The size of social media

No one is perfect and you can’t expect to please everyone all the time, so the best trick is to be prepared for how to handle things if your company finds itself under attack in the social realm. That’s the core of Mashable’s advice in a piece running...

Alive offline

If the Internet is addictive, then how come there’s no withdrawal symptoms? I’ve been on vacation for three days and haven’t blogged, barely tweeted, barely Facebooked, and have yet to check into a single location using the local version of...

2 weeks of tips on meaningful living online

Unplugging is not the only way to take control of your relationship to the Internet. If you want to create a more meaningful life and a healthier world, there are ways to pursue that online as well as offline. But you need to find tools that are more nuanced than the...

7 practices to strengthen your online presence

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series 10 reasons to stop apologizing for your online life

True online presence offers opportunities for authentic experience, connection and discovery; opportunities for joy and fulfillment. Practices like meditation, yoga and day-to-day mindfulness help cultivate the capacity for offline presence, so that we live our lives more fully. Now that we live so much of our lives online, we need similar practices for our networked time so that we can integrate our online moments into a meaningful life rather than experiencing them as moments deducted from our “real” lives. Here are some practices that foster online presence.

5 ways to get authentically naked

What’s the line between authenticity and over-disclosure? This post offers 5 ways you can keep track of the boundary between sharing and over-sharing.

Social media vs reality

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing lately about how the Internet is impoverishing our minds, souls and relationships. But Matthew Gallion has written what may now be my favorite articulation of why we should worry about the web in his post on Social Media and...

An evangelical perspective on information overload

I was fascinated to come across an evangelical take on the problem of information overload. Becky Sweat’s article in The Good News reads: information overload can distract us from the most important priority in our lives—our relationship with God. Indeed, a...

A balanced look at the mental impact of social media

“The Internet is distracting and isolating and diminishes our capacity for focused work.” “The Internet is transformative and connecting and is making us steadily smarter.” The conversation about the Internet’s mental and social impact...