PIASA – Southwestern school officials say misinformation “was rampant” in social media during the lockdown at Southwestern High School/Middle School earlier this month.
Superintendent Brad Skertich told the School Board Tuesday that he is sending out a press release urging people to make sure they have accurate information when posting stories. A note was found on Dec. 6 at the Middle School and the personnel followed the protocol established by policy. Police and K-9 units were called and the school was searched. Contrary to reports no devices were found.
“The following Monday the lockdown was extended to include the whole district until Dec. 10,” Skertich told the board. “Whenever we go into a lockdown setting, law enforcement is involved to make sure we are doing everything right. That’s not like it was reported on social media.”
“It was in the paper. It’s bad enough on social media, but they didn’t need to make it worse,” Board Member Steve Reed said.
“Steps have been taken to correct this problem in the future,” Skertich responded. Skertich said he will send out a press release. “We’ll move on from this. We are here to educate kids. Safety will always be our number one protocol.”
Skertich said Wednesday the district issued statements and information during the lockdown, but the misinformation from social media was confusing. He urged people to use accurate information in their posts.
“The district released information but social media was rampant with misinformation,” said Skertich. Apparently those responsible have been located. Skertich would only say. “The situation has been resolved.”
In other action Tuesday the school board adopted the 2013 tax levy payable in 2014. The total levy based on an estimated EAV of $126,642,566 is $5,728,362 including the $1,062,520 bond and interest levy. The levy, exclusive of bonds, is $4,665,842 with a tax rate of $3.68. The levy is $136,811 higher than last year’s extensions or 2.45 percent higher. The owner of a $102,500 home will see school taxes go up by $36 a year if the EAV jumps 2.25 percent.
The board adopted a resolution to dispose of two unused tractors. The equipment will be used as a trade-in on a four wheel drive tractor with a bucket from Hargrave in Jerseyville for $13,000.
The board voted to seek bids for three summer projects but two of the projects depend on receiving a matching Energy Efficiency Grant. Bids are being secured to replace portions of the roof at the high school. If the district receives the grant the work will be completed over the summer. The senior corridor at the high school will also be remodeled in the energy grant application is successful. That work includes new lockers, ceiling tiles and doors but the board will not do the project if the roof over the hall is still leaking. A third project, replacement of tiles in the Middle School corridor and in the high school cafeteria received a grant last spring to offset the cost so that work will proceed if the bid is acceptable.
The district has not found a qualified candidate to replace the CTE teacher at the high school but it is asking the State Board of Education to approve a provisional license for a candidate. The vocational tech teacher requires special certification that based in part on hours worked in the professional world and on receiving a tech education certificate.
Over 90 per cent of employers say they check the social media profiles of candidates they are interviewing.
With LinkedIn being the social network most commonly used for professional purposes, it is vital that you are getting the most out of your profile if you are on the lookout for a new role.
Here are some key areas to consider for using your LinkedIn profile to your advantage:
Make yourself easy to find
Check that your profile is not set to private. Your LinkedIn profile should only say good things about you, so it is a good idea to make sure your profile is fully visible at all times.
Change your full settings so that your profile can be viewed by anyone who wants to see it – this way employers and recruiters will be able to find you easily.
Use a professional profile picture
LinkedIn statistics show that having a profile photo makes your profile 7 times more likely to be viewed in search results.
Choose a profile picture that shows you in a professional light Avoid using photographs from social events or holidays as this may be deemed unprofessional & give a potential employer a negative first impression.
Make your profile searchable
To increase your chances of appearing in LinkedIn search results, you should try to create a profile that is content rich.
This means completing all sections and including a full summary that gives an overview of your professional abilities. It is advised to populate your profile with accurate ‘keywords’ relating to your experience and skills.
Try to think about the kind of words that you want your profile to be searchable by – these may relate to your previous or current role, or the role that you are looking to secure.
Be positive
As with writing your CV you should always use positive language and try to represent all of your skills and professional experience to date. Focus on your achievements and the skills you have that are most relevant to the kind of role you are looking for.
Potential employers often look for LinkedIn profiles that mirror the CV’s of candidates they are interviewing. If there is something on your CV that is not on your profile or vice versa, an employer may start to wonder why.
Utilise LinkedIn Recommendations
Recommendations are essentially references or testimonials from your connections. These are a great way of backing up the highlights on your profile.
Recommending and endorsing contacts in your network is a good way to encourage them to reciprocate and to do the same for you.
Consider who in your network might be well placed to give you a recommendation; a former manager, a colleague, a client or a supplier.
The recommendations of your fellow professionals can be integral in telling an employer that all of the information on your profile is true and correct.
Review your profile
It is always wise to regularly review the content on your profile to keep it up to date with all of your skills and experience; if you haven’t updated your profile in the last year then the chances are you will have gained new experience that should be included in your profile.
LinkedIn profiles are ultimately a great selling tool; they can be instrumental in networking with contacts or potential employers; while job searching it certainly does pay to have a profile that is 100 per cent professional.
If you are starting your job hunt and do not have a LinkedIn profile, or have one you have not updated in a while, then I would strongly recommend considering how to get the most out of LinkedIn as a first step.
See my previous blogs on job searching, psychometric testing, video interviews and phone interviews for more help on the next step towards successful employment.
Mark Braund is the Chief Executive Officer of the InterQuest Group, one of the UK’s leading recruitment agencies specialising in the IT and Analytics sectors.
"I'm not a real social media person. I'm not on Twitter," the Parks and Recreation star and Golden Globes cohost tells Paper Magazine for its holiday gift guide issue. She also notes that she finds people can be mean online – even when they don't intend to be.
"I try not to read too much online because I always get my feelings hurt, even if someone's flattering you," says Poehler.
