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Architecture is Destiny: A Tale of Two Cities and Lessons for the Social Business
Prayssac is a social town - it welcomes outsiders. Its hierarchies form naturally through assembly at any of a number of town squares and the town dissolves naturally into the surrounding countryside. They are closed fortresses with strict, forbidding hierarchies. the social norms set by the Social About three years ago my wife and I made the rash (and wise) decision to buy a 17th century home in Southwestern France . Puy L’Eveque is a 13th century medieval town situated on a hill overlooking the Lot River. Its narrow streets all lead upward to the summit
OReilly Radar - Friday, March 19, 2010
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The Ethical Dog
Morality, as we define it in our book Wild Justice , is a suite of interrelated other-regarding behaviors that cultivate and regulate social interactions. Canids (animals in the dog family) follow a strict code of conduct when they play, which teaches pups the rules of social engagement that allow their societies to succeed. Play also builds trusting relationships among pack members, which enables divisions of labor, dominance Every dog owner knows a pooch can learn the house rules--and when she breaks one, her subsequent groveling is usually ingratiating enough to ensure quick forgiveness.
Scientific American - Friday, March 19, 2010
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Why I work for Pub TV/Radio and for Libraries - Our new institutions?
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? Why would a public TV station expand its role from broadcasting content, from providing information and entertainment, to facilitating a conversation in its community?
Robert Paterson's Weblog - Friday, March 19, 2010
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  • The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy
    The data-information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy seemed like a really great idea when it was first proposed. The DIKW hierarchy (as it came to be known) was brought to prominence by Russell Ackoff in his address accepting the presidency of the International Society for General Systems Research in 1989. In the DIKW hierarchy "knowledge" slips its mooring, and that matters. But its rapid acceptance was in fact a sign of how worried we were about the real value of the information systems we had built at such great expense. What looks like a logical progression is actually
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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  • Overcoming the Obstacles To Social Business
    While social media often commands favorable media attention, the less often told story is that successful initiatives are rare to come by and that there still a number of organizational roadblocks that managers need to overcome in order to make progress. Externally, social media is a vastly significant iteration of the Web which has empowered the public in ways we never imagined. Still, we are seeing signs of progress in the form of new efficiencies, more direct ways to connect with customers, and ways to make products and services better. From my experience working and talking
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, November 9, 2009
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  • The DNA of Organizational Hierarchy
    The DNA of Hierarchy These are definitions applied to various levels of increasing knowledge, responsibilities, duties and skills as they are expressed in the social construct we know as a “job”. And even more reinforcing of hierarchy, it assumes that the superior jobs (on the org chart) carry a greater capability to define, understand and resolve problems. ( Re-published from October 2002 … browsing through old stuff, it’s interesting what comes up . Org charts began appearing in the 50’s, as organizations began growing in size
    Wirearchy - Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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  • Hierarchies among Equals--Origins of Pecking Orders
    hierarchy nonetheless emerges, according to a new experiment, but the determining factors remain a mystery. These factors--in good news for humans at the low end of the social ladder--may be mutable. To Francis’s amazement, it took weeks--until the rats were well past puberty--for a social hierarchy to evolve (as indicated by which mouse got first dibs at food and water, among other measures). Drop two adult rats of the same sex into a cage, and it’s a near certainty that the bigger rat, even if only slightly bigger, will dominate from the first minutes.
    Scientific American - Thursday, April 2, 2009
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  • Blogging as Management, not Marketing
    At this point the blog is like any other social media — it has few participants compared with the many who are onlookers to the dialogue. Communication hierarchies are flattened. Yet it is imperative to the make the distinction between communication hierarchies (which are flattened) and actual decision-making powers (which remain intact). Most "how-to" guides for company blogging focus on marketing and PR objectives: positioning your organization as a thought leader, or using it as a "free" channel to get company news out there. We have a blog like this at
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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  • The Question Concerning Social Technology
    I am an evangelist of social media and an active participant: on Linked In (business), MySpace (music) and Facebook (increasingly my online identity), I blog on several sites and I am a daily user of Twitter . over the course of the next few days I will post a series of questions on the value and function of social media (a.k.a. social technologies). I also make my living speaking to companies about the value and operating principles of these more open, participatory technologies. I I
    OReilly Radar - Sunday, May 17, 2009
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  • The Collective Intelligence of the (Connected) Organizational Crowd - Take 2
    By and large, the people in today’s organizational structures charged with the accountability for leading to results, still like and know how to use the power of hierarchy … and let’s please remember that regardless of the relatively rapid changes in the fields of leadership development (viz. Notwithstanding Daniel Goleman’s  Emotional Intelligence work  and more recently, more from him on  Social Intelligence  ( derived from the basic constructs developed by David Mclelland, noted above), there remains in my opinion fundamental dissonance between these critical human attributes, the actual
    Wirearchy - Thursday, February 5, 2009
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  • Microsoft Research: A Look At The Intriguing Social Desktop Prototype
    Late last week, Microsoft Research shared a couple of things about Social Desktop , a prototype of which they are debuting at TechFest 2009 in a couple of days (along with dozens of other things). Think of this as social URLs that link to files which could easily be pushed to third-party services like Twitter or Digg but also Microsoft’s own Windows Live Messenger without the need for you to copy, move or upload anything. From the looks of it, this will be a much talked about product even if it stays in proof-of-concept phase for now. And if they decide to open it up
    TechCrunch - Monday, February 23, 2009
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  • Get Ready To Be a Changemaker
    Government agencies and traditional charities and philanthropies no longer monopolized the world's efforts to solve social problems. Social entrepreneurs emerged with new system-changing ideas. You will need to know how to function in a world that is not a hierarchy but a kaleidoscopic global team of teams, with no boundaries between sectors and change that happens at an escalating pace. We are on the cusp of a fundamental change — a worldwide change in the skills everyone needs to succeed, in the nature of organizations, and in how businesses must be led. The
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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  • RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized
    companies running social networks. generation of social networking increasingly appears to require a decentralized, The issue of addressing would arise right away for a social network developed Trust would also become an issue in decentralized social networks. Recurring outages on major networking sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn, LinkedIn, along with incidents where Twitter members were mysteriously
    OReilly Radar - Monday, September 14, 2009
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