Helle has no fury? President #Obama admitted in a press conference yesterday that the roll out of the Obamacare website was his biggest frustrations or mistakes of 2013. I, for one, was surprised. I thought for sure he would say that taking a selfie with the good-looking Danish Prime Minister #Helle Thorning-Schmidt during the memorial service for Nelson #Mandela while Michele was watching was his biggest mistake for 2013. That is not the first time I have been wrong. For instance, I thought for sure that the Danish Prime Minister would be furious about the look of scorn she got from First Lady #Michele Obama. Turns out that...wait for it...Helle had no fury like a woman scorned. (click to tweet)
There is a buzz about a message tweeted by Justine Sacco, the communications director for #InterActiveCorp (IAC). In a tweet, he said, “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” Wow! This is interesting on several levels. First, Justine is a director for communication in a major company. IAC is the parent company of several companies, including Match.com, The Daily Beast and Dictionary.com. They also own BlackPeopleMeet.com, a dating site for African-Americans. Oh oh. He should know better than to tweet something controversial. He should also know that things posted on the internet are not private. Stating that he is white and suggesting that whites can’t get #AIDS is racism and stupid. I don’t know if Justine is married, but he has implied that he might have sex with someone in Africa. I am sure that by now Justine is out of a job. He may also be out of a significant other. I wonder if he will ever get a position in communications again. Justine needs to make a career change. How will he answer the question in his next job interview, “Why did you leave your last job?”?
I cautioned about using social media in my book, Leadership for New Managers: Book Two, http://smashwords.com/b/300090
There is a buzz about a message tweeted by Justine Sacco, the communications director for #InterActiveCorp (IAC). In a tweet, he said, “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” Wow! This is interesting on several levels. First, Justine is a director for communication in a major company. IAC is the parent company of several companies, including Match.com, The Daily Beast and Dictionary.com. They also own BlackPeopleMeet.com, a dating site for African-Americans. Oh oh. He should know better than to tweet something controversial. He should also know that things posted on the internet are not private. Stating that he is white and suggesting that whites can’t get #AIDS is racism and stupid. I don’t know if Justine is married, but he has implied that he might have sex with someone in Africa. I am sure that by now Justine is out of a job. He may also be out of a significant other. I wonder if he will ever get a position in communications again. Justine needs to make a career change. How will he answer the question in his next job interview, “Why did you leave your last job?”?
I cautioned about using social media in my book, Leadership for New Managers: Book Two, http://smashwords.com/b/300090
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