"Like, somebody Tweeting, 'Call me crazy, but I think Amy Poehler's attractive.' And you're like, 'Okay? Thank you?' Or like someone writing, 'I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that I'd have sex with Amy Poehler.' "
The actress, now in her sixth season on her NBC sitcom, also claims no interest whatsoever in this year's hottest phenom.
"The amount of Instagram selfies seems crazy out-of-control," Poehler observes. "The idea of, 'This is my face and everyone needs to see it all the time,' is so far from the privacy that people used to seek. Now everyone acts the way '80s performance artists used to act. Everybody's Karen Finley. Everybody's like, 'This is my vagina! I'm gonna put s––– all over me and take pictures!' "
Poehler, 42, does admit that things have changed since she was growing up.
"You'd go to a party or a punk rock show and you'd have fun, and you'd bring a camera, and you'd take pictures, and those pictures would stay inside the camera," she says. "Pictures were an addition to the experience. Now the picture is the experience. If I'm hanging out with a friend, and they take a picture of me, it's like 'Ugh.' I mean, I hate looking at pictures of myself. It immediately takes me out of the experience."
As for the influence social media might have on sons Archie, 5, and Abel, 3 – whose father is her ex-husband, Will Arnett – Poehler says: "I'm terrified!"
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A new year is the perfect time to start fresh, revamp and clean out. Social media managers have probably read a ton of articles on what their team is doing wrong here or how to avoid traps there, but I want to provide some practical tips that will make a difference. Things you can control.
These habits will help businesses' social media efforts stay organized, relevant and engaged in 2014:
Create a content schedule and share it with your team. Plan posts in advance using free online tools.Pose one question just for fun each week.Ask yourself, "would I share this post if I saw it in MY newsfeed?"Make "what's in it for me?" clear to your followers when launching a new campaign, offer or "click this" post.Make it a priority to answer customer complaints and questions in under two hours. It's expected now. Be your own competition: Don't compare your performance to other brands.Try new and different content every week -- don't get stuck in a rut. Your fans will let you know if they don't like something. Believe me.Research one hour each week for the latest social media trends and data. You will be able to make better decisions moving forward knowing the big picture info.Be different. Don't do what everyone else is doing. Make a statement by zigging when everyone else is zagging.Learn best practices and make them your own. Some great examples here.Be responsive, say something. It doesn't have to be a question or a complaint for you to respond to a follower's comment. It's all part of being approachable and real.Target content to the demographic you have instead of the demographic you wish you had.Look at monthly analytics and learn from them. Form strategies and to-do's. Don't report em' and forget em'. Give back to followers. Do something nice just because. You wouldn't be where you are without them.What other social media habits would you add to this list?
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By Jane Wilcox Contributor Owner and president of Xposure PR Justin Sullivan / Getty Images As we celebrate the holiday season and spend time with colleagues, clients, family and friends we can liken our social networking to social media. In fact, the similarities between social media and social get-togethers are significant. Those who act likes fools at parties are probably the ones acting like fools on social media.
jQuery(".story-ad-read-more a").click(function() {jQuery("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: jQuery("#div-gpt-gnca-ads-6872-300250-2").offset().top + jQuery("#div-gpt-gnca-ads-6872-300250-2").height() }, "fast");return false;});For example, when you are at a cocktail party you certainly don’t want to be that guy who walks around introducing himself and saying “Like me, like me.” That’s just creepy. If you want people to like you, you act with courtesy, ask questions, say thoughtful things. You interact with people. You give them reasons to want to engage further with you and learn more about your story.
The same goes for social media.
Following are a few social media etiquette tips that I encourage you to remember as you are tweeting, Facebooking, Instagramming and enjoying your social media channel of choice this holiday season!
Social isn’t the place for the hard sell. All of your tweets and Facebook status updates shouldn’t be about selling and buying products and services. If you want to sell something buy an ad. It is OK to discuss offers from time to time, however your social conversations need to demonstrate a nuanced approach.Social isn’t about self-promotion. Few meaningful conversations are one sided. The guy at the cocktail party who gushes about his latest accomplishments is so boring. Again, same goes for social. Comment on what others are doing. Offer encouragement and share. People appreciate knowing others are listening.You don’t have to be everywhere. This reminds me of the “busy body” who is soooooo busy and they love to go on and on about how jam-packed their schedule is. How important they are. Again, boring. With social, less is more. If you try and be everywhere you will be limited. Focus on a few key areas and don’t water down your content.You don’t have to keep up with the big brands or celebrities. This is similar to trying to keep up with the Joneses. There will always be someone with more followers, more likes and more comments. If you develop a solid strategy and stick with your core values you will develop a solid following. One step at a time.So as we sip on eggnog and nibble on shortbread let’s remember that social media is named after socializing. It is about creating solid relationships, being honest and transparent, supportive and caring.
Happy Holidays.
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Jane Wilcox is the owner and president of Xposure PR, a communications firm that specializes in strategically integrating marketing, digital and public relations efforts.
(CNN) -- Remember the Celtic Tiger?
