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Monday, January 12, 2009

Passive aggressive confrontation using social networking tools

Inspired by a colleague lamenting excessively long meetings ...

  • Update your status on ping.fm: "I'm in a pointless meeting"

  • Twitter update: "On the count of three, let's all get up and say we have a conflict"

  • Email meeting etiquette guide to meeting invite list

  • Transcribe the meeting minutes in a blog post. Don't forget to insert commentary.

  • Call people out in Twitter for bad behavior without naming them. (hat tip to Nink)

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2 Comments:

  • For extra credit:
    Randomly de-friend half of the meeting participants on facebook and update your status to something vague like, "XXX thinks resolving conflicts begins by eliminating the source"

    By Blogger Lee, at 5:25 AM  

  • Lee, that is a good one. These are naughty. I am not sure how much I agree with them being productive. Or did I miss that it was a joke? :)

    By Blogger Singing to Jeffrey's Tune, at 6:32 AM  

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