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Has Social Media Replaced Your Water Cooler?

Has Social Media Replaced Your Water Cooler?

Only a few years ago, the gossip in the workplace centered around the water-cooler; a meeting place where the latest news about colleagues and management-decisions were discussed and often bitched about. More recently, the water-cooler is becoming lonely. Social media is taking over as the gathering point for gossip. Has it for you? If you [...]

How Do You *Effectively* Find a Great Job?

How Do You *Effectively* Find a Great Job?

We all want enjoyable, lucrative and progressive work, right? So how should we go about finding that kind of work?

How To Find Work in Your Dream Organization Using Facebook And LinkedIn

How To Find Work in Your Dream Organization Using Facebook And LinkedIn

By combining your LinkedIn profile with Facebook ads, you’ll discover an effective way of getting yourself in front of potential employers who use Facebook (and let’s face it, who doesn’t?) It’s a guerrilla job-hunting tactic that enables you to search the hidden job market and find or even create the best jobs before they hit [...]

Are Facebook, Myspace and LinkedIn Good For Your Reputation?

Are Facebook, Myspace and LinkedIn Good For Your Reputation?

Social Networking has become the main game in town for upwardly mobile professionals. It’s standard to find most of your colleagues on LinkedIn, Facebook or Myspace and involve yourself in a social community – groups and activities you share an interest in. Let’s face it, they save you so much time and energy in tracking [...]

My Comment on ‘Business Readiness for the Facebook Generation’ on the Silicon.com CIO Jury

I was recently invited to join the Silicon.com CIO Jury , and I’ve had my first opinion posted. In this article, I comment on whether Businesses are ready for Facebook generation. Simon

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Review: Inbox, Xobni spelled correctly

Email is no more just another way of communication in this Web2.0 generation. Our dependence on robust email has increased significantly, and every time we open our Outlook, it can sometimes remind us how careless we have been in organizing our emails and contacts. When we deal with 100s of email every day, it often [...]

Enabling Action-Orientation with Collaborative Technologies

Web2.0 and collaborative technologies promise a new world of integrated thought leadership. However they are not without their flaws. There are three key weaknesses in the typical use of collaborative technologies. The weaknesses are in the way decisions are made that lead to action. Decisions are made by committees. The larger the group of contributors [...]