It was billed as a dream for Ireland; emigration slowed as tech giants like Apple, Dell and Intel set up manufacturing plants on the outskirts of Dublin.They were attracted by a young, well-educated English-speaking island in the heart of the euro zone. Other foreign firms set up call centers and back office operations, attracted by a corporate tax rate at 10% (now 12.5%).Dublin buzzed and property prices shot up. Banks were encouraged to loan money to the fast growing building sector and everyone was flipping houses as prices soared.Then it spread to the rest of the country as tax breaks led to housing estates being built in remote parts of the country, miles from services and jobs. These loans were then bundled up and used by the bankers and builders to invest in property overseas. Everyone seemed happy.We know what happened next. By November 2010 the government went cap-in-hand to Europe and the IMF for an 85 billion euro ($117 billion) bailout as the country took on all the debt of collapsing banks.var currExpandable="expand17";if(typeof CNN.expandableMap==='object'){CNN.expandableMap.push(currExpandable);}var mObj={};mObj.type='video';mObj.contentId='';mObj.network='cnnintl';mObj.source='business/2013/12/13/qmb-ireland-noonan-finance-minister.cnn';mObj.videoSource='CNN';mObj.videoSourceUrl='';mObj.lgImage="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/131213160649-qmb-ireland-noonan-finance-minister-00004327-story-body.jpg";mObj.lgImageX=300;mObj.lgImageY=169;mObj.origImageX="214";mObj.origImageY="120";mObj.contentType='video';CNN.expElements.expand17Store=mObj;var currExpandable="expand27";if(typeof CNN.expandableMap==='object'){CNN.expandableMap.push(currExpandable);}var mObj={};mObj.type='video';mObj.contentId='';mObj.network='cnnintl';mObj.source='world/2013/12/13/jb-ireland-all-is-not-rosy.cnn';mObj.videoSource='CNN';mObj.videoSourceUrl='';mObj.lgImage="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/131213101641-jb-ireland-all-is-not-rosy-00001130-story-body.jpg";mObj.lgImageX=300;mObj.lgImageY=169;mObj.origImageX="214";mObj.origImageY="120";mObj.contentType='video';CNN.expElements.expand27Store=mObj;var currExpandable="expand37";if(typeof CNN.expandableMap==='object'){CNN.expandableMap.push(currExpandable);}var mObj={};mObj.type='video';mObj.contentId='';mObj.network='cnnintl';mObj.source='world/2013/12/13/pkg-boulden-new-entrepreneur-ireland-economy.cnn';mObj.videoSource='CNN';mObj.videoSourceUrl='';mObj.lgImage="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/131212194341-pkg-boulden-new-entrepreneur-ireland-economy-00024320-story-body.jpg";mObj.lgImageX=300;mObj.lgImageY=169;mObj.origImageX="214";mObj.origImageY="120";mObj.contentType='video';CNN.expElements.expand37Store=mObj;var currExpandable="expand47";if(typeof CNN.expandableMap==='object'){CNN.expandableMap.push(currExpandable);}var mObj={};mObj.type='video';mObj.contentId='';mObj.network='cnnintl';mObj.source='world/2013/12/11/pkg-boulden-ireland-economy-farming.cnn';mObj.videoSource='CNN';mObj.videoSourceUrl='';mObj.lgImage="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/131211161857-pkg-boulden-ireland-economy-farming-00030915-story-body.jpg";mObj.lgImageX=300;mObj.lgImageY=169;mObj.origImageX="214";mObj.origImageY="120";mObj.contentType='video';CNN.expElements.expand47Store=mObj;With that came massive austerity; about 20% of the country's GDP has painfully been cut -- through budget cuts such as social welfare reductions, pension freezes, tax rises.Three years on. Where is Ireland now? The answer lies in Dublin. As the city led the bust, it's clear that the capital is leading the recovery on the back of social media.And I am promised it's different this time. Once empty buildings and warehouses in the Docklands are filling up with the next generation of young well-educated Irish graduates working at the next generation of American tech names -- Google, Facebook, Twitter, Trip Advisor, Ancestry.There are also Japanese, Chinese and German tech firms setting up here, attracted by the language skills they can't find at home. The cloud has come to Dublin and is enveloping the silicon docks.There certainly is an argument that some of these firms are attracted by more than a multilingual young employment pool. Even with a rock-bottom corporate tax rate, some of the firms use tax efficiencies to not even pay that on their European sales.But looking beyond that, having these firms growing in Dublin has led to a score of much smaller, indigenous start-ups riding on the back of the bigger boys who set the tone. And they can be right next store thanks to plenty of cheap office space -- space none could have affording five years ago. This simply did not happen when the likes of Dell was assembling PCs on the outskirts.Now, next to them are also the incubators, private equity firms, coffee shops and hip new hotels that all seem to be needed for this kind of area to thrive.So, where Greece and Spain have surely lost credibility in the eyes of the business community, Ireland has actually gained traction. It's benefited so much from the changes, that Forbes Magazine just named Ireland as the best place in the world to do business -- a first for Ireland.It may not sound ideal for employees, but Forbes pointed out that real wages fell 17% during the height of the crisis, and with unemployment near 13%, there is a large pool of well-educated young people looking for work. Add to that the controversial 12.5% corporate tax rate, and Forbes wrote "Ireland still maintains an extremely pro-business environment."What about the rest of the country? The recovery is far from reaching everywhere. Emigration from villages has soared as many small firms, built on the back of construction, collapsed. Others that may have focused on exports-led industries that suffered when Europe and the USA went through the economic crisis.Social welfare payments have been slashed, and contributions to charities have been slashed too, seen as a "perfect storm" for the poor as one charity told me.Of course the unemployment rate falls when people leave. Charities say the long-term unemployed aren't about to get these social media jobs, nor even the ancillary jobs in the bars and hotels. So, the government is using groups like "Connect Ireland" to tempt more companies to the areas outside Dublin and Cork.But many mortgages are under water, house prices are only now beginning to go higher, and the government will continue to slash budgets in 2014. Now it also has to attract investors to buy its bonds on the open market so the country can start to pay back that 85B euro loan. It has to achieve all this without a healthy bank sector and with unemployment still in double digits.Look around Dublin and you can see the change -- building cranes are popping up, shops and pubs are buzzing and traffic jams are back. It's unlikely to spread to the rest of the country anytime soon, if ever, and it's unlikely to ever be labeled the "Celtic Tiger" again.Shall we call it the Celtic Cloud?/* push in config for this share instance */cnn_shareconfig.push({"id" : "cnn_sharebar2","url" : "http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/13/business/ireland-recovery-boulden/index.html","title" : "Ireland: Is social media turning former Celtic tiger into Celtic cloud?"});
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There is no silver bullet when it comes to selling. The same holds true of the new social buzzword of the month "social selling." Like your personality, your social business strategy is unique to you. There are some best practices and techniques that will share the same characteristics across your target market.
