Facebook: The New Office Water Cooler

By Ryan McFarlane With websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Friendster, Linkedln, LiveJournal, MySpace, Delicious, Digg, Youtube, etc, our daily montage of comments, observations, celebrations,...

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Twittering the Day Away

Survey: CFOs Concerned About Time Waste but Also See Business Benefits in Social Media Use As social media makes its way into the workplace, executives...

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Getting Started on Twitter

Maybe you read my recent post on Twitter is for Professionals?  Or, you’ve just decided it’s something you’d like to explore.  Here’s my advice...

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Legal Ease: Using Facebook for Disrespectful, Damaging and Derogatory Purposes

By Robert Smithson  Employees’ use of social media websites, such as Facebook, to make negative comments about their employer has become a real headache. It seems...

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Video as a Learning Tool

By Holly MacDonald You probably all know someone who watches hamster videos on Youtube, or whose kids talk about some kind of viral video, like...

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Twitter is for Professionals

By Holly MacDonald I have been on Twitter for a few months now, and although it took me awhile to figure out the point of...

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Social Media: Opportunities and Challenges

Initially cringing at the thought of employees using company time and equipment for socializing, employers are quickly learning that the use of social networks...

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Grounding Technology’s In The Wisdom of Grandparents

There seems to be no end of innovation in the technologies at our disposal. Troublingly, a great many of these technologies are either designed...

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