasters blog. It’s because most people go in with the wrong intentions: As you are speaking, you are not there to make money, sell a product, or make a name for yourself. You are there to improve the lives of the audience. Making money,…
I was reading Josh Gilliland’s post from yesterday about being careful not to break client confidentiality in your online networking status messages. Here is how the risk of disclosure is possible: a Facebook user posts a status message they deem harmless, such as “I just landed ‘Company A’ as a client and have a bunch…
According to Mike Elgan, if they purchase Twitter, that’ll be exactly what they are developing with Google Profiles. Is it possible that is what Google is planning? Sure. Could they develop something absolutely, positively, useful? Obviously they know how to do that with other products. Will it “kill” Facebook? Eh, maybe. This actually brings up…
Those are the 4 P’s of social networking, according to Doug Cornelius. Go check out his theory of how to measure the information you decide to put online, or not. I think he’s on to something, but also that there’s something missing. Mostly, what I see missing is the idea that you can’t always separate…
Image by mikemac29 via Flickr One of the more interesting conversations I had in New York with the family was, oddly enough, about social networking. Mostly due to the fact that I had “connected” with some of the family I was seeing that day on Facebook, and was sharing my plans to be part of…
Normally, I respect what Preston Galla writes about over at Computerworld, but yesterday’s article just seemed like a whole lot of FUD to me. The BBC reports that researchers at the University of Texas at Austin were able to take completely anonymous data from Flickr and Twitter, run an algorithm on it, and from that…