Completely Conspicuous Completely Conspicuous 84: Communication Breakdown

Completely Conspicuous Episode 84: Communication Breakdown

Part 2 of my conversation with special guest Rick Johnson, this time talking about social media. 

Topics:

- Social media as a business tool

- Reconnecting through Mario Kart

- The trend toward oversharing

- Tales of all-employee e-mail abuse

- Ill-advised blogging about work

- Facebook's evolution

- LinkedIn is all about the networking

- The future is mobile

- The dark side: Sexting, corporate espionage, cats and dogs living together

- Lame corporate attempts at social networking

- Social networking is like weed?

- Pinhead of the Week

Music:

- Yo La Tengo - Periodically Double or Triple

- Patterson Hood - Pollyanna

- Polvo - Beggars Bowl

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The Yo La Tengo song is on the band's album Popular Songs on Matador Records. Find out more at http://www.yolatengo.com. You can download the song at http://www.matadorrecords.com.

The Patterson Hood song is on the album Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs) on Ruth St. Records. Find out more and download the song at http://www.pattersonhood.com/.

The Polvo song is on the album In Prism on Merge Records. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/polvotheband and download the song at http://www.mergerecords.com.  

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at http://clickyclickymusic.com and http://www.keepingsomedarksecrets.com. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/meandboristhebull.

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