best practices – Page 3 – The Wayward Celt

On citing sources

January 30, 2013April 23, 2013 by Jason O'Donnell

Jason O'Donnell

A year and a half ago, I blogged about the "Social Stewardship of Sharing", in which I highlighted a best practice of thanking the person from whom you shared a post. In that post I made one huge assumption, one which I shouldn't have made: assuming source credit is already…

My top 5 strengths; Or, how this was a completely different post until I went to write it

January 17, 2013April 23, 2013 by Jason O'Donnell

Jason O'Donnell

Command and control attitudes and strategies don't help protect you or you company. Instead they produce pain and frustration between your employees and clients, often to the point of causing them to simply give up and abandon the very task in which you want them to engage. Case in point:…

A practitioner’s perspective on putting the SOCIAL back in social business

December 3, 2012April 23, 2013 by Jason O'Donnell

Jason O'Donnell

My colleague Kelly Smith (@kellypuffs) and I were having a bit of a chat about social business, as we do nearly every day. In the course of that conversation I said: "SOCIAL only works where there is a human element. Not just a warm body, but a warm body that…

Diminishing Returns: On Judicious Hashtagging

November 7, 2012April 23, 2013 by Jason O'Donnell

Jason O'Donnell

Hashtagging is a great tool for connecting otherwise unconnected conversations. Use of hashtags helped grow support for revolutions and funding for planned parenthood. But not all uses of hashtags are so lofty in their intent; some are simply used for amusement (#ISeeWhatYouDidThere), and others to sell products in obvious advertising…

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