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MIT World » : Leading by Omission

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:30:07 +0300

MIT World » : Leading by Omission: Extremely interesting talk about “democratic leadership” given by Ricardo Semier, CEO of Semco.

"How to become a genius: “You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced..."

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:58:23 +0300

“How to become a genius:
“You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired.””

- Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

"We continually get asked by our corporate clients: why do people participate in social activity..."

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:06:58 +0300

“We continually get asked by our corporate clients: why do people participate in social activity online? What drives them? In Groundswell we tried to collect as many reasons as we could, to reflect the diversity that drives all this participation. In this post I’ll list as many as I can. But this is just a start — participation is as varied as the people who participate. * Keeping up friendships. Facebook is about connecting with people you know, to find out what’s going on with them. * Making new friends. We’ve all heard stories of people hooking up on social networks. According to Forrester’s consumer surveys, one in five online singles has viewed or participated in online dating in the past year. * Succumbing to social pressure from existing friends. People in the groundswell want their friends there, too. Your friends, your daughter, or your golf buddies are emailing you right now, asking you to join them. * Paying it forward. Having seen that a site is useful, you may be moved to contribute. * The altruistic impulse. This is Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake’s “culture of generosity.” It’s what made Wikipedia possible. People just want to help. * The prurient impulse. People are sexy, entertaining, and stupid. All that is on display in an endless parade of exhibitionism. * The creative impulse. If you’re a photographer, a writer, or a videographer, the Web is the perfect place to show your work. * The validation impulse. People who post information on Yahoo! Answers, for example, would like to be seen as knowledgeable experts. * The affinity impulse. If your bowling league, your PTA, or your fellow Red Sox fans have connected online, you can join and connect with people who share your interests. Respect this diversity. Keep it in mind as you set up your social applications. Assuming everyone wants the same thing as you do — or as each other — is a big mistake.”

- Why People Participate in Social Media - Harvard Business Online’s The Groundswell Effect

"As McKelvey and Andriani point out, companies like Google and Microsoft have achieved enormous..."

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:50:58 +0300

“As McKelvey and Andriani point out, companies like Google and Microsoft have achieved enormous concentration of economic value creation that defies the averages of the Gaussian world. These extreme events have an interesting property – they emerge first in the “fat tail”, on the edge of conventional business activity, driven by a different view of business opportunity, and then gather momentum until they eventually break into the head of the distribution and change the game for everyone else. The challenge for business managers is to sort out the signal from the noise in the fat tail and spot early on the emergent extreme events that could reshape the business landscape. The Gaussian focus on averages obscures these events, treating them as meaningless “outliers” until it is too late.”

- Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: The Power of Power Laws

"Conference Talk on Business Model Design and Innovation"

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:08:05 +0200

“Conference Talk on Business Model Design and Innovation”

- Business Model Design and Innovation: Conference Talk on Business Model Design and Innovation

"So current free offerings are more a quantitative than a qualitative shift. I see limits to the..."

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:27:18 +0200

“So current free offerings are more a quantitative than a qualitative shift. I see limits to the trend, though, that Anderson does not discuss. He argues that the costs of providing free information are decreasing, but the true costs of information have never been in the production and distribution of media. They lie in the human intelligence required to produce the information in the first place. Therefore, it’s important to look at his sources of funding.”

- To be free, information has to be smart (comments on Chris Anderson’s “Free!”) - O’Reilly Radar

"Gavin Potter says, “The 20th century was about sorting out supply, the 21st is going to be about..."

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:39:57 +0200

“Gavin Potter says, “The 20th century was about sorting out supply, the 21st is going to be about sorting out demand.” Think about that one for a second. Not about maximizing demand, but about sorting it out. When your messages reach the right people at the right time in the right way, magic happens. It’s not about forcing or pushing or attacking or targeting or closing. This is a huge step forward in how you can think about your customers and how they act.”

- Seth’s Blog: Sorting out

"This month’s issue of Wired magazine features a cover story on the topic by editor-in-chief..."

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:06:14 +0200

“This month’s issue of Wired magazine features a cover story on the topic by editor-in-chief Chris Anderson. The article is a preview of his forthcoming book, called (you guessed it) Free. However in this post we look at two issues that make this new economic model rather worrisome: monopolistic markets and complex transactions.”

- Beware of Freeconomics - ReadWriteWeb

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:59:30 +0200

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

"Email is 49% of Impressions. Portals and Search Engines is 10% by contrast. This is some free data..."

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:04:12 +0200

“Email is 49% of Impressions. Portals and Search Engines is 10% by contrast. This is some free data from Nielsen-Netratings. click on Top Site Genres.”

- 49% & 56%: Are These What Have Brin Worried? - ReadWriteWeb

A VC: Social Blogging Difference between social nets and socia...

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:39:58 +0200

A VC: Social Blogging

Difference between social nets and socia media.

"I guess my point is that this is just the beginning of using internet tools to change the world we..."

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:32:09 +0200

“I guess my point is that this is just the beginning of using internet tools to change the world we interact with, as opposed to trying to make it easy to interact with the standard world using the Internet.”

- Seth’s Blog: New interactions, not just moved interactions

Seth's Blog: Music lessons

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:56:32 +0200

Seth's Blog: Music lessons: Things you can learn from the music business (as it falls apart)

"Everyone has less acute hearing as we grow older. Include eBay in this group as well. New eBay chief..."

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:57:57 +0200

“Everyone has less acute hearing as we grow older. Include eBay in this group as well. New eBay chief John Donahoe has recently done several things to decrease his maturing company’s ability to listen to its customers. In doing so, he has put the company on a path toward a more “traditional” e-retailer at the very time the market for social media—arguably something eBay helped create—is taking off.”

- eBay’s Disappearing Customer Focus - Harvard Business Online’s Conversation Starter

"George Markellos of PA Consulting, a British-based consultancy, says that government needs to start..."

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:09:37 +0200

“George Markellos of PA Consulting, a British-based consultancy, says that government needs to start by making three big changes. First, it needs to personalise what it offers, rather like online shopping services which record customers’ preferences, making their next visit easier. Second, it has to provide round-the-clock access. People want to deal with government not only in office hours, but also in the evenings and at weekends. And lastly, public services have to be as easy to use as anything the private sector offers. In the online world, government is competing for users’ time and attention with beautifully designed sites that are fun to use. The government’s offering, says Mr Markellos, “has to be massively attractive”.”

- The electronic bureaucrat | Economist.com

"Social media for me is media made social. That might be obvious, but you have to think what you mean..."

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:27:34 +0200

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Social media for me is media made social. That might be obvious, but you have to think what you mean by media. Text is media, photos are media, video is media. Maybe a web bookmarkcan be media, and a presentation file too. How we make that media social is by making it commentable, sharable, editable, embdeddable. By allowing others to interact with the media, we have made it social.

Web2.0, for me, is the means by which we make our media social. The blog make text social, as do wikis. Flickr makes photos social, YouTube does the same for video, and so on. The infrastructure used to enable this is stuff like tagging, RSS, AJAX, mashups and widgets.

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- This is where the diagram below is from.

http://davepress.net/2008/02/17/defining-social-media-web20/

An interesting diagram about relationship between Web 2.0 and...

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:25:48 +0200

An interesting diagram about relationship between Web 2.0 and social media. From http://whitehallwebby.wordpress.com/.