“It’s also important to understand that introversion is different from shyness. Shyness is the fear of negative judgment, while introversion is simply the preference for less stimulation. Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.”–Susan Cain Tweet
“Solve the parts not the problem. Roll up your sleeves and start breaking things down into more accessible, smaller elements.”–Ethan Marcotte Old Media resources used long paragraphs, small images (if at all), and required a reader’s full attention. The variety of devices that people use to consume web content has fragmented, along with their attention …
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“When I have time to waste with my phone, my first choices are always Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, and the App Store — Facebook is always an afterthought”–Dan Frommer How do you prioritize the time you spend on social apps on your phone? Tweet
The single biggest hole that exists not just in Twitter but Facebook and other services as well: the need to give users more ways of filtering the massive amounts of information that keep flooding their activity streams and other social media in-boxes. There are so many ways of producing and sharing content but so few …
At the Social Media for Nonprofits conference I heard an insightful presentation on how to be proactive from Cheryl Black, a Social Media Marketing Specialist for Convio. Proactivity on social media often consists of scheduling content to be delivered at a certain day and time. But Black introduced the concept of being “proactively reactive,” which …
Simple, heartfelt, personal, full of gratitude. We can all do more of this. Tweet
Hearing a message from a top-scoring “influencer” might make me read, or retweet a message – but seeing it repeated by five people I actually know, like and/or trust makes it law, regardless of the measured “influence” of those people.–Tom Webster, Influence from the Bottom Up Ministries and non-profits need to do the hard …
“I say to you that the VCR is to the American Film Producer and the American Public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.”–Motion Picture Association Chief Jack Valenti This picture comes from an infographic on how Hollywood saw every innovation in their industry as a threat rather than an opportunity. Even …
Willow Creek hosted a webinar with Charlene Li, author of Groundswell and Open Leadership on how church leaders can use social media more effectively. Li shared profound insight into the power of social media: “If your voice is absent (from social media), then (it communicates to those who are) that this is not a relationship …
Enjoyed reading these statistics from Generation Y: The New Kind of Workforce: One in three said he/she would prioritize social media freedom, device flexibility and work mobility over salary in accepting a job offer. 64% of college students asks about social media usage policies during job interviews and approximately 24% says it would be a …
