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Social media, smartphones, e-mail: they can all help take your career to the next level, or they can ensure you get utterly consumed by your work. Here are my best strategies, tools and stories to help you harness your online time to creating the work of your dreams — even if your dreams include sometimes leaving the office.

Countering the Excuses for Avoiding Social Media (and Video Games)

November 3, 2011

"I can see why it’s important, but it’s not something I need to be an expert on myself." "I’ve got…

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Self-publishing: 5 issues for authors to consider, from Amazon’s Jon Fine and Prof. Tim Laquintano

October 28, 2011

At the Merging Media conference today, we heard from Jon Fine, Amazon’s Director of Author & Publisher Relations. Jon’s talk reminded me of the terrific presentation I heard at AOIR from Tim Laquintano, a writing professor at Lafayette College who spoke about the evolution of self-publishing. Drawing on their talks, as well as on a [...]

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7 tips for creating a great speaker’s video

October 27, 2011

If you want to pitch yourself as a speaker, trainer or just as a thoughtful person worth listening to, web video is a crucial medium. Event planners use video clips to guide their speaker selections, speakers bureaus use videos to pitch people from their roster, and your target audience of customers, influencers and fans may [...]

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Internet researchers tackle the future of reading & publishing at AOIR

October 13, 2011

True confession: I treat conference panels as competitive events. Whenever I’m participating in a multi-speaker panel my secret goal is to “win” the panel. This doesn’t mean I try to take down my fellow panellists: it’s not like wrestling or ice hockey, where you’ve got to crush your opponent in order to take home the [...]

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10 myths about ethnography, from Tom Boellstorff

October 12, 2011

This post originally appeared on the SIM Centre website. There was a lot to love about anthropologist Tom Boellstorff’s dynamic, thought-provoking keynote to the Association of Internet Researchers. But I figured that my design colleagues, many of whom use ethnographic research as part of their design work, would be particularly interested in his list of [...]

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Can smartphones create stillness?

October 4, 2011
kindergarten kids

If you want to learn something about stillness, visit a kindergarten class. I spent about 45 minutes with Little Peanut and his classmates today, and it gave me a whole new perspective on quiet — or the lack thereof. In the half-hour in which these 19 kids were in their “quiet” circle, there wasn’t a [...]

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4 ways to protect your privacy and reputation on Facebook Timeline

September 29, 2011

My latest blog post for HBR takes a look at the new ooh! aah! Facebook Timeline, which comes tantalizingly close to fulfilling my wish list for a social media scrapbook without allowing me to easily print the damn thing already. (And I’m guessing it won’t be long before some clever company offers to do just [...]

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Jobs of the future

September 21, 2011

It has been widely reported that for most of today’s elementary schoolchildren, the jobs that lie in their future don’t even exist yet. While that may be terrifying for those of us in the parenting or education game (how do you prep kids for a future you can’t see?), it should be encouraging to those [...]

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Social media for political scientists: monitoring with iGoogle, Google Reader and Hootsuite

September 9, 2011

My APSA short course last week covered Social Media for Political Scientists. In my last post about the session, I talked about how political scientists can approach social media strategy, and shared the slide deck from our session. Today, I start the process of rounding up resources that can help you get started with the [...]

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Back to school at the juncture of art & social science

September 6, 2011

Walking through the front doors of Emily Carr today after a few days in political science land was a reawakening to the extraordinary.The gallery by the front doors was bursting with fresh pieces, including something that requires you to put on headphones and look at a painting of birds. The young man coming down the [...]

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Social media for political scientists

September 3, 2011

This week I taught a short course at the American Political Science Association meetings on Social Media for Political Scientists. While political scientists can learn from the good advice now available online on social media in academia, they are in a special situation because their field of research is also one of the most-discussed topics [...]

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