A week later and my experiment with paring down the number of people I follow has worked wonders (so far). I’m back to following people without as much anxiety and I can keep up without dedicating my every working moment to watching the stream of collective thought dumps. Talk much? My excessive tweeters...

It’s no secret I love twitter. It’s short, to the point, and often provides more valuable information than I can find anywhere else. But lately, my heart hasn’t been into it. In search of an answer to my recent woes, I stumbled onto the cause. The problem? Too many twitter friends... I know, you’re thinking...

Last Sunday, I spent six straight hours manning the Go Green Charleston booth at the first annual Charleston Green Fair . I really had a blast chatting it up with everyone that stopped by, and loved spreading the knowledge with our "Is it Recyclable" tabletop game. It was an amazing event ...

Episode 16 of The Baudcast is all focused on environmental organizations. It sheds some light on how they are leveraging Web 2.0 and other technologies to move their mission forward. Blackbaud's Chad Norman has pulled together an all star cast that includes: Michael Sola ― Director of Information...

Tom Watson explores the societal impact of online social networks in his new book CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World (Wiley, November 2008) CauseWired is the first book focused on making sense of social media in the nonprofit world. Watson not only gets it — but he also explains...

Gerry McGovern is a web content management guru. He's a very popular author and speaker on the subject. I had the good fortune of meeting Gerry a few years ago at a CASE conference in the UK. Every week, since 1996, Gerry has published an e-newsletter called "New Thinking" that explores...

The latest episode of The Baudcast covers a lot of topics and is well worth a listen. Episode 14 is nearly 40 minutes long and a lot of the discussion is around the value of social networking and how nonprofits can begin to leverage it. The panel discussion includes Chad Norman (Internet Marketing Manager...

We had a couple great comments from Joe Meehan and Ayesha Dawson on Work / Life Balance in Social Networking . Joe gave some great examples on how he separates business and personal. Ayesha shared a great link about a couple articles on work/life balance of Facebook . NY Times Article – The Media Equation...

With all the buzz around social networking in BBNC 5.5, I’m very excited about the possibilities. But are you still wondering what Facebook is all about? First I’ll give you a background on my experiences with Facebook and then some recommendations on how to join the Facebook culture. After all, it may...

In my previous post on the work / life balance I talked more about the time management and which tool is best for personal or professional use but I didn't talk much about setting boundaries. It's not enough nowadays just to trust your colleagues or employees to do the right thing and make good...