May 19

Social Media Requires Discipline

Earlier this week, Social Media B2B posted The benefits of social media in the B2B workplace. The article has been re-tweeted 75 times at the last check suggesting it has proven useful to quite a few people. But the advice is incomplete. Here are a couple of examples of the benefits outlined…

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May 06

Government and the young online

The O’Reilly Radar has a great post written by Alex Howard sharing insights from Danah Boyd - How government can engage young people online. It contains some excellent advice for any politician hoping to create a better dialogue with young voters. Here are some soundbites:

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Apr 26

Villages have voices

BBC News has a great article - Giving a voice to India’s villagers – about an experiment in rural India, using mobile phones to bring people news made by local villagers:

No-one has given any information about the Mongra dam and the displacement it has caused in 14 villages. I want the voice of the poor to reach the people through my report.

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Apr 14

Social media can protect systems

…you don’t need a hit to survive.  You don’t need to aim for the short head of best-sellerdom to escape the long tail. There is a place in the middle, that is not very far away from the tail, where you can at least make a living. That mid-way haven is called 1,000 True Fans. It is an alternate destination for an artist to aim for.

How social media can protect systems from failing in ways far better than institutions would have us believe…

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Mar 31

How to lower productivity

Dilbert.com

There are books, talks, case studies, YouTube videos, content galore demonstrating that people work better when they are happy and motivated yet it seems employers will stop at nothing to make the work place devoid of personality…

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