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Google Reader Notes helps FriendFeed hurts del.icio.us and Twitter

Garrett Rogers over at zdnet felt the new Google Reader, notes functionality was a possible threat to Twitter. I don’t totally agree with that. It hurts Twitter only because it helps FriendFeed so much. This feature will mostly challenge bookmarking sites like del.icio.us and Diigo.
While it doesn’t completely replace how I use […]

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The military to use wiki’s to fight insurgence

Wiki based battle plans? Or Military 2.0?
Counterinsurgencies have been called learning competitions. With COIN, the side that learns faster and adapts more rapidly – the side with the better learning organization – usually wins.

A good friend of mine just forward me a Department of Defense request (sorry no link it was via email):

Counterinsurgency Campaign Design […]

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Walking the Razors Edge

Social media workers walk a dangerous line everyday. Everyday they walk into a battlefield not knowing what fate awaits them. One wrong word, one misinterpreted email, a delayed response to a blog comment; any of these things can start a fire storm that could ruin the reputation of the company or the social […]

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What do you do?

I always get two questions from people: “What do you do?” I explain to them that I am the LaserJet Web 2.0 Strategic Lead at HP. This is always followed with the question: “So what do you do?” The second question is much harder to answer.
Mike Manuel has a great post about […]

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Capitalism as a Metaphor

This post is being revised as a page - The Book: Social Media Trifecta 
This is a thought I’ve been chewing on for a while. I often get a variation of the same question: “How do you monetize new media/Web 2.0?” or “How do you measure the ROI of new media/Web 2.0?”
Every business manager in America […]

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Knowledge Management Renaissance

Knowledge Management (KM) was a really hot topic back in the mid to late 90’s. By the early 00’s it had all but disappeared from the spotlight; but it was far from dead. With the recent growth of new media and the Enterprise 2.0 movement KM is seeing a growth like it has never […]

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The Importance of Information Aggregation

How are we expected to keep up with the speed at which information is coming at us?

Do you binge, like a tourist at a Vegas buffet?
Or do you purge and limit yourself like a super model?

Most people take one of two routes:

Binge until they burnout and then purge. Then like the […]

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How to Implement New Media inside Your Company

These tips are for all of my friends working inside of large companies, wanting to take advantage of new media but are not sure where to start. Here are some steps I recommend. This advice is meant for deployment *inside* your company. I find it a much easier sell to your higher […]

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Follow-Up on WGI’s Internal Blogging

It was almost one year ago that Shel Israel met with Andy Snodgrass to talk about internal blogging at WGI.
I had the opportunity to meet Andy and I had to ask him if anything had become of his interest in internal blogging. I was disappointed but not at all surprised to hear that nothing […]

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Business Social Networking

SalesForce.com and Cisco are just the tip of the iceberg.  Social networking is coming to the business world in a big way.  As I said here, traditional marketing is not where the power of new media will be fully realized.  CRM is one obvious application that SalesForce.com is taking advantage of.  But they are not […]

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