Sharing knowledge is better than trying to manage it
Clay Shirky explaining how we find time for Internet activities, contributing to new media such as Wikipedia - our cognitive surplus that has been distracted by TV...
Blog post covering article by Jeremey Burton - CEO of Serena Software - who reminds why social activities are inevitable in the work place and hence you should embrace social computing. Great analogy:
¨For most people, the human drive to connect and share is stronger than the duty to spend every possible moment "being productive". No matter what, people will find ways to socialize and share during work hours. It might be best to treat this like sex education: If your employees are going to "do it" anyway, why not encourage them to channel their social-media impulses in smart, safe ways that can potentially help your business?¨
At Serena Software, they are introducing 'Facebook Fridays' - dedicated time to encourage people to create connections with colleagues, customers and friends to improve their networking and communication skills. Brilliant!
Article in the New York Times covering the protest that began when Facebook introduced a new feature with unexpected consequences. This quote from the article nicely sums up the issue:
Those who study social networking sites say that users’ comfort with revealing intimate details about themselves comes in part from a perception that in the din of life online, there is a kind of privacy through anonymity.
That's a dangerous assumption to make, given how easier it is getting to mine Internet data sources. Danah Boyd has written an essay covering the story, and highlights the most important issue to consider before you start encouraging everyone to use news feeds within an organisation...
| Link | Description |
| The religion of bringing social to software | Blog post by Marc Canter covering the DataPortability mantra and some of the big players - Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Myspace (May 08) |
| The rise of alter egos in everybody's space | Washington Post article about how people are changing their behaviour on Facebook and other social networking sites, seeing privacy thru alter egos (May 08) |
| On managing a community | Interesting post on how the traditional corporate communications/PR role needs to evolve and adapt to new channels (Apr 08) |
| The Metaweb | From the web to the metaweb, via social software and semantics - image by nova spivacks (Apr 08) |
| Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption | ...and how you can respond. Blog post by Marshall Kirkpatrick over at ReadWriteWeb (Jan 08) |
| Has Facebook worn out its welcome | Why all social networking sites are doomed to die - sooner or later they stop being fun and become embarrassing - blog post on New York Times (Dec 07) |
| Young warned over social sites | Survey reported by BBC about young peoples attitudes to social networking sites. Interestingly, more were worried about details being passed onto advertisers than being discovered by potential employers. (Nov 07) |
| Facebook Lessons | Blog post covering latest bruhaha about Facebook and why organisations can learn the lessons without having to experience them (Nov 07) |
| Email and Social Nets are merging | New York Times article describing how Yahoo and Google are turning their email systems into social networks (Nov 2007) and related comment by Marshall Kirkpatrick about why the future is being modeled on Facebook |
| Bringing Social Media to Work | Excellent article by CEO of Serena Software - Jeremy Burton - about why you need to treat social computing like sex education (November 2007) |
| Too much information | Article in the New York Times covering the protest that began when Facebook introduced a new feature with unexpected consequences |
| Social Networks are for Execs too | Business Week special report about how social networking tools are entering the work place (September 2006) |
| Social Networking essays | Blog post by Guy Kawasaki linking to three social networking essays worth reading (June 2006) |
| Shop affronts | Article in The Economist, describing how Chinese consumers are grouping up to haggle with retailers, using online social networking tools to organise activities. (June 2006) |
| Our Social World | Notes from the conference held in Cambridge, Sept 2005 |
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