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Productivity

Why I Rarely Answer My Phone

by Roxanne Darling on August 5, 2010

Increasingly, as a digital native, citizen of the internet, geek girl – call me what you wish – I find myself more and more discerning about how, when, and with whom I use the phone. It is simply another trending practice that all marketers would be wise to note: Interruption of any kind is increasingly [...]

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Should You Monitor Social Media Behavior at Work?

by Roxanne Darling on March 29, 2010

You know that social media has gone mainstream when CNN has cover articles about it and when the NY Times features tools and tips like this, pretty much on a weekly basis: Keeping a Closer Eye on Employees’ Social Networking New software allows companies to automatically monitor how much time employees are spending on social [...]

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The Social Web: Learning to Use a New Tool

by Roxanne Darling on June 25, 2009

The social web is full of free information. Many people forego formal training in favor of copying what they see others’ doing. We sometimes do this ourselves—once you have a strong base of knowledge in a specific area, it is quite reasonable to look at others’ tips or code and be able to reverse engineer [...]

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Yammer asks: What’s Happening at Your Company?

by Shane Robinson on September 9, 2008

While watching the streaming video of the TechCrunch50 conference yesterday, I just caught the last couple minutes of the demo for Yammer. Basically, as most people have pointed out in the TechCrunch comments, Yammer is Twitter for companies. But what really caught my eye was the way they use “hash tags” to allow you to [...]

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