Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category

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 […]

OK. 30,000 followers. Now what?

Back in college I had this hilarious geology professor who told me that “tsunami” was Japanese for “Where in the hell did all that water come from?” That’s kind of […]

Dear social web, Let’s try keeping it real.

I hesitate to be drawn into the Klout firing line again but I have had so many requests from the {grow} community to comment on the Klout Meltdown this week […]

Social media sewage … and hope

I’ve started and trashed this article at least six times. As you will see, I have my reasons to be conflicted about publishing it. Yet I can’t deny this gnawing […]

The evolution of social media power and influence

I was recently interviewed about Klout and social influence by Vinícius Cherobino of Galileu, a scientific magazine in Brazil. I thought his questions were especially good and wanted to share this […]