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Secret diary of an introverted “extrovert”

October 27, 2012

Cut out the chit chat and get down to business I wrote this piece for Sanera Camp, a small business blog  run by my friend Alicia Arenas.   The original title was “4 Tips For People Who Don’t Like Networking”.   Basically, it offers up some ideas on how I use social networking to meet people virtually [...]

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Social tools for tracking your employees

August 9, 2012

Cool or creepy? Earlier this year, my buddy Mike Haberman wrote about the risks of tracking your employees via GPS. Trucking and delivery companies have been using these types of fleet tracking systems for years.  Websites like Guru that allow you to hire freelancers now offer tools that allow to track their virtual work via [...]

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Klout sucks

June 10, 2012

Klout makes great blog fodder Over the past few weeks, it seems like a lot of prominent bloggers like Jim Connolly and Erica Napoletano have written about why they deleted their accounts from Klout.   Here is a bit of perspective on Klout from each of them. Erica Napoletano – “And today, I’ll tell ya — [...]

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Hyperlocal social media: where to get started

June 1, 2012

 How to get started with hyperlocal social media Yesterday I wrote about the idea of my personal social media use moving in a direction that I termed “Hyper-local social”.   A couple of people have asked me to explain a little more about what I meant by that.  I still use social media to collect [...]

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NLRB social media policy for NLRB employees

May 29, 2012

NLRB social media policy The social media policy of the NLRB from their policy web site.   I found the link in this great post from HRE.  As they note, these rules are not the same as the rules the NLRB has put in place for employers they set policy for.  Social Network Comments Policy The [...]

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Social Media background checks: Big brother in reverse

May 17, 2012

Sponsored Post from CIPHR- All about People During a time when more and more investment is being heaped onto ‘social networking’, it is getting around to the point where the definition of the term itself is becoming construed, redeveloped ever more ambiguous as time goes on. Where once we logged onto Facebook, Myspace and Twitter [...]

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Question the relevance of social media

May 13, 2012

Hey Jay – Finally got a chance to respond to your last #NoFearHR post! I don’t know about you, but I have been super busy   It’s made it tough to keep our conversation going for the last couple of weeks, but I’m back. A couple of weeks ago, you asked me about what I [...]

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One Definition of Social Media ROI

January 23, 2012

Social Media ROI not always about the dollars I’ve been thinking about social media ROI for a while.  I still haven’t figured it out.  If you asked, I couldn’t give you a great recommendation on the best metrics to use to prove ROI for your business.   Every brand wants to make a buck or two [...]

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Interested in Pinterest? Why you may want to be there.

January 11, 2012

Pinterest is hot “Is Pinterest the ‘next big thing’ in social media?” asks Don Reisinger on CNET.   It certainly looks like based on the hype going around, and numbers don’t usually lie either.   I have a few beta invites if anyone wants one, just send me your email. From CNET: Late last month, Experian Hitwise, a company that monitors consumer [...]

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Seven things I have learned about social media since leaving HR

October 2, 2011

How social media keeps me out of trouble at HREvolution I am now batting .500 on HREvolution events.  So far, I have missed all the events held in cities that start with L. That simply sucks, but it’s life.  Since assuming my glamorous new duties as a social media community manager, I simply can’t travel [...]

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