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 […]
Retrobuilding Part 2: Impact on Relationships
Today I attended a seminar that Shel Holtz did on using social media to communicate with your customers. He quoted from a recent study that for 62% of content consumed by Digital Natives is created by someone they know personally. It got me thinking again about how we–Digital Immigrants–will be the last generation to retrobuild our social […]
Key Take-Aways from Government Web Content Managers Forum
Happily, Jeffrey Levy, Director of Communications at EPA started the call off on the right foot with mission being the necessary driver of all social media tool usage. Start with NEED, then figure out how social media tools can help to achieve that goal. Get away from destination sites — social media tools enable that […]
What’s Personal is What’s Public
It’s not difficult to join the myriad social networks and create our digital persona. At first glance, it seems that you just throw up your picture, your resume, your e-mail address, and voila, you’ve digitized yourself! A closer look reveals that there are new implications for our personas that were not available to in Web […]
No Rules, Just Write (isn’t that Outback’s slogan?)
I was given some advice yesterday that I should make up “rules” for my social media communications and persona: attributes, adjectives, etc. So, this afternoon I sat down with a blank Word document. I quickly realized that this is very “cart before the horse”: adjectives, attributes and rules emerge over time as content is developed. Furthermore, this […]
