Stranger Things Have Happened.....
but it's only April.
Here are your Standings to prove it !
New York Mets 12 9 .571 -- Won 6
Philadelphia Phillies 11 9 .550 0.5 Lost 3
Washington Nationals 11 10 .524 1.0 Won 1
Florida Marlins 11 10 .524 1.0 Lost 1
Atlanta Braves 8 12 .400 3.5 Lost 7
Here are your Standings to prove it !
New York Mets 12 9 .571 -- Won 6
Philadelphia Phillies 11 9 .550 0.5 Lost 3
Washington Nationals 11 10 .524 1.0 Won 1
Florida Marlins 11 10 .524 1.0 Lost 1
Atlanta Braves 8 12 .400 3.5 Lost 7
xtina the tease
And here you have another still from the music video that premieres this Friday! It looks cool!!
How will they connect?
Jason-
We are very much in agreement regarding the power of social media…and you raise a wonderful question regarding the future implications of the rapid integration of these tools into our personal and professional lives.
I think that, truth be told, we do no fully understand the current impact of these tools on us , let alone the impact on our children, but here are some thoughts, and I think that these are also relevant to HR and the evolving organization.
Increased significance of weak ties: I can still only manage a relatively small number of close relationships or strong ties, but social media allows me to develop, maintain and manage many more weak ties than before. Twitter and Facebook are great examples of this. Not only are these tools valuable in creating and/or maintaining those weak ties, it also makes it easier for me to benefit from those weak ties…because those weak ties are consistently sharing information. So, the size of my weak ties network has grown drastically and the role that the weak ties play in my life has also grown drastically.
Professional asset: For some folks and some professions this is nothing new, but on a broader scale social capital is increasingly becoming viewed as a significant professional asset. You are a good example of this. It is going become more important to their professional success that our children are able to build and maintain a vibrant network, and that they are able to demonstrate the value of that network to prospective employers or collaborators.
Specialized tools: Our children will be able to be much more intentional about seeking out specific new components to add to their network…when they want to find specific people or specific kinds of people to start relationships with they will easily be able to find them and we already have made progress in this direction.
More self directed personal/professional opportunity outside of organizations: I think that we will continue to see individuals able to do more things, find more things and create more things without the involvement of traditional organizations. Not sure that organizations are going to go away, but their role will continue to change and I think we will see a gradual increase in the number of us that are self-employed and involved in a variety of projects with a variety of other people.
What else do you see changing?
-joe
Huricane Snooki
Radar says that while filming Jersey Shore in Miami yesterday, Snooks got into a TOTALLY STAGED fight with a dude who kept trying to get on her.Some people learn.Check out all the drama unfold.
Diamonds for breakfest
NEVER BEFORE SEEN FOTAGE. Heidi Montag recently released This video, to me its more like a Teaser for Speidi's Next Reality Show Comming Soon!luv the song but why is Spencer in the vid?
DONT LOOK UP
Those malicious paps are not right for telling Ceiling Eyes to look in the opposite direction of where her "career" is going at last night's UsWeekly party in Hollywood. Ceiling Eyes is already permanently staring into space, so when she looks up her eyes get stuck.Thanx to DLISTED.COM
Change is in the hair!
Hayden Panettiere debuted a brand new, super short hair at the Global Home Tree Earth day event in L.A. Thursday. The Heroes star, 20, hit the red carpet wearing a skintight black dress with a sheer top while cuddling with her boyfriend, boxer Vladimir Klitschk
Bttoms Up!
Who needs a man when you've got...cocktails! Jersey Shore star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi – who dumped her boyfriend last weekend – indulges in a super-sized post-breakup cocktail in Miami on Wednesday.
