These are my personal perspectives only. Thursday, May 17, 2007 Banning Facebook in the Workplace One of the biggest aspects of web 2.0 is the growing nature of social network sites such as Facebook (which is growing at a phenomenal 5% a week). Facebook provides a communication vehicle that is rich with multimedia content, and more importantly provides an informal communications skip to main | skip to sidebar Rexs Thought Spot Personal Reflections on Innovation & Collaboration in a 2.0 World All comments posted

These days we are inundated with the lure of fundraising on Twitter and Facebook and sites like KIVA.org. A birthday ask on Facebook that raises $5,000. counterproductive if we want to create a better future for our communities (today’s rant). I have watched the “raise money fast via Facebook” A Twitter campaign that asks for just $10 apiece, suddenly raising $10,000 to help an individual family or a “boy without arms.” Sites like KIVA.org that ask you to lend as little as $25 to a specific small business as a microloan.

It involves the swarm effects of many users contributing,each for their own need, but resulting in an overall benefit for allemployees. This is based on an internal IBM news story by Kieran Cannistra. Categories: [ ROI | case_study | social_tagging ] Aug 20 2008, 12:56:26 PM EDT Permalink 2 Comments Trackback URL:

Last.fm; also non-social applications which implement, at some point, some social component. “Software intended to shape culture.” Social hours spent on the internet are hours not spent watching TV (steph-note: yep!) TV is not involvement in people, but in this “entertainment culture”. Facebook profile: all about flow, it’s not static. Blog Writing Multilingual Presse About Business Contact Coworking Digital Crumble EBF Fleur de Pains Going Solo India Logbook Newsletter Photos TMS Twitter RSS Climb to the Stars Stephanie Booth’s online ramblings Previous post: Martin Roell: Getting Started in Consulting (LIFT’07) Next post: Some Notes of Florence Devouard’s LIFT Talk (Wikipedia) Stowe Boyd: Building Social Applications by Stephanie on 02.07.2007 in Cyberspace , Events , Social

In the early 2000’s young volunteers of the Open Society Institute [5] helped to establish new economic, social and cultural lifeflows in the former USSR countries with the help of computers and networking. Thus the little birds will not only twitter and tweet but will also flock in networked groups and then they will suddenly swarm up high above all of us. I A contribution by by Jaap van Till : “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.” 8221; (from

get it back, you are living in a dead culture and simply haven’t crafted pro-drilling messages on Facebook and Twitter, and urges Big Oil swifts return in a graceful swarm to their night-time roost in This is a view of the past, and a view of the future." THOUGHTS FOR BLOG Links and Tweets of the the Week: September 19, 2009 photo by