Among doctors, research is a minority pursuit. Of course doctors appreciate its fruits, but can strain under the task of managing the torrent of information it engenders.
Most patients care passionately about their privacy. Confidentiality is an essential feature of the medical consultation, and the only way either party can break it is through express written consent, or rarely, subpoena. It is privileged information. The NHS is leaky enough as it is.
You might think anonymising the data would be easy, but in fact it isn’t. There are rather few people who both broke a leg on the 23 August 1974 and then had a left upper molar filled on 17 October 1983 for example. (presumably, haven’t got access to such a database). Two innocuous bits of health information could then be used to find more sensitive material.
I knew a German psychiatrist who kept two sets of records: one the hospital set, and the second, a small card file of expecially sensitive information that he kept locked and administered personally. You can be sure such systems would proliferate in the advent of a national NHS database. I think a sensitivity over the uses to which the Nazis (and the Stasi come to that) put Germany’s orderly state records underlay this. Everyone thought it was rather paranoid, or at any rate I did (I was a bit shocked actually), but I understand his fears much better now.
It is in nobody’s best interest, neither the doctor’s nor the patient’s, that we censor our discourse for fear it may later be harmful or embarrassing. So doctors take the responsibility of keeping health information private very seriously. Back in 1996 the BMA took the advice of Ross Anderson and said such a database would not be built. There’ll be stuff about it on the BMJ. I think it was around 1996 this really came up. It’s a tricky one and no mistake.
Back in the 1980’s there was a system known as ladder notation, but it was very limited & siteswap enabled more complex patterns to be recorded eg multiplexing (& software programs to be written to simulate juggling patterns eg http://jugglinglab.sourceforge.net/). There are also some more recent notation systems eg Beatmap see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggling_Notation
However, as a juggler I’ve never used them preferring the art to the science – no notation form can put across the feel – when a throw (or catch) goes just right.
Hi! Though I don’t know Kaka’s family personally my inspiration came from the fact that my girlfriend Shirley used to live at the top of the road where Kaka grew up in Taguatina; and her mother still gets her nails done by the same lady who used to do Kaka’s mums nails (and who now works for Dior in Sao Paulo).
There’s a chance I may be back in Taguatina for the wedding of Kaka’s cousin, who runs the gym over the road, but I’ll just have to wait and see on that.
I would like to have the chance to meet Kaka and Caroline, but maybe they’ve read my website – and will post a nice comment like yours. Thanks!
O great! I hope that you do get a chance to go to that wedding! I am such a huge fan of Kaka; I just adore him and so when I saw your comments I thought that I would ask you about them. I think that if you go to the wedding then there will definately be a chance for you to meet Kaka. I also hope that they see this website as you have done some great work on Kaka and Football etc.
I guess partly just prompted by England’s failure in the World Cup..and by reading the FT piece on knowledge managment in preparing to meet some people at Ernest & Young: “Uncertainty is an inseparable part of decision-making and, as such, an intrinsic part of being a manager. To improve their chances of success, managers need to increase their flexibility, and this requires the capability to destroy obsolete knowledge that serves as an anchor to the past.” Thanks, I updated the piece to include the link to the FT article by Pablo Martin de Holan.
Cheers for uploading the first podcast – any chance you can link to the others? I don’t know if it’s me but I can’t download those podcasts via the Brahma website – the Flash looks pretty but clicking on the download link just launches a floating empty rectangle with a ‘close’ button…
Sorry it’s taken so long for me to respond; I don’t check blog comments and Flickr messages very often. With that out of the way, thank you for taking interest in my work and contacting me. A while back I remember reading your post on the headshift blog about sign-out and it’s interesting to see you continue to work in this area. As for me considering social software applications for sign-out, I’ve only ever done so informally. The utility of a historical record of sign-out notes has yet to be seen (this, in my mind, is where a wiki-like sign-out tool would be of benefit). So far the physicians I’ve spoken with have expressed only some interest in having that. I might pursue the comparison of blogs/wikis to sign-out later, but for now I’m focusing on structured data capture of to do items. Please keep me informed of what you’re finding. I’ll be sure to check out the ACE stuff again.
