Posted by admin | Posted in facebook | Posted on 02-12-2009
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Balancing your work and personal life on social networking tools such as Facebook has become more complex than ever — and the dangers go beyond the well-publicized examples of posting party pictures to your profile.
A more subtle faux pas can affect your online reputation and even future job path, as your friend list on Facebook includes both personal and professional contacts. Information you post can mess up your work relationships and personal ones in one quick swoop.
For example, the immediacy and ease with which you can post a quip on Facebook may get you into trouble if you’re teasing your significant other — plus tell work colleagues more than they need or want to know about your relationship. This recent story of a man caught cheating by his wife when she perused his iPhone got us thinking: In this day of gadgetry and near-constant contact via social networking, how can you avoid blunders that will deem you a thoughtless spouse, friend or colleague? Read more... (1576 words, 73 images, estimated 6:18 mins reading time)
Posted by admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 26-08-2009
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Follow me: http://twitter.com/bardi_toto
Twitter is everywhere. It’s impossible to escape the ubiquitous 140 character microblog. Sure, some people have tried to move to Jaiku or Pownce, begging me to do the same, but until those two applications get as much functionality off their own site as Twitter has, I’m sticking with my Tweets. In order to enjoy Twitter and other microblog applications, they have to be truly portable. In spite of all its shortcomings, Twitter has definitely nailed portability.
I’ve been a plain vanilla Tweeter for a long time. I have Twitter on instant message relay, and that’s been about the extent of my innovation with the product. Recently I decided to explore the possibilities of many of the third party Twitter applications out there and see if any offered me features I was missing (like user avatars showing on instant message Tweets, for example – it’s impossible to keep all those Tweets straight sometimes). Read more... (1068 words, 7 images, estimated 4:16 mins reading time)
