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5 ways social media can help you learn to say no (for HBR)
Subject: Join our new working group? Subject: Time to meet for coffee? Subject: Beta invitation for new web app Subject: Sign up for 2010 lecture series? If your January inbox looks like mine, it's full of requests and invitations. The problem with the New Year's...
How great editing motivates great user-generated content
When a business or organization takes on its first social media project, the communications team typically worries about how to handle a deluge of negative comments or inappropriate content. Rob and I always tell people that what they should worry about is the exact...
The meaning of friendship, on- and offline
This weekend was the first time I found myself on the receiving end of Facebook's new and more nuanced privacy settings. An old friend popped up in the Facebook sidebar, which rotates an assortment of different people in your friend list. On a whim, I clicked her...
9 ways social media can support your creativity
Creativity often demands social connection: for support, for feedback, for collaborators. Social media can help.
Web services and software for creating family albums and scrapbooks
2008 Presentation at Oberlin Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship
I just discovered that my presentation at Oberlin's 2008 Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship is on YouTube. I talked about how the lessons of building social networks parallel our experience as entrepreneurs.
Feature set for a social media scrapbook
On Managing Information Overload and Extremely Lame Superpowers
We all struggle with information overload. If somebody would just push a button and turn off the Internet for a…
How I’m going to go
This weekend has helped me identify the most likely scenarios for my own demise: Buried under mismatched wineglasses. Suffocated by a dishtowel avalanche. Arm spontaneously separates after 18 continuous hours of drilling ceramic tile. Food poisoning from leftovers...