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30 Oct 08

Levy's space: Style Matters!

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04 Oct 08

Silverpop Takes Email Marketing Social

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Silverpop's new Share-to-Social feature allows
marketers to quickly turn emails into socially-enabled viral messages.
With a click, marketers can place links within an email allowing
recipients to easily post the message to their profile page on Facebook
or MySpace, where friends can see the message, make comments and even
post the email on their own profile pages.
One of our
emails was posted on 50 different social network profile pages. That
kind of customer endorsement turns our email 'push' marketing into a
powerful 'pull' campaign."
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  Silverpop's enhanced reporting capabilities enable marketers to identify
  which of their email messages have gone viral, allowing them to track
  message activity at a granular level and target future messages based on
  that information.

02 Oct 08

Reciprocity, Bad Faith - Corporate Conversation

There are other tactics one could take but many of our current institutions are built using some version of this system.

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Not to confuse matters, but I am using the phrase “moral obligation” in a non-foundational way. I am not saying that there are rights granted from a state of nature that must be honored. What I am saying is that we should see allegiance to social institutions by reference to familiar, commonly accepted premises – but also as no more arbitrary – than choices of friends or heroes. Such choices are not made by reference to criteria.
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- Next we need to note that pleasure we take in reciprocal exchanges are enormously fecund. By prompting us to act reciprocally, they generate many of the conditions under which the sustained pleasures of social relationships are possible. It is therefore an instrumental good.
- Reciprocation for that help – if it is a general feature of social interaction – reinforces helping behavior. It is a powerful element in sustaining the help we need. Not reciprocating, on the other hand, if it were a general feature of social interaction, would quite likely extinguish helping behavior. (Lasting unrequited love is rare.) Certainly, if evil were typically returned for good, the help would cease.
- Now we turn to the next two elements - responses to evil. This idea is especially important in our age of globalization, environmental concerns, bifurcation of society, and terrorism.
  
  Resist evil
  Never return evil for evil
  
  If we are not to return evil for evil, how should we be disposed to respond to it? The options are what might be called active or passive acceptance, and active or passive rejection.
- Jean-Paul Sartre's name for the state of mind in we lie to ourselves: Bad Faith. Some of our inner lies are trivial: I know what I am going to be late if I don’t go now, but I carry on as if I think there is plenty of time. Then I am in Bad Faith: I am being deliberately late, but I allow myself to believe I am unaware of it. When someone complains, I can say: ‘My goodness, I never noticed the time.’ Sartre points out how weird this self-deception is’…the one to whom the lie is told and the one who lies are one and the same’. The liar is also the victim. In Bad Faith, I am pretending to be two different people; I am myself, but I am also another person. Neither is responsible for how I seem to have acted.
- But the real evil of Bad Faith isn’t the little moments of self-deception. Existentialism is about whole ways of living, choices of life, and Bad Faith can infect an entire life
- Sartre puts it, in sadness and in anger - ’A person can live in bad faith’. You can spend you whole life as if you weren’t the person you really are. Bad Faith is a way of ‘establishing that I am not what I am’. If the lies really work, then when other people confront me with my actions, I will genuinely feel disbelief and outrage. The concept of Bad Faith is an example of the wider existential idea, that nothing can relieve us of the burden of responsibility for our lives and our actions.
- We need to setup for the next post where we will discuss some the tension points where alert and inert stakeholders make themselves felt. Internally, we will consider the concerns regarding social media generated by the IT manager, legal staff, business intelligence and most importantly the whistle blower. From the external world to the organization, we shall review recruiting, investor relations, and advertising.

The Blurring Boundary between Consumer and Corporate Technologies | dub

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This blurring of business and consumer focused applications is called “consumerization” by technology research firms such as Gartner and executives at companies such as Microsoft. Consumerization posits that consumer technologies — including social networking tools, user generated content and wikis (web-based software that allows people to create content collaboratively) — are being increasingly adopted by corporate America
Experts at Wharton agree that consumer technology has been going corporate in recent years. Underlying this emerging trend are young and tech-savvy workers — called “digital natives”
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- conundrum to the traditional corporate technology department. Previously, companies dictated what software and hardware were used for work purposes. Today, choosing technology is becoming increasingly democratic as workers get more of a say
- “We have observed a convergence of technologies between these two segments [consumer and corporate] because the user needs have been converging,” says Christian Terwiesch, a professor of operations and information management at Wharton. For instance, workers are demanding that corporate technology — say a search tool within a company — be as user friendly as Google’s popular search site.
- Spurring this convergence of corporate and consumer technology is the fact that the line between personal lives and work has blurred.

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I forwarded an Introduction yesterday from one unknown to another
unknown who was to send it on to a third unknown - the usual "open
networker" chain of connections sort of thing. A little while later,
the second unknown declined to forward it. I wasn't expecting that.
Here's her explanation:
In the end, I do not feel as comfortable about
making introductions as you do. I rarely ever
ask for introductions from people with whom I
have had not business interactions with directly
- 95% of my introductions are requested from
people whom I know personally. I stick to
"trusted" contacts, and take introductions
quite seriously. I think it works better when
"A" knows "C"...

