Electronic toolsmay well be suited to information discovery, but face-to-facecommunication, an oft-neglected part of the management process,best supports Alex Pentland is the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and director of human dynamics research at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Return to the HBR List 2009 table of contents .  Subscribe to Harvard Business Review Save up to 47% off the cover price!

Welcome to our round-up of all that's new, controversial or just plain weird on the social media scene in the last few days. It's come to our attention that these round-ups are perhaps a leetle long for our loyal, yet time-starved readers. And what else are you going to read on your web book when nature calls? THE HEADLINES... The social media beach was afroth with anticipation this week, as excitement over Google Wave’s beta roll-out reached Point Break. With this in mind, we have divided it into two easily-digestible chunks: Social Life (here), and Social Business ( there ).

Share Your Content: Share & People-Tag Your Stories & Media 5. Share Your Content: Share & People-Tag Your Stories & Media Once the News Feed construct is established, it’s interesting to consider how you can use it to distribute stories and content and media. There are three main categories of ad networks operating on Facebook: * app factories that cross-promote applications * cross-promotion networks allowing publishers to pay to promote apps (or get paid to promote Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise CrunchBase More Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch50 TechCrunch UK TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan About Advertise Archives Company Index Contact Jobs Twitter CrunchBar

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Design Thinking , Business Model , Economics , Enterprise 2.0 , Facebook , Messy World , Nato , Public Media , Secretary Gates , Social Computing , Social Media , Taliban , Terror , User Revolution , Videos , War , Web 2.0 , Wisdom of Crowds , culture Secretary Gates made this statement in a recent speech : It is just plain embarrassing that al-Qaeda is better at communicating its message on the internet than America. While the governments of England, France, and Germany are buying hundreds of airplanes for their armed forces

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They have been constantly bombarded by the media, the government and pliant academics intent on making them believe that they are to blame for the failures of a system none has ever voted for. Already farmers have blocked main roads leading to the north and Bulgaria, making Barroso threaten legal action. Below is a first excerpt from a very important, crucial editorial by Costas Douzinas in the Guardian, which calls for resistance against EU/IMF imposed policies which have already a record of destroying many economies. But resistance is not enough, alternatives are needed.

Among those funded were the Civic Forum in Czechoslovakia, Solidarity in Poland, Union of Democratic Forces in Bulgaria, Otpor in Serbia, and, more recently, similar groups in the succession states of the USSR. It is hard to know how much native support existed for the Western-funded revolutions, as media and information (especially if we can’t read Mongolian, Bulgarian, or Uzbeki) are produced by the same conglomerates. An excerpt from a cogent questioning of NGO’s role by Joan Roelofs. Excerpt: “