I love finding new words (adhocracy has been around since the 1970’s but it’s new to me). Most sites about adhocracy refer to it as a company structure or some sort of “job” but it works for me equally well as a description of commons-based peer production. From wikipedia: When done well, Adhocracy can be…
Facebook is/not a walled garden – Fang and me hosted group on Facebook. Here we go again: Why Facebook sucks Saturday, October 13, 2007 by Dave Winer. Another topic Scoble and I talked about today was Facebook. I said I don’t like Facebook, never have, and I finally figured out why. It’s another one of…
Those poor darlings at ADMA had to sit and listen to me waffle on about how Web 2.0 social media, social news, social bookmarking and social search were going to change their world. As they hadn’t yet learnt about Search Engine Optimisation (also, apparently, called Search Engine Marketing), and as social search is not yet…
I can never remember when to whack an ‘m’ on the end – I have no end of trouble with my object pronouns versus my subject pronouns. Do you? anyway who is this?: SALES – Account Manager ONLINE MEDIA FASTEST GROWING ONLINE MEDIA WORLD’S LEADING SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITE What a great place to take your…
A very sad story in The Daily Telegraph today (an article by Ian McPhedran), and I am concerned about how we handle social network ethics when it comes to a loss in the community and what happens to the content created by that member. Facebook via Daily Telegraph: Loved life… David Pearce with his wife…
Don’t show SilkCharm the new fashions for avatars. I can hardly fund her inworld as it is; expensive critters, avatars. Louisa Hearn of the Sydney Morning Herald: Haute couture has shifted its gaze from the catwalk to the world of high technology as the world’s top fashion houses jostle to stamp their exclusive labels on…
Looking for a career change? Want to be an indentured slave to a marketing agency? ho ho ho. MFA (Media Federation of Australia) has some traineeships coming up – and a course. Have a look through and then read my “extra month” at the end. 🙂 – traineeship applications have to be in by NOVEMBER…
Moez Masoud Popping this video up here as a reminder – sometimes I get so caught up in marketing and monetising social networks and looking at revenue share vs advertising vs sponsorship models and so on, that I forget why people go to great lengths to run online communities. Often for free. With a huge…
The next time the Marketing department, or anyone in the know, at your company says that ‘nobody has time to blog’ i.e. communicate with the consumer, ask them ‘whatever happened to the Typing Pool?’ Typing Pool 1.0 -> ….? Because everyone from CEO’s down were “too busy” to type their own letters. And sure, many…
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