Image by uberculture via Flickr Written by Karen D. Swim When Steve Woodruff gave me the opportunity to get in on the ground floor opportunity of the Five in the Morning franchise, I didn’t hesitate to say “count me in!” Of course I then realized that his famous Five in the Morning posts really were [...]
Five in the Morning
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Drunk with Power
Image via Wikipedia Written by Karen D. Swim Has social media created a culture drunk with power? We pluck our members from relative obscurity and elevate them to the ranks of celebrities. As quickly as we create them we can destroy them with the click of a mouse. Our blogs are a platform, irritate, or [...]
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What I Learned from the “Why Girl” and How It Can Help your Business
Image by Liquid Lucidity via Flickr Written by Karen D. Swim Years ago, I had a colleague who we nicknamed “The Why Girl.” It was not one of those mean, behind the back nicknames whispered in the corner by the water cooler, she knew and embraced our good natured ribbing. She earned the nickname because [...]
Filed Under: Insights, Social Media Tagged With: Business process, Leadership, Social Media
What you Talking ‘bout Willis?
Written by Karen D. Swim As if we had not tortured and twisted the American language enough, an entire new lexicon has arisen as a result of social media. Our language is now populated by pop culture colloquialisms, abbreviated text speak and social media-isms. Add industry jargon to the mix and you have a communication [...]
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The Walking Wounded and Socially Fatigued
Written by Karen D. Swim The other day I received an email notification that one of my Twitter followers was no longer following me. I clicked through to the follower’s twitter page and the most recent tweet (message) indicated that he was changing his twitter account un-following everyone and only following those who could have [...]
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