3 Ways You’ll Be Using Facebook Video Differently in 2017

What a revolution the Internet brought to publishing.

Through the late 90s and early 2000s, we’ve seen barriers to sharing the written word completely flatten out and disappear. Anyone with a keyboard could start a blog. Then social networks came along and suddenly, ordinary people could become influencers, too!

Smartphones gave us the ability to develop content from wherever we happened to be at any given point and upload it to the web, where social sharing meant our words, images and video could be seen by hundreds, thousands or even millions of people.

Now, an executive at Facebook is predicting that in just five years time, Facebook will be “definitely mobile,” and “probably all video.”
Can you imagine a digital world devoid of written text?

It might seem crazy, but it’s not all that far fetched to think that video will soon take over. For starters, it’s so much quicker and easier to create video than to sit down, collect your thoughts, write them all out and edit it into something fit for public consumption.

Managers: let your reports fail

After excelling as an individual contributor, you were selected to become a people manager. Can you succeed? Not if you aren’t willing to re-learn what success looks like. If you want to make your team members good at their jobs, you need to get yourself comfortable with their mistakes.

Giving your team total responsibility is the difference between training a team of diligent executors, and growing your people into critical thinkers who can tackle bigger and bigger problems.

You may be tempted to handle the ‘hard’ stuff — like jumping into the fray whenever workloads get overwhelming or when higher executives are watching results. You may be tempted to think that only you can truly champion the team.

After all, a screw-up from your team could reflect poorly on you, and you’re good at your job, so you aren’t about to let that happen. And in the end, the team (with you at the front) ships the results and gets accolades, so everything’s great, right?