BIONIC SOUNDS
Christina Aguilera’s new single “Not Myself Tonight” has finally been given the remix treatment. Check out round 1 of remixes brought to you by Chus & Ceballos, Jody Den Broeder, & Mark Roberts. Honestly all the mixes are great but I love the Jody Den Broeder remix… He tried a new sound and it totally paid off for him!! SPECIAL THAX DJ TAI
Christina Aguilera – Not Myself Tonight (Jody Den Broeder Remix):
Christina Aguilera – Not Myself Tonight (Chus & Ceballos Remix):
Christina Aguilera – Not Myself Tonight (Chus & Ceballos Stereo Club Mix):
Christina Aguilera – Not Myself Tonight (Mark Roberts Ultimix):
Debut "Ranting With Rizzo" Show
After leaving "The Sports Round Table" on
WDIS 1170 I was afforded the opportunity
to do my own show there and here it is.
Tonight was the debut, and you can catch
it every week on 1170AM WDIS if you are
in the Norfolk, MA area, or streaming
online at WWW.WDISAM.COM, Thursday's
from 6:30-7:00 PM. Below is the replay
of my first episode. Email me, and enjoy!
WDIS 1170 I was afforded the opportunity
to do my own show there and here it is.
Tonight was the debut, and you can catch
it every week on 1170AM WDIS if you are
in the Norfolk, MA area, or streaming
online at WWW.WDISAM.COM, Thursday's
from 6:30-7:00 PM. Below is the replay
of my first episode. Email me, and enjoy!
Why Ignoring Social Media is Stupid
Joe,
You nicely summed up what I feel is at the core of the discussion about how social media is changing how people interact. So, to take it further, how exactly do these social media tools impact relationships and ultimately, the creation of social capital. Here's a few of the most important ways I've experienced:
- Social media is a tool that facilitates the creation and maintenance of relationships, it is not the relationship itself. It's when people mistake their social media connections as relationships that we start getting into trouble.
- Social media facilitates connections. By my definition, a connection is someone who you have come into contact with in some meaningful way. Once we are connected to someone, we know how to reach them and we would have at least enough knowledge about the other person to facilitate the beginning of a more substantial relationship. Connections in other words are loose acquaintances.
- We know from the work of Mark Granovetter and others that acquaintances are our source of social influence and power. Because our acquaintances (or weak ties) represent access to information and resources that we wouldn't know about through our closest relationships, the more acquaintances we have, the more powerful our social capital. Social media makes it easier than ever before to stay connected with these weak ties, thus making it easier to build our social capital and influence.
- Social media makes it easier to maintain relationships with larger numbers of connections. While Dunbar's number suggests that we can only maintain relationships with 150 people at any given time, the tools of social media make that process easier than in the past. While it seems that social media may not make Dunbar's number any larger, I would argue that it does make it possible to seamlessly change which people we have in our 150 over time. Social media gives us the ability to stay connected to people so that we know where to find them when we need them, even if we haven't actively maintained a more substantial relationship with them in the meantime. Social media keeps the connection in tact.
So, while social media can't BE the relationship, I think that it represents incredibly powerful tools for planting, growing and harvesting social capital. By ignoring these tools, you are choosing to be less influential, less powerful and less relevant. I assume we are in agreement on this point.
So, how is social media going to impact our children in terms of how they will connect with and build relationships with others as they come of age?
-Jason
Legendtina!
In the four years since Christina Aguilera released her last studio album, "Back to Basics," pop ingénues like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Ke$ha have built their careers on bold theatrics, neo-feminist personas and throbbing club beats. Aguilera brings all of that to the table on "Not Myself Tonight," her lead single from the upcoming "Bionic," but ups the stakes considerably with her trademark, octave-straddling runs and glory notes. Aguilera channels a more Euro-glamorous version of her former "dirrty" alter-ego Xtina on "Tonight," dashing lyrics about self-reinvention with breathy chants and naughty expletives. Producer Polow Da Don, who co-wrote "Tonight" with "Drop It Low" singer/songwriter Ester Dean, adds dripping synths, pulsing basslines and tribal house drums that sound appealingly unfinished. Paired with Aguilera's unmatched vocal range, "Tonight" proves that the current dance-pop craze would be incomplete without her. -Michael Menachem
Christina Aguilera’s new single “Not Myself Tonight” continues to wow critics as she scores a fantastic review in Billboard Magazine and is included in this weeks People Magazine’s Music Hot Downlaods. Billboard exclaims that, “‘Tonight’ proves that the current dance-pop craze would be incomplete without [Christina].”
new skin
GMTV Ross King on Christina Aguilera Interview Behind The Scenes of 'Not Myself Tonight' music video. Special Thanx tohttp://xtina-web.com
Rock od Buse
Miami Beach police arrested reality star Megan Hauserman this morning for driving under the influence!