Cheers Stuart. Let’s say at least that the borough of Hackney maybe isn’t quite as actively cycle-hostile as elsewhere. Plenty still to do, eg getting rid of the Stoke Newington one-way system and the M11-oriented one-way systems in the north-east of the borough. And cutting down on motor traffic and especially HGVs [don't go down the left-hand side of trucks, people!]. But yeah, it’s generally a nice place to cycle around.
I’ve read an interesting article on Bosnian Pyramid about the corners of the pyramid. It would be an easy way to proof quickly the existance, but they dig near the corners but not the corners. Then they’ve dug somethin on the top of it, but not the top!? I’ve seen some pictures on Bosnian Pyramid Photo Gallery that really let me think again about this whole thing. Every day I believe less in this mystery.
Thanks for your posting on this controversial issue – by coincidence there’s a presentation on the BPs on 12 December at the Bosnian Embassy so I’m going to try and get down there, and see whether it sounds like the ‘real deal’.
I strongly recommend finding a private Brazilian teacher. If you “shop around” you’ll find people who are relatively cheap and good, and it’s a case of matching someone with a teaching style you like.
I’ve read an interesting article on http://www.bosnian-pyramid.net
about the corners of the pyramid. It would be an easy way to proof
quickly the existence, but they dig near the corners but not the
corners. Then they’ve dug something on the top of it, but not the
top!? I’ve seen some pictures on that really let me think again about
this whole thing. Every day I believe less in this mystery.
Thank you. This is the most extensive overview of tinnitus therapy protocol and research I have ever seen on the intenet. A great resource. Thanks for all your efforts.
Sadly, I am no longer writing for Linux User & Developer due, to put it bluntly, to problems getting paid. It was a tough decision, and I haven’t yet looked for another magazine to take my column, but at the end of the day I’m a freelancer and getting paid is a key part of my work!
I want to introduce our company The Works Software who provide a shift logging and shift handover system called Lifetrack. Lifetrack came out of a two year research program sponsored by BP about 8 years ago to understand the social, communication and information dimensions of shift hand-over and operations logging. The research and the subsequent development of Lifetrack was conducted at Cambridge University by Dr Tony Holden.
Here are some appropriate links to our website that you may find of interest:
The interesting thing is that Lifetrack is customized to each environment and there is no reason why it cannot be applicable to patient healthcare. Anyway, be happy to talk/email further.
I’m part of Dell’s blog team and I just found your site. There’s a lot of interesting stuff here and I really like the Web 2.0 video. I’ve had occasion to explain the same concepts in it to friends before and have to say the video does it in a way that it would be very tricky for me to by myself in five minutes.
Based on Friday’s post, it sounds like progress is being made with the dead Dimension but if there is anything I can do from here to help get you back up and running, do feel free to contact me.
Thanks Neil, really appreciate your comments. The DELL was delivered back today (well within the 5 working days) so finger’s crossed we’ll be up and working again asap.
One thing i love aboutkaka is that he believes in god .It is true people believing in GOD aaint a waste of time.I beleive in god and iam happy .Kaka deserves the best in his life with his wife caroline.,I wish all them the best sucess ever.
Yes, I had a bit of a hangover. And the funny thing was I went to the Pacino Cafe the next day and read an interview with an Italian artist who argued persuasively that we had experienced 30 years of post-modernism, and it was high time we moved on – & there’s me still stuck on modernism.
Then to cap it all when we left the cafe right outside there was the result of a traffic accident, with a blue car firmly wedged between and green tram and a tree.
Thanks for coming to the launch – it was a good evening. I do personally think that consumer interactivity through what we are now calling Web 2.0 really will change the B2B space in future as well. I suspect many of the present service companies are going to find it hard to change as they still see this as something for teenagers…
ah – those hangovers. Surreal scene with the green and blue and tree. Perhaps I should say “Post-Surreal”. But don’t we need a new phrase to mean “State-of-the-Art” ?
Hi Stuart,
I really like the idea of social media leveling the playing field for business. Of course those with more resources will always have more playing field to play in, but they’ll need the space because there’s a lot more people on the pitch…
Alex
(Melcrum)
Hi Stuart,
Thanks for your post about our survey results. I agree that they show that corporations have finally seen that they can’t hold back from using social media tools any longer.
Some of the most interesting data from me were the responses to the question ‘Which social media tools are you currently using or intend to use within the next 12 months?’
