Ana Caraveli in the Journal of Association Leadership has published a lengthy and thoughtful article titled Building the Future on Member Value: Codevelopment as a Key to Customer Relationships in the 21st Century.
A couple of nights ago we had dinner out on our deck overlooking the yard we have been landscaping over the past few years. It was a beautiful evening. We enjoyed the breeze, the bird songs, and the conversation. As darkness fell, I brought out some kerosene lamps to provide some gentle illumination. My son brought out his laptop and entertained us with selected YouTube videos streamed from the house's wireless system.
An Associated Press story on Yahoo! News titled AMA wants doctors to swap idea online describes how the AMA has started an ad-free, subscriber based network for use by physicans in conjunction with Sermo, Inc. The network is used for sharing questions, answers, and medical opinions.
I received an email today from Penny Edwards, who is studying for an MBA. Penny is conducting a survey on wiki use in a business environment.
Communities. Connections. Contacts. Families. Fans. Favorites. Followers. Friends. Groups. Neighbors.
As you jump from one online "social" group to another, these are the categories you need to juggle.
I am looking for people to interview (confidentially, if you like) about your personal experiences using a blog to support project management within a corporate or large organization setting.
Dave Munger in The end of the RSS experiment presents the results of data collected to analyze what happened when his web site turned off partial RSS feeds and substituted full RSS feeds. A reduction in site page hits corresponded to the publishing of the full RSS feeds, presumably because feed reader users had no need to return to the web site -- where ads are visible.
The best podcasts I’ve heard recently on enterprise adoption of social media are two interviews with Toby Redshaw of Motorola by Dan Bricklin. One is from March of 2006 and the other from March 2007.
This is my first attempt to visualize how the different “communities” interact in an organization such as a professional membership association:
Followup to "Is DRM a 'Tax' on the Intellectual Property Supply Chain?"
On May 2, 2007 I published Is DRM a “Tax” on the Intellectual Property Supply Chain? where I compared DRM (Digital Rights Management) to a “tax.”
I’ve received several comments and emails with different perspectives and I wanted to follow up.
How Important is Web Usage Data To You?
Robert Scoble in his May 13, 2007 We Need Better Statistics post does a nice job of starting off a discussion of the problems currently experienced by anyone who tries to make sense of web usage statistics.
The Learning Circuits Blog’s “big question” this month is, PowerPoint - What is Appropriate, When and Why?
My web publishing service vendor Squarespace has finally added a site search feature as a standard “widget” that can be added via an extremely easy point-and-click install procedure.
Five Factors That Influence Successful Corporate Adoption of Internal Social Media and Web 2.0 Initiatives
While tracking adoption of “web 2.0” applications such as internal blogs, wikis, and social book marking systems by large organizations, I’m seeing a couple of factors emerging that, anecdotally at least, appear to be associated with successful adoption.
Is DRM a "Tax" on the Intellectual Property Supply Chain?
Like it or not, the current controversy over the publication by Digg of a decryption key for unlocking DRM-equipped high definition DVDs might give some companies pause about how to handle threatening "take-down notices" in the event an employee blog or wiki is used to publish a protected or controversial work.
When inadequately shielded communications satellites get zapped, how many conversations -- and downloads -- will suffer?
Next time you are frustrated enough with your computer to toss it out the window, remember that these are the types of computers that helped us land humans on the moon (courtesy NASA archives):
Scholarly Communications and the Social Media Genie
Marketing, customer communications, and inside-the-firewall collaboration are not the only processes subject to "disruption" by social media and social networking. The worlds of research, scholarly communication, librarianship, and publishing are also being impacted, and not just by Google.
Lisa Welchman in Why I’m Disgusted with Web Teams on The Gilbane Group Blog has a great rant about corporate web site mismanagement (or lack of management, basically the same thing). Here's a quote:
In Did social media tools let us down? Susan Scrupski mentions the recent Wired article reviewing the need for better emergency announcement systems, based on observations of what happened at Virginia Tech.