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New and Exciting in PLoS this week
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:18:54 -0700
Just trying to catch up with the publicartions in various PLoS Journals this past week. Here are some interesting titles. ...What, In The Grand Scheme Of Things, Is Important?
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:05:44 -0700
There is a new meme of commentary out there now that I wrongly misstated the timeline of who threw the ...Happy July 4 from Izzy!
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:46:12 -0700
We call it Interdependence Day at our ...Happy Birthday, America!
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:08:00 -0700
...One interesting sentence
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:01:13 -0700
To borrow an idea from Tyler Cowen, here’s a really interesting sentence: After crunching the numbers, he calculates that ...5 great songs for July 4
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:58:46 -0700
Happy Independence Day! Here at Facing South, we have a July 4th tradition of posting two thought-provoking pieces -- Patriotism's ...Lindau Nobel - interview with Matthew Siebert
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:14:59 -0700
A brief interview with one of the young researchers attending the Lindau Nobel conference - Matthew Siebert of the University ...Guest Column: Celebrate 1776 AND Participate in Taking Back Liberties
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:55:42 -0700
The following is the July 4th message from NC Real ID, and was submitted to your blogger for posting: (Photos, ...The Ice’s Cat Gene
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:27:22 -0700
The Ice’s Cat Gene from Lisa Creech Bledsoe on Vimeo. This is one of our family’s favorite stories about The Ice. ...Confused?
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:52:07 -0700
Me too.The governor of South Carolina says quitting would be the easy way out.The governor of Alaska says finishing her ...Why Palin quit (including a Freeper battle cry)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:00:00 -0700
Everyone out there has a theory -- the latest is that Sarah Palin stepped aside as governor of Alaska because she's about ...Long Run Blahs
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:11:00 -0700
This morning I did a long run/walk with the Galloway group at Shelley Lake. The scheduled run was 10 miles, ...Oracoke Ferry Terminal Explosion
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:52:00 -0700
WRAL has posted the first reader photos of this morning's fatal explosion of a fireworks truck at the ferry terminal ...Clock Tutorial #3c - Darwin On Time
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:31:03 -0700
This post is a modification from two papers written for two different classes in History of Science, back in 1995 ...Happy Fourth of July!
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:00:00 -0700
Happy Fourth of July, everyone!Like most of you, I am taking the day off to celebrate with some patriotic festivities.If ...Ken Hutcherson: Obama has no 'black experience'
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:00:00 -0700
Hutcherson photo art via Mike Tidmus. Oh man, the homo-hating pastor of Antioch Bible Church in Washington state, Ken Hutcherson, ...Finding balance as a social media parent
Jeff Tippett a social media strategist, a parent of three kids and an all around cool guy wrote an interesting article on the Social Media mom blog about how he spends his time using social media. Two big points I got from the post is evaluating the ROI in life and the ability to use social media [...]
Wayne Sutton
Activity in social media may seem like another add on to a life that’s already marginalized. For me, however, it’s the way I now live my life. And it’s creating a life of value to me. What about you?
2 Responses to “Finding balance as a social media parent”
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John Martin
August 11th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
I learned a critical thing about human beings in a Landmark forum I took years ago: No one keeps doing anything they’re not getting something out of.
Jeff has done a great job articulating what he’s getting out of tweeting.
This simple notion, that you don’t keep doing something unless you’re getting something out of it is easy to understand in some cases, such as this one, but in applying it to other cases, for example, “Why do I keep getting in abusive relationships?” it becomes a very interesting query. Sometimes the answer is as frightening as, “I keep getting in them because it gives me the right to complain,” or “I feel loved when people try and help me when I’m in such relationships.”
So the point of that little digression is to say that the thing someone is getting out of continuing to do something might not be at all rational or healthy, but nonetheless, that is what they’re getting out of it. And they may have no inkling of what they’re getting out of something without some deep self-reflection, and when/if they ever find out what it is, they may be in total denial or disbelief over what that thing is.
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Thomas Jackson
October 13th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Bringing or finding balance in the world of Social Media and Networking is front and center in the U.S. Coast Guard today. The Commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Thad Allen is in the process of the largest modernization effort in Coast Guard history.
He’s nearly alone in senior leadership on this quest as his senior officers run for cover. The Admiral started his own blog, using blogger as the platform. It took off with great head speed for the first week, and then died off.
We speculate that he lost steam because he didn’t understand the technology his was using and how most in the world use social media. Right from the start there were complaints about his moderation of comments. It appeared (and appearance is everything) that only comments of praise for him and his efforts were published. Anything controversial was not.
To fill that gap we launched at the request of readers a commercial version of the Coast Guards official site, which we call http://www.iCommandant.com. On the commercial site, moderation is turned off, and free and open speech is turned on.