You can’t understand the value of 2.0 until you’re doing 2.0, but you’ll never do 2.0 unless you understand the value of 2.0. You feel that you need training to use 2.0 tools, but can’t understand that you don’t need training to use 2.0 tools until you’re using 2.0 tools.
“Prejudice is one of life’s little shortcuts”
I heard an interesting comment this morning, “prejudice is one of life’s little shortcuts.” At first this sounded somewhere between corny and offensive to me. I thought, “prejudice is serious, not something to make light of!” Prejudice has negative connotations. We think of it as “uninformed, criticism.” Criticism is “judging negatively.” But being critical has […]
Microcasting yourself across social networks
So, I’ve been grappling with how to best manage my personal feed across social networks. It seems silly to update my status separately on several social networks when services like Ping.fm exist to enable broadcast updates across networks. A few weeks ago I did a test and linked my Facebook and Plaxo Pulse feeds to auto-update […]
The professional Catch-22 of personal transparency
At this point it’s fair to concede that the idea of a lifetime job is a relic from a previous era. It is widely believed that we are slated to have an average of seven careers in our lifetime–many of which will involve more than one job. Even when we’re in long-term committed employment relationships, we are still […]
Renaissance 2.0: the birth of truth
Though I never thought of the Metro as a sociologist’s petrie dish, the other day I found myself noticing the stark contrast between the casual behaviors and open interactions of twentysomethings and the more formal rituals and body language of the members of older generations. Millenials chatted and thumbed on their PDAs; Baby Boomers buried their noses in Express and hardcovered books. […]
Fox News on Facebook: Web 1.0 or 2.0?
So, Fox News has launched its own Facebook page. Fox News already has over 22,000 thousands of fans, so, I guess we can consider it pretty popular. I am curious to learn how Fox News is defining and measuring the success of its Facebook page: number of friends, conversations sparked, clickthroughs to FoxNews.com, etc. In short, I’m not convinced […]
Do Millenials sunbathe?
After spending a week on the beautiful beaches of Martha’s Vineyard, basking in the sun whenever possible–with SPF 30+, of course–I think it’s crazy that out culture still loves the image of being “tan” and “sun kissed” even though we all know that UV rays can kill us. I wonder if sunbathing is hip for Millenials? The next generation certainly […]
A brilliant tidbit
From Paul: “language is the medium of human intelligence.”
Collaborative Government: Recapturing Our Founding Principle
I had coffee this morning with Mark Drapeau, National Defense University fellow and author of two terrific recent and impressive articles on Mashable about government 2.0. As I was driving to my DoD office afterwards, I was thinking about the implications of government 2.0 and began to establish this concept of collaborative government. Now, for the first […]
Secretary of Innovation: a role in the next administration?
So, I was e-mailing with my former boss from IdeaScope, Bob Johnston, who has a phenomenal background in applied innovation and the creative process. He also has a lovely cottage on Martha’s Vineyard. It turns out that Bob and I are going to both be on the Vineyard at the same time later this month and […]
