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Rulers of the Cloud: Google Becomes the Cloud, Search is a Feature
It's "open" mantra gives the company the ability to see a whole generation into the future of information channel disruption. Facebook (social networks know the details) The shortest way to describe this is that Google is no longer a verb. It's becoming a noun. Not just the few clicks to find information, but the information
ReadWriteWeb - Friday, March 19, 2010
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Four Ways to Keep the Museum Experience Relevant
The museum's objective was to engage a broader audience in a deeper conversation by transforming the museum into a social media platform. Attendance surpassed projections and 1,700 new memberships were generated just from people waiting in line for the exhibition. We discussed how traditional institutions can build social media platforms while remaining authentic and came up with four methods for success. Content: Why China? Ziba Design helped create the massive exhibition, China Design Now which recently closed in Portland, Oregon. Steve McCallion files his last report
Fast Company - Friday, March 19, 2010
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Why I work for Pub TV/Radio and for Libraries - Our new institutions?
For generations simply adding more funding to the system, had a direct result of better outcomes. Again for generations, more money, better access to the system, more drugs etc did deliver better health. But now it is clear that what drives health, your position in the social hierarchy, how much control you have, what you eat etc are the most important factors. Why Public Service Media? Why libraries?
Robert Paterson's Weblog - Friday, March 19, 2010
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  • The Generation M Manifesto
    My generation would like to break up with you. There's a tectonic shift rocking the social, political, and economic landscape . hate labels, but I'm going to employ a flawed, imperfect one: Generation "M." What do the "M"s in Generation M stand for? Dear Old People Who Run the World , Everyday, I see a widening gap in how you and we understand the world — and what we want from it.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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  • Social Media Usage Policies: Less Lawyering, More Encouraging
    I'm asking because we like to hire people who enjoy using social media tools." was reminded of that interview when the Washington Post r eleased its new social media guidelines last week. social media policy is a must-have in virtually any organization, given the sheer newness of the idea. "Do you spend much time on Facebook?" It was a standard question in our hiring process, but the job candidate visibly stiffened and said, "A bit, I guess.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, October 8, 2009
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  • Are You Fun to Follow on Twitter?
    Twitter, for the few uninitiated out there, is a social networking site that limits your posts to 140 characters. Tags: Communication Generational issues Social medi There's an art to tweeting. And, I'm sorry to say, most people just haven't mastered it. You can sign up to "follow" (receive the Tweets) from just about anyone you choose.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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  • Are You Ready to Manage Five Generations of Workers?
    This translates into a social phenomenon not yet witnessed: five generations are about to be working side by side. Due to their smaller size, Gen X will never have the majority spot in the workplace — and so in essence, we will have skipped an entire generation by 2015.) When you consider the changes in the amount of knowledge available at our fingertips, the advent of social technologies, and the expansion of the global economy over those Does retirement look a little further off now than it did just a few years ago? If you are over 62, odds are you're putting
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, October 16, 2009
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  • The Über-Connected Organization: A Mandate for 2010
    Are external social media sites restricted or blocked while at work? Is the use of social media in the workplace inhibited or frowned upon? If you answered yes, then your organization is one of the majority of firms with over 100 employees that have yet to embrace the use of social media in the workplace for the average worker. In Think about your organization and ask yourself these two questions: However, there are a growing number of firms such as IBM, Toshiba, and Cerner Corporation that are becoming über-connected workplaces.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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  • What Does Your Facebook Profile Say About You?
    And only a very careless or foolish person would publish proprietary company information onto a social media site. Why does it make sense to reveal our personal selves to social media sites? Tags: Generational issues Social media Work life balanc We were talking to the VP for online strategy at a big Silicon Valley company last week. Among other tasks she helps the company's senior executives create a presence on Facebook and Twitter. "Some
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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  • Let Gen Y Teach You Tech
    Once derided as sandboxes for Gen Y slackers, messaging and social networking sites are the new soapboxes, organizing centers, town halls and, as the recent events in Iran have shown , an increasingly powerful news source. Just look at a single photo of a rally on www.youtube.com/citzentube to see hundreds of hands raised in the air and holding a cell-phone camera to get a sense of how tech-savvy this generation is," says Steve Grove, head of news and politics for YouTube (now owned by Google). "Now This post was co-authored by Laura Sherbin and Karen Sumberg. You You say
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, June 29, 2009
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  • Yes, Your Social Media Strategy Needs Design
    In nearly every conference room across the business landscape it's inevitable that at some point the phrase "social media" enters the discussion. What if we looked at "social media" as a design problem? As someone who started a career as a designer (graphic design and user experience design) and is currently exploring business opportunities in social media — which I think of as social business design — I can't help but Marketers, PR and salespeople are among the first to engage in the discussions, trying to figure how networks can be leveraged to sell more stuff.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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  • When Your Company Culture Isn't Ready for Social Media
    Are you considering whether your company should use social media to connect not only with your customers, but also with your employees, partners, and suppliers? Before you decide to encourage your key executives to blog, or start looking at private social networking Enterprise 2.0 The company implements an internal-only social networking platform that allows rating, tagging, and comments on products and services. platforms, consider the following two scenarios based upon real examples and ask how the executives at your company would react: An executive publishes her
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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  • 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009
    "Social media" was the term du jour in 2008. We have social media gurus, social media startups, social media books, and social media firms. It is now common practice among corporations to hire social media strategists, assign community managers, and launch social media campaigns, all designed to tap into the power of social media. Consumers, companies, and marketers were all talking about it. But social media today is a pure mess: it has become a collection of countless features, tools, and applications fighting for a piece of the pie.
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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