The police report that at around 3:15AM, the former Rock Of Love contestant was driving her BMW to a strip club where she is currently employed.
Wow! A BMW? Contracting herpes from Bret Michaels has it perks, huh?
Megan was pulled over after she was suspiciously weaving between cars and speeding at 75mph in a 55mph zone. Officers report that Megan's eyes were "bloodshot and watery" and she reeked of alcohol. When they questioned her, her speech was severely slurred and she allegedly told police she was "filming a TV show and was tired."
Your VH1 pleasure cruise has sailed, hun! Lies do you no good!
Finally, she was tested on a breathalyzer and she blew a level of .102, which is more than enough to convict her of a DUI!
Read More: Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton http://perezhilton.com/page/3/#ixzz0lJ3oEO8Q
Celebrity Juice, Not from Concentrate
Social Technology: Best/Worst Thing Ever?
Jason, I hope that you are enjoying the shift in weather. Spring is a favorite season of mine, it always feels like a fresh start on things…especially after this winter.
On to the business at hand.
Thanks for your post teeing up social technology…there is so much noise about this issue out there. I guess I have a paradoxical view regarding social technology, I think that social technology is very underrated and very overrated. That works for me, because as you like to remind me, I am a consultant and I do not have to make sense!
Getting on LinkedIn is not going to build social capital for you. But you can use LinkedIn to more effectively build social capital. Getting on Twitter is not going to build social capital for you. But you can use Twitter to more effectively build social capital. Having 17,374,981 “friends” on Facebook does not mean that you actually have any social capital. I guess I view the rapidly evolving world of social technology as similar in nature to steroids. Steroids alone will not make you a great athlete. You still have to be a really talented to play professional sports, but steroids can make you even better (although there is clearly a number of bad aspects to using steroids, so not a perfect analogy).
I think that new social technologies are absolutely changing the way that we interact, and some of those changes are good and some of them are bad. You and I as friends, as collaborators and as business partners communicate with each other in a variety of ways. But the vast majority of our really important and serious conversations still happen face to face. We use texting, e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and this blog to complement an already very real relationship. That is a wonderful thing. But when social technology is used to replace, avoid or simply create the perception of a real relationship it is bad news…whether we are talking about a 1:1 relationship or the relationship between an organization and its workforce or its customers.
So, I think that the most important question that is not being asked is what kind of relationships do we want to have? As employees, as employers, as HR leaders, as business leaders, as citizens, parents, friends, neighbors, consumers…what do we want those relationships to be like?
I look forward to digging into this further.
-joe
DASH REVAMPED
Take it off!
Kourtney and Khloe Kardshian pose nude in a racy new ad for their Miami store, Dash.
Khloe and I needed a fun way to let everyone know that we revamped Dash Miami. This was our way! We came to town and made the store better than ever. The two girls in between Khloe and I are Jessica and Katy, two new dash dolls. We all spent the day getting airbrushed and posing for a Dash Miami photo shoot!
You can see how it all goes down on season 2 of Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami which will air in June!
Hott Pics Of the Week
SAY WHAT YOU WANT ABOUT HER SHE LOOKS AMAZING
After months of breathless waiting, panting and recovery from surgical scars, Heidi Montag showed up in Vegas on Monday to show off her brand new body enhanced by nearly a dozen plastic surgery operations... all done in one marathon session late last year.
But it was her beach ball sized breasts which naturally got the most attention.
Heidi was at the grand opening of The Liquid Pool and Spa barely contained in a bejeweled bikini of her own design as hubby Spencer Pratt looked on adoringly.
