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a handle for others to grab onto the value you bring functions much like an elevator speech, blog post by Bruce Kasanoff, December 3, 2015, Forbes

Jenn Deering Davis, 2012 Recommends: using an official conference hashtag 1. unique tag 2. communicate official tag 3. Track mention of the official and unofficial hashtags Surfacing interesting conference topics 4. Follow conversation as it unfolds 5. Pay attention to retweets 6. Use official handle to ask questions 7. Find problems quickly Sharing important conference content 8. Use official handle to post announcements and schedule changes 9. Distribute speaker slides 10. Answer attendee questions Tracking audience engagement 11. Measure total Twitter audience size 12. Determine popular speakers and presentations 13. Share metrics with sponsors Gathering feedback or your next conference 14. Tweet links to conference feedback survey 15. Compare this conference to other events 16. Analyze qualitative tweet content

blog post by Dmitri Dragilev in Better Humans "Dopamine is why CEOs write down goals and vision statements. As you move toward these goals, mentors and advisors reassure you that you are moving in the right direction and every step of the way you get a shot of dopamine. The problem is that all of us have learned how to cheat the system and get shots of dopamine without actually accomplishing anything. Gambling is a great example, every time you pull that handle on a slot machine you get dopamine. Alcohol is the same story, a shot of whiskey = a shot of dopamine, you want more, you repeat; you're not actually moving toward a vision or a goal." I too am guilty of dopamine addiction. I love email and depend on it for a lot of my day to day work. I love instigating stuff, fast back and forths, and knowing what is happening everywhere. But I have found that all this stuff re-prioritizes my day quite a bit. For the past year I have successfully disabled email, Twitter, Facebook, and text message notifications on my phone and have kept it off since then. My life has been transformed. Not only do I find that there are a lot less distractions, I find that I stay focused on the right tasks that keep me marching toward my overall goal. Again, I'm not saying that what I did is the magic formula for everyone. What I am saying is that perhaps it's time to re-assess how much you check your email, text messages, social media and your devices in general and see if you're cheating the system in order to get a rush of dopamine or you're truly marching toward your goal.

new studies showing companies that have at least 30% millennials in leadership positions have greater profits, and companies that have more women in leadership also have greater profits. Also there are listed more interesting articles on the page for me to read such as: 4 ways to retrain your brain to handle information;Should you outsource your social media?; Can technology really change your habits?

blog post by Kurt Mackey at MongoHQ, a distributed company, on working remotely and how hard it is to come up with an effective system for engaging workers. It is a work in progress. Need firewalls between personal life and work life--sound has to be managed for one thing. Mentions the blending of in-office staff and remote staff and a 'standard' for everyone to use the same collaboration tools, be available via the same channels, and produce documentation of interactions that are important to share. Has a whole section on the practical (and the tools they use to communicate) prefer async communications! Have a central work tool (Compose to record what is being produced each day); day to day communication in Hipchat, use pre-reads to meetings on a Wiki that get updated on Hackpad during the meeting, open mailing lists, Sqwiggle for face time, and Google Hangouts, too. Final recommendation is to "keep iterating" to build a remote friendly culture.

Interesting assessment of the value of volunteer moderators, July 7, 2015, by Ernie Smith on Reddit

Popova identified the Benjamin Franklin effect in her blog (follows excerpt below in her blog post). The excerpt below reminds of why networks are helpful. "At age twenty-one, he formed a "club of mutual improvement" called the Junto. It was a grand scheme to gobble up knowledge. He invited working-class polymaths like him to have the chance to pool together their books and trade thoughts and knowledge of the world on a regular basis. They wrote and recited essays, held debates, and devised ways to acquire currency. Franklin used the Junto as a private consulting firm, a think tank, and he bounced ideas off the other members so he could write and print better pamphlets. Franklin eventually founded the first subscription library in America, writing that it would make "the common tradesman and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries," not to mention give him access to whatever books he wanted to buy."

The scoop on what happens in audio conference calls--Katie Hafner, December 4, 2015. 

early look by Susan Herring, Indiana University, (2001) of how women fare online. one interesting paragraph on projected changes of world wide web and impact on women.