The Flight from Growth to Value - My 2009 Prediction on Social M. So what does Bernie Madoff’s Ponzie Scheme, the financial services industry, the housing market, and Facebook have in common? They all look(ed) very attractive as they were/are growing, in other words rapid growth can obscure real value, as long as there is continued growth. My prediction, is more an imperative and that is “The Flight from Growth to Value” and this is not just in social media, but also in business in general. 2008 demonstrated quite starkly that growth often obscures lack of ‘value’.
This was demonstrated by the housing bubble, then the dramatic collapse of the financial services industry, then by the Bernie Madoff ‘ponzie’ scheme. All 3 of those dramatic collapses demonstrate how growth can obscure real value as long as there is continued growth. What has this got to do with Social Media? Two great examples of social media companies with business models that create value are Threadless.com and Yelp.com . Clay Shirky’s recent interview on the Columbia Journalism Review. 7 Little Tricks To Speak In Public. There was once a time when I had no fear.
I was 11 years old and I entered a story telling competition. I was confidently telling the story and captured everyone’s attention until suddenly I heard a voice from just in front of the stage commenting about my nose. It’s totally disastrous from that moment on. I lost focus and forgot the script altogether. That’s the exact time that I began to have a certain fear of public speaking.
Over the years, I finally overcome my fear of public speaking. Hopefully these tricks will be able to help you as they had helped me in overcoming fear of public speaking. 1) Admit nervousness All you have to do is admit that you are a bit nervous speaking to your audience. The best way to do this is by joking about it. 2) Redefine your audience Redefine your audience generally means changing how you see your audience.
Or perceive them as long lost friends that you haven’t seen for 10 years. 3) Invest in visual aids 4) Make mistakes intentionally Have fun! The Top 10 Enterprise 2.0 Stories of 2008. December 19, 2008 by Hutch Carpenter The enterprise 2.0 space saw good action this year.
I’ve had a chance to see it up close, starting the year with BEA Systems (now Oracle) and closing out the year with Connectbeam. I think it’s fair to say that in 2007, social software was still something of a missionary sale. In 2008, company inquiries increased a lot. The burden still falls on the vendors to articulate business benefits, adoption strategies and use cases. So let’s get to it. 1. Facebook really got this going with its newsfeed, and FriendFeed took it to an art form with its lifestreaming service. 2. Forrester Research made a splash with its forecast that Enterprise 2.0 will be a $4.6 billion market by 2013. 3. Larry Ellison is fond of essentially dismissing SaaS. 4.
Research and consulting firms AIIM and McKinsey each came out with surveys of corporate interest in enterprise 2.0. McKinsey’s survey of enterprises looked at the interest in various tools as well.