"I've been working out really hard and I've been through a lot so I'm very ready for this moment," said Heidi poolside. "I haven't been in a bikini since my new body and of course I'm wearing my own designs so I'm excited to show the world."
The 23-year-old star of The Hills underwent a mini brow lift, Botox in her brow and frownline area; a nose job; fat injections in her cheeks, nasolabial folds and lips; chin reduction; neck liposuction; had her ears pinned back; a breast augmentation revision; liposuction on her waist, hips and inner and outer thighs; and a buttock augmentation.
Bionic Unfolding
Here some Promotional Pics Of Christina Aguilera's new album BIONIC
Can You say Hottness!
Can You say Hottness!
Tardy for the White Party
Britney Spears made a surprise appearance at the annual gay & lesbian White Party in Palm Springs, Ca! She tweeted that she was having “sooooo much fun” and that she was going to check out Agnes perform. Today, some footage surfaced of good old Brit-Brit hanging out at the event and it looks as if Agnes was not the only performer she watched take the stage that day. Check out this clip of Brit sitting through The Real Housewives, Kim Zolciak & Kandi Burruss, performing the Tracy Young remix of “Tardy for the Party“. Poor Britney had to endure the hot sun and this hot mess of a “performance”.
The Jersey Men
The Men of Jersy Shore Heat things up in there spread in INTERVIEW MAGAZINE.
Looks like season 2 is going to be hot.
Looks like season 2 is going to be hot.
Runs That Come In More Ways Than One
Yankee fans may not give a shiat as to why
Chan Ho Park was terrible his first few
outings with the Bombers, but at least they
were legitimate "runs".
Chan Ho Park was terrible his first few
outings with the Bombers, but at least they
were legitimate "runs".
Let the Sex Begin
lOVING The Official poster of SEX AND THE CITY 2
Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis and Kim Cattrall won the award for best film ensemble at ShoWest Thursday night, even though their "Sex and the City" sequel isn't out till May.
Earlier in the day they introduced the film in presentation to theater owners.
Cattrall missed the festivities though as she's in London doing the Noel Coward play Private Lives.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis and Kim Cattrall won the award for best film ensemble at ShoWest Thursday night, even though their "Sex and the City" sequel isn't out till May.
Earlier in the day they introduced the film in presentation to theater owners.
Cattrall missed the festivities though as she's in London doing the Noel Coward play Private Lives.
Is technology killing social capital?
Joe,
I have found myself recently chatting with several people who seem to be making the argument that social networks, text/instant messaging, and the internet in general are diminishing the relationships between people. To be fair, the people making the argument are generally Gen X or older and are people who pride themselves in networking the old-fashioned way, face to face and eyeball to eyeball. So, they could just be resisting change or maybe they are on to something.
While I think it's very short-sighted to suggest that technology is ruining relationships, I do think it's an interesting topic to consider how it is changing the relationships and connectedness between people. So, I'd like to propose that we discuss this issue in our next several posts. Here are some of the questions that I'm interested in discussing:
I have found myself recently chatting with several people who seem to be making the argument that social networks, text/instant messaging, and the internet in general are diminishing the relationships between people. To be fair, the people making the argument are generally Gen X or older and are people who pride themselves in networking the old-fashioned way, face to face and eyeball to eyeball. So, they could just be resisting change or maybe they are on to something.
While I think it's very short-sighted to suggest that technology is ruining relationships, I do think it's an interesting topic to consider how it is changing the relationships and connectedness between people. So, I'd like to propose that we discuss this issue in our next several posts. Here are some of the questions that I'm interested in discussing:
- How has the advent of social networks, email, and texting changed the way we connect and interact with others?
- What are the differences between being connected and having a relationship?
- How is technology impacting the way children and young adults are connecting to one another and what is the long term impact of that?
- How does the difference between connection and relationship play into the creation of social capital?
Clearly, a major shift is underway in how we interact with one another. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on exactly what's going on and how we can both make sense of it and embrace it.
-Jason
Xtina Fever
Here you have a first look of Christina Aguilera's latest music video: Not Myself Tonight! The video is being filmed on the course of 3 days!
Cant wait!
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