Susan Beebe joins Tyson Foods, Inc. as Manager, Social Media & Online Communities

Tyson Foods, Inc. global headquarters

Tyson Foods, Inc. global headquarters

I am very pleased to announce that I've joined the wonderful folks over at Tyson Foods, Inc. as a manager on the corporate social media team. Tyson is a well-known and respected food company that has a huge heart when it comes to humanitarian aid in the form of hunger relief (see TysonHungerRelief.com blog started in 2007 by Ed Nicholson) . Cool peeps on our corporate social business team which I am honored to work with include: Ed Nicholson, Jake Pate, and Kyle Gibson.

As part of this career change, I've relocated up to the NW region of Arkansas as I now work at Tyson's corporate headquarters. The NWA area is a nature-lovers dream come true... truly a hidden gem! If you love hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, fly fishing, rock climbing and nature walks, then you definitely need to check it out.

I live in the city of Fayetteville, right next to the Fayetteville Lake, which has tons of paved and dirt nature trails... so awesome! Lots of great things to see and do here! Fayetteville reminds me a bit of Austin as they have a local slogan here, "Keep Fayetteville Funky" that is very similar to Austin's, "Keep Austin Weird." These should become Sister cities, right?! 

Over time I will be sharing more news and incredible pics like the one above (only 5 minutes from our new house!)

Connect with @TysonFoods on twitter and facebook too!

Funny #infographic on ways people foil their own #productivity via @marketo

As jobs become more scarce and employed workers feel increasing demands to be productive or face elimination, it becomes incredibly important to be super productive.

Here's another great infographic on productivity killers. I love how this shows you the perfect recipe to becoming a completely UN-productive worker. The irony is fabulous. Obviously, DON'T do all this stuff. Rather UNDO what you may be doing as noted below... Turning off notifications is my favorite. We're already checking email a gazillion times per day - turn that noise off and get some work done.

Source: Marketo

Source: Marketo

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