Open Social How To

As an economics graduate I can tell you that the dorky definition of a recession is when the exchange of cash between people slows. Same amount of money, just slower circulation. And as the money starts to slow, one of the first traditional victims is media spend. We are probably in a lag at the moment because money from good-times budgets is still in the system. But, no doubt, the bad news is in the post. However, networked media is unlikely to be hit by the recessionary effect in the sa

Original post by Modern Marketing - Blog by Collaborate PR & Marketing

Not CopyBot 2: Impressive video demo of Second Inventory, Angelo Biondi’s offline content copier (see site FAQ denying any relation to CopyBot) “Have a scoop for you,” someone messaged me yesterday, writing it out like it was a headline already:…

Original post by [Technorati] Tag results for open social

Blogs, social nets and other networked media have atomised communication and made it all personal. In short it’s a P2P world now. The term P2P itself has gone through a few machinations. From platform-to-platform, peer-to-peer and the pirate-to-pirate swashbucklers who bypassed the whole music industry by going direct. However, all P2P really means is person-to-person: normal folk using web tools - without the annoyance of an institution or mega-corp getting in the way. They may be discu

Original post by Modern Marketing - Blog by Collaborate PR & Marketing

Blogs, social nets and other networked media have atomised communication and made it all personal. In short it’s a P2P world now. The term P2P itself has gone through a few machinations. From platform-to-platform, peer-to-peer and the pirate-to-pirate swashbucklers who bypassed the whole music industry by going direct. However, all P2P really means is person-to-person: normal folk using web tools - without the annoyance of an institution or mega-corp getting in the way. They may be discu

Original post by Modern Marketing - Blog by Collaborate PR & Marketing

It was our great pleasure to have had D’Arcy Norman & Brian Lamb speak to EC&I 831 last night on the topic of open educational repositories. As expected, our presenters shared important insights and engaged students to thinker deeper about concepts which have a continually shifting focus. The presentation helped me to gain a better understanding of the issues around open repositories and open educational resources, and I am very pleased with the depth of conversation that arose. The recorded E

Original post by Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy

Yesterday lunchtime, I went to see Clay Shirky talk at The RSA (a client of mine) about his book Here Come Everybody. It was excellent and you can hear it here. A few points stood out for me. One big change created by networked media, Shirky suggests, is a differing view of evaluation and failure. For a long time we have been used to having an idea and then calling a meeting to grind it through an evaluation process and judge if it deserves backing. However, as we all know too well, this p

Original post by Modern Marketing - Blog by Collaborate PR & Marketing

This is a paraphrase of Clay’s talk at the Royal Society of Arts. Clay Shirky, here comes everybody: the power of organising without organisations. It was chaired by Nico Macdonald, a principal of Spy. You can find a biography of Clay a shirky.com and wikipedia, Clay interjects. “Wikipedia has done a better job,” he said. We have reached an age when this stuff is technologically boring enough to be socially interesting. It’s not about gee-whiz adoption that we can do x. The book in one bu

Original post by Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos

Robert Scoble just switched his home pages from TechMeme to FriendFeed. “So what?” is likely what you’re thinking. Yeah, big deal, right? Well, TechMeme had a clustering algorithm which would group together news articles of related content, and give you a good idea of the ‘hot topics’ of the day. It did this in a completely automated way. I predict that FriendFeed (or another social network aggregator) will introduce topic clustering, based on the keywords and topics of people you follow. Clu

Original post by Michael Kimsalâ??s weblog

Editor’s Note: It is no longer a new idea that innovation in the enterprise space is driven by creativity in the consumer space. (GigaOM guest columnist M.R. Rangaswami wrote about this last year.) Last week M.R’s own site, Sandhill.com had a nice post with tips for how b-to-b startups can succeed with ad-supported models — and even be “entertaining, like iTunes” ! It is authored by Scott Abel and Jay Hallberg, cofounders of Spiceworks, which sells free, ad-supported IT management software f

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different Here’s how it works. It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME. The rules are simple — be nice. There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it. I Won’t Be Here, But the Mic Will be. . . As soon as I write this, it’

Original post by Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - Thinking, writing, business ideas . . . Youâ??re only a stranger once.