HOAs: From Social Shaming to Collaboration for Behavior Modification?
October 15, 2009 :: Joe LoongLast week, I had to do two things: Trim my hedges, and paint my balcony railing. And when I say “had to,” I mean “was compelled to,” after getting a nastygram from my homeowners’ association (HOA).
I’m not trying to shirk my responsibility — I was very definitely in violation, and since I can be kind [...]
Online Networks and the 7-Year Friend Itch
October 9, 2009 :: Joe LoongSometimes, I’ll review the list of my friends and followers on a social networking platform and find myself staring at a name and and asking, “Who are you?”
This isn’t in an existential, “Can one ever truly know someone?” kind of way — I’m literally thinking, “Who the heck are you and I how do I [...]
Guest Post: The Following Post is NOT brought to you by the FTC – New FTC Blogging Guidelines
October 9, 2009 :: Steve FisherThis is a guest post written by Michelle Cohen, Partner with Thompson Hine. She is a CIPP, Certified Information Privacy Professional (by the International Association of Privacy Professionals) and you can read her bio here. She has put together a solid overview of the new FTC blogging guidelines.
On October 5, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission [...]
A Few Thoughts on E-Mail. Regards, Charcoal Grill
October 8, 2009 :: Joe LoongScenes from my spam folder: I’m not sure what’s going on in Global E-Mail Spam HQ these days. (In my imagination, Global E-Mail Spam HQ is located under an extinct volcano somewhere; it’s where the world’s spam masterminds decide it’s time to cease the “clean the inside of your windshield” campaign and spin-up the global [...]
Smart Working: Slideshare Launches AdShare and LeadShare
October 7, 2009 :: Steve FisherHave you ever had the opportunity to use Slideshare? It is a really great tool to put your presentations online. Many use the tool to promote their work but it is a great way to make this kind of content embeddable for readers. You can set your creative common rights and make it downloadable. Previously, [...]
Social Media Policies: Trick or Treat?
October 2, 2009 :: Joe LoongUnfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend Tuesday’s Grow Smart Biz Conference, but by all accounts (and there are a lot of them) and my own dipping in and out of the live stream, it was a great success, so congratulations to the entire team and all the particpants and attendees.
Since I couldn’t monitor the entire [...]
Known Unknowns: Location, Location, Location
September 25, 2009 :: Joe LoongThis past weekend, I was suckered by some friends into joining an impromptu bar crawl (hey, twist my arm, ow, okay) in Ye Olde Reston Towne Centre (it’s an upscale-ish, mixed use “don’t-call-it-a-mall” in the outer DC suburbs of northern Virginia).
Coincidentally, I’ve been getting more active trying out Foursquare, a location-based mobile social network — [...]
Everything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You
September 24, 2009 :: Joe LoongIt should hardly need repeating at this point: When you post stuff to the Internet, people will see it, and quite possibly use it in ways that you don’t intend. And yet, either people keep finding new ways to make the same mistakes, or other people keep finding ways to use that information.
Two recent cases [...]
Book Shame, Information Hoarding, and Aspirational PDFs
September 22, 2009 :: Joe LoongWay back in January, I wrote about how small businesses (and people, too, of course), can share their expertise through social linksharing — that is, instead of bookmarking things in your browser where only you can get to them, publishing them to social linksharing / social bookmarking sites (or any other sites that can be [...]
Smart Working – Building a Stellar Online Community
September 18, 2009 :: Steve FisherBuilding the Small Business community here at Network Solutions is something we work hard on every day. We use tools like this blog and our other blogs (Grow Smart Business, Women Grow Business) to connect with various parts of our community. We also use tools like Twitter and good old fashioned email to reach out [...]
