Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category

Six ideas to win executive sponsorship for your social media effort

You will not have success with your social media effort without executive sponsorship. Here are six ideas to get the boss on board.

Straight Talk on Social Media Gurus

Specifically, I think you are learning the wrong lessons from social media luminaries. Here are the warning signs!

Social media, our voice, and the power to destroy

The social web is a place of stunning beauty and terrible darkness. This is a story of the Internet’s ability to destroy.

Have you become a STOP SOPA lemming?

SOPA is a dangerous bill, but the online behaviors surrounding the bill might be of even greater concern.

Online Games Teach Kids Valuable Work Skills

By Neicole Crepeau, Contibuting {grow} Columunist Yes, you heard me right. For all the complaining that our children are too plugged in and too obsessed with online games, I […]

3 Developments that are Sabotaging the Social Media Movement

The social media scene has become a petty space filled with ugliness and self-promotion. What’s happened, and what can be done to reverse the trend?

5 ways corporate culture determines social media success

What is keeping you from succeeding with your social media strategy? Is it resources? Time? Vision? More than likely it is your corporate culture! This article explains why.

Social media pioneer says technology will transform education

How can technology and social media platforms transform how children interact and learn? You might be surprised by what LinkedIn’s founder has to say.

Social influence and social media activism

I want to call-out this villainous company who is distiliing our personal information and peddling it to companies as “influence” without our permission. This is what they are doing: Taking our social […]