Being utterly besotted with the web, and especially the social web, as I am, I tend dislike nay-saying about its significance, and the manifold benefits this thing will bring to society, the world etc. You know ...
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Influence, shminfluence: You get the networks you deserve
"It's all about the networks." We say it, I say it, a lot. But I'm not sure that we're really appreciating what that means. In a way, Gladwell did us a disservice with the Tipping Point. It over-simplified networks, when the most important thing you ...
Useful pleasures
Sometimes when we talk about the importance of being useful in your networks, in attention markets, people add "or you can be entertaining...". I blame the Puritan, protestant streak in our psyche for that. Something that connects utility with functional, work-like stuff. And sees entertainment as other, as a pleasure, and pleasure a somehow being separate ...
Al Robertson has been tinkering / remixing Andy Gibson's thinking on what makes successful social projects, called "45 Social by Social Propositions", partly inspired by Clay Shirky's ...
Blogging, I love you
Someone (I think Russel) was saying you should blog every dog-eared page. It's a lovely idea, and I wish I had time to do that (read that as: "I intend to find the time to do that). And every starred item in Google Reader, and everything I bookmark on Delicious... My favourite blogger at the ...
New models for network business: Crowds/Tribes/Teams…
Networks change everything they touch. New models for business will emerge as we begin to understand their potential. Recently I've seen a potential model for loose ...
Learning to read Twitter
Twitter. It's all about learning to see it. Out of utter respect for Howard Rheingold (and a weariness of Twitter neologisms) I'm going to stick with calling it Twitter literacy. If you have been reading about Twitter for a while I bet you five quid a ...
Curation-led marketing?
Quite pleased with a post about curating branded content ...
No top Facebook apps from brands either…
Just as you won't see a "viral video" from a brand in the blockbuster list for this genre, you won't find any apps from brands in the top Facebook apps list. As Dirk at News from the Herd notes, it's about certain kinds of useful when it comes to hitting the sweetspot with Facebook ...
Communities of purpose
I like David Cushman's take on the way that the web disrupts everything it touches. My main focus has been in thinking about the shift from channels to networks in media. Reading David reminds me that it is everything that looks like a ...
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Always look on the brightside of the downside…
Being utterly besotted with the web, and especially the social web, as I am, I tend dislike nay-saying about its significance, and the manifold benefits this thing will bring to society, the world etc. You know ...
Influence, shminfluence: You get the networks you deserve
"It's all about the networks." We say it, I say it, a lot. But I'm not sure that we're really appreciating what that means. In a way, Gladwell did us a disservice with the Tipping Point. It over-simplified networks, when the most important thing you ...
Useful pleasures
Sometimes when we talk about the importance of being useful in your networks, in attention markets, people add "or you can be entertaining...". I blame the Puritan, protestant streak in our psyche for that. Something that connects utility with functional, work-like stuff. And sees entertainment as other, as a pleasure, and pleasure a somehow being separate ...
Al Robertson has been tinkering / remixing Andy Gibson's thinking on what makes successful social projects, called "45 Social by Social Propositions", partly inspired by Clay Shirky's ...
Blogging, I love you
Someone (I think Russel) was saying you should blog every dog-eared page. It's a lovely idea, and I wish I had time to do that (read that as: "I intend to find the time to do that). And every starred item in Google Reader, and everything I bookmark on Delicious... My favourite blogger at the ...
New models for network business: Crowds/Tribes/Teams…
Networks change everything they touch. New models for business will emerge as we begin to understand their potential. Recently I've seen a potential model for loose ...
Learning to read Twitter
Twitter. It's all about learning to see it. Out of utter respect for Howard Rheingold (and a weariness of Twitter neologisms) I'm going to stick with calling it Twitter literacy. If you have been reading about Twitter for a while I bet you five quid a ...
Curation-led marketing?
Quite pleased with a post about curating branded content ...
No top Facebook apps from brands either…
Just as you won't see a "viral video" from a brand in the blockbuster list for this genre, you won't find any apps from brands in the top Facebook apps list. As Dirk at News from the Herd notes, it's about certain kinds of useful when it comes to hitting the sweetspot with Facebook ...
Communities of purpose
I like David Cushman's take on the way that the web disrupts everything it touches. My main focus has been in thinking about the shift from channels to networks in media. Reading David reminds me that it is everything that looks like a ...