Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, Shirky, Clay
Anyone who can use lolcats to make a relevant and provocative intellectual point is worth paying attention to. Clay Shirky pulls it off in his latest book. Here’s his point:
Let’s nominate the process of making a lolcat as the stupidest possible creative act…. The [...]
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Andy Lippman, at MIT’s Media Lab, offers provocative examples of learning how to think in network terms when designing services in a recent blog post from the Communications Futures Program at MIT. At the very heart of the Internet’s design is a notion called the end-to-end principle (PDF). The best network is one [...]
Also tagged Design, end-to-endLike everyone else who’s awake, my long-time friend and colleague Keri Pearlson and I have been trying to make sense out of the uptake of new "social" technologies into organizations. We are noodling on the hypothesis that the CIO represents the best choice if an organization wants to develop a social technology strategy that is [...]
Also tagged Enterprise 2.0Patti Anklam and I have reconnected after first meeting several years ago. We navigate in the same circles and our networks overlap, but I hadn’t been carefully following her work. My mistake and I’ve fixed that now. Here’s a recent piece from her with a very good overview presentation on moving from a general understanding [...]
Also tagged Knowledge workJust before Thanksgiving I was at the KM World 2009 conference in San Jose listening to a keynote presentation by Charlene Li. Like many others, I was tweeting during her presentation and posted the following:
At just about the same time, on the right coast, danah boyd of Microsoft was delivering a keynote at the [...]
Also tagged backchannel, TwitterLiz Strauss offers up another of her provocative challenges; to craft 25 words of advice on social media.
Here’s my 25 words:
Social media wisdom, like all wisdom, comes from experience. Engaged, mindful, reflective experience. Deliberate and intentional practice will yield wisdom. Other experience need not apply.
The picture is of my coxswain son and his [...]
Also tagged Liz StraussAs 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 [...]
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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