Todd Lyden

Thank god for folks like Stanford aka @pushingsocial . I was reading this  latest nugget  over at his  site  as I struggled today. I've got three unfinished posts that  just  weren't ready. At least for me.  I think something like that fish Dory from "Finding Nemo"- " just   keep swimming,  just   keep  swimming..." I like his three phrases (words) of advice on generating great content. 1. Don't try to be a  thought leader . Definitely none of that here, right? I've written since middle school for papers, for fun, for graded school projects. Now I am fairly sure I am litera lly  just   writing   for me. And that's not a whine. I am fairly sure I'm not going to sway folks into thinking much of anything, but I will try to share information and MAYBE generate a stray thought or two per Stan's advice. 2. I will disagree slightly with Stan on his second point. Mind you, we are not  writing ...

I noticed my first post from WAY BACK in December-  Facebook had about 350 million users. They recently celebrated 500 million users! This was news!  Zuckerberg  did a prime time interview to celebrate.   Recent articles, such as those suggested below, are taking nibbles at the social media giant suggesting that it is not sustainable growth. Perhaps they have reached their saturation point?  A recent  Washington Post article  looked at Zuckerberg's leadership style and identified believing in the vision as something worth emulating. Even when the young CEO had the opportunity to sell the company, he stuck with it. That willingness is seeing unbelievable growth. The original point was how did they get there and more importantly, how do we plan our own growth? Whether you are talking personal, professional, business or otherwise, if you are lucky enough to have good, positive growth are you prepared to adapt to it? It would appear that even if Facebook n...