Micro Persuasion
I have been giving a lot of thought to what the future looks like for blogging and where it fits in my life. I have no plans to stop, but as more action moves to the statusphere and my world gets more mobile, I have been looking for a new publishing approach. Louis Gray, Steve Gilmor and I had a rather deep discussion (Read More)
the-practice-of-leadership
Photo by kevindooleyCulture is often defined as “the way we do things around here”. Organisational culture is the leaders responsibility as “culture is the shadow of the leader”. If this is true the question is how is the culture embedded and transmitted by leaders? Edgar Schein in his book “Organizational Culture and Le (Read More)
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You'd think nothing would get under the skin of search giant Google. But co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades to his... (Read More)
Submitted by Judithgermain:
Some people sit and pontificate about whether leaders are made or born. The true leader ignores such arguments and instead concentrates on how to become better at leading people. In this article, we are going to discuss five leadership traits that people look for in a leader. If you are able to increase your skill in these (Read More)
: The difficult one in this list is competency. What should you be competent at? The doing or the leading? Or a bit of both? Very easy to get caught up too much in the doing, and loose the space/distance needed to be an effective leader.
: Hi Ian. I believe that leaders should be competent at leading, there are very few positions that require the leader to be highly skilled 'in the tasks that his team completes'. Issues tend to arise when the leader isn't credible with his team.
Engadget Mobile
Filed under: Handsets, AppleDigg's Kevin Rose has a solid (but far from perfect) track record when it comes to Apple rumors, and he just drove the nerds of SXSWi crazy with his latest gaze into the crystal ball: he says the iPhone 3.0 will have copy and paste. Kev says that the interface is much like the magnifying glass -- (Read More)
Submitted by Ian Mac Millan:
My friend Bob Kerns blogged about Stephen Wolfram’s “Alpha” project. The project aims to take on Google by creating a web-retrieval engine that can answer specific factual questions directly. Type in, “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” and it will go out to the Web, retrieve the answer, and tell you. Bob does (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Video: socialmedian founder discusses keeping it small, lessons learned as startup ceo.After raising $50 million for Jobster, Jason Goldberg decided to fund his new startup socialmedian in a very different way. "The biggest lesson I’ve learned when it comes to financing companies is to keep your startup small and keep it re (Read More)
Submitted by Ian Mac Millan:
A List of Social Media Marketing Examplesby Peter KimI've been thinking about how social media works. For example, applying game mechanics to understand participation, thinking about users vs. customers, and deconstructing ego traps in PR campaigns. This analysis makes me wonder if social media marketing matters and if so (Read More)
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
Are you the only person at work who likes to read blogs? Is it your job to sell things to people who would probably throw you out of their offices if you said the word "twitter?" Are you trying to reach audiences who've never visited a social networking website because they've heard those sites are used by no one but virus (Read More)
Submitted by Eristoddle:
Today's teenagers have an assumed ownership of technology. Like many parents, I haven't joined Facebook, MySpace or other social networking sites. I've resisted on the basis that it would be as embarrassing to my children as it would be if I hung out with them dressed in a miniskirt. But, having spoken to various experts, I (Read More)
: When one considers the falling education standards around the world, this article takes greater prominence. Are we, as humans, becoming less capable?
: Daniel J. Pritchett, a commenter above me said "Which is more important today, an in-depth knowledge of greek/roman classics or an ability to contribute solid insights to a social network? "
Well, they're both equally important. And if I had children and they could only learn one of these things, I'd choose the Greek and Roman classics. I don't think I'd be hindering them at all. (Social networks are intuitive. They can learn that anytime.)
We tend to believe that subjects that we have no interest in, or don't seem related to our occupation or daily lives are useless. This is definitely NOT true. We need both breadth and depth of knowledge to be complete human beings and valuable employees. The best computer programmers I've ever met had very liberal educations. The worst came from tech schools where they just studied programming. Why is that? Because a liberal education teaches skills that aren't always as obvious as technical educations. Critical thinking and analysis, for example, is not something you'll learn unless you actually do it, and studying and writing about literature (including the Greek and Roman classics) will help you develop that.
Personally, I think the internet is a wonderful research tool. But it shouldn't be the only one, and teachers should require students to physically go to a library, look in periodicals and books, and some homework should be done old school, with no computer at all. I've noticed that kids don't carry around books anymore. When I was a child, all the way up through my teenage years and young adulthood, I carried books with me to places like doctor's offices, parks, bus stops, etc. If I knew I might have to wait, I had a book handy. The kids today all have PSPs and Nintendo DS. None of them seem to be reading much, unless it comes off an LCD screen. (Not that reading off an LCD screen is necessarily a bad thing, but it tends to create reading multiple sources rather rapidly. There's no depth
The LinkedIn Blog
Many of you are probably aware of LinkedIn Groups' feature enhancements that we announced earlier today. In addition to those changes I'd also like to point out another much requested upgrade that launched today - one that impacts LinkedIn's Address Book. Starting today, we've made changes that allow you greater flexibility (Read More)
Delicious/bbswiss
As an active social media user and marketer, I’m always interested in learning new things to improve my knowledge and abilities. This is a collection of some of the best articles that I’ve found on a variety of topics related to social media. (Read More)
Submitted by Eristoddle:
Here is a list of white label social networking software. Software available for you to launch your own social network today. (Read More)
: i see ... thats what i just have thought i should really use .....miy firefox is exploding by the way from these addons and some social horses have died - like taggly - is that right?
Submitted by Ian Mac Millan:
August 6, 2008 | article by Ken Thompson | Many networks and communities seem to require constant attention from the leaders or facilitators. Its always the same old people who seem to do all the work. Take away the leader, perhaps because the funding runs out, and the community just withers and dies - sometimes within a ma (Read More)
: This is why I like Ecademy.com (and particularly the BlackStar community), as it covers all the bases. It doesn't have to be complicated. It's all about creating an architecture for participation, so that we can contribute, give and get real value, and feel a sense of belonging.
SocialMedian will do likewise (the tools to support this are all pretty much there, even in Beta).
louisgray.com
By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Identi.ca/FriendFeed)Identi.ca, the open source and Federated microblogging platform, could very well put Twitter out of business as other businesses begin realizing how they can adopt it. I think the answer could very well be in the "group Twitter" concept that everyone keeps talking about (Read More)
: Identi.ca, the open source and Federated microblogging platform, could very well put Twitter out of business as other businesses begin realizing how they can adopt it. I think the answer could very well be in the "group Twitter" concept that everyone keeps talking about and the fact that Laconi.ca, the code that powers Identi.ca, makes this very easy for anyone to do.
: Great idea: Build your own protocol for twitter like messaging. But then expect everyone to use it? With so much social media out there is this a reasonable expectation? I think not