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At higher risk of having good ideas
Patti Anklam collects some good links (to online "paper" media) and ponders the changing nature of creativity, stimulus and innovation in social networks. Patterns and tasks aren't new (homogenity rarely breeds new ideas, being broad loosens the focus) as are the potential structural solutions (connecting disparate networks with knowledge brokers, importing, promoting and adapting ideas, the need for boundary-spanning importing of ideas ...) - but like Paula comments it's a sort of canary to see if we're doing our internal social networking (or our hanging out on the social media scene) right.
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If you have a “closed” network, where everyone pretty much knows or knows about each other. A good aspect of this connectivity is that the network can serve as a filter — multiple tweets or retweets about a topic link usually means it’s worth following — and its possible to generate a common language. However, it’s not likely that the richest source of creativity — two unlikely ideas coming together — will occur. You need (or the organization needs) to have connections outside the group. As Burt puts it (using one of my favorite phrases ever, the title of this blog), “People who live in the intersection of social worlds ‘are at higher risk of having good ideas.”
How Technology Is Changing the Face of Innovation
Snip "Technology is transforming innovation at its core, allowing companies to test new ideas at speeds—and prices—that were unimaginable even a decade ago. They can stick features on Web sites and tell within hours how customers respond. They can see results from in-store promotions, or efforts to boost process productivity, almost as quickly."
Twitter's Ten Rules For Radical Innovators - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org
Umair Haque distills learnings and "messy heuristics" for innovators from looking at Twitter, watch out for the very interesting comments too.
Snippet taken from the comments:
"twitter is an interesting bug. people claim that they "get it", but don't participate. they often cite that they don't have time."
McKinsey: What Matters: Internet
some light weekend reading from McKinsey - overall I really like this site "What Matters", tackling the real and big problems.\n\nContributions by people like Clay Shirky, Craig Newmark or Yochai Benkler (who writes about peer production)
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