future
Steve Hopkins was telling me recently about an interesting law firm he'd come across in San Francisco - it's called Robot. Where lawyer and junior partner Tim Hwang and his senior partners, Apollo Cluster and “Daria” XR-1029, work to merge legal and technical systems. It was
social innovation
Just saw announcement by TACSI that they've launched a new campaign. It seems like a really interesting idea, and one that definitely supports social innovation: Big or small, it doesn't matter. It can be something done by an organisation, or one person. My dad did a
ideas
Man Reunited With His Childhood Friend Gorilla and Gorilla won't let him go ...
future
Tonia Ries has just published an article titled Privacy Fail: Klout Has Gone Too Far, which outlines how Klout is indexing social networks and creating/measuring user profiles, even if they have never registered with Klout. About the same time Facebook was accused of creating 'shadow profiles' on
ideas
future
Don Tapscott is a thinker I've followed for a long time. This recent interview is worth watching. It's time for a new approach that embraces hyperconnectivity and the digital revolution. Don discusses how social networking is a not just about online communication, but a new mode
social computing & social media
One of the various social media influence scoring platforms - Klout - has just changed its algorithm and overnight many people's Klout scores have dropped. This has caused one of several reactions: 1. complete indifference 2. refutation of the importance of social media influence measurement 3. howls of
civil society
As the various Occupy protests fan out around the world many of us are trying to make sense of them, and to ascertain into which particular mental box these protests ought to go. This interview of Jesse LaGreca, a vocal member of the Occupy Wall Street protests and writer for
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This picture is from 2008 but it still makes me smile: For more information about wolf photographs please email Monty Sloan at Wolf Park
management & leadership
In response to yesterday's post someone on Twitter, @dmanww, raised the very sensible issue of the triple bottom line, or as some might call it, corporate social responsibility (CSR). However, having worked in a number of organizations that took the triple bottom line and corporate social responsibility very
ideas
It is interesting to think about this now that we see Occupy Wall Street spreading around the world (even to Occupy Sydney). Back in 1976 Michael Jensen and William Meckling argued that the solution to the principal-agency problem — business leaders advance their own interests not those of shareowners — was to
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