Tag Archives: ethics

The Zen of Tweeting

September 10, 2009 – 7:50 am

Given it’s Twestival weekend (see those of you attending DC Twestival), I decided to share a little experiment I’m engaging in on Twitter. Specifically, I’ve been incorporating Bhuddhist ethics into daily Twitter activity to create a better, more mindful experience. Here’s how:

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Women Snubbed in Top Ten Speakers List, Industry in General

July 29, 2009 – 8:15 am

In a “blog post” listing the top ten social media speakers, The Speakers Group (TSG) listed voices for “your consideration.” Not one of the speakers was a woman, highlighting a much larger social media services industry problem where women are often overlooked for top speaking gigs, and don’t rank as well as men.
Ironically, this [...]

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Goodness Gracious, Great Blogs of Fire!

February 24, 2009 – 10:45 am

Marguerite Manteau-Rao highlights top results from a McKinsey survey of executives on the topic of Web 2.0 adoption. Some of the results include the necessity for senior leadership to help the bottom up initiatives: “senior executives often become role models and lead through informal channels.” Interestingly, senior leaders also notice that the initial excitement and [...]

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Hacking Content

January 28, 2009 – 10:21 am

One of the cool things about teaching at a University is the very strict code of ethics, particularly on plagiarism.  Unfortunately, we have no such thing out here in the blogosphere, instead relying on an honor code of links.  In my opinion, sometimes top bloggers think they are above it, and simply hack content [...]

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