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I had an eye opener the other day when I was talking about the subject of friends with a woman I know and mentioned that mine were few and far between. “But you have a lot of friends on Facebook!” she exclaimed. “Those don’t really count.” I quickly replied. “My Facebook contacts are mostly people …
The only constant in life is that there is no constant. As Meredith Grey on Grey’s Anatomy once said… Change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy. Matter. It’s always changing, morphing, merging, growing, dying. It’s the way people try not to change that’s unnatural. The way we cling to what things …
Mitt Romney stirred up a lot of online hubbub with his comments about Big Bird and PBS during the recent presidential debate. Whether you agree with him or not, one thing is for sure: when it comes to social media, you might want to avoid getting into a pissing match with PBS. PBS has some serious …
Community managers stand to be more successful the closer they are to other people and teams in the organization. Depending on your needs, here some ways you can bring your team or other departments closer to the day-to-day social activities.
...Fall is a great time of year to do strategic planning for two reasons. First, the new calendar year is looming just over the horizon, so our thoughts naturally turn toward the future. Second, it has historically been a time when we reap our crops and evaluate whether they will hold us through the winter. …
I once worked with a woman who was so unhappy that she sucked the joy out of the air whenever she walked into the room. Once, after she left a meeting, my co-worker turned to me and sarcastically said, “So, I guess we should just all give up and go home and die?” as her …
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