The easiest way to describe social selling is comparing it to a knife instead of a sword; which means it is death by a thousand cuts instead of one large blow; a soft sell. Following are a few tips that will help infuse social media into your sales cycle and help your 2014-marketing plan.
Understand your core principles as a salesperson of prospecting and preparation. The first contact and getting a prospect to attend a professional event or a webinar is a must before entering social media to your mix. The key to becoming a successful social seller is knowing how to incorporate social media at each step of your current sales process. This information determines how social media can make each part of that strategy more effective. Putting a creative and special touch on the sales cycle often reaps more rewards over traditional formulaic strategies.
Making social connections with decision makers before you call increases the probability of your call being successful because you'll have more information about your prospect. Following a sales prospect's Twitter account or checking your prospect's LinkedIn status arms you with the knowledge and confidence to make a great first impression. Understanding your prospect is the most important sales tip you can get. Like G.I. Joe said, "Knowing is half the battle."
Eric Wilson is the director of social media at NEREJ, Norwell, Mass.
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Traditional dancers sing and dance at the Kasarani stadium in Nairobi during Kenya's celebrations marking 50 years of independence from British colonial rule. Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty ImagesKenya is currently celebrating 50 years of independence. While this is significant year politically, it is also arguably the most important year for Kenyans in terms of the way social media has influenced and enabled their political engagement.
The growth in internet penetration in Kenya over the five past years, has been so rapid it's been branded 'silicon savannah'. In the social media stakes, Kenyans are second only to South Africans in Africa for the quantity of tweets they put out.
The hate speech that had been spoken on Kenya's streets and led to post-election violence in 2007 and 2008, by 2013 had migrated online, with the 18 million-strong internet population congregating in Facebook groups, behind Twitter avatars, and online at blogs and forums. The 2013 general election isn't just remembered for the televised debates (a first in Kenya) but also by Four-square check-ins, tweets and images from all over the country. And when president Kenyatta's win was upheld in the Supreme Court, Twitter discussionsv acted as the citizen's gallery outside the courtroom.
In 2012, Boniface Mwangi and a number of graffiti artists made provocative street art exhibits that caricatured Kenyan members of parliament, branding them as vultures and making headlines around the world. The nation took notice but didn't act or appear to be as moved as perhaps the activist may have envisioned. In June 2013, Boniface rallied Kenyans online – on Twitter, Facebook – to take to the streets in a protest against legislators who were determined to give themselves a hefty pay rise. #OccupyParliament was born.
The result saw an unprecedented number of the Kenyan "digerati" and middle class protest and peacefully express their position to lawmakers. Standing in place for Kenyans from all backgrounds they were creative in their slogans and props (including the most controversially, the use of pigs). It is undeniable that the #OccupyParliament demonstrations have heralded a new age of activism.
This year also saw tragedy in the form of the Westgate Mall attack. The Al-Qaeda linked groupm, Al Shabaab, used Twitter in a way that in today's digital age, the terrorists are as connected – and prepared to use that connectivity – as their victims. Kenyans retweeting and responding to the militant group didn't realise they were playing into their hands by amplifying their message when traditional media wouldn't.
Kenya's traditional media came under fire, again on social media, for its ethics when portraying the crisis. A front cover of the Daily Nation sparked uproar and the newspaper's managing editor lost his job as a result..
But the overwhelming power of social media has been in its ability to unify Kenyans and spread a message of solidarity following the Westgate attack. The hashtag #WeAreOne went on to feature in political speeches telling the Kenyan-Somali community that unity would prevail.
When the embers had cooled, Kenyans took once again to Twitter to question how well the security services had responded in the crisis. Known as "the Westgate Questions" concerned citizens crowdsourced questions they felt were still unanswered by mainstream media and the government. The 85 questions posted in that document are a great guage for what Kenyans are thinking and feeling, and social media facilitated their curation.
But even as #KenyaAt50 continues to attract hundreds of tweets, this one from chief justice Willy Mutunga stands out: "Seeing this great expression of patriotism and nationhood I agonize over the reality that we are not yet a nation!" On Jamhuri Day social media can act as an echo box, amplifying a few voices or key messages but Dr Mutunga's tweet alludes to the fact that the whole truth isn't always conveyed in tweets.
As Kenyans celebrates, on and offline, there is no mention of the myriad of issues looming heavy on our hearts, from the rising tax hikes on the "basket of goods" that the common citizen relies on, to justice for the victims of post election violence. In this climate we cannot ignore that some members of parliament are determined to muzzle the media and civil society.
Kenya is an increasingly connected country and after the events of 2013, it is evident that how politicians engage with citizens and how civil society mobilises those same citizens won't be the same again. On a weekend that sees the country celebrate 50 years of independence it is certain that despite all things – good and bad – that have taken place in 2013, the next 50 years will be transformed by personal technology, concerned citizens and the media.
Mark W Kaigwa is a social media consultant. He tweets @MKaigwa
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"He never runs away either he never runs away that was the first time ever," said Moore.
But Ziggy may be even more thankful.
"His back leg is limped really bad," said Moore. "Now he has scratches and stuff all over him pretty beat up."
"It's been such cold weather, all the ice and I wouldn't think the dog could even survive in weather like that, it's unbelievable," said Moore's aunt Anita Highland. "So your worst thought is that he's probably not surviving."
Especially since Ziggy was about 7 miles away from his Kettering address,
"He was just so scared. He ran and ran. Everyone who saw him says he just kept moving and when you try to catch him he just ran faster so I was really worried about him. I thought it's awfully cold outside he's got no hair coat to speak of," said Gail Pretzinger who found Ziggy.
