Social Media Blog by Michael Brito

Why is transparency so important in Social Media?

It’s the same reason why we tell our children not to lie.  It’s human. It’s in our DNA; and unless you’re a habitual liar, you practice transparency everyday in your personal relationships. Why should it change on the social web?
I just got off the phone with Wailin Wong, who is a Technology Reporter at the Chicago Tribune.  She is starting a new column at the on social media/networking and we had a brief discussion today about the importance of honesty and transparency in the social web (I’ll link to the column when it is live). My brief response – since our call only lasted about 15 minutes – was as follows, and I am going of off memory here:

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Social Bookmarking learning series at Cisco Systems

Last week, I was invited to Cisco by Norys Trevino to participate in a learning series that trains employees about the basics of Web 2.0.  The class was about social bookmarking, tagging and labels.  My slides are pretty basic because I wasn’t sure about the level of knowledge of the participants.  The cool thing was that I got to meet Jim Grubb, who is the VP of Corporate Communications Infrastructure also known as the Demo Guy.  Also presenting in this learning series were Jim Grubb, Eric Donkers (Manager, Collaboration Business Technologies) and Diana Morshead (Information Architect, Intranet Strategy).  Here are the slides I presented:

Tags: social bookmarking, cisco systems, social media

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