Archives: 2009/02
- Why nonprofits should promote social media in general
The NetSquared “think tank” topic this month is:
What do you think the role of nonprofit organizations is in the changing world of social media?
When I first read it, however, I mentally transposed “the changing” to “changing the” and read it as:
What do you think the role of nonprofit organizations is in changing the world of [...]- The Strength of Weak Ties today
I really enjoyed an interesting Philadelphia Knowledge Management group web conference last week, led by Steve Ennen (Managing Director of the Wharton Interactive Media Initiative) on Measuring Knowledge Management in a Web 2.0 World. At one point in the session, Steve referred to a recent paper by some folks at the HP Social Computing Lab, [...]
- The Internet Threat
In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, James Boyle devotes Chapter 4 to “the Internet Threat”, which is the way of thinking that “Big Media” (my term–not his–for publishers, music labels, movie studios…) use to justify continuing their grip on power. His explanation helped put things into context for me. The Internet [...]
- Jeff Pulver and tag tags
I attended yesterday’s Breakfast with Jeff Pulver, billed as “the only breakfast with real-time social tagging”. This was an attempt to apply some of the practices of electronic social networking to the face-to-face world. It is in line with my own thoughts about “tag tags” expressed in a previous post.
Jeff describes his process in a [...]