Ziggy's family put ads online for the dog they've had 6 years and so did Pretzinger.
"In the Eden Meadows area of Bellbrook, there is a brown adult boxer with black muzzle running loose," Pretzinger wrote on Facebook.
Finally, after searching 2 weeks, Ziggy's family saw Pretzinger's post on the Dayton Ohio and surrounding area lost and found pets Facebook page.
And mother nature also played her part in helping to bring Ziggy home. While he was away, we got a lot of snow and fresh snow means fresh dog tracks.
"There were footprints and my nephew and niece went over there and they were looking around and they spotted him," said Highland.
"He was really excited and confused," said Moore. "He was more confused than excited. I don't think he knows how he got there."
"At some point you wonder if someone picked him up and drop him off, but what's weird is my sister lives there and that's when he used to live. And you know how they say dogs want to find her way home? Maybe he was trying to find his way home," said Highland.
And we also have a section on our website for lost and found pets. Just click on community features.
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I moved to LA for many reasons, one of them being that I wanted to have a more enriched and fulfilling life. My excuse for being addicted to television and internet in Toronto was because of the weather. That during the summer my "addiction" was limited because I could actually go outside and enjoy myself. Fast-forward a year and here I am with hours upon hours a day on various social media platforms and in front of the soul sucking television.
I started to get serious anxiety, knowing that my life's precious moments are being wasted but justifying that it's dark out, there is nothing much to do, saving money, etc. My husband would come home from work and my nose would be in my computer working or stuck to the television getting caught up on the latest drama.
We barely spoke to each other during the week, which was justified by many excuses on both our ends but none of them really being valid. Still in denial I started finding myself feeling more stressed, and even though I was working all day on the computer, communicating with clients, art directing, writing, I was constantly being pulled into the vortex of my Facebook news feed and would often find myself mind numbingly scrolling through posts after posts.
During which, if I were actually paying attention, my emotions would fluctuate within seconds based on what I was looking at. For instance my thoughts would go something like this:
Oh that's a new article on the 80 millionth way I can use coconut oil, oh I shouldn't be eating that meat now it's contaminated, oh no our water is being polluted by radiation!, oh wow I am a spiritual strong being and can't forget that I AM AMAZING! (Insert inspirational quotes for about five status updates) look at the success of those people I wonder what they are doing to get to where they are.
And on and on and on... so I would go from feeling guilty about the food I was eating, then paranoid about the state the world was in, then uplifted by random quotes, then frustrated that I'm not hustling enough, and repeat. Exhausting to go through in a matter of less than 5 minutes!
I didn't realize at the time but I started feeling depressed, I felt like it was so difficult to focus on anything and that I actually had ADD. This went on for a long time and honestly I can't even remember when it started, probably the minute I opened up my Facebook account. Who knows, but I was realizing that the life I thought I was going to have in LA was beginning to mirror the misery I was feeling in Toronto.
It wasn't until I was speaking to one of my best friends Nikki Jumper did I realize what the root to my emotions of defeat and sadness were. We started talking about our careers, what we wanted to do in life, what we were feeling and it didn't take us long to realize that we were both on the same page. How was it that two, talented, intelligent and ambitious women were both feeling stuck, frustrated and uninspired. It finally clicked when I blurted out "You know what, Nikki, I hate Facebook sometimes" and went on a rant about how it has taken over my life and that even though a lot of my work is based on social media communication, there is no reason that I need to be sucked into that vortex when it clearly is not serving me.
"Here we are trying to connect to everyone in the world through social media and yet all we are doing is disconnecting from the people we are with, from ourselves, from the moment, it's complete hypocrisy!" And then the light bulb went off -- insert aha moment.
"Nikki, let's you and I commit to something here and see what happens" -- she was intrigued as always to new and exciting ideas (I love her) let's limit our usage of social media, television and emails. I'm going to write out a schedule as to when I'm allowed to go online and stick to that schedule for two weeks! Then let's document all the stuff we do when we aren't online, when we would have been trolling through our various social network feeds hypnotized by empty words. She was in and needless to say the second we got off the phone I started to schedule.
Now I want to be clear, my intent is not to completely obliterate social media, the goal is to be selective and allow myself short windows throughout the day to participate with the technological world. There is no way I can cut out social media from my life because it is a major part of my career as a marketer. I'm not rebelling, I'm simply taking things in moderation and removing the unnecessary chatter.
The first thing I am committing to is that for the first hour of the morning I am not touching my phone. It is BRUTAL that I wake up every day, say a little prayer thanking the Universe that I'm alive and immediately reach for my phone and go through my emails, Facebook, Instagram what have you, before I even brush my teeth!
Immediately stress levels are elevated from the second I wake up, what an awful way to greet the day. So that was step one, no communication through technology until I've been out of bed for one hour at least. Step two; limit my social media time to three intervals for 30 minutes each. This means if I have any client work I can use that time to communicate and pre-schedule (I also have a team of people working on my client social media stuff so they are not being neglected by any means), I can keep my newsfeed open and talk to people and network during those times. I have set my alarm to go off as to when these social media times begin and then when it's time to shut it down. I have given myself a morning, afternoon and evening window. (Oh and if for any reason I miss that window, it's gone for the day, I cannot make it up during another time)
As a result I have turned off all notifications from my phone. This was the WORST constantly being bombarded with updates on news-feeds and comments and what have you. I felt like I couldn't let go and just get a moment's peace. I have also allowed myself a maximum of 2 hours of TV every day. In addition to that all emails are turned off at 7:30 p.m., there is no world where I want to live that I am at the beck and call of my "job" even if it is my own business. I have created the freedom of being an entrepreneur and I plan on actually using that to be free and not a slave to my own business. (Been there done that and it sucks hard.) The other thing is that I am turning off my phone after 10 p.m. No communication for 1-2 hours before I go to sleep. I am committed to creating a ritual of down time for me to start relaxing and winding down and getting ready to clear my head and be prepared for a new day of clarity.
