“Human beings are social animals. We come together two by two in friendships and marriages; we form families and teams and the larger aggregations of practices, communities, societies, and nations. These groups assemble to achieve distinctive aims and to provide the satisfactions of sociability…Management thinkers, influenced by economists, have been slower to see the importance [...]
Category Archives: Social Media
A Year Ago.
If you ask my friends and new colleagues, you will find I am known as the slightly addicted Internet guy. iPhone? Why, certainly. MySpace? Cancelled that one, haven’t you? Facebook? Got my wife hooked on it. LinkedIn? Pro. Twitter? Are you serious? @jbordeaux has had brief brushes with stars from Brea Grant to Danny DeVito. [...]
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Breaking Cliques with Enterprise Micro-Blogging
Public service announcement: On June 12, 2009 broadcast analog television signals in the U.S. will cease as the spectrum is repurposed and television signals go all digital. This poses a major disruption to some people.
The rest of us are flabbergasted, nay, gobsmacked to learn that this poses a major disruption to some people. Who are [...]
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Pay Yammer or Else
Soon after I began using Twitter, I thought – this is exactly what my company needs. But, you know, “inside the firewall.” That’s the way we boomers think, in terms of these ancient concepts like “firewalls.” Something like feeling protected against invasion in New York City because there’s a natural moat around the city walls. [...]
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Cloud Cognition
Thinking out loud here…
Chat last night on Twitter about cloud computing, the definition having been recently updated on Wikipedia by @bobgourley. One gentle challenge was offered by @lewisshepherd: By the simpler definition, a print server would be deemed cloud computing – is that what is meant?
At one level, it is not altogether useful to [...]
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Twitterverse segmentation: The Journalists
I am seduced by the interest in yesterday’s post, which remains sloppy and in need of tightening. There are many types I missed, so let me try to flesh this out a bit. To review, these are observations, not completed analysis. But through this first pass, we may glean some common characteristics. To be serious [...]
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Initial Observations on Twitterverse Segmentation
Just some initial scattered thoughts regarding Twitter – if you don’t use it, this will make little sense to you. Perhaps.
I’m noticing possible user typologies, from my admittedly small vantage point, that are proving fascinating, at least to me. (All numbers are current as of 2 December 2008.)
What follows is tongue-in-cheek, as I am [...]
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Debunk Mates – Social Media Conquers Organizational Theory!
Exhibit 1. A twitter fragment reflects the opinion that Organizational Theory ‘dictates mostly top-down’ while ‘Social Media is Chaos Theory.’
Conclusion. Organizational Theory is now obsolete.
Exhibit 2. A gentleman writes a blog, which quickly goes viral, regarding what he sees as a ‘generational war’ between Knowledge Management and Social Media.
Conclusion. Knowledge Management is now (thankfully) [...]
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