Here is what my lived experience is of the social norms around networking and connections online: Share often Reference and give credit to others Participate in conversation Use consistent themes I started to realize that this was a way of thinking that was very isolating and individually centric. Strategies, if you will, that seem less [...]
So why, why, why do we keep hearing about social media, especially Twitter? Twitter only has 20 million users, which is nothing when compared to MySpace and Facebook, 60+ and 90+ million respectively. Yet we keep hearing about Twitter. Even though its growth has stopped skyrocketing, its usefulness has not. The exact reasons why Twitter [...]
As some of you know, I attend a business school located just outside of Seattle called Bainbridge Graduate Institute. I’m a candidate (I still think it’s funny that this is the term used) for an MBA in Sustainable Business. Each month we have an in-person intensive long-weekend of classes. Having recently returned, still unsure if [...]
This weekend I got a chance to talk to my mom. I got into my rant about how we are losing communities and not sharing resources. From my soap box I overshot my point. I found myself stuck my own generational rut and my mom looking at me with eyes that said disconcertingly, young people [...]