Brent MacKinnon's List: sharing

And when it comes to privacy I think he hit the nail on the head when he wrote recently on the Washington Post's web site,

If people share more, the world will become more open and connected. And a world that's more open and connected is a better world. These are still our core principles today.

excellent article re. use of social media in non profits and the issue of scarcity thinking

In the US state of North Carolina, the New York Times reports, an interesting experiment has been in progress since the first of February. The “Birds and Bees Text Line” invites teenagers with any questions relating to sex or the mysteries of dating to SMS their question to a phone number.

he web and ever-transforming digital technology have revolutionized the concept of communication and collaboration at work. Fundamental to employee collaboration is how individuals join together to achieve a mutual goal. Collaboration is based on the idea that sharing knowledge through cooperation helps solve problems more efficiently. In the enterprise, this principle couldn’t be more true, especially as more and more employees are engaging with one another through asynchronous, socially-geared technology. Today’s #E2sday looks at the evolution of collaboration in the enterprise.

How do you make work more effective? Make it transparent, as Sigurd Rinde did with his client. He redesigned an advertising agency’s workflow, identifying the main choke points, four “big meetings” where one of the “owners” had to be present, and then made the workflow visible so anybody could see what was happening.

Anthony Poncier (in French) covers the eight challenges of management in the virtual era, which I’ve loosely translated:

study information technology's impact on the world of business -- how it changes the way companies perform and compete. In recent years I've spent a lot of time looking into the phenomenon that I call Enterprise 2.0 -- the use by organizations of the Web 2.0 toolkit of emergent social software platforms like wikis, blogs, microblogs, social networking software, tagging systems, prediction markets, location-based services, and so on.

I think learning to share is an integral building block that we learn as kids. As we transition to adults, more often than not, that building block is left behind in favor of the more popular "what's in it for me" mentality.

Stories are perhaps the single most powerful tool in nonprofit marketing . . . but like any power tool, they can do damage in the wrong hands! 

Here's a quick "user's manual" for nonprofit storytelling in the form of three dos and don'ts each. 

EDF’s efforts are examples of an emerging leadership style that we call “working wikily,” an approach that is characterized by greater openness, transparency, decentralized decision making, and collective action. (The term working wikily is based on the word wiki, a Web site that allows groups of people to collectively create and edit the Web site and information on it. The best-known use of a wiki is Wikipedia.) Although EDF is a relatively early adopter of this new way of working, its experiments are no longer unusual. What once seemed a marginal activity became mainstream after President Barack Obama’s election campaign combined grassroots organizing with online tools to mobilize more than 13 million supporters2 and raise nearly $750 million for his 2008 election.

What fills you with wonder? What do you wonder about? These different, but related questions were posed often during the TED event last week.  The annual TED event that I attended was organized around the broad theme of the rediscovery of wonder.

Whether or not a company can continue its winning trajectory after the retirement of a strong leader depends on, among other things, whether or not his/her leadership has become organic in the organizational culture.

"Strategies for identifying stories that exemplify your organization’s mission

Target audience: Nonprofits, NGOs, cause organizations, social enterprises, brands, educators, video producers, Web publishers, storytellers, individuals.

Part 1 of a 2-part series focused on using video to tell compelling stories."

erstand the root cause of their (learning/performance) problem, to identify the most appropriate way it can be solved that suits their working pattern and practices. It might well be that they need some form of organised training solution, but it is usually much more likely that their problem can be solved in a way that enhances their existing work practices –  in the workflow.  In which case, I then work with the same individuals and teams involved to put the solution in place. Part of this process also considers how they will measure the success of this new activity, and this is usually framed in terms of productivity or performance improvements.

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