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Good words on the Social Media MBA

Published on March 15, 2012 · 1:31 pm UK · 1 comment

in Books, Business, Social Media, Web, Workplace

Last year, I wrote and contributed a chapter to The Social Media MBA, a collaborative book published in the UK in January 2012 and in the US in February. I heard from the book’s editor, Christer Holloman, the other day with some interesting information on the book’s progress over the past three months: Sales are [...]

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The New York Times publishes an extraordinary op-ed today – the text of a resignation letter by Greg Smith, a Goldman Sachs executive director and head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It’s a sobering read that describes a morally-bankrupt organization and may well be definitive [...]

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Doing some email housekeeping earlier this morning, I got thinking about the futility of much of one’s day-to-day email. Even though I’ve been using a nifty program called NEO Pro for the better part of the past decade that sits on top of Outlook, and which automates the essentials of email organization for me, I [...]

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There’s a serious point to think about when studying this tongue-in-cheek infographic on what to consider when posting your status update – or any other message – to popular online social networking services. You might think about which service to post what to – I do, especially when checking in somewhere (so Foursquare is my [...]

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Future vision enabled

Published on November 2, 2011 · 8:43 pm UK · 3 comments

in Business, Communication, Innovation, Society, Technology, Trends, Workplace

Watch how future technology will help people make better use of their time, focus their attention, and strengthen relationships while getting things done at work, home, and on the go, says Microsoft Office in this stylish 6-minute video. (If you don’t see the video embedded above, watch it on YouTube.) It’s certainly an imaginative picture, [...]

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Would your employer fire you if you said anything about them in a post on Facebook? Or in a public tweet? Or in a blog post? Much of course depends on what you might say, but one UK Apple employee with surname Crisp suffered the ultimate consequence after writing a comment on Facebook critical of [...]

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Earlier this year, I was invited to contribute content for a new business book on social media. That book, The Social Media MBA, is now done and dusted as it were and will be in bookshops and online in January 2012 in the UK and in March 2012 in the US. Not another book about [...]

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US securities regulators have formally asked public companies for the first time to disclose cyber attacks against them, reports Reuters. The US Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidelines on October 13 that sets out the kinds of information companies should disclose relating to cyber security risks and cyber incidents: [...] Registrants should disclose the risk [...]

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If you’re an IABC member and you’re thinking about becoming accredited – adding those letters ‘ABC‘ to your professional title – why not take advantage of Accreditation Month 2011, on from October 1 until mid November? Accreditation is IABCs globally-recognized professional credential program. Anyone who applies during Accreditation Month will receive a certificate to use [...]

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Virtual aliens lined up to recruit graduates, says the Telegraph’s City Diary yesterday. Beancounters at KPMG are planning to attract graduates using 3D, Avatar-like beings. The online system is designed to appeal to the "Facebook/YouTube generation." [...] The digital alien will guide applicants through a series of real-work scenarios and tests, and the top firm [...]

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