Words of Advice From A Departing Yahoo’er

September 2, 2010 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Words of Advice From A Departing Yahoo’er

September 2, 2010 – In a post on BoomTown called, “Exclusive: Yahoo Social Platforms Head Neal Sample Departs for eBay”, the author reports on yet another major departure from Yahoo in recent days. Yahoo VP for Social Platforms Neal Sample has left the company for eBay where he will be the chief of architecture. This departure comes just a week after Yahoo Communications Products Head Jason Titus also left the company.

In a letter to his colleagues, Sample wrote:

“… I leave present and future Yahoos with this… Get out there and press the flesh. Learn the names of your fellow Yahoos, all of them…”

Interesting piece of advice from Sample. Is he saying “it is more than what you know, it’s who you know?” I think that is something we all should remember.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.