How to be careful on Social Media

Social Media is HUGE and it is where everything is happening now. Everyone is on and if you are not there then you are square. That is nice, but remember, Social Media is just like any other group of people and that means that you have the good, the bad and the ugly all there. So we need to weigh what we say and there are things that are not said at all. It is imperative that we be aware of them. So I thought that today I will tell you the things that I will NEVER EVER share on Social Media and remember, like all my lists, it is more of an adaptive general guideline and everyone has their own golden list. So here we go.And yes, there was an earlier similar post on this blog, after which people started asking me to write more about it, hence this post

Why do I need a blog?

A few of my friends, well learned and employed in the software industry came up to me and asked me this question. At first, I thought they were trying to joke, but then it turns out that they were serious and indeed asking me this question. First thing I told them is that as individuals they probably don’t, but as companies with products or services they most definitely do. To which they said that the whole world has moved to streams and a shorter attention span and hence blogs are dead! They were referring to this article. What was even more idiotic was the fact Wired told us blogging was dead on a freaking blog!! And then this is what I told them

Online Friendship: Pros and Cons

There are friends, good friends and best friends. The recent years have added one more category there, Online friends. Friends who we meet and know exclusively online. The very definition of these friends makes the relationship very sensitive and importantly tough to manage. Let us explore this phenomenon today

Linkedin – How to get it right

Everyone says that the network is governing us and that social networking is running the world. But of all the networks that I have seen and used in the past decade, LinkedIn is the most professional and serious network. This is a network that carries a lot of weight in the corporate world and in many a case, this network can make or break a career. One needs to take a lot of care and put in a lot of thought into one’s activity here. Let us look at that in detail.