I'm on day two of this journey and so far I have seen amazing transformation. Yesterday my husband and I spent the whole day off social media (I forgot to mention that Saturday is a complete disconnect day) what I discovered was that using our time to talk and connect and dream was incredible. We spent the entire day and night together and we had so much fun and we didn't need the distraction of television, or movies or internet to fill up the space and time. (What do you know I actually have a great relationship just being with my husband enjoying our time together)
My grandparents, God rest their souls, used to eat dinner at the dinner table (not in front of the TV) and then sit in the living room and chat for a few hours before they retired to the bedroom and only then would they watch TV and fall asleep. This was after 63 years of marriage. It's only been two for us, so we have a long ways to go, but I want to establish a pattern that we can build off of and not bad habits that create major separation for us to repair later down the road.
On day two as I see text messages coming in from Nikki as to how productive she's already been, I have managed to write three pages of this inspired post or series of posts whatever it is going to be. What I would have normally done was sit on Facebook and scroll through feeds and really drove myself nuts again. My alarm went off to tell me I can get on social media this morning, but I ignored it. (Granted, I did go on for like five minutes about half an hour ago, but I'm still keeping disciplined.)
I know it's going to take time but I'm going to do my best without judgment. The irony in all this is that I told Nikki as soon as I wrote out this schedule that I felt like such a fool to even have to do this -- it seems so idiotic that this is what my reality has come to. What did we do without social media? Well we sat on the phone for hours, I remember that.
I will keep writing about the changes I experience, not for anyone else but for myself, to see how I can use my time to be more creative, inspired, and productive. I'm looking forward to seeing the outcome of this challenge and I already feel a HUGE relief just knowing that I have made this commitment so far.
If you want to join me on this journey, I welcome it! We can share our experiences together (possibly on social media but only in our allotted time frames). It's different for everyone, and I have no judgment for people who just love to be online all the time, it's just not for me. So when the alarm bells are ringing, it's time to take action.
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SubscribeThe Kansas Board of Regents blew it.
That’s the simplest way to sum up the board’s arbitrary and wrongheaded attempt to create a policy regarding employees’ use of social media at the state’s six universities.
The policy is in response to the uproar created by a University of Kansas professor’s inappropriate tweet and appears to be a ham-handed attempt to mollify conservatives in the state Legislature.
It was devised with no input from faculty members, and it shows. In giving university leaders the authority to discipline or terminate even tenured professors for vague, subjective offenses, the regents have set up a chilling environment that runs contrary to the ideal of academic freedom.
Few will object to the new policy’s prohibitions against using social media to incite violence or disclose confidential student information.
But the policy also says employees cannot post material on the Internet that “is contrary to the best interest of the university.” Who decides that? Given the thin-skinned nature of some Kansas politicians, a blog post critical of the state Legislature may not reflect the best interest of the university. But professors should absolutely be protected for speaking out.
Under the policy, an employee could also get in trouble if a post imperils working relationships at the university or interferes with a school’s regular operations. But most universities are seething hotbeds of rivalries and intrigue. It needn’t take much to temporarily imperil working relationships. The prohibition against interfering with a school’s operations sets up the possibility that an employee could be fired if a social media post creates an unintended consequence.
After its unveiling on Wednesday, the policy was quickly denounced by faculty groups nationwide, including the American Association of University Professors, which said it raised “significant questions about academic freedom.”
By Thursday, the regents appeared to be backpedaling. A spokeswoman said the policy was intended as “a guidance document” for universities, not a mandate.
But that’s not good enough. Kansas needs great universities that do not suppress speech, ideas or blog posts. The Board of Regents should get this confusing, stifling policy off of its books.
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Cellphones may not only be distracting while in cars, a recent incident in Australia suggests. Photo by Flickr user Highways Agency
A tourist walking along St. Kilda pier in Victoria, Australia learned Thursday that browsing social media on one's phone while walking near water may not be the best idea.
Victoria, Australia water police reported that a woman distracted by her cellphone walked off the structure into the cold water of a nearby bay. Police were notified and rescued her, after which she was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
"With Facebook, or social media in general as far as we're concerned, if you're anywhere near the water just pay attention," Senior Constable Dean Kelly of the Victoria state water police said. "Especially if you can't swim."
Specialized apologized to a shop owner and a clothing manufacturer after igniting a PR firestorm this week. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com So massive was the social media furor over Specialized’s legal aggression toward a small Canadian bike shop over a trademark infringement last weekend that the California-based company flew its founder and CEO, Mike Sinyard, to Calgary to apologize to the shop’s owner, Daniel Richter, in person.
That was Wednesday, more than four days after the story initially broke in the Calgary Herald. Those four days saw near complete radio silence from the brand, save for a single Tweet promising reconciliation Tuesday night. Anger grew steadily, with cycling enthusiasts plastering Facebook and Twitter with indignation at both the perceived attack on a small business owner and on the word “Roubaix” itself, which many felt should never have been coopted by a commercial entity. The silence seemed to compound the problem — how hard is it, after all, to issue a simple apology?
The slow response was a result of both time spent game planning by the brand’s public relations team and in consultation with the company’s own lawyers. When the time came to put on a public face, Specialized took full advantage of its photo-op moment, working behind the scenes with Richter to address his concerns before posting a video of the Specialized founder and the shop owner happily chatting side by side.
The PR move nearly unraveled less than 12 hours later. For a few brief hours Thursday morning, it seemed that Specialized had not, in fact, learned anything, as yet another report of its legal wrangling against a small brand popped up on Facebook. This time the controversy centered on Epix Gear, a custom clothing manufacturer focused on high-performance cycling and triathlon apparel.
