Leadership Campaigns As Tech Incubators
Leadership races may be inside baseball, but they also operate in an environment that allows for risk-taking and innovation.
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Go Where The Fish Are
A much greater number are using their smartphones to access existing social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and various online news sites to keep informed on election news.
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Chick-Fil-A Gets Cooked
Image courtesy of J. Reed. Not a good week for US fast food chain Chick-Fil-A. After the company's President, Dan Kathy, made comments about being against gay marriage, he probably didn't anticipate the drubbing his company would take on the Internet. The Chick-Fil-A Facebook Page has since been hammered by those offended by Cathy's remarks,
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‘Arctic Ready’ Fooled The Internet
Image courtesy of the Huffington Post. If you're like me, you may have already received an email or spotted a shocked tweet or Facebook post about Shell's social media fail. On first glance, it looks like the Arctic Ready website was a crowdsourcing experiment gone completely off the rails. Except it isn't real. It was
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Leadership In The Social Media Age
I don't typically share "leadership coaching" videos or content, but the central messages in this video were compelling enough that I wanted to share it with you. John Baldoni offers some basic operational principles for CEOs, but it also applies to politicians, spokespersons or anyone else finding themselves in the public eye. I often
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The Senator Who Tweeted Too Much
When will politicians learn that Twitter is an open mic? As you may have read, boxing Senator Patrick Brazeau got into a testy exchange with Canadian Press reporter Jennifer Ditchburn on Twitter this week. The Senator caught a lot of attention when he essentially called Ditchburn a "b*tch" during the exchange, which you can read
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Study: Lurkers Are The Silent Majority
There is no question that the most coveted members of any online community are the "sharers". These are the folks who engage with you and/or your organization on a regular basis. They also drive the metrics that are so coveted in the social media space: likes, mentions, shares, comments. But a study of over
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Be As Fearless As… McDonalds?
If your colleagues have ever looked at you with fear in their eyes when you proposed answering questions posed on social networks in a transparent or honest manner, then I have a site for you. McDonald’s recently published a microsite where they allow anyone to pose questions for McDonald’s representatives to respond to. The good
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Hashtags: The Double Edged Sword That Mostly Cuts You
The hashtag is a seductive proposition. Why would you not want to create a place on Twitter where like-minded people can discuss a particular issue and track what others are saying about it. Isn’t that the very definition of community? Isn’t that what social media is all about? Indeed, hashtags are a great want to
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Newt: Thanks For The (Facebook) Memories
With multiple news agencies reporting that Republican nominee candidate Newt Gingrich will be ending his bid for the White House in the next few days, I thought it timely to mention one particular aspect of his campaign I thought really succeeded: his Facebook Page. Regardless of what you think about his policies or positions, this
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