Skip to content now.

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 ™.


Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,


  • 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.
  • Lyaeus
    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 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/...
  • 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) lead to career suicide in the form of messages to eternal cyberspace. ~Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
blog comments powered by Disqus