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Just a few days after I mentioned in my blog post on the new LinkedIn Profile Organizer that it had been a year since LinkedIn released any new significant functionality, we have been bombarded by the social media press over the last few days concerning the new LinkedIn User Interface and now the big news [...]Related posts (Read More)
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Micro Persuasion
I have been giving a lot of thought to what the future looks like for blogging and where it fits in my life. I have no plans to stop, but as more action moves to the statusphere and my world gets more mobile, I have been looking for a new publishing approach. Louis Gray, Steve Gilmor and I had a rather deep discussion (Read More)
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Ā Ā Photo by kevindooleyCulture is often defined as āthe way we do things around hereā. Organisational culture is the leaders responsibility as āculture is the shadow of the leaderā. If this is true the question is how is the culture embedded and transmitted by leaders? Edgar Schein in his book āOrganizational Culture and Le (Read More)
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You'd think nothing would get under the skin of search giant Google. But co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades to his... (Read More)
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Submitted by Judithgermain:
Some people sit and pontificate about whether leaders are made or born. The true leader ignores such arguments and instead concentrates on how to become better at leading people. In this article, we are going to discuss five leadership traits that people look for in a leader. If you are able to increase your skill in these (Read More)
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: The difficult one in this list is competency. What should you be competent at? The doing or the leading? Or a bit of both? Very easy to get caught up too much in the doing, and loose the space/distance needed to be an effective leader.
: Hi Ian. I believe that leaders should be competent at leading, there are very few positions that require the leader to be highly skilled 'in the tasks that his team completes'. Issues tend to arise when the leader isn't credible with his team.
Engadget Mobile
Filed under: Handsets, AppleDigg's Kevin Rose has a solid (but far from perfect) track record when it comes to Apple rumors, and he just drove the nerds of SXSWi crazy with his latest gaze into the crystal ball: he says the iPhone 3.0 will have copy and paste. Kev says that the interface is much like the magnifying glass -- (Read More)
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Submitted by Ian Mac Millan:
My friend Bob Kerns blogged about Stephen Wolframās āAlphaā project. The project aims to take on Google by creating a web-retrieval engine that can answer specific factual questions directly. Type in, āhow many angels can dance on the head of a pin?ā and it will go out to the Web, retrieve the answer, and tell you. Bob does (Read More)
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Video: socialmedian founder discusses keeping it small, lessons learned as startup ceo.After raising $50 million for Jobster, Jason Goldberg decided to fund his new startup socialmedian in a very different way. "The biggest lesson Iāve learned when it comes to financing companies is to keep your startup small and keep it re (Read More)
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Submitted by Ian Mac Millan:
A List of Social Media Marketing Examplesby Peter KimI've been thinking about how social media works.Ā For example, applying game mechanics to understand participation, thinking about users vs. customers, and deconstructing ego traps in PR campaigns.Ā This analysis makes me wonder if social media marketing matters and if so (Read More)
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Submitted by Michaelfidler:
Are you the only person at work who likes to read blogs? Is it your job to sell things to people who would probably throw you out of their offices if you said the word "twitter?" Are you trying to reach audiences who've never visited a social networking website because they've heard those sites are used by no one but virus (Read More)
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