The last seven days have been a proud period for Twitter in the UK.
First up, the power of networks blew apart an arguably unconstitutional and malignant “super-injunction” that prevented a newspaper reporting on Parliament.
Next, a community of interest formed around a grim, homophobic column in the Daily Mail about a pop star who had recently [...]
Tag Archive: networks
Massively un-orchestrated
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 need to understand about networks, especially human, social networks, is just how [...]
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 networks of individuals to be applied to real-world challenges.
Let me tell you about it…
The SOMESSO conference in London on Friday was a deep draft of insights on how the age [...]
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 chain, especially value chains, that are things that networks will rip apart.
Then, as [...]
“Command and control is dead”: the shape of next gen organisations is social networks
Image: John Chambers, CEO of Cisco: “command and control is dead”.
A lot of the questions I have had floating around my head for the past few years are beginning to be answered by innovative companies. Questions about how you manage companies, organisations, in the age of networks, when you have to move beyond the cloying [...]
Tag Archive: networks
Massively un-orchestrated
The last seven days have been a proud period for Twitter in the UK.
First up, the power of networks blew apart an arguably unconstitutional and malignant “super-injunction” that prevented a newspaper reporting on Parliament.
Next, a community of interest formed around a grim, homophobic column in the Daily Mail about a pop star who had recently [...]
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 need to understand about networks, especially human, social networks, is just how [...]
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 networks of individuals to be applied to real-world challenges.
Let me tell you about it…
The SOMESSO conference in London on Friday was a deep draft of insights on how the age [...]
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 chain, especially value chains, that are things that networks will rip apart.
Then, as [...]
“Command and control is dead”: the shape of next gen organisations is social networks
Image: John Chambers, CEO of Cisco: “command and control is dead”.
A lot of the questions I have had floating around my head for the past few years are beginning to be answered by innovative companies. Questions about how you manage companies, organisations, in the age of networks, when you have to move beyond the cloying [...]