Soundtrack of Your Life

Since I am all about reuse, I bring to you content originally seen in a Facebook note…
Pick the “top twenty” songs for the “soundtrack of your life”!
You can write in NA for anything not applicable (e.g. #2 if you’re an only child or #10 if you’re single) or come up with an alternate category for [...]

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Social Networking at Work – Parameters

In a previous post, I talked about how I feel about social networking at work – that it’s a great opportunity for employees to be able to interact and converse with our customers and others in the industry. 
That said, there are some times where social networking activitiesjust aren’t cool.  What started this was when someone brought [...]

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Social Networking at Work

I had an interesting question from an employee yesterday.  She was commenting on someone’s Facebook status updating during a meeting, and asked what the rules were on that.  That is, did I permit employees to be doing social networking stuff, like FB, Twitter and blogging while at work, especially at the expense of other activities [...]

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Facebook and Fate

As I mentioned in a previous post, one of my Facebook rules is that I try to always accept friend requests from people who went to my high school.  I went to a very small private school in Westchester that isn’t in existence any more.  Friending classmates and participating in my school’s Facebook group gives me some sense of [...]

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Facebook: What are the rules?

Recently, I was at a party attended by a bunch of local parents.  One of them came up to me and after some small talk made a point of mentioning to me that Facebook was freaking him out.  It’s interesting that at parties like this I’m either talking soccer or social networking.  I guess my [...]

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Facebook: Here we go again

It’s been a little quiet around these parts.  Sure stuff is going on at work and at home, but we have a new social media crisis brewing for the IT Girl.
I’ve been banned from Facebook.
Again.
But this time, we’re not talking about Dummies Man.  We’re talking about me.  Ellen Gerstein.  Real live flesh and blood IT [...]

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Zuckerberg Keynote at SXSW – In case you were wondering, it was as bad as they’ve made it out to be

MediaBistrosummarizes the bloggers who have added to the conversation about Facebook founder’s Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote at SXSW.  Most reports talk about how awkward it was to be in the room as the interview went on.  And then some, dude. 
I’m  almost to the point of feeling sorry for Sarah Lacy, but not quite.  Her tone from [...]

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Dummies Man takes over Facebook

I’m a little late on this one, but I was thrilled earlier this week to see Facebook make “Dummies Man” available as a “free gift”.  This was accomplished to honor the publication of “Facebook For Dummies.”  Our wonderful authors Carolyn Abram and Leah Pearlman are Facebook employees and helped pull this off for us.  Thank [...]

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Scrabulous Not So Fabulous

The news was all over Twitterthis morning…it seems that Mattel/Hasbro has issued a take down order on the popular Facebook application Scrabulous due to what they call a trademark infringement. 
I must confess, I don’t play this game, but I know many (Emilie, Dani, etc) who are totally addicted to it.  Someone on Twitter pointed me to [...]

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Scobleizer banned from Facebook

First, they came for Dummies Man.
Then they came for Robert Scoble.
Who will speak out when they come for you?

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