Niala Boodhoo and Bridget Carey champion good manners and justice in the online world. We strive to right tweets that go awry; pokes that hit you the wrong way; and thwart those that send the default LinkedIn connection messages.
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- Oct. 12, 2008
Poked: Netiquette for the Working World Facebook goes to Washington: a profile of the 25-year-old who is teaching politicians how to use social networking.
www.washingtonpost.com
Inside the headquarters of the National Republican Congressional Committee, 25-year-old Adam Conner -- registered Facebook lobbyist, poster of multiple Obama attaboys and a guy whose Facebook photo is a grizzly bear wielding two chain saws -- sits to teach a course. ...
Poked: Netiquette for the Working World Do you agree with the list? Which on do you think had the most impact?
blog.thekbuzz.com
This was a groundbreaking year for Twitter, the microblogging site, which was a game changer for the online landscape dominated by Google and Facebook. Outside
Poked: Netiquette for the Working World Don't join groups about being against Facebook charging members. The links in the group go to malware and porn sites. Groups like this are a scam!
thenextweb.com
Designer Ben Pieratt spotted an eye catching group in his feed this morning. His sister had joined a group called “WE’RE AGAINST THE 4.99 A MONTH CHARGE FOR FACEBOOK FROM JUNE 30TH 2010″.
Poked: Netiquette for the Working World Facebook is going through yet another redesign.
gigaom.com
Last week, a source emailed us two screenshots of Facebook’s forthcoming redesign. While it’s still a work in progress, it shows some simple yet major enhancements that reveal where the world’s largest social network with over 350 million subscribers might be headed. ...
Poked: Netiquette for the Working World This week, we countdown the Top 5 netiquette flubs of 2009. Make a resolution to avoid these in 2010! http://bit.ly/Top5Flubs
bit.ly
As we make our resolutions for the new year, we often reflect on our regrets or mistakes made during the past year. And boy, there sure were some major online etiquette train wrecks in 2009.
Poked: Netiquette for the Working World There's always a few of these in every newsfeed...
www.gq.com
List of the "friends" whose updates you're probably currently hiding.
Poked: Netiquette for the Working World This week's column is about finding the right tone for business accounts using Twitter. It's not easy to mix a personality with a corporate voice, but a new tool Twitter is testing might just be a good solution.
miamiherald.typepad.com
It seems Twitter has found a way to solve a problem many businesses come across while using the service: How do you have multiple employees tweet under one main account, but still show the person behind the account? It goes...
Poked: Netiquette for the Working World We're curious: have you already given up keeping your FB life private? Or is it still a place for sharing details with just your friends?
bit.ly
There's been a lot written, blogged and said about Facebook's newest privacy settings. Bridget and I thought the WSJ's Decoder weighing in was an interesting summation of Facebook's attempts to monetize itself and stay competitive with Twitter. Basically, the writer...
Poked: Netiquette for the Working World Do you have expectations of privacy on your work-issued phone?
www.npr.org
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case next year on whether and when privacy rights extend to text messages sent by public employees on work-issued devices. In the private realm, employees have almost no expectation of privacy when using company-issued equipment.
Poked: Netiquette for the Working World This is what we learned about social media from a bunch of 14-year-olds last week:
bit.ly
A few months back, Bridget and I tried an experiment in being "wired and well-mannered.'' For a week, we made an effort to put our mobile phone behavior on hold if there were people actually in front of us. And,...
Poked: Netiquette for the Working World Calling all judges/lawyers in Florida: check your FB friends list:
bit.ly
There's been a bit of news down here lately regarding Facebook and how virtual relationships can impact the legal working world. Last week, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Yvonne Colodny had to disclose to lawyers she had unfriended Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones...
Poked: Netiquette for the Working World Just in time for the holidays: Make a (Facebook) list and check it twice!
bit.ly
Hi all - Bridget's on vacation this week so I'm posting this on her behalf. Because she's not just fashion forward, but ahead of things generally, she wrote this before Facebook made a formal announcement today that it was eliminating...
Poked: Netiquette for the Working World A nice do's and don't list of how to do e-vites this holiday season:
www.latimes.com
Do's and don'ts for party hosts and guests using digital correspondence during the holidays. (Alex Nabaum / For the Times)
Poked: Netiquette for the Working World An interesting study that shows our Facebook profiles do reflect our real-life personality:
well.blogs.nytimes.com
When researchers began studying Facebook friends, they expected that users would exaggerate accomplishments. To their surprise, they discovered that Facebook profiles typically give an accurate and realistic impression of the user's real-life personality.
Poked: Netiquette for the Working World Tks to Wasim Ahmad for pointing this story out:
www.theweek.com
Michaele Salahi didnt hesitate to post snapshots of her White House gatecrashing on Facebook, but perhaps she should have. According to the New York Daily News, many of
