A recent NY Times article described and reacted to Facebook Home: For example, for most people, the entire purpose of a Home screen is displaying app icons. But there are no icons on Facebook’s Home screens; Facebook thinks you’d rather use that space for reading Facebook updates. The only icon that appears is your own …
Social media is no longer restricted to an application. Facebook Home and Google Now demonstrate the socialization of information. Facebook Home “Puts Your Friends at the Heart of Your Phone” Google Now “Gets You Just the Right Information at the Right Time”
“But there is a different business model that is disrupting us, and that’s online learning. On-the-job education. So Intel University, GE Crotonville. This model of learning is: You come in, we’ll spend a week teaching you about strategy, and then you go off and develop the strategy. You come back for two weeks in product …
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“We’re no longer living in the old economy, based on industrial-era principles. That’s over. We’ve crossed into the Postnormal, and most leaders are either unaware of that transition, or are seeing only disconnected parts of it.”–Stowe Boyd Digital and social media create a new infrastructure to build relationships, create products and services, and share resources …
The emotional impact on your customers will be in direct proportion to the social impact of your purpose.”–Simon Mainwaring Social media that communicates the impact of the organization, generates interactions from customers, and allows customers to co-create products or services effectively utilizes the channels, applications, and platforms that have proliferated in recent years. The entire …
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” –Brene Brown The most disruptive character trait may be vulnerability. I become excited when thinking about how digital media can be used to amplify vulnerability among people and brands.
The effectiveness of your social media efforts reveal more about your organizational health than your communication expertise. Making The Case For Social Business from SideraWorks I particularly enjoyed slide #4–Holistic and well-structured businesses see 4x better returns.
Power has shifted from the organization to the individual. This is not a cliche. Between their smart devices and digital connections on social media, each person has more access to information than ever before. Organizational structures determine resource allocation and coordinate decision making. Many structures were not created to manage the information that employees generate …