To find out more about these results please visit our press room: http://www.melcrum.com/about/press/smr.shtml
To find out about our new report, How to use social media to engage employees, please see the link below. http://www.melcrum.com/offer/socialmedia/07a/
Thanks,
Coralie Thomson
Melcrum
Thanks Coralie, I’ll take a look. Using social media tools in my present role, site managing a global e-commerce website start-up, has certainly proven their worth. Cheers, Stuart
Great suggestion re Live Chat. I think the BL website is largely a great resource. If advisers were allowed to build their presence and interactivity online, I think they could potentially extend their reach, value and trust.
Please add at least one representative of the largest group of health care providers to your advisory group–registered nurses. RNs bring a different perspective that also needs to be heard. Thank you!
Good suggestion for Google, be interesting to see if they pick up on it.
NB: The importance of nurses’ contribution was raised last year at a BCS meeting in terms of their need to contribute to the national IT programme planning for example.
It looks like the Center for Nursing Advocacy has posted a response to Google regarding the lack of nurses on the Health Advisory Council. Now we just have to wait to see what Google’s response is.
Thank you for your interest in the Memorial Foundation. Hopefully, this will answer your question.
Early on, when Lei was first interviewed about the project, he was interviewed by the chinese news agency Xinhua, and in their efforts to translate the story, they mis spoke a few words. so when they say “Martin Luther Square” they’re referring to our memorial and when they say “Sculpture Committee” they mean our Exploratory Committee which is responsible for Lei’s initial discovery in St. Paul.
Hi Stuart,
I’ve been to uni’, but I’m not a ‘complexity’ scientist.
I’m more into importing/adapting basic ideas from
complexity into everyday practical & personal use; but its
a pretty intuitive rather than logical approach. I dont
read too many books these days, I’m just trying to ‘live
it’ and see where it takes me.’
That’s great. Best of luck. Thanks again for giving my work a plug too.
Best wishes
Peter
Stuart, Thanks for your kind message – have you done a brick yet? Super easy and it makes you feel better! I am the first official brick addict….. Best wishes, Charlotte
Thanks Stuart. We are really thrilled how people are using this anonymous space to open up and honestly share what is going on for them on Big White Wall. Jenny
gordon brown is being shown round a hospital ward.
at the first bed he enquires — and how are you?
the patient says — my love is like a red red rose.
he goes to the next bed and asks the same question.
and the patient answers— wee sleekit cooerin timmerous beasty.
he turns to the nurse and she says—- this is the serious Burns unit.
slange
your first brick is beautiful- if i knew what it was Spread the word. We care about emotional health – you know it. Be open. Be honest. Be anonymous. Big White Wall welcomes Stuart Monkey!
The group heading the monument project is not being truthful with the media. Ed Jackson and Harry Johnson are quoted saying 51% of the granite will come from the US, yet no granite company in America has been contacted OR contracted.
Many people are going to be surprised at our next press conference in Georgia. We’ve found black stone cutters here in this country and they will be at the press conference.
(seat61.com is a great source of information on getting places by rail & sea. It won the best personal contribution category in the Responsible Tourism Awards last year.)
We thought we had most areas covered when we started our network, but every time we turn around, there is a new site out there. Guess we might have to add another hundred sites in the next year or so. For now, Passions Network is a network of 100 individual niche social networking sites, each with it’s own focus on a specific demographic group. The thing that sets the network apart from every other social network online is that members join one time, and then add the sites that match their ‘passions’ in life, into their single account, whether it be Eco issues, Sci Fi, Video Games or Pets. The entire list of sites is here. We are hoping to become a home for the advertisers aiming to reach each of the specific groups represented, but we’re still kindof in our infancy.
I have heard of Voicepath but i don’t know many people who are using it as part of their business. When it comes to outsourcing or microsoft ontwikkeling for that matter, you should have the latest technology available in my opinion.
Will try & find out. In the meantime the Independent had an amusing view of Dr Reynolds:
“Reynolds’s hour-by-hour account of the negotiations was engrossing and occasionally excruciating, not because the tension rose too high but because he sometimes coloured his third-person account of the conversations with first-person histrionics, channelling Hitler and Chamberlain through the person of a bespectacled and balding Cambridge academic. He’s not the first telly historian to get tempted by am-dram – Simon Schama is prone to drop into character while quoting a historical document – but it doesn’t work any better for him than it does for anybody else. Hide your eyes and hum loudly through those bits, but the rest is fascinating.”
