Loraine Antrim

New Media on Ulitzer Today, CIOs are turned on, You Tubed-in and highly social.  They use Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.  They blog and appear in videos and engage with their constituents via collaborative technologies. Very hi tech but very low touch. Advice to CIOs: Go Primitive The question is: are we relying too much on technology to communicate our messages and forgetting the human element? It might seem blasphemous to even suggest not using technology to connect and communicate, but pull back for a moment.  Have you considered going primitive? . The Urban Dictionary explains going primitive as, "Instead of texting a long and detailed story, someone suggests a phone call as a more direct way to have the conversation," as in I'm good with texting but this is giving me carpel tunnel, let's "go primitive" I'll call you tomorrow at 8.   Going primitive—live phone calls ... (more)

Leaders Should Just Lead

One has to wonder what business leaders are thinking sometimes when they utter things that they have to know are going to send waves throughout the universe. The iconic Warren Buffett opened up his mouth in May 2009 and turned the financial world on its head. In an interview, Mr. Buffett chose to express his views of the current economic times by saying, “this is an economic Pearl Harbor” and equated the current financial situation in the United States to “falling off a cliff.” These comments may seem innocent enough. But coming from a financial executive who has changed a whol... (more)

Bloggers Affected by FTC Ruling

New FTC Guidelines Affect Bloggers  On Monday, Oct 5, 2009, the FTC directly touched the lives of some bloggers with its decision to regulate certain blogging activity.  Specifically, the agency addressed  blog posts that review a product or service. Under its new set of guidelines,  if you endorse a product or service in your post,or tweet about it, and receive any cash or "in-kind payments," you are now required to disclose your relationship with the manufacturer. What makes this unique, is it's the first time the agency specifically cited blogging activity as well as "new media.... (more)

Amelia Earhart: Lessons for Leaders

How much courage do you have? Enough to lead a global team or complete a difficult IT initiative on time or come in under budget? Child's play. Don't brag too much. If you can accomplish these, you're simply par for the course. Want to demonstrate real courage…true accomplishment? Test your mettle and show uncommon leadership? Pull an Amelia. "PULLING AN AMELIA" Take fifteen hours out of your life, all alone, no sleeping, sitting in a compartment no bigger than a box, and fly across the Atlantic as you watch ice form on your plane's wings and fire shoot out of your engine's exhaust ... (more)

The Language of Leadership

Have you ever taken your car in for service and heard the mechanic talk to you about a cracked manifold? (VERY nasty, BTW). Or maybe you've gone to a doctor who told you your symptoms indicated preliminary Pharyngitis and you needed a broad spectrum, BID? All you're thinking is, "This is so much blah, blah, blah...speak plain English!" Great advice. But why don't business leaders take it? No matter what industry you're in, you have your own jargon. Whether you speak in IT ( God help us all on this one), health care, engineering, or construction, you have a specialized language, ins... (more)