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{ Monthly Archives } October 2008

Some links on social media applications within organizations

As part of my talk yesterday at the Social Media Strategies conference, I made passing reference to a number of stories, blog posts, bloggers, thinkers, and writers. It’s an occupational hazard of being a former professor.
I’ve written about different elements of yesterday’s talk over the course of various blog posts over time. Here are [...]

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Social Media Strategies Conference – presentation on internal communities

Here is the presentation I did today at the Social Media Strategies conference going on at the Stanford Court in San Francisco. We got some excellent input and interaction going. There should be a full size version of this graphic linked to this version.

I did this presentation using MindManager 7.0. It mostly worked, but not [...]

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Pay it Forward on LinkedIn

Here’s an excellent idea. I’ll be on the West Coast on the 29th (I’m speaking at the Social Media Strategies conference), but I’m sure I’ll be able to fit this into my schedule for the day. This comes to me by way of my long-time friend and colleague Keri Pearlson (who might get one of [...]

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Technology Leaders Association presentation

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 we may check out [...]

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A workbook on doing disruptive innovation effectively

[cross posted at FASTForward Blog]
The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work, Anthony, Scott D. et.al.
The Innovator’s Guide to Growth is the newest installment in a series of books articulating and explicating Prof. Clay Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation. This hands on guide packages some of the insights developed as an outgrowth [...]

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Seven years at McGee’s Musings

Today is my seventh blogiversary.
Over time, we’ve seen a proliferation of tools and services that give us ways to connect and interact. Today we have Twitter, Friendfeed, LinkedIn, Facebook, and more. All are ways to improve our chances of connecting. As you can see in the sidebar, I  maintain some presence on most of them.
This [...]

Dueling philosophies: social media vs. knowledge management

Venkat Rao of Xerox recently introduced an important argument about the underlying differences between social media and knowledge management approaches inside the Enterprise. Here’s the way I described them at delicious. Both are worth a look, a read, and some thought.
Enterprise 2.0 Blog » Blog Archive » Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War [...]

Why do we continue to tolerate DRM?

The great folks at xkcd sharply summarize the fundamental problem with DRM (digital restrictions management in my view). I continue to be bewildered by the disconnects between the current legal environment, technological reality, and the pragmatic reality of making actual use of digital content.
Steal This Comic

Steal This ComicMon, 13 Oct 2008 04:00:00 [...]

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Speaking at the Social Media Strategies conference at the end of October

I’ll be heading to San Francisco at the end of the month to participate in the upcoming “Social Media Strategies” conference being held there on October 29th and 30th. If you’re interested in joining me, here’s a sign-up link that will get you a discount on the registration fee:

I’m planning on talking more about the [...]

Tracing links to insight

An excellent example this morning of the wonderfully organic way that our evolving social and technological environment supports learning and sharing. I checked out Twitter this morning by way of TweetDeck and found this item from Liz Strauss:
I trust Liz so I check out Saul Colt on Twitter and go from there to his [...]

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