NPR: Coming Soon: Social Networking on NPR.org

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Over the last year or so, NPR has done a number of projects related to online communities and social networks, from Facebook to Flickr to Twitter. We'll continue to push further into services like these in a variety of ways, but we're also getting ready to bring it all back home with the launch of our own set of social networking tools on NPR.org.

Personal Social Networking - Building A Conversation: Smart and Informed Social Network

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30 Sep 08

NPR boosts online offerings, seeks larger audience

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NPR also plans to overhaul its Web site and expand the tools for sharing its programs elsewhere over the next few months. And it is working to increase the flexibility of its popular "podcasts," audio downloads that have tripled in usage over the past two years.
These digital initiatives are aimed at capturing and retaining audiences _ particularly younger people who aren't habitual radio listeners but who represent the future for fundraising at NPR's member stations.

18 Sep 08

Personal Social Networking - Building A Conversation: Amazee is social collaboration

Amazze is an interesting community - it claims to be the site for collective action. If it works it could because the magazine that is used to promote projects within the community. It is this philosophy that lets members sign on to any of those advertised projects anywhere in the world.

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23 Apr 08

Signals in Social Supernets

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It shows how the costs associated with adding friends and evaluating profiles affect the reliability of users' self-presentation; examines strategies such as information fashion and risk-taking; and shows how these costs and strategies affect how the publicly-displayed social network aids the establishment of trust, identity, and cooperation—the essential foundations for an expanded social world.
It makes reputation possible—individuals benefit from the experience of others in determining who is nice, who does good work, and who should be shunned for their dishonest ways. Using language to maintain ties and manage trust, people can form and manage more complex and extensive social networks.¹
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- The argument begins with an introduction to signaling theory. The next section uses this theory to examine how the fundamental structure of SNSs can bring greater trust and reliability to online self-presentations, how specific site design decisions enhance or weaken their trust-conferring ability, and how seemingly pointless or irrational behaviors, such as online fashion and risk taking, actually signal social information. The final section examines the transformative possibilities of social supernets—not only whether SNSs may bring them about, but if so, in what ways they might change our society.
- An emphasis of this article is on ways of achieving reliable information about identity and affiliations. There are situations where ephemeral, hidden, or multiple identities are desirable. However, minimal online identity has been easy to create, while it is harder to establish more grounded identities in a fluid and nuanced way. A primary goal of this article is to understand how reliability is encouraged or enforced.
- Signaling theory, developed initially in economics (Spence, 1973a) and biology (Zahavi, 1975), models the relationship between signals and qualities, showing why certain signals are reliable and others are not. For a signal to be reliable, the costs of deceptively producing the signal must outweigh the benefits. The core of signaling theory is its analysis of the types of signals and situations that bring this about
- termed assessment signals
- conventional signals
- The self-descriptions in online profiles are mostly conventional signals—it is just as easy to type 24 or 62 as it is to enter one's actual age, or to put M rather than F as one's gender. Conventional signals are kept honest through the outside intervention of laws and social mores.
- However, costs may discourage deception but not be high enough to guarantee honesty. The SNS LinkedIn requires that users provide the email address of the person with whom they wish to connect; this makes deceptively claiming to know someone costlier, but it certainly does not prevent all contact by strangers, especially for those with published email addresses.
- Dunbar (1996) argued that while new communication technologies could increase the flow of information, they would be unable to change basic social structure and scale. He claimed that people would need to fall back on face-to-face interaction in order to establish trust, rather than relying on what he call the "mere ciphers" people encounter in the mediated domain (Dunbar, 1996, p. 204).
- SNS users represent themselves with a profile, which includes a self-description, comments from other users, and the technology's defining feature, a list of links to chosen other members. The self-description can include pictures, affiliations, career goals, and other personal details. Alone, these are conventional signals, easily faked; even references to favorite obscure books and other displays of esoteric knowledge may have simply been copied from another's page. Yet the links to other members implies that they have vetted this description as true—although it is important to note that "true" means "true to the mores of our community," which can range from strict adherence to known facts to highly imaginative role-playing (boyd & Heer, 2006; Donath & boyd, 2004; Lenhart & Madden, 2007b).
- Thus, one's display of connections signals one's trustworthiness (Donath & boyd, 2004). One of the most valuable contributions of SNSs is their potential to add trust to weak ties. Trusted weak ties are very useful sources of information, combining the heterogeneity that such ties generally have with the believability that comes with trust (Levin & Cross, 2004). Furthermore, SNSs can actually increase trustworthiness, by placing people within a context that can enforce social mores. SNSs make people aware that their friends and colleagues are looking at their self-presentation.
- When people indiscriminately add connections, others who trusted their judgment can suffer and will eventually cease trusting them as a source for useful vouching. Site design influences this: Sites designed to make adding connections as easy as possible, emphasizing indiscriminate network growth, create networks that do little to increase trust or trustworthiness.
- On sites with higher costs for creating a link, the observer has reason to believe that the links represent genuine relationships. Members of aSmallWorld are careful to request connections only with others whom they are sure wish to be linked to them, since they can be banished for having a few link requests declined (Price, 2006).
- The meaning of these links is also personally subjective. For some people, listing someone as a "friend" on a social network site is an indication of personal and positive acquaintance. Others are far more casual, willing to add friends indiscriminately (boyd, 2006). This has ramifications for the reliability of the profile itself. Viewers may trust the self-created content of a profile if they believe that its links are to people who know that user well, while links that they believe have only minimal connection add little credence.

