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Digital Agoraphobics and the Digital 3rd World
To say that we live in a hyper connected World is a gross understatement. Some research suggests that instead of the 6 or 7 degrees of separation between everyone we have lived in, current research suggests that it may be as few as 3 or 4. But it’s nothing compared to how connected we will [...]
The Evolution of Society, Madness and Social Media
You have probably heard about Nicholas Carr, or if you don’t know him by name you may be more familiar with his, much talked about article, Is Google Making us Stupid. Carr, a long time tech writer, knows how to get a rise out of the tech audience, that’s for sure. Carr turned the article into a [...]
Wild Crazy Ideas About the Relationship Between Social Media and Economics
July has been my slowest posting month here since August of 2008. But it’s not from a lack of writing. I was on vacation last week and got a lot of writing done on The Book. Not as much as I would like but still quite a bit. As I have done all along the [...]
The Relationship Between Social, Human and Financial Capital
Maybe I’ve been reading too much Physics and their quest for the Grand Unifying Theory or maybe I’m suffering from a little bit of delusion and grandeur but I’m calling this the Grand Unifying Theory of Economics (cue Econ PhD’s the World over to rip it apart). The Grand Unifying Theory of Economics By looking at [...]
Is Capitalism Failing Us? Or Are We Failing Capitalism? Capitalism Needs to Get Social.
I am a true believer in Capitalism. I don’t think there is anything wrong with it. I do think that we have failed to evolve our own thinking about Capitalism and Capital and how we apply the two. One of Capitalism’s flaws or features, depending on your particular flavor of Capitalism (yes, there are many [...]
Time and Social Capital: The Ultimate Constraint
What started off as a metaphor for a book I’m working on has turned into a theory and I’m now wondering if it in turn needs it’s own book. It’s the concept of applying the principles of capitalism to a broader definition of capital. Thinks like knowledge and trust, things being described in theories around Social Capital [...]
Social Media, Social Capital and the Future of Capitalism
In my last post I explored the idea of rethinking what is capital. Jill, Jason and I had quite the discussion in the comments that raised more questions than answers. So I did what I always did; spent many nights when I should be sleeping and many hours on the plane in my recent travels [...]
An Inquiry into the Nature of Social Media and the Capital of Companies
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you know I’ve been trying to write a book. More for the satisfaction of actually having written a complete thought longer than a blog post. The major premise of the book for the last 3 years (yes it’s taken me that long) has been reapplying the [...]
The 3 Types of Social Media Strategy
Do you have a social media strategy for your business? Can you articulate what a social media strategy is? Don’t feel bad if you answered no. I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while and have talked around the issue a few times. If you think I talk a lot about social media [...]
Trust is the Gatekeeper of Knowledge
A manager once told me, “I don’t want to capture what [my employees] know, I want to know how they came up with the solutions to the problems.” We were talking about implementing some early Enterprise 2.0 solutions. The technical solutions aren’t the only hurdle we face today. It turned out that many employees don’t [...]
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