Romany Thresher

Where is the positive feedback?

Most of us have lived our lives with a lot of negative comments and feedback. Why is it that more often than not people are quick to judge, quick to tell us what we are doing wrong and quick to dismiss us because of something we’ve said or done.

How about we change that.  Let’s give feedback by making a conscious effort to give more positive and constructive feedback. Brighten someone’s day, appreciate the people around you, value the work they do and the value they add to your life.

Thank your loved ones for sticking by you, for

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Should you manage your own social media or outsource it to a professional?

A question I was asked on The BackSeat a few weeks ago and what a good question.

My answer to this question is both and here are my reasons:

Outsourcing social media management to a professional.

The reason you would want to outsource your social media to a consultant is because they are specialists in their field. They are on top of industry news, new products and new platforms. A social media consultant will spend a lot of time keeping in the loop with what is going on, especially when it comes to changes and new platforms. In the

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Time Management: How to deal with having too much to do

In most instances most of us are extremely busy and have 10 million things to do, (well not quite 10 million but you feel like it is).  This is why it is so important to figure out the best way to manage your time as well as manage how and when people communicate with you.  The open office door policy at management level  is definitely a must within any organisation.  Where the problem lies in when you are interrupted at the most inopportune times.  While a lot of people can compose themselves and be polite and deal with the

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Kony 2012 – Social Media Brilliance

As most of you know by now there’s been quite a bit of controversy regarding the Kony 2012 video which was made by Invisible Children. I’m not here to say they are right, or wrong, what I will say it does leave a lot of questions and rightly so. I’m not writing this blog to discuss their rights and wrongs of what they did, there are enough people doing that already. I want to talk about their use of social media.

On the social media front, you can see that Invisible Children defined their goals and objectives and had

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