XeeSM, which is so new it is not even in public beta yet, is a tool for managing social relationships. By providing a simple web address (URL) XeeSM gives you a way to provide one link from which people can instantly check out your various online presences, from your website to your LinkedIn, Twitter and…
I’m off to the national capital, Canberra, tonight for the all day event at Parliament House, Government 2.0: Policy and Practice. As indicated in a previous post, I’m speaking on the subject: Why parliamentarians and public sector managers need to participate in social media. The sub-head is: briefings and slide shows won’t cut it. I…
I have to admit I have no idea how pervasive the online social networking site, Twitter, is in China, let alone its current relevance for doing business in China. This post is about one instance in which Twitter seems to have served a good business purpose – i.e. putting a couple of entrepreneurial people together,…
How many friends do you have? Or should I ask, rather, “How many ‘friends’ do you have?” Any newcomer to the world of online social networking, especially anyone of the digital immigrant generations, could be forgiven for becoming confused about the terminology of “friends” and – the new verb courtesy of the social networking phenomenon…
The third in this series of LinkedIn Tips is to Give Useful Recommendations. The Recommendations feature is one of the distinctive elements of LinkedIn, whereby members can provide comments on one another’s capabilities, experience of working together and so on. It is a free-form system with just one field where your “recommender” can write a…
When I hear blogging experts say that anyone who is serious about blogging for business should be blogging at least once a day, I don’t know whether to be indignant or cringe. Indignant because I think it’s one of those rules or declarations that beg a lot of questions and should not be allowed to…