Category: HOW-TO Use Social Media

Best-of, Linkedin, New Products, Product Design, Twitter

February 7, 2023

The Enervation of Social Platforms Continues…

Why Artifact is of the past and what does “social” mean tomorrow? … All along the watchtower, princes kept the viewWhile all the women came and went, barefoot servants, tooOutside in the distance a wildcat did growlTwo riders were approaching, the wind began to howl 1 … Social Networking is 20 years old. Friendster in…
Facebook, Facebook, HOW-TO Use Social Media, Mark Zuckerberg, Mental Health, Productivity, Productivity Tools, Public Relations, Social Media Tools, TikTok

February 10, 2022

It’s time to unfriend Facebook and “the algorithm”

Why I quit Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok for good Yesterday, I deleted my Facebook account. 1 Ditto for Instagram. And, Snapchat. And, TikTok. It is time to unfriend “the algorithm” before it’s too late. The writing is on the wall. 2 (no pun intended) It’s time to unfriend Facebook and “the algorithm” Why I…
Best-of, Jeff Weiner, Latest at LinkedIn, Linkedin, LinkedIn Colleagues, LinkedIn in the News, Public Relations, Public Speaking, Thoughts

July 2, 2020

On CEOs: Good to Great

3 Lessons I Learned from Jeff Weiner at LinkedIn My five years at LinkedIn 1 is the best experience of my career. One of the biggest reasons: Jeff Weiner. Here’s my thoughts on what made Jeff the best CEO I’ve ever worked with, as he transitioned his role a month ago to Ryan Roslansky after…
Business Blogging, New Products, What’s New in Social Media, Writing

July 9, 2019

Five Reasons I ditched Writing App “iA Writer” for “Ulysses!”

Writing and blogging tools have come a long way since I first started using iA Writer, one of the simplest writing tools I could find to publish on WordPress or Medium. Today, there seem to be three writing apps of varying degrees of complexity from left to right that has risen to the top —…
Branch, Facebook, New Products, Secret

October 9, 2014

The Secret about Secrets

Dreams are a window to the human soul. So are secrets. There really is no place to be truly honest on the web today. There’s no place to scream like no one’s watching. Sadly, this is especially true on issues that matter to you, on issues that make you, or issues that break you. Yesterday’s news that…
HOW-TO Use Social Media, New Products, What’s New in Social Media

August 5, 2014

Hacking Time and To dos

Turn your ‘To-do’ into done. http://t.co/XRfNGm4aFy — ashton kutcher (@aplusk) August 4, 2014 To dos, like New Year’s resolutions, are a Herculean challenge that most of us have tried and failed. Nothing works. Paul Ford), former editor Harper’s Magazine, thinks we repeatedly waste time building to-do applications with no serious solution in sight: One of…
Curation, Facebook, Journalism, Medium, Quora, Social Media Tools, What’s New in Social Media

July 2, 2013

Time has come to change how we read

Google Reader is dead. Long live reading. If you are from the real world and happened upon posts from any-and-every tech blog, you wouldn’t be mistaken in assuming that today marks the demise of the written word, now that Google’s offed Google Reader. But as Joe Coscarelli of New York Magazine, notes, most people don’t know Google Reader from…
Crisis Communications, HOW-TO Use Social Media, Journalism

April 22, 2013

BREAKING: Can we put Journalism back together again?

This is an attempt at deciphering the happenings of the past week in Boston and the way we follow news today. What are some of the learnings from the past days and what must we avoid. And most importantly, how has social media, Twitter in particular, forever changed the way we consume real-time news. This…
Facebook, Google+, Linkedin, LinkedIn Features, Local Search, Location

January 20, 2013

Is Facebook’s Graph Search a Giant Killer?

Will Facebook’s “Graph Search” be a threat to Google, LinkedIn, Yelp, or Foursquare asks a question on Quora? No, No, No and Definitely Not. Yet. The key is expertise. Beneath the obvious user delight, Facebook is betting a lot on Graph Search’s core ability to connect people with what they’re looking for accurately and immediately.…
Best-of, Facebook, Public Relations, Social PR

January 16, 2013

The magic left the building with Jobs

I remember the moment Steve Jobs scrolled through his music and uttered those magical words – “scrolls like butter” – while illustrating the beauty of the original iPhone. It’s moments like this that you lived for, as a technology obsessed professional in Silicon Valley. And with Jobs we got to watch the Michael Jordan of…