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Networks, Knowledge and Social Media

From ‘Thought Leadership’ to ‘Upstreaming Conversations’

May 19, 2010

The phrase ‘thought leadership’ has some appeal to me. So today, I was reading an insightful post by Jim McGee, which led to some reflections and a gut reaction on why ‘thought leadership’ is finished as a marketing, management or PR label. [image to the left, from here]. Jim McGee writes that Thought Leadership risks becoming an empty [...]

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#ARConf and #Ecomm – Surprisingly Interrelated

May 5, 2010
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Finally I’m getting to my eComm posts and notes. On the third day, AR or Augmented Reality came to eComm America2010 in the form of ARConf.  I know many of the telecom crowd didn’t stick around for day three and I feel they missed out big time. Almost 12 hours long, Lee Dryburgh and team pulled together a [...]

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From Owning to Flowing – “the language of flows”

January 27, 2010

This is an incredibly important set of points re joining the flow. The quotes below represent JF’s thinking (and I’ve already bookmarked his previous post in Delicious). If you are thinking about “flow” you cannot miss reading the FAQ on FlowPlace. We operate exactly the same with knowledge. We accumulate knowledge in our inner basement. [...]

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Value-based Service Systems – How much is you?

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A nice facilitation example of the role we play in value co-creation and the way Irene Ng puts the question to her students.  How much is “YOU” in the last experience you had? So I go on the white board and on the right hand side I ask them to give me the outcome of [...]

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It’s Real-Time Open Delivery – Serious Business

January 20, 2010

Jon Husband pointed me to “The Moment Social Media Became Serious Business” in HBR. Part of sharing with him my previous post on why #socialbusiness is nothing new. The article and the reading of it provided more clarity for me. Here’s the deal. #SOCIALBUSINESS  is dead in the water because it is not the problem [...]

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Learning Faster not Social Business or a Big Shift

January 20, 2010

Learning Faster not Social Business or a Big Shift Business is a social construct that is changing. Stowe points to an article by Tom Friedman today. Sometimes we really should think about consultant speak. I’m know I can be guilty of it too. Still using words and reinventing phrases to put a new lens or [...]

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Blogging Lifestreams 2012 and My Personal Cloud

January 2, 2010

Yesterday I was tweaking my blog and generally updating myself with plug-ins and what others are doing with them. When I started blogging back in 2002 I was already thinking about lifestreams. Over the years I’ve blogged about and tried out Linkblogs (before bookmarking / del.icio.us) to both track content I see, help share it, [...]

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Supernova 2009 – What’s Next in the Network Age? – begins tomorrow in SF. CU there #sn09

November 30, 2009

Supernova starts tomorrow and I’m planning to attend and do a little blogging while there A few examples of the topics to be covered below.  I know many of the speakers, have done for years and that scares me. On the plus side many of those presenting/talking etc remain on the leading edge (that’s their [...]

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Smoke Signals – Is it time to burn our telephone numbers?

November 6, 2009

Just for fun… The Chinese, Greeks, Romans and American Indians all used “smoke” to communicate complex messages. Todayʼs smoke signals may just be Twitter or another micro- blogging service. What implications does this have for mobile communications and escalating the conversation? For sender and receiver? How are our signaling patterns changing? A new type of [...]

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How to get the most out of your blography?

November 3, 2009

At Mosoci we have a blography product that’s a wonderful way to build a conversation with leading edge respondents and even those less familiar with blogs. While the blography format has evolved over time it remains a relatively simple product. What makes it effective is the conversations and dialogue that it enables with clients. So [...]

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Jajah @call @stuarthenshall service misses the Phweet spot IMHO

September 16, 2009

Daniel Terdiman of Cnet  reports that Jajah will enable Twitter to talk. There’s a few hints in their announcement. There’s also material differences in what the experience is likely to deliver vs Phweet which was launched 15 months ago and remains in PublicAlpha as we never believed in giving free calls away to grow the [...]

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Panel on Innovation through Observation and Design #Mobilize

September 10, 2009

Some interesting comments although few examples provided. As always, good research and design is a mix of talented people and the result of powerful conversations. Schedule Innovation through Observation and Design Some of the best products and designs of the last 10 years have been derived from the study of human behavior. Landmark companies like [...]

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