#140Conf New York
Kate Carruthers Spoke at the amazing #140conf in New York City, hosted by the amazing Jeff Pulver, recently about Twitter: Activism and Real Life Relationships in the context of Social Innovation Sydney.
social computing & social media
Friction, hypereconomics, and social intercourse
Friction is one of the more important concepts in the world. Many things are either made possible or impeded by friction. Strike a match and the friction creates a flame.…
Navigating the New World of Hyperconnectivity
This week I spoke at the Recruitment Technology Evaluation Convention in Sydney. The topic was navigating the hyperconnected world from a recruitment and human resources perspective. The key issues facing…
Welcome to the panopticon
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…
Social media, radical transparency, insights, and klout
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…
The business of social business
Social business is the new trend following on from Enterprise 2.0 – but underlying it is an essential conflict between two different styles of doing business. The conflict is between…
Social Media – How to apply best practice to your business
Was on a panel hosted by Business Spectator about Social Media — Is it the best thing to happen to businesses for a generation? Or is it the biggest waste…
Is ‘social’ the right term to use for everything online?
There is a tendency to put the word social in front of many other words to day to describe some new use of technology. I remain uncomfortable with the way…
Twitter and the great iPhone rescue mission #140conf
You know that moment? The one where you realise you’ve left your mobile phone somewhere. It happened to me recently in New York. I was on the train to JFK…
It’s not content that matters, it’s the stories
When I checked on a major search engine the other day there were 247,000,000 results for the term “content is king”. Many people have said it to me over the…