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...
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Some Thoughts on Twitter (University Social Media Ban Conclusion)
This is Maura Thomas from RegainYourTime.com. This is the conclusion of my interview with Charles Palmer, the Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Entertainment & Learning Technologies, of Harrisburg University of Science & Technology. Please click...
University Social Media Ban Pt. 1
This is Maura Thomas from RegainYourTime.com. This is part one of my interview with Charles Palmer, the Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Entertainment & Learning Technologies, of Harrisburg University of Science & Technology. Please click the link...
Taming Technology: Conversation with Dr. John Dovidio of Yale, Part 4
(For the introduction to this interview, click here. For Part 1, click here. For Part 2, click here. For Part 3, click here.) Click to Listen (4 1/2 minutes) MT: This is Maura Thomas from RegainYourTime.com. Thanks for coming back to hear part four of my interview...
Dangers of Multitasking: Conversation with Dr. John Dovidio of Yale, Part 3
(For the introduction to this interview, click here. For Part 1, click here. For Part 2, click here.)Click to Listen (4 minutes) MT: This is Maura Thomas from RegainYourTime.com. Welcome to the third part of my interview with Dr. John Dovidio, psychology professor...
Social Media Efficiency for Newbies, Part 2 of 2
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...
Social Media Efficiency for Newbies, Part 1 of 2
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...
Keeping Up with Communication: Convenience vs. Control
How do you keep up with social media? How do you find the time? I get asked some version of these questions every day, and in fact I deliver trainings on the topic. The tools you choose to use have a huge impact on how well you can keep up with the flood of...
Using Technology to Bring More Control into Your Life
In some ways, we are more connected than ever: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, YouTube...these tools give us unprecedented opportunity to connect with, and attract the attention of, people who in the past seemed much farther removed: celebrities, politicians,...
A Positive Effect of Twitter on Communication
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 disengaged....