Social media, radical transparency, insights, and klout
Kate Carruthers 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…
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My Geek Origin story, what’s your story?
This post was inspired by Michael Kordahi, well known to many as @delic8genius, who put out a call encouraging to geeks to share their geek origin stories. My geek origin…
Innovation: operational excellence is not a path to sustainable growth
I’ve been thinking about innovation a great deal lately and am fascinated by how many people confuse two different kinds of innovation. The two different kinds of innovation are: It…
Why the wiki revolution is real via @dtapscott
This is a fascinating interview by Parag Khanna (@paragkhanna) with Don Tapscott (@dtapscott). Tapscott discusses the potential upside and downside of collaborative revolutions for societies around the world and the…
#Digicitz 9: Politics & Digital Activism in the Social Age
Tomorrow night I’ll be hosting a panel for Digital Citizens on Politics and Digital Activism in the Social Age. The panel has a fascinating and diverse group of people: Penny…
Freedom – the price and the value #Libya #auspol
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde, in Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) It has been fascinating to watch…
More thoughts on revolutions #Egypt #Tunisia #Bahrain #Iran #Libya
THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands…
Some preliminary thoughts about revolutions
There is a lot of talk about revolution happening now in online communities given the unfolding events in Tunisia and Egypt. This has got me thinking about the nature of…
Inspiring women: Louisa Lawson – women’s suffrage activist and publisher
The fight for women to get the vote was a monument to cooperation, ingenuity and collaboration on the part of many women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.…
Social Media – the US Army gets it
Most organisations are grappling with the digital revolution and its democratization of communication. The US Army is no different. However, they have met the organisational challenges of social media head…