Social Media Update at the Sloan Network

Judi Casey February 11th, 2009

We have fully embraced social media here at the Sloan Network. We see social media as a fantastic opportunity to connect with you and new audiences in dynamic and collaborative ways.

We launched our Work and Family Blog in April 2008 and have made over 140 posts covering a wide variety of work and family topics. We appreciate your taking the time to make comments as we want to hear your perspective on these issues. Feel free to socially bookmark our posts and other content on Digg, Delicious and Reddit so your colleagues and friends can find out about us. All of our blog posts have a share button which gives you easy access to these social bookmarking sites. Once you go to these sites, you can connect to others who have “dugg” or bookmarked these links. On the right side of the blog is our blog roll with a list of other blogs that provide coverage of interesting topics in the work-family arena. We have provided RSS feeds of both our blog and website updates to ensure that you can easily stay updated on the latest Network content. We are all using Google Reader to quickly discover and digest other blogs.

On the social networking front, we have created groups on both Facebook and LinkedIn to connect with you directly and allow you to connect with other individuals. Our Facebook group now has over 90 members and our LinkedIn group has over 70 members. Both allow you to pose questions to the group and post new topics of interest. To join, either click on the links above or search for the “Sloan Network” and then click the join button.

We have just jumped into the Twitter waters; you may read our Twitter posts on the sidebar of our blog or at http://twitter.com/SloanNetwork. We use Twitter to post updates to our site as well as links to popular press articles that touch on work and family issues. We’d like to hear what you think of this rapidly spreading networking tool.

Please do join the Sloan Network conversations on these social media platforms, and feel free to keep us updated about new ways to connect with you.