Life moves so fast in the online, social media world that three and a half years, which is how long the LinkedIn Bloggers group has been going, seems a very long time indeed. To put that in perspective and according to the fascinating social media timeline produced by Danah M. Boyd and Nicole Ellison, it’s…
lurk vb. (intr.) 1. to move stealthily or be concealed, esp. for evil purposes. 2. to be present in an unobtrusive way; go unnoticed. Collins English Dictionary (Australian Edition – 3rd edition 1991) This post is about participation in online groups. More specifically, it is about why we should be more polite in speaking about…
Promo alert. This post is about the new edition of a book I co-authored. And about gratitude. With Thanksgiving a few days from now, I’m feeling very grateful about the release, over the weekend just past, of the second edition of LinkedIn for Recruiting, “the roadmap for recruiters using LInkedIn”. I’m grateful especially to my…
I’ve been talking lately with a colleague about possibly setting up an online forum or community for a project we have in mind. So I had an immediately personal reason to be delighted to receive a few weeks ago a review copy of Patrick O’Keefe’s new book Managing Online Forums Then, just over a week…
B.L. Ochman has revealed her social media secret. I’m relieved and glad. The secret is simple (and, for some social media enthusiasts, perhaps shocking): Pick a couple of social networks – mine are Twitter and LinkedIn – and concentrate on those. Mind you, she does check out and test new platforms as they come along…
In the course of a couple of social occasions over the weekend just passed, I found myself endeavoring to explain the social networking platform Twitter and why I found it so interesting. It was a challenge. Because when you say something like “Well, Twitter is an online social networking platform which allows you to send…