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Becoming a Better Leader Through Blogging

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:02:02 PST

The blockbuster film Avatar showed us how easy it is to move from one reality into another environment where the rules are different. Where Where a person can be reborn into a 10 foot tall, blue, non-English speaking, dragon-creature-flying, environment-protecting militiaman. So So is it all that hard to fathom that leadership inside the four walls of an organization morphs into something different in the virtual

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How Blogging Affected a Business Leader

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:00:20 PST

In my last post , I mentioned that the best way for business leaders to understand Twitter or other social media is to begin using them. I recently saw how experimenting with social media can help business leaders appreciate its power. I

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Collaboration Masterclass (London, March 12)

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:45:23 PST

I will be presenting the Masterclass in SharePoint Collaboration and Governance in London on Friday March 12, in partnership with AdeoPoint . " AdeoPoint is delighted to announce a unique opportunity for companies and individuals that want to learn more about how SharePoint can improve your ability to collaborate with your internal team and your clients, partners and suppliers. The Collaboration Masterclass, hosted by globally renowned subject matter expert, Michael Sampson, explores how your organisation can benefit from the collaboration opportunity that a technology such as SharePoint

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Online Community Unconference East: Moving Forward, Together

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:44:38 PST

We are less than 48 hours from the Online Community Unconference East (yeah!). This is the third year we’ve run the Online Community Unconference in New York, and we’ve had great events both years. On think I wanted to be a bit more mindful of for this year’s Unconference was to really be mindful of focusing the group’s energy on specific outcomes.

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Unconference East: Moving Forward, Together

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:21:49 PST

We are less than 48 hours from the Online Community Unconference East (yeah!). This is the third year we've run the Online Community Unconference in New York, and we've had great events both years. On On think I wanted to be a bit more mindful of for this year's Unconference was to really be mindful of focusing

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Nancy White on the necessity (or not) of face-to-face

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:19:04 PST

The great comments on the " Is face-to-face necessary? " quot; post continue to roll in. This one from Nancy White is so telling that I thought you'd want to see it. Hey Jessica I share your experience of people wanting

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Another of the networking greats passes on: Seymour Sarason

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:10:22 PST

Back when we were first writing about networks , we received a letter (in the mail, that long ago), written on beautiful stationery. It was from Elizabeth M. Lorentz , who said that while she liked our book, we'd missed a very important source of information: the books she'd written with Seymour Sarason (who died on Jan.

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Are Blog Comments Worth It? Treasure the Conversations

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:42:31 PST

WebWorkerDaily has got a very interesting and thought-provoking blog post where they are actually questioning the worthiness of having comments turned on in a blog, whether for personal or business use, given the recent happenings of very popular blogs finally deciding to turn comments off for now. That WebWorkerDaily article surely is a good read providing lots of insightful thoughts on what are some of the pros and cons of such a bold move.

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Podcast: The importance of owning your personal brand in social media

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:04:59 PST

Image via Wikipedia Perhaps one of the most exciting developments with social media is that it allows anybody, from a large global consumer brand to an individual to build their personal brand online. To some extent some of the same rules apply – decide what you want to do and why you are using social media and then make sure you are using it in a way that helps you to achieve this.

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Teams, communities and networks in terms of communication forms

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:33:14 PST

While I came with the communication egg model to talk about things missing in distributed teams I feel that it could be useful in more contexts. In particularly to talk about the differences between different types of social constructions in the knowledge management context. [At At this point it makes sense to go and read Shrunken communication in distributed teams (the egg of communication :) ]

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Monday Video: Students Helping Students

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:46:45 PST

Kindness! Another gem from Michael Wesch’s students, with his amazing touch of a true teacher. After you look at the video, go to the blog post and read about how it happened. Students Helping Students video . ...Tags: Tags: Monday videos

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Will the P2P revolution harm workers?

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:03:57 PST

A very interesting take on the crisis of value by Rob Horning , focusing on its dark side of also weakening worker’s bargaining power and well-being. The original article has links and ends with a more extensive analysis of Apple and the iPad as example of netarchical strategies. Rob Horning: “What Anderson seems to miss in all his glee is the erosion of labor’s bargaining power.

