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How to follow your own principles online
Dec 13, 2011 | Self
Listen carefully to any twinge of discomfort when you’re online. It’s there to help you learn how to follow your own principles online.
Delete your Klout profile and be more than a Klout score
Dec 12, 2011 | Toolbox, Career, The Harvard Business Review, Top Posts of 2011: How to
7 steps to deleting your Klout score, following through on my Harvard Business Review blog post, “The Social Sanity Manifesto”.
Learn to listen online by lurking silently on one social network
Dec 9, 2011 | Self
Today's practice: Practice your listening skills by choosing one social network where you'll pay active attention, but not actually contribute. My friend Jason Mogus likes to say that we teach what we need to learn. I have long taken this as the single best...
Learning about online graffiti from bathroom graffiti
Today's practice: When you find an online comment or contribution that truly annoys you, put it on your desktop or bulletin board. It's your own personal classroom for learning about difference, and practicing tolerance. When companies, organizations or individuals...
Let your team choose project software for your online collaboration
Dec 7, 2011 | Productivity, Career
If you’re a project software or online collaboration geek, you want your team to use your tools. Here’s how to make their tools work for you.
Is online activism effective? 5 ways to ask (and answer) the question
Dec 5, 2011 | Community
Can social media catalyze or support political change? To answer that question, you have to understand who is asking, and what they really want to know. And it's the fundamental question we addressed today in a panel on social media and political activism at Meshwest...
The 6 great tech religions, and how to resist them
Dec 2, 2011 | Community
It's Friday night again: time for good Jews to light their sabbath candles, or in our family's religious tradition, to feel vaguely guilty for not even thinking of it. We lead highly secular lives, not because we're techno-centric geeks, but in spite of it. For all...
3 options for sharing an iTunes account under iCloud with your husband, wife or sweetie
Nov 28, 2011 | Relationships, Toolbox
If you had asked me on Friday whether I was in a committed relationship, I'd have said yes. I've been married to the same man for over 11 years, and we've been together for 14. Together we have two children, a business, a house, and multiple bank accounts. Not to...
9 ways the Internet can cheer your mood when you’re feeling sad
Nov 25, 2011 | Self, Top Posts of 2011: Personal
A rough day: we all have them. Yet no day is so rough that it should shake your faith in the Internet as, if not a universal cure, than a widely applicable balm. Here are 5 ways the Internet can cheer you up when you're blue: Create something. Upload a picture. Edit...
3 reasons to make TV social & connected with the new Plex & myPlex
Nov 24, 2011 | Lifestyle, Toolbox
I want you to think really carefully about how happy you are right now, because as soon as I describe the killer features of the latest iteration of the Plex media center software, you're going to be plunged into deep despair. Despair over the fact that you don't have...