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SXSW 2010 for Marketers & Online Strategists
If this guide isn't your cup of tea, be sure to check back for more information soon! How Your Brand Can Succeed in the New Web Clay Shirky hasn't announced the content of his presentation yet. Navigating SXSW is overwhelming to say the least! To help you out ReadWriteWeb has been breaking the events, panels and parties down into vertical reviews.
ReadWriteWeb - Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Information ecologies
was part of a small but select group discussing the information ecology of crisis management. knew two of the participants ( Clay Shirky and Patrick Meier ) by reputation so it was good to meet them, and the gentle hand of the facilitator Eric Klinenberg meant that we got a lot done. There was a general recognition that the old style information centric knowledge management approach would not work (although many government agencies are going down that path). An interesting day yesterday in New York. I
Cognitive Edge - Saturday, March 6, 2010
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[2b2k] Another re-org
It begins with a section on the data-information-knowledge pyramid as an example of our traditional strategy of dealing with the knowledge overload by narrowing our field of vision. Then I talk about information overload as a fact of life. introduce Clay Shirky’s “It’s not information overload — it’s filter failure ” idea, and then say that the difference is not Last week, I went through the current (dis)organization of the book with Tim Sullivan, my editor at Basic Books. I’ve known Tim for a few of years, (even before
Joho the Blog - Sunday, February 28, 2010
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  • Clay Shirky's "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable"
    Sometimes Clay Shirky astounds us by articulating something we've never thought of, and sometimes he astounds us by telling us something many have thought, but never so clearly and so compellingly. By contrast, Clay cuts the Gordian knot : That They are demanding to be told that ancient social bargains aren’t in peril, that core institutions will be spared, But always, he astounds. Into Into the first category falls the claim that he made in his keynote at the last Web 2.0
    OReilly Radar - Saturday, March 14, 2009
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  • [berkman] Clay Shirky on the future of news
    Clay Shirky is giving a lunchtime talk at the Shorenstein Center, which may be a joint event with the Berkman Center. Omitting key information. As Bob Garfield says (says Clay), it turns out that people will go to sites that do nothing but post ads. Clay NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong.
    Joho the Blog - Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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  • Clay Shirky in London: Group action just got easier
    One reason I like it is that you can suggest that you'd like to hear someone like, say, Clay Shirky and, six months later, you've got him. Clay speaks today at Online Information Conference in London. As well as formal groups around certain types of photography on Flickr ( like this HDR group for beginners ) there are the more impromptu adhoc communities that form around just one photo . 10 years ago, as Clay helped People sometimes ask why one might 'waste' one's time sitting on Advisory Boards, especially those of conferences. It means that whereas destination
    edublogs - Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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  • [2b2k] Clay Shirky, info overload, and when filters increase the size of what’s filtered
    Clay Shirky’s masterful talk at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC last September — “It’s not information overload. Clay explains in greater detail in this two part CJR interview: 1 2 ] So I’ve been writing about information overload in the context of our traditional strategy for knowing. It’s filter failure” — makes crucial points and makes them beautifully. [Clay Clay traces information overload to the 15th century, but others have taken it back earlier than that, and there’s even a quotation from Seneca (4
    Joho the Blog - Sunday, January 31, 2010
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  • Clay Shirky on Helping People Find You, Content as Mere Conversation Fodder, and Letting Users Identify Their Needs
    BLOG Clay Shirky on Helping Another form of information sickness finally got around to reading Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody . The address a real need: Shirky notes wryly "If you designed a better shovel, Shirky says, is that large scale group activities Helping People Find You, Content as Mere Conversation Fodder, Letting Users Users Identify Their Needs, and the Formula for Effective Social Networking
    How to Save the World - Sunday, May 24, 2009
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  • Clay Shirky - The Observer Interview
    The Observer (UK) interviews Shirky. . Occasionally people contact me to ask, "Are you the same Clay Shirky I was at school with?" Unicef said that when they set up public computer kiosks with educational material, a cached Wikipedia, basic health information, etc, in villages that the people using them are aged six to 60, but when adding internet connectivity the age range reduces to 14 to 18. This Much I Know John Hind The Observer, Sunday 15 February 2009
    Wirearchy - Sunday, February 15, 2009
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  • Feature Interview with Clay Shirky on Canadian Radio (CBC)
    I recently finished reading Clay Shirky’s new book (New York: Penguin, 2008) entitled Here Comes Everybody: the power of organizing without organizations . If you have been following the shift from presentation mode to participation mode in education and training, then you won’t find many startling ideas in this book, as Shirky covers topics already well discussed by other writers and bloggers. The ideas include the importance of sharing to build community, the fact that we all can be contributors to the information explosion, the increasing speed of change, challenges to established institutions, social media, small worlds, and that failure is a good thing in terms of learning.
    Workplace Learning Today - Friday, January 2, 2009
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  • Clay Shirky On Leadership and Management in an Interconnected World
    A couple of days ago, as the FASTForward 09 conference opened, I had the opportunity to sit down with Clay Shirky, author of the book “ Here Comes Everybody – the power of organizing without organizations ” and a consultant, professor and writer. wanted to bear down a little bit on some of the core ideas in his recent book and examine how his premises impact what management needs to understand and do with the new set opf conditions created by an interconnected digital infrastructure that supports all communications and management of information – the lifeblood of an organization’s
    Wirearchy - Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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  • Sense-making with PKM
    We constantly go through a process of looking at bits of information and trying to make sense of them by adding to our existing knowledge or testing out new patterns in our sense-making efforts. The Web has given us more ways to connect with others in our learning but many people only see the information overload aspect of our digital society. As years of sorting, categorizing and Note: This is a revised HTML version of previous PDF’s posted on the site , which should make it easier for sharing. PKM
    Learning and Working on the Web - Thursday, March 12, 2009
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  • Informal learning hot list for February 2009
    It beats threshing a barrage of chaff to locate the kernels of information you want. The Informal Learning Flow aggregator is beginning to take social signals into account. Hot List on Informal Learning Clay Shirky Wouldn’t it be cool to let the wisdom of your crowd suggest things on the net that merit your attention? It’s a time-saver, time is money, and most of us could use more of it.
    Internet Time - Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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