The future is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed William Gibson A recent discussion about bad television science fiction versus what good science fiction can be illuminates the challenge of coping with today’s technology environment in everyday organizational reality. It started with a recent speech by Star Trek writer Ron Moore: At his recent [...]
Tagged science fictionImage via Wikipedia [cross posted at FASTforward blog] At last week’s Blogwell 2 conference in Chicago, Lee Aase from the Mayo Clinic shared their efforts to use social media to continue to share the Clinic’s message with the existing extended community tightly and loosely surrounding them. The Mayo Clinic has built a worldwide reputation over [...]
Tagged #blogwell, health care, socialmediaIn recent years I’ve taken to avoiding conferences unless I find my way onto the agenda or some other active role. Too many conferences have become thinly and poorly veiled marketing exercises by sponsors who seem to believe that the participants cannot distinguish between substantive content and a sales pitch. Or perhaps don’t particularly care [...]
Tagged #blogwell, socialmedia[cross posted at FAST Forward] The Obama campaign was innovative on a number of dimensions, particularly with the use of social media and the effective leverage of committed volunteers. There’s been some good reporting that captures the ground truth of what the campaign actually did and some early efforts to make sense out of these [...]
Tagged socialmediaAs 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 [...]
Tagged Social mediaHere 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 [...]
Tagged Social mediaHere’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 [...]
Tagged LinkedInVenkat 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 [...]
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 GMT
Tagged DRMAn 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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