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At HBR: Using Twitter to fight distraction

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Happiness in 140 characters

If you were going to design the perfect distraction, you’d probably make it irresistibly urgent, gossipy, and/or funny. You’d design…

Singin’ in the Rain has been my favorite movie for almost 30 years. It’s got classic music, extraordinary dancing and,…

Last year it was the staycation. This year it’s the digital fast. "How I unplugged" — from Twitter, from a…

#thankyoujesus for irl and online friends. Couldn’t live w/o either. Laptop down. It’s IRL Face Time! it was so cool…

My last blog post for Harvard Business Review offered 10 reasons to stop apologizing for your life online. It’s a…

Of all the problems that plague the plugged-in, social worker, one of the simplest remains the hardest to solve: Syncing…

I ask digital anthropologist Brynn Evans to weigh in on the etiquette of googling new acquaintances — before or during a meeting.

Of all the sessions I missed at this year’s SXSW, the one that I regretted the most was the Social…

Check out the panels or exhibitors at this year’s SXSW and you’ll see how many longstanding social media and web…