In an email to VeloNews midday Thursday, Epix founder Jarek Barc stated that Specialized “demand(s) that we not only abandon our trademark application, but also cease using the Epix logos altogether,” based on Specialized’s ownership of the Epic trademark.
Specialized sent a cease and desist letter to Epix on December 4, prior to the Café Roubaix incident, stating that the apparel company behind Epix, JC Asia Ltd., had filed a trademark for the Epix logo that was “nearly identical to Specialized’s well-known Epic mark,” and that the Epix mark was “likely to cause confusion, mistake, and deception as to whether JC’s products are associated, sponsored, licensed, or otherwise approved by Specialized and constitutes trademark infringement and unfair competition.”
Specialized sought to have the Epix mark thrown out entirely. The company filed a formal protest with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office just before the Café Roubaix fiasco — a protest that one intellectual property lawyer contacted by VeloNews, Jeffrey DiTolla, said would likely be successful.
Specialized acted more quickly to stop a second social media uproar, releasing a statement from Sinyard himself. It was posted on the Specialized’s Facebook page Thursday evening and confirmed the company’s apologetic sentiment, as Sinyard took personal responsibility for both his company’s actions and the overarching policy that led to them.
“I would like to apologize and let everyone know I realize I handled this situation wrong from the start and I’m very sorry for that,” Sinyard said.
Sinyard pointed to an ongoing problem with counterfeit products as the source of Specialized’s aggressive legal stance. “Due to this we have recently gone after IP and trademark issues more aggressively in the interest of protecting the safety of riders and the livelihood of our dealers and their hard-working employees,” Sinyard said. That tactic will be evaluated and, “As a result we’re going to take a much closer look at all pending and future intellectual property and trademark issues, making sure to only pursue those that present a clear and obvious danger.”
Sinyard utilized his Facebook post to put an end to the Epix legal action as well, stating that Specialized had retracted the cease and desist letter sent to Epix. Epix was not initially aware of the change in stance, as a phone conversation earlier on Thursday had ended poorly between the two parties; Barc was aware that the letter would be withdrawn, but was under the impression that Specialized would continue to protest its Epix trademark.
Specialized’s public relations team confirmed to VeloNews that there would be “no more legal action, period,” on the Epix matter.
With that statement, the issue seems to have come full circle. Specialized has, at least outwardly, promised to relax the legal policies that put it in hot water in the first place; Café Roubaix keeps its name on both the sign outside and on its wheels, which were the primary source of Specialized’s legal interest. Epix, too will keep its name, and its trademark. All thanks to a social media firestorm set off by a Canadian newspaper on a quiet Saturday morning.
The “Big Red S” has quite clearly been led to a valuable lesson: its position as an industry Goliath is no match for David with a Twitter sword.
FILED UNDER: Bikes and Tech TAGS: Mike Sinyard / specializedA period of what should have been deep reflection and remembrance became the Twitterisation of a South African icon, writes Eve Fairbanks.
The morning after Nelson Mandela died, around 10am, I went to his house in Houghton. I stayed for three hours, just hanging around, paying respects, getting a sense of what the mood was like.
A shrine of candles and flowers had begun to rise on a street corner. Some hundred bouquets were already there when I showed up; and hundreds more people arrived to lay down new flowers.
What surprised me, though, is that, save for one wizened old man dressed in a suit, hat and patent-leather shoes who left a carnation, not a single person who left flowers for Madiba did so without taking a selfie in front of the flowers. Young people, old people, everybody took grinning photos of themselves in front of the shrine.
It felt kind of weird, as though we were all tourists posing in front of the Big Hole, not mourners.
"I want video. I want Instagram. I want everything!" one woman instructed her iPhone-wielding husband as she bent backwards over the pile of flowers to get the right background.
The smiling selfie Barack Obama, David Cameron and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt snapped at Mandela's December 10 memorial at FNB Stadium unleashed a torrent of righteous indignation.
The New York Times tsk-tsked that he "did not allow himself an uninterrupted time of reverie" appropriate to the event; even less generously, the New York Post suggested he had gone "into sugar shock over a Danish pastry" and "lost … his dignity".
But have we behaved any differently?
Moulding experience
During Mandela's 10 days of mourning, my roommate and I couldn't get over how much social media was moulding our experience of the time after his death. There were the selfies at the Houghton house, but also the way the demands of Twitter, in particular, changed how we processed the news.
As others have pointed out, Mandela's death wasn't actually really "news", despite the big media houses' all-hands-on-deck contingency plans that engaged as many reporters as you would need to cover an Islamist coup overthrowing the United States government.
Mandela had been grievously ill for a long time. His life span, as Pallo Jordan put it, was already "much longer than normal".
His death was a date that was completely expected and thus an occasion more like, say, an anniversary of a great event, calling for deep and quiet reflection.
But Twitter's insatiable appetite for breaking news and, more broadly, a web news cycle that turns over incredibly rapidly and keeps editors desperately on the lookout for a juicy, click-worthy new headline didn't allow for this.
It forced us to treat Mandela's death like a breaking news event, like a coup.
All the little mini events that unfolded around it assumed an outsized importance: the booing of Jacob Zuma, the long lines to exit FNB Stadium after the memorial ("This is going to be a huge story for us this afternoon," I heard an anchor breathlessly announce on the radio), the repeated snubbing of Desmond Tutu and, of course, the many revelations about the "fake" interpreter.
He so captured our attention in part because he, much more than Mandela, about whom so much is already known, finally partially satisfied our hunger for OMG-worthy announcements.
I experienced this hunger on my Twitter feed.
Retweets
Over the course of the 10 days of mourning for Mandela, I tweeted various thoughts and links, but nothing got more retweets than "Mandela sign-language interpreter accused of murder".
