Today I’m at the second day of Digital Media Wire’s New York Games Conference. Speakers and panels are really excellent–very thoughtful, strategic and smart. The statistic that keeps coming up is that 97% of Millenials game. Wow. During the consumer panel yesterday of teens, we learned that many of teens don’t watch TV at all and […]
Social Networking Breeds Positive Offline Interaction
Chris Brogan wrote a good post this morning entitled The Me Game, in which he shares successful networking tips. As I commented on his blog, it reminded me of something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: how the open, transparent and inclusive norms and etiquette of social media are impacting our behaviors–and thus the culture–of the […]
Social networks amplify and strengthen their own values: for good… as well as for evil
Social networks amplify and strengthen their own values: openness breeds openness, transparency breeds transparency, truth breeds truth. Twitter, Plaxo, LinkedIn, Facebook and the others are so valuable because their members share the common value and goal of helping one another. We believe that the whole is worth more than the sum of its parts; that working together […]
The Social Networker’s Dilemma
We’ve all been there. You receive a connection request on Facebook, Plaxo, LinkedIn, or another social network from someone you met at a networking event or conference. You chatted for a few minutes, didn’t have any immediate reason to be in touch, but exchanged business cards. Now she wants to connect to you on a […]
10 Strategic Communications Insights–from the Government, no less
Today I was fortunate enough to participate in “Focus on the Future: Global Engagement, Department of State-Department of Defense Worldwide Strategic Communications Seminar” (no link available). Some of our nation’s top public affairs officers, diplomats and communication leaders convened in Washington, DC to discuss the future of strategic communications domestically and abroad. Discussions were both thoughtful and thought-provoking. Below […]
Official announcement: it’s just “2.0”
I am officially switching from using the terms “Web 2.0,” “social media,” “new media,” and “digital media” to simply using “2.0.” It’s not that I’m going minimalist on you, it’s just that what’s going on out there is a societal and cultural shift enabled by tools and technologies. As I’ve said before and will say again, […]
Marketing agency turned Sherpa
In his blog today, Chris Brogan asks what the current and future roles and capabilities of marketing agencies need to be in our world of new media. He’s received a tremendous number of insightful responses. I wanted to share my response to his question and give you a chance to check out some of the […]
Who is educating whom?
I spent this morning at Collaborative Expedition Workshop #76, “Strategic Leadership For Networking and Information Technology Education,” at the National Science Foundation. The topic of the workshop was envisioning greater possibilities for strategic leadership in networking and information technology education. The premise was basically that U.S. competitiveness in information technology is declining. Mark Regets a […]
Twittering BETWEEN the Cradles
I just read NYTimes‘ article, “Twittering from the Cradle,” (thanks to my friend Francesca!) which talks about how parents are now sharing the significant and mundane activities and developments of their babies with others–from friends to strangers–via social networking and blogging on sites. Per my post, “Social Currency: the Most Valuable Gift We Can Give to Our Children,” the real value from […]
Pain points: the catalysts of change
Harvard Business School Professor Andrew McAfee’s presentation yesterday morning at 2008 WIRe and ICES Enterprise 2.0 Conference did a wonderful job utilizing Professor Chris Argyris’ research and analysis to explain the differences between a Model 1 (command & control) organization and a Model 2(open & collaborative) organization and why it’s so difficult for Model 1 organizations to transform […]
