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Bloggy Question 85: Big Brother Just Bought Your Company!

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It’s Been a Great Run . . .

For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week. I offer this bloggy life question. . . .

You’ve been hearing rumors.

This weekend’s financial programs and news reports have confirmed it. Your mid-sized company has just been sold to a major corporation. Who knows why they bought it?

You know plenty about the corporation and their policies. You’ve been following them on the blogs for 2 or 3 years. The biggest issues are their stance against net neutrality, their attempts to squash anything opensource, and their flat-out policy against ANY employee or vendor blogging.

You read the corporate policy documents — they were passed around the Internet as examples of Big Brother. Basically, this buyout will mean that you will be required to close down your blog. It doesn’t matter that you blog about unrelated subjects — your content could not be connected to the company where you work or the corporation that bought it. The No Blog Tolerance rule is unbendable according to ex-employees of the behemoth enterprise who now owns your company.

How will you respond to coming ultimatum?

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!

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Bloggy Question 84: Social Networking and Reputation — What Should Doostang Do?

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Reputation Management

For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week. I offer this bloggy life question. . . .

It’s a real-life question tonight. . . .

In March, I wrote a post in response to a bad experience at an “elite” social networking site. I’ll wait while you check it out. . . .

In a day or so, two things happened.

  1. My post made the first page of Google for the keyword doostang.

  2. My LinkedIn account showed that someone from Doostang had visited my profile. No one attempted to contact me.

Mid-May that post started to draw 5% to 10% of my daily search traffic. As you can see by the comments there, it can’t be helping Doostang’s elite self-defined profile as social network for top tier talent.

This week, I saw traffic from The New York Times article by Andrew Ross Sorkin, called Social Networking on Wall Street. The comments were less than favorable. Someone named John had left a link to my original article there.

I’ll wait while you take a look.

Doostang just launched a new look targeted at college elite.

If Doostang asked for your advice, what would you tell them to do?

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!

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Bloggy Question 83: $10MIL, Luxury Home, Would You Go Back to Web 1.0?

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Ah, the Simple Life Is Calling

For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week. I offer this bloggy life question. . . .

It’s a simple question tonight.

If someone offered you a tax-free, cool $10 million in cash.

You choose any house, or mansion, or castle, or villa, or vineyard manse anywhere in the world.

And you only have one condition to accept: You must quit participating on Internet. No blogging. No Twitter conversation. No IMs, DMs, or emails. You can read. You can follow your friends. BUT you have to stay totally silent — no words, no images, no audio, to video, no sign of you in cyberspace for the rest of your life. You’ll be totally back to Web 1.0 — watching the rest of the world move forward.

Would you take the deal?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 22

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Get Closer to You

This is a series of questions, I don’t know how many. They are the ones I ask when I help folks get closer to their personal identity.

What have people remarked about you as something you’ve always been good at? How are you incorporating that into your current success plan?

I’ll answer first to get things started.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Check out the Work with Liz!! page in the sidebar.

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Get Closer to You

This is a series of questions, I don’t know how many. They are the ones I ask when I help folks get closer to their personal identity.

What was your favorite way to pass time when you were an eight-year-old child?

I’ll answer first to get things started.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Check out the Work with Liz!! page in the sidebar.

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Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 20

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Get Closer to You

This is a series of questions, I don’t know how many. They are the ones I ask when I help folks get closer to their personal identity.

What would the person who knows you the best tell us about you that we might not see on our own?

I’ll answer first to get things started.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Check out the Work with Liz!! page in the sidebar.

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