Syncing Contacts: The Impossible Dream
This blog post originally appeared on the web site of the Harvard Business Review. Of all the problems that plague the plugged-in, social worker, one of the simplest remains the hardest to solve:...
View ArticleMake Peace with Always-On Access
This post originally appeared on my blog for the Harvard Business Review. The park ranger who helped us pick out a campsite didn’t know he was giving assistance to the enemy. He thought he was simply...
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5 practices to humanize online communication
What does it mean to take online life seriously as real life? Here’s another reason to reject the idea of “IRL” (“In Real Life”) as the opposite of life online. When you visualize the real person...
View Article5 ways to make your time online more fulfilling
“I don’t understand how you can spend so much time online. Most of what I see online sickens me.” “Like what?” “Oh you know…porn. Spam. Stupid Facebook quizzes. Endless advertising.” I couldn’t help...
View ArticleSanta goes to Best Buy
Early adopters are the hardest folks to shop for. As an early adopter married to yet another early adopter, we struggle to find good gifts, since we own every gadget we need, and many we don’t. That’s...
View ArticleThe Core Tenets of the Social Web, 25 years in the making
This post originally appeared on the Harvard Business Review. We like to think of the social web as green fields in which we are just now sowing best practices and first principles. After all, if there...
View Article11 social media tools that put entrepreneurs on the right strategic path
My latest post for the Harvard Business Review was inspired by a trip I made to Romania earlier this spring. I visited Bucharest and Cluj as part of the School for Startups, a highly successful...
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What the Internet did for you in 2011
My year-end post for the Harvard Business Review asked the question, What did the Internet do for you this year? In that post, I wrote: Appreciating the moments when our online work and lives just...
View ArticleFor Harvard Business book: How do you reward yourself at work?
How do you reward or motivate yourself to complete a task or project? I’m tackling this question in one of my pieces for a forthcoming edition of Harvard Business Review’s Getting the Right Work Done....
View Article3 ways you can use Pinterest
In my Friday post for Harvard Business Review, I provided companies with some ideas about how they could use Pinterest to connect with customers. Today, I want to suggest 3 ways to use Pinterest...
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