Don't be a Face-crack or a Twidiot

Tweetwalking: Twittering while asleep. (Seriously, stop going to bed with your Blackberry!)

Twidiot: Any Twitter user who can't string together a grammatically correct sentence in 140 characters. Oh, the shame!

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Six Rules to Twitter! Mind your Tweets!

1- Think before you tweet.

2- Don’t tweet & drink- it is worse they drunk dialing.

3- Don’t type angry! If you are unable think for at least 10 seconds about what you are going to post, save it for later.

4- Remember once it is out there… it is out there… all the white out in the world will not remove it from the internet.

5- Humor is a good thing

6- Thoughtlessness is bad- Mad at your sister? Call, text and/or email her. Don’t share your (or her) dirty laundry. Now read #4 again.

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Twouble with Twitters

This is hysterical!



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Status Update Abuse!

I feel I have been personally violated by status update abuse. I actually remove people that post 10 updates at a time…several times a day. Anyone that I know that is truly that interesting just doesn’t have time to post 50 times a day. I pop on to twitter to see what interesting things people are posting and I find one person dominating my home page. I feel that is just overkill. I do not want to know every time someone goes to get the mail unless something amusing happened along the way. Some people write things that are pretty funny. My brother-in-law’s updates are usually not more they one or two words, if you know him; he is a man of few words so his updates are perfect. I do find it cool that my husband was able to post pictures of my daughter on Facebook 15 minutes after she was born. I don’t find it polite to try to spam or market a product or service to your friend’s connections that you do not know.

What are your thoughts on the subject?

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Does your boss follow you?

What do you put out there for all to read? Do you protect or hurt your personal brand? What about your professional image? Your reputation? Do you want to be promoted? Do you want to keep your job? Do your boss, co-workers and colleagues follow you? Do you follow them? What about your mom? Your kids? I personally utilize Facebook for personal use only. When I say personal, I mean that I will connect to co-workers but not to network contacts, candidates or fans (no offense). I like to know that my co-workers baby just got his first tooth and that another posted pictures from her skiing trip. But what about your employee’s tweet that morning at 10:05 AM that they got so wasted last night they spent the morning hugging the toilet. Did I mention they came to work at 11AM claiming to have been at the doctor? Holy cow, what if this tweet was written by your boss? You may feel that if they don’t like it they shouldn’t read it. Here is the thing; it is your problem if you hurt your image. What you write today can comeback and visit you years from now.


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Social Networking & Professional Responsibility

I have been driving the use of Microblogging with a few departments (obviously Talent Acquisitions is one) in my company. We have been utilizing social networking sites and blogging for a while. It has brought to mind that we as a company should update our policy on social media. My fear was not with the recruiters. They have been out there representing our brand well for years. What about other employees? Do they understand their responsibility when they attach our company to there profile and answer a question on Linkedin.com as a representative of the corporation? My question is DO they have a responsibility and where does that responsibility end?

I am not talking about censorship; I am talking about being professionally responsible while representing your company’s brand. What are the lines between personal “tweet’s” and unintentionally hurting the company you loves brand.