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How do you manage contact convergence?

February 28th, 2009 | Comments Off

When I ask people about how they manage the convergence of their personal, professional and academic contacts in social media, I usually get one of four answers: Keep two sets of books. In this scenario, there’s one Facebook profile for friends, another for professional contacts, and maybe a third for family. Manage social media networks for different purposes. In this case, Facebook is only for friends, Linked In for professional contacts, etc. Manage an account under a public persona and use an alias for fun. Or, give up and let everyone mingle. These approaches have their advantages and disadvantages, but each is a way of coping with the hot mess that social media has made of our discrete worlds. Which are you using? … Read entire article »

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Worlds Colliding through Social Media

February 24th, 2009 | Comments Off

Seinfeld was ahead of his time. Back in 1995 he showed us what would happen when our Facebook people met our Twitter crowd and headed over to party with our Linked In connections: GEORGE: Well that was a really stupid thing! You know what’s going to happen now? JERRY: World’s collide. (points at George) GEORGE: Whe … Well yeah! JERRY: Because this world is your sanctuary and if that world comes into contact with – GEORGE: YES! It Blows Up! So if you know that, what did you tell Elaine for? JERRY: I didn’t know. Kramer told me about the worlds. GEORGE: You couldn’t figure out the “World’s Theory” for yourself? It’s just common sense. Anybody knows, ya gotta keep your worlds apart. But can we keep our worlds apart any more? I don’t know about … Read entire article »

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Don’t spam your network for a job

December 3rd, 2008 | Comments Off

Don’t spam your network for a job

I received this email today from someone in my LinkedIn network: “looking for a job in the NYC area. Are you hiring?” What’s so bad about it?  Glad you asked: 1) It doesn’t include proper capitalization 2) It doesn’t take into account I live in Chicago 3) I have no idea what sort of job this person wants 4) There’s no form of greeting or attempt to reestablish connection 5) It’s spam. I hate spam. What would’ve worked better? 1) A personalized … Read entire article »

Filed under: Online Life

Cuil thinks I’m a blonde

July 28th, 2008 | Comments Off

Cuil thinks I’m a blonde

The first search I try on any new search engine is my own name. I’m not narcissistic, just very familiar with the results. How did Cuil do? Cuil returns Linked In and Twitter on top which is good, but my blog didn’t make it onto the first results page. Stranger than that, the images it returns with the results are of other people. I like the mix of site summaries and images, but I … Read entire article »

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What’s wrong with “the people you may know?”

March 30th, 2008 | Comments Off

What’s wrong with “the people you may know?”

You may have noticed “the people you may know” feature crop up on social networking sites. Facebook and Linked In both use it. In fact, Linked In defaults this to display on your homepage. What is it? It’s a service that riffles through the connections you have on-line to other people, between other people, and to organizations you have in common with others to spit out a list of probable matches. I’m not sure … Read entire article »

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