1. Establish House Rules Make simple rules for your community. Start with a few “things we do and don’t do.” Discuss them with the community that you’re managing. 2. Prevention Is Better Than Cure If you feel that your community’s behavior is beginning to get out of control, “nip it in the butt” by distracting [...]
Archive for the ‘Virtual Leadership’ Category
10 Jun
6 Ways To Positively Cope With Difficult Community Behavior
Posted by elemenager in Social & Content Creation, Virtual Leadership. Tagged: community help, community management, online community, social media. Leave a Comment
25 Feb
Should Social Networking Be Allowed In The Workplace?
Posted by elemenager in Virtual Leadership. Tagged: social networking and employees, social networking in the workplace, social strategy, the ryan and elliott show. Leave a Comment
In the mix of getting ready for this upcoming trip, doing interviews for The Ryan and Elliott Show and just plain old networking with other social strategist, I ran across a topic that varies in opinion from just about everyone; Should organizations block social networking sites from their employees during work hours? I’ve read post [...]
1 Feb
Uncertainty Avoidance to Avoidance Accommodation
Posted by elemenager in Virtual Leadership. Tagged: Avoidance Accomodation, innovation, uncertainty Avoidance, Virtual Leadership. Leave a Comment
On of the first frameworks developed for understanding innovation and technology and its relation to the economy has been the linear model of innovation. The model proposes that innovation starts with basic research, then adds applied research and development, ending with production and diffusions: Basic research Applied research Development Production and Diffusion [...]
25 Jan
MNC Typologies and Social Computing
Posted by elemenager in Virtual Leadership. Tagged: harzing, leading social networks, mnc, odell, social computing, Virtual Leadership. Leave a Comment
Multi National Companies (MNC) use a vast array of typologies to distribute their products, services, and ideas throughout the world. There are seven main typologies that MNCs use to conduct business around the world which include ethnocentric, polycentric, geocentric, multidomestic, global, international and transnational. Each typology has unique characteristics that help leverage a company’s business [...]
10 Jan
Why Relationships?
Posted by elemenager in Virtual Leadership. Tagged: leading social networks, relational theory, social computing, social media, Virtual Leadership. Leave a Comment
The business world has change substantially through the ages. The twenty-first century heralds ever-increasing chaos in world relationships, economies, and geopolitical events. “Some researchers believe the significance of this period in humankind’s history has not been seen since the Industrial Age some 500 years ago” (Daft, R.L.). Today’s modern world of globalization, advancing technologies, [...]
10 Jan
Relationship vs. Task Oriented Leadership
Posted by elemenager in Virtual Leadership. Tagged: leading social networks, relationship oriented leadership, task oriented leadership, Virtual Leadership. Leave a Comment
After reviewing the article Six Personality Traits of a Leader by Ram Charan I found that the article reflected a task-oriented leadership action. “A task-oriented leader is primarily motivated by task accomplishment” (Daft, R.L.), while “A relationship-oriented leader is concerned with people” (Daft, R.L.). The article covered some great trairs that leaders should focus on however many [...]
8 Jan
Social Computing & Emotional Intelligence
Posted by elemenager in Virtual Leadership. Tagged: emotional intelligence, future of social media, social computing, Virtual Leadership. Leave a Comment
Within social computing and the internet in general intelligence is highly regarded but little research has been done investigating the value of emotional intelligence (EI). Reviewing contemporary leadership theories emotional intelligence is breaking new ground on how self cognition plays into leading others. This new wave of thought is highly applicable to the evolving [...]
7 Jan
Virtual Servant Leadership
Posted by elemenager in Virtual Leadership. Tagged: leading social networks, social media, Virtual Leadership, virtual leadership theory, virtual servant leadership. Leave a Comment
Servant-Leadership in virtual teams can be tough since little to no face-to-face interaction occurs. However in leading virtual teams an immense amount of trust must be created between the team members and the leader. “Virtual team leaders have to trust people to do their jobs without constant supervision, and they learn to focus more [...]
