Category: Social Media
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Don’t shoot the legal messenger!
Only one day after I resigned from multiple Facebook tax groups because people were increasingly taking offense to my style of blunt reference to tax law, I am getting the same treatment in two other non-tax Facebook groups. Two people hurled names and insults when I referred to state fisheries law and suggested caution when…
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Lessons learned (again)
I feel foolish about violating some of my own business practices and getting burned this week. So I took a minute to write out and publish personal resolutions. RESOLVED:I will not publish content or collect reviews on sites controlled by large tech companies like FaceBook, Twitter, and Google. I will use their sites only to…
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Change to social media policies of affiliated organizations
Larger organizations have social media policies and in the past I’ve been active in promoting the concept of social media policies for small organizations. I’ve successfully used social media policies to manage the reputation and relationships of smaller organizations where I serve as director or communications manager. Of course policies need to be updated from…
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Promotion for “My 2 Cents” Show
This is the script to the promotion of My 2 Cents Show that will launch soon on RVN Television. If you are willing to offer a short telephone interview to assist in the development of a show concept, I would very much appreciate that. We will discuss having you as a guest on a future…
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Serious impact of unacceptable public behavior violations
I’ve been involved in helping to develop the acceptable public behavior policies for several client organizations as a regular part of my ESG services to clients. I generally consider my activism in the topic to be a business strength. Until now, the net impact of these policies was fairly mundane: employees disciplined for social media…
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The necessary response to disinformation
“Information warfare threat to the United States is different from past threats, and it has the potential to destroy reason and reality as a basis for societal discourse, replacing them with rage and fantasy. Perpetual civil war, political extremism, waged in the information sphere and egged on by our adversaries is every bit as much…
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My most popular blog posts are trending toward advisory topics
Over more than three decades I’ve published over 2,500 pieces of writing on topics related to small businesses. Most of them are compiled here on this web site. Now we call them blog posts. When I started we called them ‘columns’ or ‘articles’ in paper format. Some were republished in electronic format, others were not.…
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Tooth Fairy Syndrome
Young children believe in fairy tales like the tooth fairy. Despite having no direct evidence of the tooth fairy’s existence, they believe what other children and adults tell them. They are told the false logic that the result they see (money under their pillow) is proof that the tooth fairy exists. We don’t fault young…
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Social media tips
I was a guest at BEN South Jersey today where Tammy Collins was the impressive speaker with an excellent list of social media tips: 1 Understand the platform you are using and what the platform user wants there. 2 Don’t post and ghost. Stoke the algorithms by interacting with other users to keep more engagement…
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The 2020 Government/Capitalist Surveillance Agenda
There’s a huge battle brewing right now over our rights to privacy. It is widely agreed that the most effective tool to control the current and future pandemics is tracking software, easily installed on our phones. Some countries are moving ahead with the requirement to use this technology.The U.S. is likely to take eventually adopt…