Tuesday, September 19, 2006
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Friday, September 01, 2006
This map at the Forbes.com site will lead you to a slide show picturing the top 30 cities in Forbes' survey of wired cities.
The "liveliness" of the Forbes.com site provides a strong illustration of the difference between Forbes online and the paper version of the magazine. A great example of how printed business magazines are dying, and how Forbes is innovating to retain subscribers and offer advertisers more qualified reader attention than could ever be captured by the paper magazine. Mark Anderson has a related article at Strategic News Service entitled Bizmags: Sexy Dinosaurs Losing Their Grip??!!
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
- Why are conversation and collaboration tools so underused? Is my list of 7 reasons missing anything? Are any of the reasons predominant?
- Is the answer making the tools better? If so, how? If not, what is the answer?
- Given time, do you think people will eventually learn to use these tools, despite their shortcomings? Which tools, current or envisioned, will be the winners, the killer apps for online-enabled conversation and collaboration, and why?
- What one simple thing should we do/learn to most effectively enable people to become better conversationalists, and how would we do this?
- Most people are still unfamiliar with the tools in the middle and right columns.
- Many of these tools are unintuitive and hence not easy to learn to use.
- The way you have to use these tools is not the way most people converse and collaborate, i.e. they're awkward.
- Most people have poor listening, communication and collaboration skills, and these tools don't solve (and can exacerbate) this underlying problem of ineffective interpersonal skills.
- The training materials for these tools don't match the way most of us learn and discover (i.e. by doing, by watching others, and iteratively by trial and error).
- Often the people we most want to converse or collaborate with aren't online.
- Often we don't even know who the right people are to converse or collaborate with, so we need to go through a process of discovering who those people are first, which these tools cannot yet effectively help us with; once we've discovered who the right people are, we're likely already talking with them using the ubiquitous tools in the left column above.
From Dave Pollard's original blog post.Social Networking: Why are Conversation and Collaboration Tools so Underused?
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Monday, August 21, 2006
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Friday, August 04, 2006
change this as PR for authors,
Read and Pass: "Publishers need to understand that ChangeThis is here to help them, just like Cuba Gooding Jr. understood that Jerry was there to show him the money. ChangeThis could show the publishers the money too. The vast majority of books get published and go unnoticed; ChangeThis offers an opportunity for books with great, viral ideas to get an instant shot of PR. Having millions of people read a chapter of a great book usually means many thousands of people will wind up buying that book.
At ChangeThis, our goal is to change people’s minds through the spread of important ideas. In no way are we out here to make money. But that doesn’t mean we’re against publishers selling more books because of the manifestos we distribute. If people are so moved by an excerpt, by all means they should go out and purchase the whole book.
There’s so many incredible ideas out there, floundering in the sea of published yet undiscovered books. Some of these books are too powerful to let drown into obscurity.
That’s why we’re throwing out lifejackets."
At ChangeThis, our goal is to change people’s minds through the spread of important ideas. In no way are we out here to make money. But that doesn’t mean we’re against publishers selling more books because of the manifestos we distribute. If people are so moved by an excerpt, by all means they should go out and purchase the whole book.
There’s so many incredible ideas out there, floundering in the sea of published yet undiscovered books. Some of these books are too powerful to let drown into obscurity.
That’s why we’re throwing out lifejackets."
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