This past Monday blogger, FastCompany journalist and social media expert Marcia Connor tweeted, “So what’s *your* theory on why online communities get little press while social networks get all the buzz?” Her query was for an article or blog post that she’s working on. Here’s my take on it. In more than 140 characters. Online communities […]
The professional Catch-22 of personal transparency
At this point it’s fair to concede that the idea of a lifetime job is a relic from a previous era. It is widely believed that we are slated to have an average of seven careers in our lifetime–many of which will involve more than one job. Even when we’re in long-term committed employment relationships, we are still […]
What’s Personal is What’s Public
It’s not difficult to join the myriad social networks and create our digital persona. At first glance, it seems that you just throw up your picture, your resume, your e-mail address, and voila, you’ve digitized yourself! A closer look reveals that there are new implications for our personas that were not available to in Web […]
