Casting A Wide Net

    Social Media Etiquette is a nebulous topic, because you need to keep in mind not just who will see it, but who you the poster will one day represent in your career. However, sometimes its not the past that harms you, but backlash in the present. This is what happened to the Los Angeles Valiant when they announced their move to China and the termination of all player contracts. It was up to the social media team to soften the blow to fans but, ultimately, the vague response left fans to speculate and arrive at far wore conclusions than what actually happened. With this in mind, today I wanted to take a look at this situation and Social Media Etiquette as a whole to see what could have been done differently to avert this crisis.

 As I've studied networking through the lens of The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age , a book by Lani Ritter Hall and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach e, one criticism I've always had revolves around how their advice breaks down human connection to a science. The author's research tended to teach people to commodify their relationships, optimizing every aspect in order to best benefit this career. This is why I was so happy to see this next chapter on Building A Collaborative Culture, or, in layman's terms, the science of making friends. It's still fairly scientific, but this chapter is a refreshing breath of fresh air.  The key message throughout the first section of this chapter is to put human connection first, which is important to remember in a work relationship. If you only surround yourself with people you can use as a stepping stone to higher places, then everyone else is going to do that to you. I've encountered this a lot as a freelance