The Social Customer Manifesto: Study: Unselfish Individuals Benefit in Social Networks Many executives reject the notions of social media because they rely on very na ve characterizations of likely individual behavior. This study points to some interesting data on why these na ve characterizations are misleading and what real behavior looks like. (tags: fpa-2009-07-07 socialmedia) [...]
YouTube – Feynman – Part 1 of 6 This is the start of a NOVA special about the life and thinking of Richard Feynman. A fascinating mind worth studying. The best example I know of of where the relentless pursuit of simple curiosity can take you. (tags: Feynman video thinking)
Suppose you buy the notion that management is fundamentally an oral culture and analytics a literate one (see Part 1). How does that influence how you manage analytics? How can you take full advantage of technology? In an oral culture, what you can think is limited to what you can remember and tell–without visual aids. [...]
Tagged BIHave you ever wondered what’s behind the conflict between geeks and suits? Sure, they think differently, but what, exactly, does that mean? A Jesuit priest who passed away in 2003 at the age of 90 may hold one interesting clue. Walter Ong published a slim volume in 1982 titled "Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of [...]
Tagged BIPaula Thornton, my friend and co-blogger at FASTforward, tweeted the following this morning which reminded me of a little constrained exercise I did back in February. That exercise started with this tweet and a blog post that generated some fun discussion. What I didn’t do was publish the final list of C-words that were ultimately [...]
Tagged Knowledge workJoshua-Mich le Ross did an excellent set of interviews at last week’s FASTforward’09 conference. We talked some more about the challenges of managing innovation. Here’s the video for those of you who might be interested. FASTforward 09: Jim McGee, Managing Director of New Shoreham Consulting by Joshua-Mich le Ross February 11, 2009 at 11:15 am [...]
Tagged InnovationImage via Wikipedia [Cross posted at FASTforward blog] I’ve been mulling over Clay Shirky‘s remarks yesterday at FASTforward09. The bookends to his talk hint at some key challenges to managers contemplating their entry into the world of social media and Enterprise 2.0. Clay’s opening five word summary of Enterprise 2.0 is simply “group action just [...]
Tagged FASTforward, socialmediaThis has been lurking in my RSS aggregator for quite a while, courtesy of Jon Husband. There is really a lot of highly condensed insight in this post. Thanks to JP Rangaswami for distilling social computing (in the context of work) to an essence. From his post “Facebook and the Enterprise, Part 5: Knowledge Management“. [...]
I’m presenting today to the Technology Leaders Association meeting in Chicago on the topic of “Technology for Us.” I’ve uploaded my slides to Slideshare. Technology for Us – Tech Leaders Association View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: knowledge-work socialmedia) I’ve also tagged a number of links at delicious; both of sites [...]
Tagged TLAThe Contribution Revolution: Letting Volunteers Build Your Business – An excellent executive introduction to the business implications of social media and user generated content by Scott Cook, CEO of Intuit. Nothing terribly new here if you’ve been paying attention to the social media environment at all. On the other hand it summarizes and packages the [...]
