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I'm not sure that most people have realised yet, but social networks are creating a revolutionary change in the way we interact with other people. And they are revolutionary in that they also change how we do things and our expectations of how things work. Non-localised proximity Once
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To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day on 24 March 2009, Nick Hodge has kindly invited me to participate in his show. More details over at Nick's blog. Lord knows what we're going to talk about - but you can guarantee that between the two of us it
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The invention of hypertext and its implementation in the form of the World Wide Web was a revolution akin to the creation of the modern printing press. We are still seeing the reverberations of this revolution in many spheres of life. With the implementation of the Gutenberg printing press back
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Many authors and commentators have been talking about the notion of generations in terms of age cohorts - baby boomers, generation X, generation Y, etc. For example, Mark McCrindle is a well known Australian researcher who has written extensively on this topic. But I am not convinced that analysing people
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Back in the old days at GE (pre GFC) we were taught that all business ideas or problems should be considered from the "outside-in" or from the customer's point of view. This was part of their Six Sigma approach using Voice of the Customer principles. Now
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New technology often seems to take a while for us to work out how to fit new cultural practices around it. I suspect that social networking fits the norm in that regard. Human beings have been networking in forest, fields, villages and cities for aeons - but it is only
social computing & social media
New technology often seems to take a while for us to work out how to fit new cultural practices around it. I suspect that social networking fits the norm in that regard. Human beings have been networking in forest, fields, villages and cities for aeons - but it is only
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Once people have used Twitter for a while they often ask: How can a very large number of people be your friends? The truth is they can't all be your intimate friends but that there are degrees of friendship just as exist in real life. And on Twitter
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So many people ask me about how to manage or create rules of engagement for social media and social networking for their business and staff. Usually I direct them to some good resources like these as a starting point: * I am a Civil Servant Online Participation Guidelines (their site is
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