Have you joined Linkedin but you’re not sure why?

March 2, 2010 2 comments

Over the past few months when I have been talking about using social networking for business one of the most common comments I have had is along the lines of
“I was invited to join Linkedin by someone I know but I have no idea what to do with it”
or even
“I have been invited to join [...]

Re the fuss about social media – can you remember when you started using e-mail?

February 22, 2010 3 comments

Anybody over the age of – say – 40 should be able to remember a time before e-mail.
And indeed they may also remember the time when e-mail was introduced to their business.
If you are old enough cast your mind back. Did it run smoothly? Was it accepted universally immediately? Did you know what to do [...]

Why small talk is important in social networking

June 18, 2009 8 comments

I recently attended a seminar on networking for business. The speaker described the  model  he used which started with meeting, moved onto building relationships and then finally led to doing business together.
To start  he set us a group activity  where he asked us to choose 1 of 4 topics – food/holidays/books/movies. Then he asked us to introduce [...]

Young employees and social networking -using the best skills for the job

September 23, 2008 4 comments

I was interested to learn about a recent initiative by Strathclyde Police in tackling gangs and related knife crime. According to a report on the radio yesterday they have police cadets – young people aged 16 who are interested in joining the police – to search bebo and youtube – looking for postings which can be [...]

Learning about Enterprise 2.0 from 16 year olds

August 19, 2008 No comments yet

According to an article by Martyn Sloman  in the CIPD quarterly update “Impact” here in the UK

“only” 20% of organisations use Web 2.0 technologies for recruitment purposes
in a survey of 1700 employers 79% had disciplined one or more staff for using social networking sites during work time
in that same survey many had banned the use of [...]


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