Category: Social Media

The World Without Facebook Would Be Just Fine

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Post date May 10, 2011
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The people at oBizMedia have made a nice video / infographic that asks: what would the world look like without Facebook?

They conclude that in a cruel, Facebook-less, world we would not have an easy way to share pictures with our friends. Nor would we have an effortless way to invite friends to parties.

Thank goodness for Mark Zuckerberg and co.

oBizMedia does a better job dressing up interesting Facebook facts. Did you know that the average Facebook user uploads around 90 things a month? That means that the 600 million Facebook users are happily plugging information into Facebook three times a day on average.

Chew on the numbers presented and get ready to marvel at the giant that is Facebook. It will be interesting to see if Facebook can sustain the momentum without alienating existing users.

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5 Leadership Lessons Isaac Asimov Would Have Taught [Powerpoint]

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Post date May 10, 2011
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Isaac Asimov woke up at 6 A.M. everyday. By 7:30 A.M. he’d be at his typewriter. He wouldn’t leave it until 10 P.M.. According to Harlan Ellison, Asimov “Had writers block once. It was the worst ten minutes of his life.”

Asimov was prolific, but it was largely due to his hard working nature. He wrote in his autobiography, “It is a point of pride with me that though I have an alarm clock, I never set it, but get up at 6 A.M. anyway.”

Asimov figured he worked so hard because his father expected him to help out at his Brooklyn based candy store long before and long after school hours. “I am still showing my father” Asimov has explained, “[that]I’m not a folyack.”

Asimov can teach us a great deal about leadership, initiative, work-ethic, and learning from failures.

Following are some of the leadership lessons Asimov would have taught were he given the chance:

5 Leadership Lessons from Isaac Asimov

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Admitting Mistakes or How NOT to Hire Web Developers

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Post date May 9, 2011
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Kevin Dones is doing something we should all be doing every week. He’s documenting his mistakes and trying his hardest to learn from them. Luckily for us, he’s sharing them.

Dones admits that he didn’t hire the right web developer even though he knew how to hire a good web developer.

He knew he had to state his demands clearly and write out an agreement–but he didn’t. He hired a guy who promised the moon and than dragged his feet. After some back and forth the web developer asked for more money, got it, and went back to doing nothing. Dones learned the following: “When it comes to using what you learn from books and people it’s not the same when you implement it in the real world.”

There’s a disconnect between what we know and what we do. Dones knew the rules–but felt awkward following them. Why bother a web developer with documents and dotted lines when you just had a beautiful conversation?

Dones’ mistake has taught him how to hire help effectively. It has also shown him that rules and advice are there for a reason.

Don’t hire web-developers on a wing and a prayer. Set deadlines and write out contracts. And if it goes bad–do what Dones did: write down what happened and see what went wrong.

Kevin Dones is currently building: http://labortopia.com/

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7 Mark Zuckerberg Leadership Quotes

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Post date May 9, 2011
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Whenever we talk about Mark Zuckerberg we like to point out how young he is and all the money he could be worth. We don’t really talk about Zuckerberg like he’s a leader in charge of a billion dollar company–we talk about how he couldn’t get dates at Harvard and, for the umpteenth time, we marvel at his age.

But it’s time to start looking at Zuckerberg’s leadership soberly. “I started the site when I was 19.” Zuckerberg says, “I didn’t know much about business back then.” But he learned quick and managed to make Facebook a global brand despite his inexperience.

Now we have to ask ourselves how a 19 year old kid with no prior leadership experience became a leader of over 2,000 people in a competitive industry.

The following Zuckerberg quotes don’t answer the question directly–but they revel his pragmatic approach to getting things done.

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10 Social Media and Tech Stories 5/1-5/8

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Post date May 5, 2011
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It’s been a pretty crazy week so far, so it’s not out of the question that you might have missed some of the other news going on in the not so life or death world of tech and social media. In case that is in fact the case, we here at The Bacharach Blog offer up 10 stories you could have easily missed. So sit back (not too far we don’t want you falling asleep at work) and enjoy our Top 10 Social Media and Tech stories of the week that was. I am especially fond of Seth Godin’s latest post, it’s #1.