11 Apr 08

IWR Blog - information industry insight from www.iwr.co.uk

From automation of task to harvesting intelligence of workers - tramploline analysises information flows - the recession could be motivation to tempt such forward insight.

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Chief executive of Trampoline, Charles Armstrong, believes a generational shift is occurring in the way businesses achieve productivity gains, and in many ways he is right. From around the 60s through to the early 2000s, process automation was the main means by which firms achieved these ends, but once everything has been automated, where do you turn? Well, the answer according to Trampoline is to the collective or social intelligence of your staff. This is enterprise social networking – understanding how individuals and groups within the organisation interact and the expertise and knowledge they possess.
It could be viewed as the slow creeping of social networking ideas into the enterprise, just as other primarily consumer-based technologies have crept quietly into business over the years.
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- Trampoline's offerings at least are all based on the Sonar platform, which mines all the important information from users' data sources – emails, document stores, databases and so on – and runs some clever algorithms on them to deduce various things about the sender. The end result is that you can view in a neat graphical display the information flows, areas of expertise and social networks in the organisation, and then refine it by various criteria.
- As Armstrong argues, perhaps the advent of a recession will give firms the push they need to investigate new ways of boosting productivity, getting more out of their existing human resources and becoming more agile. Perhaps.

02 Apr 08

Personal Social Networking - Building A Conversation: Political Participation - Obama's Architecture

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Personal Social Networking - Building A Conversation: 25 Social Networking Tools

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31 Mar 08

Business Reputation: Creativity and Happiness: Response to Billy's Second Response – Open Letter

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28 Mar 08

Mock Social Network « On Happiness

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26 Mar 08

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What are the organizational views on social media

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- The "say what?" group. When someone from the organization is asked, "So has your company developed a social media strategy?", the look of a calf staring at a new gate comes over his or her face followed by a sincere, "Say what?"
- The "Dude, bloggers rule!" group. This is obviously the fully engaged group, not only understanding transparency but living it with employee blogs and customer collaboration.
- The "Great Perplexed Majority" (with apologies to Mr. Nixon). This is the rest of us who like to think we have a clue, grasp the reality of statements like, "Companies risk brand reputation by not participating..." (p. 40), but look at the culture and wonder how in the world are we going to get there.
t is going to alter degree programs at universities. Corporate structures and practices are going to get flushed through that same canyon. Many will get swept away and not know what hit them. The fools will know it is coming and change nothing in order to crest the wave. I credit the empowerment people now have to potentially influence and/or topple large companies more so than the vehicle of social media (but the means obviously serve the ends).
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- Some organizations show rays of hope, but the majority - especially in larger organizations - maintain the status quo, showing no signs of changing to embrace social media, and probably more accurately not even knowing it exists. Also, who can fault any leader or manager when they continue seeing at least incremental growth doing things the tried and true way? What compelling argument is there for risking success in order to grasp the unknown? If I'm a CEO these are questions I'd ask.
- Do we issue ultimatums: Change or see ya? Companies will need to determine if moving toward an understanding and implementation of social media is enough of a priority to not only require it of new hires at lower levels of their respective organizations, but to also write it into middle and upper level management job descriptions and require it of the people who currently fill those positions

25 Mar 08

Business Creativity and Happiness: Political Conversation - Billy Jack V Levy (Oldude59) Rivers

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24 Mar 08

Business Creativity and Happiness: Strategic Conversations

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In addition, I am in the process of writing on the subject of how authentic leaders should establish both a comfort in social media conversations personally (which might include blogging or might not, but surely includes joining or even forming social networks that they participate in fully) and a framework for them to adopt. Therefore, this opportunity regarding conversations is a perfect topic for me to posit some of my ideas for testing.

Business Creativity and Happiness: Leadership, Compliance and Social Networking

This outlines some of the thinking and issues from the stand point of a leader considering the use of social media within and for his organization.

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This post is a preliminary look at the role of leadership in the context of social networking and then an analysis of some of conditions which I hope will give some guidance to others that have found themselves wondering about some of these same issues.

Business Creativity and Happiness: Character Statement - Corporate Policy for Social Engagement

This is an example of the product that project team focused on establishing standards for the wide spread use of social media within and for the organization's purpose.

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This hypothetical team in this case produces this product under the facilitated guidance of organizational consultant such as those of Phronêsis Inc. The product once produced would be used be vetted throughout top and key management within the organization to achieve the widest communication and adoption.

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