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Productivity vs. Distraction: Should you block social media at work?
Jul12
on July 12, 2014
at 5:00 pm
Ilya Pozin is a serial entrepreneur, writer, and investor. He is the founder of online video entertainment platform Pluto.TV, social greeting card company Open Me, and digital marketing agency Ciplex. Social media in the workplace is a hot button topic. As more employees are reprimanded or even fired over the things they choose to post on their social channels, employers are paying more attention to what their workers are tweeting and saying. At the same time, however, social media has skyrocketed in popularity, both in our overall culture and in the workplace. Social’s growing influence A recently released report by Proskaeur shows 90 percent…
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I’m impressed by the new Twitter analytics dashboard but I’m also a little concerned about what it might do to the way we tweet. Among various charts and graphs, the dashboard – currently available to verified, and some unverified, users – gives a presumably accurate count for how many people have seen your tweets. Meanwhile, an ‘Engagement’ figure for each tweet counts clickthroughs to profile pages, clicks on hashtags, retweets, replies, link clicks and the like. This is incredibly powerful data for social media marketers, but could we be spoiled by it as individual users? I’ve bookmarked my analytics page and…
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David Hassell is the CEO of 15Five. This post originally appeared on the 15Five blog. I used to imagine that I could peer into the silent void of a discussion with an employee and their thoughts and feelings would magically pop in my head. It never happened. We are in the employee feedback business. Through running 15Five by using our own product, I have found that regularly asking questions is an agile and lightweight way of keeping up with what’s really going on. Answers become conversations about what is most essential and meaningful for the team and the company, and those conversations transform into action. The…
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Justin Fowler is the co-founder of Audio Press – a way to consume news and content through audio. When Pandora Radio launched in January of 2000, it didn’t seem to catch on until that half of the decade. By using algorithms, Pandora was able to make a personalized radio station based on a song or artist of your choice. Several years later, the formula remains mostly the same, with more technology to create the listening experience possible. But along the way, a trend has resurfaced: human curation. Yes, much like the mix tapes and CDs of the past, playlists are back in the spotlight. With the launch of…
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