Inaccurate Resume

Yahoo’s CEO must be facing sleepless nights with someone finding inaccuracies in his resume. Two questions:

Would he (the current CEO) fire someone in his team or at Yahoo if he found out about inaccuracies in the submitted resume, especially if they were really good at what they do?
Would you fire someone with a deliberate misleading resume but a highly capable person if he is trying to maintain and steer a sinking ship?

Although I can write pages on this subject from different perspectives and covering if’s and but’s but at this stage, I simply think that if Yahoo’s CEO owns his mistake and his work is improving the bottom line of the organisation, give him another chance.

Stories that are more interesting

How to tell how great or bad some products are and the impact they are having on a person’s life? Listen to the stories. Listen to their stories talking about them and their life and how a product or a service fits into that. That certainly makes up for a good story and provides better answers than asking them how they use a product or a service.

Stories immersed with emotions and passion are more powerful then reading or listening to a product review.

The least active complain the most #IYW

The least active people on Facebook complain the most about more active people, often about them oversharing.

The person who does not use Twitter or Facebook complains about people wasting their time on the service. He complains and is concerned about privacy issues around sharing!

The least active people in the office complain and criticise the most about the people and teams doing most of the work.

The person who knows the least about a topic, normally is the one criticising the most. Just start the topic of current politics and observe all super experts talking around you!

Just because you don’t have anything useful to share, don’t criticise someone who has something to share, even though it might not be adding value to you or the world – or at least that is what you think. Get over your resentment.

“Social Media” + Email

I use Twitter, I use Facebook and I also extensively use my Email. While there have been articles/reports and research produced in the past which said that Social Media sites are replacing email in a lot of instance but I find myself using my email a lot more because of Facebook and Twitter [they are a big part of "Social Media" sites for me]. Instead of commenting on a post by visiting Facebook, where possible I comment from within my email, I upload pictures from my email and I forward and respond to lot of messages that originated from Facebook. On discussing on Twitter, when conversations get serious, they continue within my email inbox. I use Gmail as my primary email. And when I get messages from Twitter and Facebook, most of the time Gmail's Priority Inbox does a good job of marking important and not so important messages originating from these sites.

Email is not going to go away anywhere for a long time to come. If anything, we will see improvements happening in this space.

So how long before Email gets well integrated into a Social Media site such as Facebook? I could have seen that happening faster if Google Buzz was a bigger success for Google. How long before we use a "RockMelt" like version of a "Social Media" site where email is in the centre with all other aspects of social media cluttering it on the borders. I think this has already started with add-ons within Gmail where it displays information relating to your contacts from "Social Media" sites and other places. But how long before it comes mainstream?

This can happen more faster if the lines blurred with so called 'Social Networks' and 'Other Networks' and it all becomes just networks within which we distinguish between professional interactions and interacting with friends.

But I have been wondering few things lately?

How long before the word "Social Media" fades away?
Is Facebook still a Social Media site? I see a lot more professional activities happening on Facebook now.