(The following is the October 12 devotional from my Next Step Devotions book. Before reading it, I suggest you read Titus 3 and pay close attention to verses 8-11.) Paul ends his letter to Titus with instructions that, at first glance, seem unrelated to each other: “I want you to insist on these things so that those who have …
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Reflections On My Month Without Facebook and Twitter
Last month I wrote a blog post about my decision to walk away from Facebook and Twitter for a month. Now that the month of self-imposed exile is behind me, it's time to reflect on the experience. Not surprisingly, there is both good and bad that comes with ignoring channels of communication where one is …
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Dear Facebook and Twitter, I need a break from you.
Social media has been my profession since 2010. I manage a large, 70,000-person internal community for a company that's #56 on the Fortune 500 list. I served many years on its social media team and now perform those same functions from its Corporate Communications team. Through the years, I've had responsibilities that include the company's …
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What Moving to a New House Is Teaching Me About Community
I just published an article on LinkedIn reflecting on some lessons learned over the past 16 days of being in a new (to us) house, and how the experience compares to joining a new online community. I invite you to read it here.
Want an ESN playbook? Here is ours!
Playbooks - whether for sports teams or businesses - contain a variety of tactics and detail to help those using them perform at their best in accomplishing their objectives. Playbooks continue to gain in popularity and use by community managers for online communities. They are useful both for those managing external communities as well as internal …
