I agree with a lot of what Brian Solis says in The End of Social Media 1.0 especially this statement:
Let's Stop Talking about "Social Business"
Let’s stop talking about “social business” as if it were some sort of change in how organizations behave.
Over the weekend I “weeded” our home book collection. We’re remodeling both our living room and dining room in anticipation of our daughter coming home later this year from the Peace Corps. We’re reducing the number of linear shelf feet devoted to books, CD’s, and DVD’s as we change things around a bit and as we adjust to the increasing importance of digital media.
I’m not a website designer. But I do have some opinions about what I like to see when I go to a web page.
On the Need to Tolerate Communication Diversity
IBM’s Luis Suarez’ blog post Social Media at Work presents basic arguments for why organizations, not just individuals, need to adopt social media as a normal part of their communication infrastructure. He suggests that organizations need to adopt social media because their employees and their customers are using social media.
Is the Concept of a "National Manufacturing Technology Strategy" Dead in the Water?
Assuming that the immediate threat of a US Government financial default is at least temporarily postponed, can we now return to considering other issues of national strategic importance?
Ten Questions re: Does Your Tech Company Web Site Suck?
As a consultant I’m always on the lookout for my next gig. Lately I’ve been researching government contractors and consulting companies in the DC area. This is what I’m looking for as explained last week on GovLoop and Google+:
A test of embedding a slideshow from Google Photos into this blog:
Why I Just Removed Robert Scoble and Leo Laporte from My Google+ Circles
I just removed Robert Scoble and Leo Laporte from My Google+ Circles. Here’s why.
I’ve been using Google+ for less than a week. I’m impressed with what I see. Granted, not a lot of people in my “inner circle” are on yet and I’m taking this process one step at a time.
It’s fashionable these days to point to Facebook’s ascendancy as why Google-type search’s dominance of the Internet is over.
I’ve been researching Google+. I’m looking forward to trying it out. I haven’t been begging for an invite, though. The reason has nothing to do with reluctance or disinterest.
Recently I received a comment on an old blog post from 2006 titled “Slide Presentation: ‘Expertise Management Systems’.”
I usually don’t pay much attention to “death of” web posts — unless I’m writing them, of course — but Kevin Cavanaugh’s Death of the Document is definitely worth a read.
Content May Not Be King But It Still Behaves Like Royalty
One of my favorite media commentators is Jeff Jarvis. I especially enjoy his weekly converaations hosted by Leo Laporte on This Week in Google. Jarvis’ perspective always gets at the big picture of what’s happening with the web economy.
Here are five things that people introducing new technology to help collaboration should think about:
Google’s announcement of its Chromebook is more evidence of the shifting nature of technology-supported computing & communication ecosystems. It signifies more than just a continued “movement to the cloud.”
Studying the Dawn of the Social Age
Listening to Melvyn Bragg’s recent BBC podcast Dawn of the Iron Age got me thinking about what future historians and digital archeologists might conclude about us from examining what’s left of our fledgling online social experiences.
Are smartphones bad for collaboration? Sometimes I think so. Here’s why: