A Facebook social media study belies the idea that social networks grow through what has been known as "viral" connections. What appears to be happening is that different groups like to be exposed through a network node, as in, you. If a number of like-minded people like the same thing, it isn't nearly as powerful as a number of different people liking the same thing. That, … [Read more...] about Facebook Social Media Study Reinforces Ideas of Serendipity in Social Networks
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Are you ready for strategic planning?
Are you Ready for Strategic Planning? The following list of questions will help organizations address the overarching question: Are you Ready for Strategic Planning? The questions are based on the key attributes associated with successful, sustained strategic planning and strategic action. Organizations need not ascribe to all of the factors underlying the questions, but the … [Read more...] about Are you ready for strategic planning?
Lessons from the Field: Answers to Yammer Customers About How to Effectively Use Enterprise Social Media in the Serendipity Economy
Social Media in the Serendipity Economy. The following questions were asked during the Yammer Finding Value in Serendipity Webinar held, February 28, 2012 [No longer available. Yammer is now part of Microsoft.] The Storify tweet trail was mined for this report [Storify has ceased operations]. Yammer posted a blog about the paper and the webinar but it has been retired by … [Read more...] about Lessons from the Field: Answers to Yammer Customers About How to Effectively Use Enterprise Social Media in the Serendipity Economy
How are my books, Listening to the Future and Management by Design, Related?
A little history of Listening to the Future and Management by Design and how they are related. Listening to the Future isn’t so much a book idea as it was a repository for a number of ideas I was already working on at Microsoft. Scenarios lie at the core of Listening to the Future, the idea that we have to grapple with the future, that we can’t just consider on possibility, … [Read more...] about How are my books, Listening to the Future and Management by Design, Related?
Two Book Recommendations: Reinventing Discovery and Too Big to Know
Digging into two impressive new tomes. Check them out! Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science An impressive effort that chronicles this moment as scientific discovery finds new pathways amid social networking and global connectedness. Forces one to think about the long-term implications. Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the … [Read more...] about Two Book Recommendations: Reinventing Discovery and Too Big to Know