I live less than 2 few blocks away from the site. She’s still there, if it is indeed the same person. She’ll be up to 20 years in March, if your times are accurate.
Frankly, I don’t like her. She’s gotten to be more annoying in recent years, putting up signs about gentrification and such in the area during block parties and festivals. The South Main district has become a rather nice neighborhood now, with people of all races living there. Having somebody like her continually stirring the pot of racial hatred doesn’t help anything.
In my opinion, people like her only serve to continually divide people by color. The rest of us got over it and don’t care what race somebody is. Now, it’s people like Jacqueline that have become the problem. The rest of the world moved on past people like her, and IMO that’s a good thing.
The FBI, under written directive from then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, began wiretapping King in 1961. J.Edgar Hoover feared that Communists were trying to infiltrate the Civil Rights Movement, but when no such evidence emerged, the bureau used the incidental details caught on tape over six years in attempts to force King out of the preeminent leadership position.
Social capital has always been a tacit element of sales recruitment, sometimes a principal one, especially in incestuous vertical markets. This translates to largely unenforceable anti-competition clauses in employment contracts.
It stands to reason that the exposure of social capital through LinkedIn and other similar networks is starting to be used in a forensic manner as in this example. It’s another case of our collective consciousness being slow to wake up to the threats, as well as the opportunities, presented by such social disclosure.
Your LinkedIn profile is also your summary CV and thus it is equally unsurprising that some organisations with high value knowledge workers see it as a threat and are considering new clauses in employment contracts that prevent their “intelectual assets” from being exposed on it!
Perhaps these developments represent the first signs of an impending turf war over social capital, with enterprise “control freakery” laid bare. I suspect such a war could only reflect badly on the enterprises that choose to fight it and following adverse publicity and reputational damage, they would quietly accept that they “rent”, rather than “own”, their employee’s social capital.
By coincidence I came across a nice case study (pdf) on selectminds involving US law firm Goodwin Procter, which aims to foster a culture that is collaborative, entrepreneurial and practical. Scott Westfahl, director of professional development, then goes to make a real plus point about enhancing individual employee’s social capital: “Our commitment to developing our people starts even before their first day, for example, as a summer associate, and continues well after they have left our firm. We are fostering a collaborative culture with the hope that all of our employees substantially increase their own personal market value — both internally and externally — as a result of the professional development opportunities offered here at Goodwin.” Sounds like they’ve seen the light!
Heres how the House leadership will use this rule to control where and what I say and even exercise influence over your website/blog etc
If the Ds rule change were in effect today, before I could post this, your website/blog would have to be preapproved as complying with House rules, my post would require a disclaimer that it was “produced by a House office for official purposes,” and the CONTENT of my post would have to be preapproved by the House Franking Committee as complying with “existing content rules and regulations.”
This is a violation of your First Amendment rights and mine, and is an outrageous attempt by House leadership to stifle and control you and me. If Rs were in charge I would be just as outraged – forget the party label – I do not want the federal gov’t/House of Representatives certifying your website or the content of my posts. I am writing this post personally, in my official capacity, so it would fall precisely under their new rule and you and I would both be in violation unless we subjected ourselves and my words to their prior approval/editing.
I am always ready to admit I am wrong but I am an attorney and this is what the letter means.
This is a story worth following because I am going to continue to vigorously exercise my First Amendment rights on every social media outlet I can reach. It is my right as an American and my duty as a representative.
Thanks John, I’ve uploaded Capuano’s Mailing Standards Committee letter (pdf) regarding this issue to Brady. Looking forward to your Qikking of Capuano and Brady.
Thanks for the link, but since it was me who asked the question about how to get the semantic web to actually happen, I should point out it was a bit of a leading question – it’s a perception I encounter a lot, and I wanted an answer I could pass on.
Anyway, the videos are online now (http://www.nesta.org.uk/future-of-web/) and they give you a much better idea of the whole event (though I still sound like an idiot).
