Leaders are increasingly using social technology to open up lines of communication, create feedback loops, and talk directly with customers and new markets. It’s important that proactive leaders keep updated on what’s trending in the world of social networking. This week, don’t miss these stories:
1. Google Buzz is an amalgamation of Twitter, Facebook, and your Gmail account. Good luck “just” checking your email. Find out more in this video.
2. Google’s planning to offer “ultrafast internet” …

The past two weeks have been busy with work and barbecues, so you might have missed these leadership articles:

When Self-Interest Is Not An Excuse Not to Lead: Leaders can’t let their self-interest get in the way of making tough decisions.
3 Generations & Social Technology: Let’s face it: we’re getting older and technology is getting newer. How does this affect the corporate culture generation gap?
3 Tested Strategies to Empower Employees: 3 simple rules that are often …

Yesterday, we looked at how 3 different generations interact with and process the internet, social technology, and social media.
Here’s our matrix:

Social Technology and The Generation Gap

The Glibbers
The Roamers
The Clingers

Real Time
Short Term
Long Term

Bits of Information
Chunks of Information
Complete Information

Coded words
Quick Sentences
Full Pages

Delete
Search/Bookmark
Save

So, in most cases, the younger generation of office workers is compromised mostly of Glibbers while the older generation is, by and large, comprised of Clingers. That leaves the Roamers–the in-between group who are captivated by …

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Information wants to be free…sorry newspapers!
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Joe Queenan on the ‘office jerk’ and his fall.
Can Facebook create the next Pay-pal? Here are 4 arguments why Facebook just might.
How to get organized with web-based task managers.
Is China the next …

There have always been generation gaps–but in the age of social technology the generation gaps are getting bigger and growing faster.
The Glibbers: If you were born after 1980 the chances are you grew up near a computer and now, 29 years later, you digest online information quickly and in small bits. Glibber’s won’t just read news stories but they’ll follow their friends on twitter, scan a blog based in Hong Kong, read LA food reviews, …