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links for 2009-08-20

YouTube – Social Media Revolution
This is essentially a follow on to the excellent "Did You Know" video. it focuses specifically on social networking and social media and provides an excellent introduction and overview for anyone still trying to wrap their heads around these trends. Worth the few minutes of your time, even if you are [...]

links for 2009-08-11

Portals and KM: Another Enterprise Blog and Wiki Success Story from Traction – Shore Bank
An overview of the Enterprise 2.0 efforts at Chicago's Shorebank. They implemented Traction Teampage in 2007.
(tags: case-study enterprise2.0 Shorebank traction-software)

Traction Software, Inc. | Blog776: NHS integrates Intranet 1.0 with Enterprise 2.0 to get Social with TeamPage 4.0
Here is another write up [...]

danah boyd on new habits in a connected world

I have got to meet danah boyd in real life one of these days. Her work, as revealed through her blogging, shows what can happen when you drop a well-trained, smart, and articulate observer into new environments. We all learn from her sharp attention to what is really going on. So much better than listening [...]

links for 2009-07-07

The Social Customer Manifesto: Study: Unselfish Individuals Benefit in Social Networks
Many executives reject the notions of social media because they rely on very naïve characterizations of likely individual behavior. This study points to some interesting data on why these naïve characterizations are misleading and what real behavior looks like.
(tags: fpa-2009-07-07 socialmedia)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can [...]

links for 2009-07-04

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)

Bridging analytic and managerial cultures, Part 2

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. Oral [...]

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Bridging analytic and management cultures, Part 1

Have 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 [...]

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Fun with constraints, knowledge, and design

Paula 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 [...]

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More on management and messiness – video interview from FASTforward’09

Joshua-Michéle 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-Michéle Ross
February 11, 2009 at 11:15 am · Filed under FASTforward’09, FFC09 [...]

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Management and messiness

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[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 got easier.” [...]

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