The renowned psychologist of technology, Sherry Turkle, has written evocatively about the paradoxical way social media can actually bring about a sense of disengagement, enmeshed as we supposedly are in so many "networks".
The phone is a constant source of and, perhaps more damagingly, demander of new revelations – Instagram wants a photo, Twitter wants a tweet – and it constantly disrupts sustained experience.
Social media can "make it hard to settle into serious conversations with ourselves and with other people because, emotionally, we keep ourselves available to be taken away from everything", Turkle wrote recently in the New York Times.
"I talk to young people about etiquette when they go out to dinner, and they explain to me that when in a group of, say, seven, they make sure that at least three people are 'heads up' in the 'talking' conversation at any one time … In these settings, the most commonly heard phrase is 'Wait, what?' as one person and then another drops back into the conversation and tries to catch up. All of this has become the new normal."
Interestingly, one of another new normal is selfies at funerals, which became the subject of one of 2013’s most viral Tumblrs, selfiesatfunerals.tumblr.com.
Positive contributions
Of course, social media made some positive contributions to the journalism around Mandela's death.
In the Twitter conversations that unfolded during the funeral, all kinds of people were able to join the fray with reporters, widening the discussion.
But I heard again and again from an equally wide range of people that they felt strangely empty during the mourning period – flat, uninspired, unable to connect with what they had hoped would be deeper, more sustained emotions.
Some connected this with the heavily reported snafus such as the boring memorial speeches or the screw-up with the interpreter. But what if the core problem wasn’t the snafus but how ceaselessly we engaged with them?
I’m not trying to spit in anybody’s facebook, but you can spend all the time, resources, and tweet equity you want on a social media campaign but if your sales team isn’t on board, your efforts will be compromised and results will be social mediocre.
There has been a shift created by social media and the sales process greater than the valuation of Bitcoin or any stock. I have found that great salespeople share some common traits — desire to change is usually not one of them. Marketers love change; salespeople often loathe it and understandably so. Once you analayze the market, find a process, establish a routine, and identify pain points and value adds that works, you stick with it. New opportunities are great, so if it’s a new product or flavor of ice cream they can sell it all day. But if it’s a change to the menu, they’ll balk. Social media is more than a new flavor, and its more than the cherry on top; it’s a whole new course. And that’s not to everyone’s liking.
So before the social media campaigns devised by your marketing and advertising departments will take off, your salespeople need to “buy” in and that can be a very tough sale. They understand it’s a valuable tool, they are not sure of the hows and whys. I just watched a sales video that chastised sales prospects for not returning sales calls and emails. Really? Do sales organizations actually expect to lead sales efforts with outbound, unsolicited telephone calls as the primary lead generator without social media? I’m by no means saying that phone calls are unproductive or unnecessary. Quite the opposite in fact as the human touch is more important than ever in our digital world. But sales needs social media has set the table. It’s no longer a special de jour.
Acceptance from your sales team begins with their understanding on how it affects their bottomline. They don’t need to know how to Tweet but do need to understand the strategy that your social media team puts into place. They need to appreciate the benefits of thought leadership, the importance of establishing trust through ideas, and the benefit of breaking the cardinal rule by giving something for nothing. Engage then walk away is easier said then done.
What salespeople can agree upon is that customers buy the salesperson first and the product second. I remember when a great ad sales person I worked with was duped by unscrupulous vendor explained, “Salespeople need to believe in the product to sell it. So when it comes to other good sales people, we’re an easy mark.” In short, salespeople need to be the social media evangelists as well as participants.
What needs to be done is to update how business looks at sales and social media’s role. Part of the blame can go to upper management that still wants to put social media soley in the marketing bucket. Sales teams often get “exempt” from new tasks as not to distract them from the primary objective of closing sales. Smart companies learned long ago that the “Separation between Church and State” that existed between sales and marketing didn’t make for good business. Sales are your eyes and ears to the industry and there are no better people to know what people want and search for. Today, the more social media is integrated into the sales process, rather than lopped on top like a cherry, the greater the revenues will be.
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Google Voice Search vs. Siri: Which is Better? Story of Popular Social Media Web Site Twitter to be Told in a TV Movie Article Comments Rate this Story 0 0 Print Email Order Reprints Text Size By Rachelle Corpuz | December 20, 2013 1:30 PM EST A TV movie about the history of the popular social media Web site, Twitter, is in the works. Facebook has already done it on the big screen so people kind of expected that it won't be long until other social media platforms follow through.
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The new Twitter TVmovie will be based on the bestselling book titled "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal" written by New York Times journalist Nick Bilton, as revealed on Bilton's official Web site.
Kevin Beggs, who is the Chairman of Lionsgate TV Group, made the announcement on Dec. 18. Lionsgate will create a TV movie detailing how Twitter has emerged as one of the most popular means of communication through social media nowadays. Some of the TV series that Lionsgate has produced on TV in the past include Mad Men, Nurse Jackie, The Dead Zone, and Boss among several others. It has also popularised the movie adaptations of best-selling books such as Twilight and Hunger Games. Must Read
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Bilton will be tasked to write the screenplay and he will act as one of the producers too, alongside Allison Shearmur.
The journalist revealed his excitement about having his book being turned into a movie. "Hatching Twitter really speaks to a generation that has searched for friendship through technology," said Bilton. He is thrilled to see his book brought to life on the screen.
Producer Allison Shearmur stated that the upcoming Twitter movie will be a lot different from Facebook's "The Social Network." Shearmur said that "Hatching Twitter" will give the audience an idea about all kinds of struggles that the founders had to go through to make their business venture successful.
Some people thought that the book was greatly dramatised in several occasions. "Bilton prefers drama and embarrassing stories to strategic or technological details," said Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School, who recently reviewed Bilton's book.
People love drama so it is probably the reason why it is being adapted to a TV movie.
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