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Social Media Round-up #27

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:35:00 PST

Welcome to eModeration's round-up of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media, compiled by Kate Williams (@emodkate). In this update: Now Facebook Is Six; ITN's German Celeb-Channel; and YouTube's rental predicament. ON FACEBOOK ... ON TWITTER ... ON YOUTUBE ... BRANDS GET SOCIAL ... VIRTUAL AND GAMES ... THINKING ... ON FACEBOOK ... As we briefly noted on Friday, it was Facebook’s 6th Birthday last week – and (after the piñata and the scary clown) it emerged that the little tike had scooted past the 400-million-user mark with barely

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The mind of a Community Manager

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:00:37 PST

During a recent hotel stay at the wonderful Hotel Zaza in Dallas, I noticed two quotes written on the wall of my room. Both struck me as being particularly relevant to explaining the mindset a successful community manager has to own in order to do their job. The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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The Tea Party as an open source insurgency

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:37:57 PST

Excerpted from John Robb : “The Tea Party movement in the US is an open source political protest. It emerged due to a substantial loss of government legitimacy (primarily from the mishandling of the global financial crisis) and continues to percolate as legitimacy continues to drain away from the government (health care, banking reform, unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy, deficit, etc.). Here’s what open source means in this context: * Lots of small local groups

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Uh-oh

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:30:56 PST

Does anyone read over the scripts of the news broadcasters these days? Last night, Lester Holt (NBC News), verbatim: "The federal government will be closed today." quot; Really? He didn't say this but..."The

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Start your week right with "Baby Dancer"

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:19:03 PST

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Margaret Fuller's Persuasion 8

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:00:00 PST

Page 8, " The Persuasion " I didn’t didn’t move. I remember wondering if I should stand but couldn’t. And I remember rerunning rerunning in detail what had

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Visual

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:15:04 PST

This is one of my favourite sites at the moment. It’s an Australian site that promotes art and photography. You can make cool t-shirts, order prints or cards. And what I love most is that its front page changes every day with a collage of themed images. Go on, go and

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There is no alternative but the alternatives: replacing anti-capitalism by post-capitalism

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:02:30 PST

Capitalist Realism itself, is basically the cultural condition in which, with Marx, we stare with clear eyes at “naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation” (4) but yet…keep calm and carry on. We are not unmoved exactly; but yet still we do nothing. The details of why and how, and the ramifications in various domains, are the object of the book.

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Messy

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:12:04 PST

Forms, flow charts, matrices, systems diagrams, models – all are designed to help us make sense of this complex, messy world we live in. We assume that messy can be ordered, that wild can be tamed, that we can predict cause and effect. Sometimes we can.

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My AppGap Posts for January 2010

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:01:00 PST

H ere are my App Gap posts for January. In addition to the Fast Forward blog blog (see side bar for links), I am writing in another Corante blog, the App Gap, Gap, The posts began toward the end of January 2008. 0160; In this case, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a

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Book of the Week: a book sprint on collaborative futures

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:46:39 PST

“In this book we attempt to articulate what constitutes a collaboration. We argue that rules for participation, established guidelines for attribution, organizational structure and leadership, and clear goals are necessary for collaboration. In most cases, when we think of these attributes, we think of manifestos of artist and activist groups, attempts to govern attribution by formal licenses like the Free Culture and Free Software licenses, Debian’s formal decision making process, or Eric Raymond’s

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News Updates (February 8, 2010)

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:25:00 PST

Write and Google Wave ... Wrike announced an integration with Google Wave, for better task tracking. " Now people who use both Wrike and Wave just need to add Wrike as a contact to a new wave, and this wave will be automatically turned into a task in Wrike. In Wrike, people will be able to schedule the wave turned into a task, track comments to the task added in The Wave, build timelines, track time spent on the task and much more. " More

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10 More Easy Ways to Improve Your Website

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:14:21 PST

How well is your blog or website performing? This past November, I wrote, “Some web sites clearly have it together. They have lots of traffic and appeal to visitors. “Other 8220;Other sites aren’t bad. They have good potential.

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Valdis Krebs on face-to-face

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:11:46 PST

Priceless. Below Valdis , one of the originals in social network analysis, comments on whether face-to-face is necessary. Had to elevate it: If a picture is worth a 1000 words, then a day F2F is worth a 1000 emails/tweets. ...Tags: Tags: Collaboration Virtual Team

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