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09 Aug 09

MySpace is to Facebook as Twitter is to ______

Twitter and Myspace are different companies in different markets but there is a lot of evidence to suggest that they share, and will always share, the exact same problem. MySpace and Twitter are hugely popular for uses neither company anticipated. The mission of each company is so vague that their products are stretched and molded into a variety of different uses. Instead of targeting and building their business around one of these users they take their sudden popularity as a sign they have a killer product. They don’t.

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facebook myspace twitter scale scalability socialnetworking centralization strategy

05 Jul 09

Social computing adoption issues due to scale

The population size of this system isn't quite the issue, but I put some thought into what enterprise 2.0 deployment issues might appear with scale and came up with the following chart. I hope this can help other maturing e2.0 environments consider some of the issues they may be coming up agains

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socialcomputing scale scalability adoption issues enterprise2.0

12 Mar 09

The New Organization Model: Learning at Scale - The Big Shift - HarvardBusiness.org

In recent posts we've described a massive institutional transformation that will occur as part of the big shift: the move from institutions designed for scalable efficiency to institutions designed for scalable learning. The core questions we all need to address are: who will drive this transformation? Who will be the agents of change? Will it be institutional leaders from above or individuals from below and from the outside of our current institutions?

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efficiency learning infrastructure networks scalability talent

From the talent side of the equation the key requirement for institutional success is to move from scalable efficiency to scalable learning.
talent will pull institutions into the 21st century.
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- . Deeply frustrated with the stultifying atmosphere so amusingly captured by Dilbert, many talented individuals have fled their institutional homes and struck out on their own. As institutions begin re-forming around the imperative of scalable pull, we are likely to see a reversal, or at least a leveling off, of this trend towards independent contractors. We believe that, as talent-driven institutions emerge, they will amplify talent development in far more powerful ways than any individuals could accomplish on their own.