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NaNoWriMo, Social Media, and Measurability

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What’s curious to me about NaNoWriMo is how it has leveraged the framework of social media in the service of what is an essentially solitary and personal undertaking. I tend to think of social media as being essentially collaborative in nature and as producing a collective benefit.

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Fear and Social Media Don’t Mix

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MUD day 19: A friend of mine who works for a large nonprofit institution serves on a panel that’s trying to decide what the institution should think and do about social media. Should it encourage its employees and other stakeholders to use social media? Fear and social media don’t mix.

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Shakespeare Was an Aggregating Social-Media Pirate

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But without perhaps meaning to, he offers some enlightening arguments against those who doubt the validity or value of social media. ” Related posts: Nine Keys to a Robust Editorial Career in Social Media. NaNoWriMo, Social Media, and Measurability. Social Media and the Decline of Editing.

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Is Social Media Better at Getting You Fired, or Hired?

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In what may be a record for journalists getting fired for their social media activities, Khristopher Brooks was sacked yesterday before he even started his job with the Wilmington (Del.) We won’t know for a while, but it seems social media has done his career more good than harm. News Journal. What was his offense?

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Social Media and the Perils of Monetization

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Are profits and social media compatible? Does making money from a friendship make it less social? For B2B professionals, mixing social media and business requires a delicate balance of giving and selling, sharing and monetizing. Too much giving and you’re out of business; too much selling and you’re out of friends.

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Does Danger Lurk in the Language of Social Media?

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There is, I suspect, a troubling nub of validity in Weingarten’s reaction to it that should sound a note of caution for all of us new-media enthusiasts. Will the social media revolution be co-opted? Just Not Your Real Self: Scripps’ Muddled Social Media Policy. I don’t think so. Related posts: Be Yourself.

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Social Media and the Blurring of Professional Roles

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In focusing on the identity rather than the activity, he underscored for me one of the most profound aspects of the social media revolution: professional roles don’t matter much any longer. More than ever, in the social media era it’s not what you are but what you do that counts.