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Creating engaging social media guidelines

Creating engaging social media guidelinesThere seems to be a general consensus that companies need to have social media guidelines. The various guidelines share some common features, but also differ in many ways. In this post, I will examine the purpose of creating social media guidelines and try to identify key features that make social media guidelines engaging instead of just constraining. Continue reading “Creating engaging social media guidelines”

Interlude: The zombie argument for empowering your employees




Hence, the zombie argument for empowering your employees:


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Interlude: Why would poor grammar make things better?





Why would poor grammar make things better?

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Translating your blog, is there a good way to do it?

Is there a good way to translate a blog?Whereas English may at times seem prevalent online, the majority of people in the world do not speak it. Furthermore, only a small minority speak English as a native language. For all other languages, the audience figures look even worse, save perhaps for Chinese.

Therefore, providing content for people in their native language is an attractive idea for many bloggers and companies. A static website can be translated, no problem, but what about a blog, with comments and all? Continue reading “Translating your blog, is there a good way to do it?”

A Millian framework for deciding what to share online

Some books from my personal Mill libraryAs the online world becomes even more deeply integrated into our everyday lives, everyone needs to think through what exactly they should be sharing online and where to draw the line.

I have been thinking about this issue by taking John Stuart Mill’s views on the freedom of speech and action as a basis. His famous harm principle, formulated in On Liberty (1859), argues that “the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection” (On Liberty, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill (CW), volume XVIII, p. 223). Continue reading “A Millian framework for deciding what to share online”