Actually, it’s not being hosted at Rackspace… Our PressHarbor service is a service of our company Rackshare… We are not affiliated with Rackspace and our servers are not located there. But we certainly wish them well!
Hi,Thanks for such a wonderfull information.Understanding the odds. Learning how to win at poker means accepting this is a game of both chance and skill.
Thanks. It struck me that a really exceptional part of the art of poker is the difficulty of managing perception of an opponent’s intentions, with one’s own self-control. It’s hard to have both, by the nature of how deeper perception works. Of course you can learn tell tale signs without being perceptive but if you are talking about high pressure games, with big stakes, and the nature of the unpredictable then that knowledge will only take you so far before you are in uncharted territory. Hence why Boyd’s OODA method is useful as you are quickly learning in context of how your opponent behaves. It’s not so far away from the counter-punch strategy in boxing, you pretend to be weaker than you really are in order to encourage your opponent to reveal their behavourial patterns. Makes sense to me anyhow;-)
‘Fraid I get nothing from the link for Monarch. The presentation seems to be in the secret, proprietary Shockwave format, which as far as I know can’t be viewed by people running free software.
A web search comes up with lots of sales links and a page or two of astroturfing, but nothing else much about the software.
I hear what you’re saying Trevor. There’s also the point made on IT Counts by Duncan Hardy that “Monarch looks useful but it still relies on having machine readable data in the first place. The big problem is getting information from paper onto spreadsheets”.
Maybe there’s an open source solution you can suggest?
Stuart: An employer might use software to monitor and limit social networking time, so employees don’t spend it to excess. What do you think? Detailed discussion –Ben
Benjamin: I think it helps if there is a policy in place up front so all employees know where they stand. Personally I think it’s about getting the balance right. Last place I worked banned the use of instant messaging for a while as I recall, even though it was useful for project managing teams across the globe. Maybe it’s about setting out reasonable boundaries which employees and employers can both benefit from. For example allowing use of social networking sites during lunch hour only. Or instant messaging when just for business purposes.
It’s also important for businesses to keep an eye on the social media space, as no matter how fine grained their regulations may be they need to externally monitor conversations which may damage their brand (as well as keep a note of positive customer praise!). Check out the HowSociable? free web 2.0 brand checker for example.
I should also add that with a social networking platform such as WordFrame that because of the way Youtube RSS doesn’t quite work, you can’t autopost videos using that route:
“You can’t do anything to fix the problem. Youtube.con does not generate correct RSS feeds. There is a specification that they don’t follow strictly. But WordFrame needs correct feeds in order to autopost them. So these feeds does not go through our rss validation process (we follow strictly RSS feeds format specification) and cannot be autoposted.” Rumen Yankov, WordFrame support.
Glad you like the post, the pingback for it seems to have got caught in our spam filter oddly. Askimet has now been taught the error of its ways…
Guess knowing how to use the software properly might be easier said than done, but the more people in the sector use it, the faster everyone will learn. Certainly the Hammersmith and Fulham council tax video on Youtube taught people the problems of astroturfing pretty quickly for one.
Hi. I regularly announce this forum. This is the oldest culture undisputed to ask a topic.
How numberless in this forum are references progressive behind, disingenuous users?
Can I bank all the advice that there is?
Jakob is not right about everything! For example he uses the 90-9-1 rule for readers/commenters/creators of content. But when looking at social network sites this does not give a full picture of what’s going on, you need to include other sites your visitors look at to understand user behaviour better, and who to attract to your site. See more on this topic on my blog at http://tinyurl.com/5emwsz
Hmm, yes, I hope no-one makes the mistake of heading off to Boulevard MacDonald for a bite!
Trying in vain to get to see the event live via ustream.tv but it ain’t workign in either IE7 or Opera 9.51 for me, though maybe it’s a firewall issue;-)
@stuart: say ONE ‘name’ amplifies your request, then you get fresh attention. It snowballs. I did a piece for Chris Brogan pro bono and it attracted something like 50 followers the following day. Scoble talks about me – another 50. Go figure.
I read those predictions on social networking and profits. FB will not be able to make money through advertising but will have to do it through subscriptions.
