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A Social Media Intervention

Aug 15, 2009 / Social Media / Trackback

Mon­day, Octo­ber 17th at 7:00P.M., I’ll be on the air at 97bht radio with Ral­phie Aversa, and Mike Trim from WBRE TV. Ralphie’s show isn’t talk radio but he is a Gen Y guy who loves his social media. We’re con­nected on Face­book and Twit­ter and like me, he’s hooked up by IV™ (inten­sive vir­tu­al­ity™) and has a gazil­lion accounts in other places.

Any­way, last Wednes­day, on the ride home from an ever so richly reward­ing day at the Bat Cave, Ral­phie was on the air com­ment­ing on recent sto­ries in the news regard­ing com­pa­nies ban­ning the use of social media in the work­place. It was good… but it reminded me of bib­li­cal sto­ries of the plague that killed first born sons.

Because that is how impor­tant being con­nected is for so many peo­ple. I can see the day when we’re all chew­ing Social­me­di­adone™ while at work to kill the crav­ing for 8 hours because the addic­tion has become too strong to resist.…

@Shoefeen would be a great can­di­date for Clin­i­cal Trials

Where is the nearest Socialmediadone clinic?

Where is the near­est Social­me­di­adone™ clinic?

I hope it passes and gets over the counter approval so I can con­tribute to human­ity and leave a legacy in the same capac­ity as my long gone but not ever to be for­got­ten rel­a­tive Marie Curie. Um, do you think Pfizer or Merck would pick it up and I could get rich and lay in bed with a lap­top and Black­berry the rest of my life tweet­ing, face­book­ing, link­ing and blogging???

I did not face­book him while I was dri­ving! Why do you think like that? I chewed my lip for the other 3 min­utes until I got home and then I sent him a mes­sage  (yes before I went potty… you’re so nosy some­times) let­ting him know I  under­stand how scary this threat of with­drawal is and ask­ing if he wanted to have a con­ver­sa­tion about it from an HR and employer perspective.

He did… he face­booked me back (you know as well as I do that face­book is a noun as well as a verb) and asked if I could come over to chat with him and Mike on Mon­day night about it.

It might be too late for @Shoefeen, and she’s not in the right DMA any­way, but I am excited at the prospect of mak­ing an impact on #NEPA SM addicts so they don’t make the same mistake.

Warn­ing: Do not try to be slick and steal my cre­ative ter­mi­nol­ogy. I grant you per­mis­sion to use it but I demand credit for the stuff I invent, google, and if it doesn’t exist throw on a ™.


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  • Lyaeus

    Totally agree to the career sui­cide bit — from per­soanl expe­ri­ence of a now x col­league who for­got that golden rule. I read once we have 50,000 thoughts a day (yeah right, who counted them?). But any­way, the trick is not to find the right way to get them out, it’s to make sure they’ve edited. Some peo­ple think the point is that it’s the real them com­ing out, that expres­sion for expressions’s sake is what’s it’s about. It might be, and some­times that’s a joy to behold, but some­times its like read­ing back that poem you wrote in 86 and think­ing, was that me, did i really think — no, worse, write that? Thank God I didn’t send it! Only now you can’t so eas­ily take it back.

  • http://twitter.com/lyaeus Stu­art Shaw

    Totally agree to the career sui­cide bit — from per­soanl expe­ri­ence of a now x col­league who for­got that golden rule. I read once we have 50,000 thoughts a day (yeah right, who counted them?). But any­way, the trick is not to find the right way to get them out, it’s to make sure they’ve edited. Some peo­ple think the point is that it’s the real them com­ing out, that expres­sion for expressions’s sake is what’s it’s about. It might be, and some­times that’s a joy to behold, but some­times its like read­ing back that poem you wrote in 86 and think­ing, was that me, did i really think — no, worse, write that? Thank God I didn’t send it! Only now you can’t so eas­ily take it back.

  • http://twitter.com/lyaeus Stu­art Shaw

    Hey, came across this on a Google alert for ‘human cap­i­tal’ and writ­ing from MK UK watch­ing ath­let­ics and climb­ing out of a stink­ing head. This is exactly what I argued with a col­league work­ing in the human cap­i­tal space (she works for http://www.hpa-group.com who I con­sult for, though my game is about turn­ing edu­ca­tion on its head). She blogged about how much time was being lost to busi­ness. I argued that peo­ple used to spend just as much time gos­sip­ing around the cof­fee stand; that tak­ing these things away just hardly makes them more likely to be pro­duc­tive; and, well, if you have to, why not ask those that are good at it to now and then use the com­pany accounts and spread some ideas. It worked: http://www.hpa-group.com/blog/14-human-capital/…

    • http://twitter.com/karla_porter Karla Porter

      Agreed. A rose is a rose by any other name. So is a water cooler. Addi­tion­ally, I would like to think I am not the only one using SM to reach out to my posse when I need a lit­tle assis­tance. Between LinkedIn, face­book and Twit­ter, I believe I have an incred­i­ble wealth of knowl­edge and resources at the click of my mouse. So, besides the ben­e­fits of a quick break now and then, the abil­ity to cull rep­utable infor­ma­tion instan­ta­neously is a huge ben­e­fit. The key here is to not be abu­sive of an employer’s time if you are surf­ing for per­sonal enter­tain­ment and not to post things that could (and prob­a­bly will if dis­cov­ered) career sui­cide notes in the eter­nal cyber­space. ~Thanks for stop­ping by and commenting!


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