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By BOB TEDESCHI
Published: October 22, 2007

FACEBOOK and MySpace struck a chord with people who want to socialize from a distance. But will people use social networks to actually meet their neighbors?

That’s the hope of at least one new company, LifeAt.com, which is putting a local spin on the social networking model. The company creates password-protected Web sites for apartment buildings and housing developments, allowing residents to post pictures and profiles of themselves, share information about favorite local eateries and gripe about slow elevators and peeling paint.

“I like the idea a lot,” said Charlene Li, an analyst with Forrester Research, a consulting firm. “Living in the same building means you tend to share the same socioeconomic background and interests, and giving people information on things like where to eat and where to shop makes it very, very relevant.”

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Having used a number of social networking technologies over the past several years, I continue to be mesmerized by the sheer lack of professional etiquette when it comes to utilizing these tools and sites.

By far, the most prevalent one is LinkedIn and a great deal of market buzz surrounding this platform has reinvigorated the following top 10 etiquette requests of everyone who sees a direct and relevant benefit to achieving their personal and professional objectives from this environment.

The Top 10 LinkedIn Etiquette Requests:

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How often do you attend an event, take notes and capture great ideas, but don’t do anything about it? There is money and impact in those notes, yet most of us don’t have a discipline to transform ink on paper into personal action.

The following are 10 best practices that I have committed to implementing to help with this dilemma:

1. Increase your discretionary time. Wealth can be defined in many ways. One could define it as discretionary time - the ability to use time as you choose. Money certainly facilitates and enables this, but the ability to take not two or three, but 12-16 weeks of vacation a year is a clear indication of wealth.
2. Keep resources and information organized and highly accessible. Get organized. Keep your information and resources highly accessible and aim for “just in time” wisdom. If you are constantly searching for information you previously gathered, or if you are disorganized and lack the ability to put your finger on information at the time of greatest impact, what value is that information? By the way, it is critical to transform that information into knowledge and that knowledge into experience and wisdom. Read the rest of this entry »
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Louie Bernstein, CEO of MindIQ forwarded this blog posting from Alex Wolfe awolfe@cmp.com at InformationWeek:

So Mark Zuckerberg was telling the audience at the Web 2.0 Summit the other day how he’s going to double Facebook’s workforce, presumably to broaden its appeal beyond its 47-million current users. (What, all those students and on-the-job time-wasters aren’t enough?) Here’s an idea for you, Mark: Make Facebook into a truly useful tool, one where you can do more than just post pictures and ping people you’re already in contact with anyway.

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If you’ve never heard of Alan Weiss and you are in the professional services business, you should look him up.

A prolific thinker, author and consultant, I had the chance to meet Alan several years back and have since attended his Million Dollar Consulting College and joined his mentor program. At a recent mentor summit in San Diego, Alan dispensed some classic “Alanisms,” continuing his efforts to raise the bar. Below are just some of the highlights I captured during the 2-day gatherings:

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by Linda Flynn, Ph.D. - Partner, Talent Development Practice Leader

Before taking on any coaching engagement with an individual or company that wants to put a coaching program in place, I always ask them, What will success look like? How will we know that we have achieved what you want and need to achieve?

Typically, the response I get is dead silence.

Most people understand that something in their organization or individual performance needs to change, but they haven’t thought through – in measurable terms – what they specifically need to accomplish. Read the rest of this entry »