Linkedin 3rd Most Popular Networking Site, How Important for You?

I don’t know if I’m right in thinking that my email inbox is peppered frequently with messages about the relative popularity of various social networking platforms, but it does seem that way. And my impression is that, apart from the acknowledged leading duo of Facebook and Twitter, the buzz seems to be usually about one…

Boomer Business Owner Challenge – Emotional Resistance to Social Media

I keep telling myself I won’t do it again, but there I was yesterday, having another fundamentally frustrating conversation about social media with a Baby Boomer business owner who did not really want to listen. It started with his making a polite enquiry about what I “did” by way of business and – once I…

Thanks for the LinkedIn Invitation: Care to Speak First?

Would you connect with someone on LinkedIn who does not want to speak with you? If it weren’t for my own experience over several years, I probably would not think that was a question worth asking. But consider this. LinkedIn is a professional business networking platform. It is not and never has been intended as…

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Slide Deck on Social Media for Skool Project 2009

I had been apprehensive in advance of my presentation on social media today at Griffith University, as a contribution to the Skool Project 2009, organised by cricketer and Griffith staffer Michael Jeh and which I posted about earlier this afternoon. After all, I would be presenting to a group of digital immigrants and I was…