I couldn’t help laughing when I read a news article in the Washington Post about 200 students who agreed to go without social media for 24 hours. How hard do you think it will be to go without using a computer, checking your email, surfing the social media sites, chatting to your friends via facebook? [...]
Compulsive Behaviour? I would never be involved in doing something compulsively! Or would I? Would you? How much energy do you expend in relation to how much you achieve? Ouch! That was a very difficult question to be asked. And not one I was particularly interested in answering either. ‘Being busy’ is a great excuse [...]
How can you use your blog to make changes, help others and impact your community? The foundation to having a blog that can create change – is a blog that has a loyal following. This requires a blog that is alive and well, informational, entertaining and can be found easily. In other words a blog [...]
I was intrigued by a news article published by 3news ‘No friends? Don’t blame the internet.’ Can we blame technology for a lack of friends? A survey done in 2008 of 2512 adults found that the core network of adults – that close group that you can share more personal information with, get support, encouragement, [...]
What part is social media playing in bringing the news to the world? In the blogosphere there is heated debate as to the role social media plays. One hotly contested area: is how helpful and reliable is social media as a source of news such as bringing the appalling events that happened last week in [...]
As social media’s influence grows, professionals are struggling to define the line that divides work and pleasure. Increasingly this divide is diminishing. How do we harness the power of the technology, tools and applications while managing our risk? Is it ever okay to blur the line between our professional lives and our personal lives? This [...]
