Kent Fackenthall

Tag: social media

  • Don’t Quit Social Media, Put it to Work Instead

    Don’t Quit Social Media, Put it to Work Instead

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    An interesting article here in the New York Times pointed out to me by a friend, written as a counterpoint to the article I mentioned in my last post: Don’t Quit Social Media, Put It to Work for your Career Instead “Cultivating your social media brand is a fundamentally passive approach to professional advancement.” “There…

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  • Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.

    Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.

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    Quit social media. Your career may depend on it. Interesting opinion piece from the New York Times shared with me via email by a friend. The email share to a group fostered some discussion, here were a few words I contributed. I fluctuate back and forth with regard to the ‘ability to concentrate’ issue. I’ve…

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  • Why you should consider Google+. Again.

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    I’ve been having lots of conversations with people lately regarding their trust – or lack thereof – of Facebook/Instagram and their use/intentions with regards to your content and data. I’ve always maintained that posting info on ANY service on the internet is never going to be 100% guaranteed, but how a company conducts itself ethically,…

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  • Google+ Only August

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    I am the mad scientist of social media. Back at the end of July, in another one of my social media experiments, I’d sort of made a resolution to myself to only use only Google+ in August and see what it got me. I didn’t really tell anyone about it, just sort of did it.…

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  • Google+ Circles, Good – Facebook Lists, Bad.

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    For those of you that have never checked it out, one of the (multitude of) things that Google+ does infinitely better than Facebook is allow you to manage your streams and the content in them using ‘Circles’. Facebook has ‘Lists’ that you can create to sort people into categories. This works ok. Their mechanism/UI for…

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  • Offtober.

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    So it’s that time of year again. The time of year when I get tired of Social Media. I don’t know why I get tired of it, or what I get tired of. At some point I just start to find it exhausting. People like my wife always just tells me to lay off some,…

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