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Alive offline

If the Internet is addictive, then how come there’s no withdrawal symptoms? I’ve been on vacation for three days and haven’t blogged, barely tweeted, barely Facebooked, and have yet to check into a single location using the local version of FourSquare. It’s hard to imagine anyone a lot more compulsive than me so my ability [...]

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7 practices to strengthen your online presence

Buddhists make great friends. They’re fantastic listeners, they’re thoughtfully engaged with the world around them, and if they’re the real deal, it’s calming just to be around them. But when I wrote the HBR piece about the 10 reasons to stop apologizing for your online life, there was one line that made me afraid to [...]

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How to win friends and influence people…through social media

Dale Carnegie’s How to win friends and influence people could be described as the father of relationship marketing and the grandfather of social media. Two recent blog posts revisit the book and highlight its implications for the social media era. J. Eddie Smith’s post offers a very handy précis of Carnegie’s book, and adds four updated [...]

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6 ways to prioritize your online friendships (for Oprah.com)

This post was originally written for Oprah.com. “But I don’t want to join Twitter,” my friend Leda says, fighting off my entreaties to start tweeting so we can stay in touch throughout the day. “I already feel like I spend too much time online. Don’t you feel like it just distracts you from actually connecting [...]

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