Resource Guides | Kontrary

Mostly, I try not to write about social media. I have no desire to be known as a social media expert despite the fact that many would agree that’s how I receive a paycheck every two weeks. I find the topic itself fairly stale, but sometimes I can’t help myself. So, I write. In these posts, you won’t find the top 5 Ways to Build Your Facebook Page, but rather an inquiry into the social media tools that shape and dominate our lives.

1. Bloggers Are Not Writers (98 comments)
Bloggers are good at a great number of things, but writing doesn’t always top the list.

2. Will You Regret Your Online Prescene? (27 comments)
Video: Do you share enough to worry?

3. Good spreads – without marketing (25 comments)
We still pay credence to large influencers, but social media numbers mean nothing.

4. Stop writing about social media to be a successful blogger (72 comments)
An ethos on social media.

5. The four truths of blog networks to use to your advantage (33 comments)
Why blog networks don’t actually suck.

6. Social media doesn’t create new generation leaders (30 comments)
We need eye to eye leadership, not screen to screen.

7. Social media is difficult – like intimacy (57 comments)
A personal favorite that extols the virtues of social media (See? I do actually love it).

Keep Reading:
Visit more than 200 of the best links on Social Media from around the web >
Curated by yours truly.

Favorite Social Media Bloggers
These people mostly make me think. Sometimes laugh. Other times, both. I believe those who are really great at social media don’t just write, but practice it every day – so you won’t find a lot of the social media celebrities in this list, but you’re welcome to link to your favorites in the comments.

I hope you enjoy this resource! Feel free to leave your favorite links on Social Media in the comments as you come across them. Resource guides will be available permanently on the sidebar.

Generation Y has always been one of my favorite topics to write about it. This guide provides a good introduction if you’re new to the topic, or some refreshing inspiration if you’re old hat. Each post contains a specific and articulated point of view, and links out to many more pieces of research, essays and ideas. As a generation, we are defining new movements and ideas.

Twenty-two of my favorites:

1. Generation Y is too quiet, too conservative
To light a fire, you have to have conflict, and to have conflict, you have to have an opinion.

2. Women will lead Generation Y – What will men do?
Alpha women are leading Generation Y, possibly at the expense of men.

3. Generation Y doesn’t need a reference
Arguing against the idea of needing a reference from a previous employer to get a job.

4. Back off: Gen Y’s helicopter parents are a good thing
Don’t sensationalize a generally good trend.

5. Generation Y is the ER doctor of generations
Gen Y doesn’t specialize. Is that putting our work at risk?

6. Gen Y women: out of the workplace woods?
Generation Y women are growing up believing they don’t have to worry about sexism, only to be confronted with it head-on in the workplace.

7. No “A for Effort:” How Colleges Fail Generation Y
Education is failing a startling rate. Universities have declining assets, growing liabilities, and only half of teenagers who enroll in college end up with a Bachelor’s degree.

8. Is Gen Y losing religion?
Some people talk about practicing religion a la carte, while others talk about leaving church entirely and finding a new kind of community as a result.

9. 3 workplace weaknesses that are really Gen Y strengths
Revealing our weaknesses as strengths in the new workplace.

10. Is Gen Y teamwork killing creativity?
Gen Y is all about the team, preferring conformity inside the lines over pushing boundaries or ourselves.

11. Gen Y needs boundaries for action
The consequences of our aimless wandering delay adulthood, but also our chance at genuine happiness.

12. The rising rift between Gen X and Gen Y
Controversial post on the differences between the X and Y generations.

13. Gen Y to cities: Don’t ignore us
Gen Y should be of the utmost priority for cities since we are uniquely positioned to stimulate economic development.

14. Will Gen Y ruin local community?
Young people have the best intentions to be part of the communities we live in, but we’re being challenged by a number of conflicting events that contribute to a lack of involvement in local community.

15. Why Generation Y should job-hop, even in the recession
Four ways to feel secure in today’s economy.

16. 7 concessions and a challenge to Gen Y naysayers
Conceding that we don’t know it all, and asking how to create meaningful interactions between generations.

17. Why Gen Y should talk about politics at work
Taboo topics are quickly becoming acceptable as part of Generation Y’s demand for authenticity and transparency. Except, maybe, for politics.

18. What Generation Y Fears the Most
Entering the workforce only furthers the distance between us and the issues that matter.

19. Generation Y breeds a new kind of woman
Women need men. Just not like we used to.

20. The real Generation Y work ethic
Gen Y is working hard, contrary to popular belief.

21. Dissent in the Gen Y ranks – family or career?
Arguing against the idea that a family holds you back from career success.

22. What it means to be a Gen Y leader
One of my first posts that started it all….

Keep Reading:
Visit more than 400 of the best links on Generation Y from around the web >
Curated by yours truly.

Favorite Gen Y Bloggers
These people make me think or laugh. Sometimes both.

I hope you enjoy this resource! Feel free to leave your favorite links on Generation Y in the comments as you come across them. Resource guides will be available permanently on the sidebar.