This post is fourth in a series of my Social Media Principles.  The base post is 10 Social Media Principles . 4. People at the companies who are actually responsible for success are disempowered from making decisions or creating growth. Social Media has shown us that the decentralization of power and information have led to very rapid advances in productivity and a very different set of assumptions about personal empowerment.  Decentralization is freedom – Decentralized power structures spur creativity, growth, and innovation. Note:   Writing a short blog post on this is like writing a short blog post on why it’s hard to cure addiction. 

After the 10 Principles of Social Media for Business came out, people began to engage us on different real-world applications.  They wanted us to think of ways the 10 Principles would apply to education. We applied the 10 Principles to educations’ need to: Broadcast Value Streamline Publication Increase Communication Increase Access to Information and Resources Modus Cooperandi’s Paper on Social Media for Higher Education for the University of Lisbon can be downloaded from the Modus Cooperandi site. Technorati Tags: University of Lisbon , social

This post is third in a series of my Social Media Principles.  The base post is 10 Social Media Principles . A currency is a unit of exchange , facilitating the transfer of goods and/or services . - Items to which the members of the economy ascribe value.  In a social media economy, the currencies are most often a combination of artifacts and recognition.  ARTIFACTS In Flickr the artifacts are fairly obvious – they are pictures. Wikipedia Every economy has currencies – items that are traded or exchanged. 

This post is seventh in a series of my Social Media Principles.  The base post is 10 Social Media Principles . Principle #7 - Context is Fluid – How you view an object today will be different tomorrow.  But when creating your design, ask yourself “Are my assumptions limiting this product’s potential?” Social media has been great for taking an idea devised for one purpose and re-purposing it.  Don’t destroy tomorrow’s value.   In my humble opinion, most of the business failures we’ve seen in the tech sector are due to an utter disregard for this principle. Context is fluid.

And that's as it should be. Nothing technological, cultural, social, or even philosophical happened after 2000, that didn't have a counterpart in 1900. In the end, the principle is what needs to be kept in mind, and not the dogmatic application some guy invented for his particular project. Technorati Tags: Agile methodologies , lean , scrum , XP , kanban , bill tozier Blogged at My House before a day of errand running in Seattle, WA ...Tags: Scrum, XP, etc. don’t work for everyone. 

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Mar 13 2008 Notes from the Seattle Online Community Meetup Published by Nancy White at 4:45 pm under events , online interaction , technology stewardship These are notes from the

tan.com Please feel free to forward this note to people you think would be interested in these calls.  Hope to see you show up in the IRC and maybe hear you on the phone. Technorati Tags: Yi-tan , agile , agile methods , corey ladas , bill anderson , jerry michalski Blogged at My House in Seattle, WA ...Tags: Tags: online communities Management Community Indicators Focused Social Media Business Cooperatio Monday February 16th at 10:30PST (1:30 EST) I will be doing my second talking-head stint on the Yi-Tan conference call. 

Jim Benson , Agile principles Blogged at Modus Cooperandi in Seattle, WA ...Tags: Tags: Management Community Indicators Life Focused Social Media 10 Social Media Principles Cooperatio Agile methods have been applied for the last decade or so to programming teams.  The goal with Agile was to take a group of people who were famous for poor communication, unrealistic expectations, and unpredictable deliverables and give them a structure that minimized these elements. Agile primarily focuses on the following:

Many TV news organizations are now on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, trying to connect and woe the participants in these social media sites as reported in TV stations turn to social media to attract viewers . There is concern as more people turn to social media for their news, moving away from TV news. So now TV stations They have gone beyond what some late night TV shows are doing with social media . Perhaps they are more desperate.

All writers and all media have found themselves dealing with this. Pick up any magazine and there's a good chance you'll find an article that turns out to be an advertisement about half way through.  In fact, we think that paying bloggers to write about your company is a dangerous and unsavory path for new media and advertisers to go down. We recognize that it's a complicated Today, Jeremiah Owyang posted “ A running list of sponsored conversations ”.  He has a laundry list of sites and products that engage in various forms of advertising and paid content.  The article and