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State of the Union address goes Web 2.0
News January 25, 2011 01:48 PM ET Computerworld - The White House will be using Web 2.0 technology to reach out to Americans during and after the president's State of the Union address tonight.
5 New Paradigms for a Socially Engaged Company
Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference , which brings together staff from Google, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga with others to explore living with awareness and wisdom in our modern age, at the end of February in Silicon Valley. He is SorenG on Twitter. The age of social media is not just changing our personal lives, but is increasingly affecting how business is conducted.
It doesn't matter whether I'm talking to an investor, C-suiter, or an entrepreneur. Most of them — like most of the general public — answer the question, "What does social media mean to you?" with "It's stuff that helps you make 'friends, digitally!! Do you want to be my friend?"
Unlocking the Mayor Badge of Meaninglessness - Umair Haque
A Chronology of Brands that Got Punk’d by Social Media
Update: Aug 2011, we’ve conducted a research project to analyze these social media crises, read the full report to find out what went wrong and how to prevent it . A list of companies that were blind-sided by the internet, they didn’t understand the impacts of the power shift to the participants, or how fast information would spread, or were just plain ignorant. Criteria of “Punk’d” includes a situation where the story would have not been told if social media was not available, or if social media enhanced the situation. Read my exclusive interview with Greenpeace on Forbes . This doesn’t include fake blogs , companies who deliberately tried to cheat the system get their own honorable mention.
I'd like to advance a hypothesis: Despite all the excitement surrounding social media, the Internet isn't connecting us as much as we think it is. It's largely home to weak, artificial connections, what I call thin relationships. During the subprime bubble, banks and brokers sold one another bad debt — debt that couldn't be made good on. Today, "social" media is trading in low-quality connections — linkages that are unlikely to yield meaningful, lasting relationships. Call it relationship inflation. Nominally, you have a lot more relationships — but in reality, few, if any, are actually valuable.
The Social Media Bubble - Umair Haque
Why good bosses tune in to their people - McKinsey Quarterly - Governance - Leadership
Bosses matter. They matter because more than 95 percent of all people in the workforce have bosses, are bosses, or both. They matter because they set the tone for their followers and organizations. And they matter because many studies show that for more than 75 percent of employees, dealing with their immediate boss is the most stressful part of the job.
Humanizing the Organization « Social Media Monitoring and Engagement – Radian6
I have a fondness for acronyms. Perhaps it is because of my former role in the government, but I can have a conversation using only acronyms. ( One day when we meet in person, you can test me. ) An acronym is used to simplify long expressions that are difficult to remember or time consuming to say and write. Sometimes acronyms take on a life of their own and become over-simplified to the extreme.
by Bill George | 8:35 AM December 23, 2010 Social networking is the most significant business development of 2010, topping the resurgence of the U.S. automobile industry. During the year, social networking morphed from a personal communications tool for young people into a new vehicle that business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers, as it shifts from one-way transmission of information to two-way interaction. That's one reason Time magazine just named Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year . A year ago, many people poked fun at Facebook as a place where kids shared their latest party news.
How Social Networking Has Changed Business - Bill George - HBS Faculty