In a new Pew Research Center survey, American workers have some mixed feelings about how social media affects their workplace productivity. Fifty-six percent of workers who use social media for work-related purposes said it distracts them from other work they need to...
That’s right, Harrisburg University of Science & Technology did an experiment in the fall semester, banning social media on campus for a week. The goal was to encourage the students to think about their reliance on these communication tools and their impact...
Yesterday I gave some information about differences in social media platforms Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace, and gave a couple of analogies to help you to keep your use of them in perspective. Something else to consider when evaluating social media is WHY...
Everyone is giving advice about social media, and it’s a topic I get asked about a lot. I’ve shared some information before, in this post and this post. Certainly you can ask 10 different people questions about social media, and get 10 different answers. I don’t think...
Note: This article was originally posted on April 20th, 2009. Ok, look…I am not a social media fanatic. I never had a MySpace page, I only have a passing interest in Facebook, and the first time I tried Twitter over a year ago, I hated it and promptly...
Ok, so file that under “things I never thought I’d say.” And don’t get me wrong. Twitter can be a huge time vortex. But I have discovered that I am not alone in giving Twitter another chance (see Kathy Sierra’s blog post. I saw her @SXSW...
