Can You Hear Me Now, World?
I recently returned from a long-anticipated family vacation to the Italian countryside. We were remote. Very remote. We are talking rocky dirt roads (our poor rental car!), howling wild dogs and nothing around us but olive groves and grape vines. It was beautiful. No TV. No phone at the farm house we rented. Yet . . . I was connected. Not 100% of the time, but connected nevertheless. My wireless Blackberry was on, working, and kept me tethered to the world at home. I was…
Is There Any Social Media Etiquette?
As David Armano points out in a recent article from the Harvard Business Review, in 2009 we saw exponential growth of social media. According to Nielsen Online, Twitter alone grew 1,382% year-over-year in February, registering a total of just more than 7 million unique visitors in the US for the month. Meanwhile, Facebook continued to outpace MySpace. There is no question that we will continue to adapt and mold with the world of social media and eat-up new technologies and more efficient applications that are…
