If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you . Set up a social media dashboard with google apps for your listening, separate it from your work email and tools. Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for Rethink your relationship Photo by Monster Today is Information Overload Awareness Day .  The purpose is to

embrace it.  Traynor's piece is a reflection on how network leadership is different from more traditional leadership skills for leading organizations.  He describes the discomfort that many of us feel when we shift from working in traditional environments (in organizations) to working within a network or working in the clouds .  The phrase working in the clouds is a nod to Marc Pesce's essay, " The Tower Photo by Sifter Last week, I had a fantastic conversation with the folks at EDF Innovation Exchange about transparency and social media adoption.  Specifically

Great work.   If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you . Set up a social media dashboard with google apps for your listening, separate it from your work email and tools. Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits.  Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign.  The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to

Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in a continuing “arms race,” with the “crackers” who will find ways to copy and share content without payment. The divisions between personal time and work time and between physical and virtual reality will be further erased for everyone who’s connected, and the results will be mixed in terms of social relations. “Next-generation” The Pew Internet and American Life Project has issued its annual forecast of “ The Future of the Internet .”  It offers predictions for the Internet in 2020.   

There are all kinds of ways your nonprofit could use Animoto videos: an overview of your organization’s mission, your annual gala, for the launch of a new program, featuring staff at work in the office or at events, etc. Animoto is a service that allows you to create videos about your nonprofit using a selection of your organization’s best photos. Within a few minutes and a couple of clicks, your nonprofit could have a new promotional video that you can use on your Web site, your Blog, in your e-mail newsletters, and on social networking sites.

How has connectedness changed the way you're working?  How do you manage the balance between the two modes of working? ...Tags: Tags: Information Coping Skill This is literally a page from Seth Godin's What Matters Now free ebook .  It's a compilation of ideas from 70 big thinkers about what to think about in 2010.    It's a quick read.

are banding together to fight information email overload - by doing research on information coping skills - one of my favorite topics for the past ten years. The Times article also points out the problem is not just individual skills or technological - but also cultural. Take a walk, get some real work done, or have a snack. Photo by Will Lion An interesting article in today's New York Times called " Lost in E=Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast ."

The paper also talks about the blurry lines between work and personal life . Tags: ROI Information Coping Skill Photo by Breakmould Steve Rubel has a post pointing to an " Information Overload Calculator " from the research firm Basex that is estimating that information overload costs the U.S. economy $900 billion

Michele Martin and Tony Karer have been blogging at the Work Literacy blog for several months now. Work Literacy is a network of individuals, companies and organizations who consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge knowledge work. Source: Pew Internet and America Life Project: " Networked Workers " Study who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting

I'm passionate about listening - the skills, tools, techniques, and how it translates to continuous improvement of strategy and understanding the value it provides to organization's mission. Whether your nonprofit is using listening tools that are free or a professional tool to take a deeper dive, after you figure out who will do the listening and how to make it actionable , it's time to address the nitty gritty of what and how .  The most important listening literacy skills are Flickr Photo by Incurable Hippie I've been writing a lot about listening through social media channels in preparation for a live workshop for WeAreMedia next month in San Francisco.