Twitter, commonsense and journalism #groggate
Kate Carruthers I’ve been observing the discourse in the mainstream and social media worlds about the ‘outing’ of the blogger Grog’s Gamut – the so-called #groggate. Craig Thomler has made an excellent…
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Rethinking organisations: the digital revolution, social and convergence
An interesting question came up last Friday in a discussion with a group of Marketing and Communications folks from McDonald’s. It was about how social media might be situated and…
Ethics, incompetence, and conspiracy
The common thread between these items is the importance of communication. And it is the communication by leaders and managers within organisations that signifies to people what standards of thinking…
Knowledge, convenience and findability (thanks @KerrieAnne)
This amusing cat picture was suggested by my buddy @KerrieAnne as a Caturday candidate – it’s from a post by Nick Milton titled You wont use it if you can’t…
Time to drop the social and the media from our lexicon?
I was reading the article If Every Company is a Media Company…Then Who Owns Social Media? after seeing a Twitter conversation between @DesWalsh and @Trib. The article author, Don Bulmer,…
Risk management and real communication
I was reading a post by Dave Snowden that really got me thinking. In his post, From oratory to the soundbite, he discusses the changes in how our politicians engage…
Real world social values and social networking
Social media and social networking do not reduce the need for good social skills. Rather, the disconnection from physical presence in online communication makes social skills (what some call EQ)…
Not just Twitter, most conversation is meaningless babble
It’s not really meaningless babble anyway! And this is not necessarily a bad thing. Most conversation is not important for the words we speak. Instead it is the act of…
Positive thinking versus positive action
There is a difference between merely engaging in positive thinking and undertaking positive action. On its own thinking is merely an interior act, and only when connected to positive actions…
Social Media and Business | SME Technology Conference
I spoke at Ross Dawson’s SME Technology Summit last week. Here are my slides & some brief thoughts about social media for business: Social Media For Business 2009http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=socialmediaforbusinesssmetech2009-091130163400-phpapp01&stripped_title=social-media-for-business-2009 View more…