Like this, I have made my share of 10 predictions for 2009
Or you can read the amended version now… not sure I got it right about the anniversary, but still sounds like a great initiative, and have now linked to the main Twestival sites too.
hey, glad that Kerry had such a good informal chat with me about Twitter and the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol ( http://www.pmstudio.co.uk/open-studio-friday ). Yes I shall be at the Twitter event in Bristol I am also hoping to attract/invite Blaine Cook (the inventor of Twitter!) to the Bristol event, as he’s now based in Belfast (and it’s a quick flight to Bristol anyway!)
The poor dear fellow has lost his Mojo if in fact he ever had one. Despite declaring to the whole world that he ate a cats liver when he was twelve, I still find myself watching to see what he’ll do next.
Profiles add huge value to an online community, and I think you are right in your implication that their value is often overlooked.
Yes, the community manager should encourage members to complete their profiles (a good start is for the community manager to complete their own!). Even better is when members encourage other members to fill out their profiles.
I find that very effective, and it comes across as less of ‘an order’ than if the request comes from someone in a position of perceived authority (such as a community manager).
Profiles add huge value to an online community, and I think you are right in your implication that their value is often overlooked.
Yes, the community manager should encourage members to complete their profiles (a good start is for the community manager to complete their own!). Even better is when members encourage other members to fill out their profiles.
I find that very effective, and it comes across as less of ‘an order’ than if the request comes from someone in a position of perceived authority (such as a community manager).
Thanks Martin, I like your point about the power of members asking other members to complete their profiles. BTW by coincidence I noticed today that MySpace recently made some tweaks to bring ‘real names’ into greater prominence and utility on the community.
Thanks Martin, I like your point about the power of members asking other members to complete their profiles. BTW by coincidence I noticed today that MySpace recently made some tweaks to bring ‘real names’ into greater prominence and utility on the community.
I was intrigued by the implied assumption in this statement:
“But if as community manager you have a large percentage of members that are anonymous this will obviously negative impact on the quality of conversations.”
I would argue that a very large proportion of online communities thrive on the fact that they are anonymous, but anonymous in the sense that the users do not use their real names but are still identifiable.
Communities such as Facebook thrive on real names since the data they store correlate directly with the real world. however, where there is no need for this mapping real name may not be essential and can even be detrimental in certain cases e.g. support groups, medical advice forums etc.
I was intrigued by the implied assumption in this statement:
“But if as community manager you have a large percentage of members that are anonymous this will obviously negative impact on the quality of conversations.”
I would argue that a very large proportion of online communities thrive on the fact that they are anonymous, but anonymous in the sense that the users do not use their real names but are still identifiable.
Communities such as Facebook thrive on real names since the data they store correlate directly with the real world. however, where there is no need for this mapping real name may not be essential and can even be detrimental in certain cases e.g. support groups, medical advice forums etc.
Fair point Mark, I guess in my defence I was trying to argue against the default use of usernames. Real names certainly makes sense for professional networks where knowing who’s who can be a positive bonus to encourage networking.
I’ll keep an eye out for blog posts which example the value of anonymity, particularly for sites where sensitive content. Off the top of my head Patient Opinion (www.patientopinion.org.uk) makes good use of usernames — Frostbite298 through to magic259!
Fair point Mark, I guess in my defence I was trying to argue against the default use of usernames. Real names certainly makes sense for professional networks where knowing who’s who can be a positive bonus to encourage networking.
I’ll keep an eye out for blog posts which example the value of anonymity, particularly for sites where sensitive content. Off the top of my head Patient Opinion (www.patientopinion.org.uk) makes good use of usernames — Frostbite298 through to magic259!
Interesting addition to this debate in a LinkedIn post from Adrian Gaskell from CMI:
“First impressions used to be all about the first time two people came face to face.
“These days, first impressions are as likely to be formed via perusal of a person’s website or Facebook page, as they are to be formed from actually meeting them.
“Now a study has compared first impressions gleaned from face-to-face contact and from Facebook pages, and found a close parallel between the two.
“People judged to be likeable via one medium were also judged as likeable via the other.
Sat through the Wolfram launch last night on Justin.tv which made for quite an exhilarating event. (Imagine if @NASA flight centre opened up to the internet and get live feedback)
I made several tweets during the event which readers may find entertaining, along with several more feedback posts where I think the service could be taken: http://bit.ly/2PferP
Thanks so much for the kind words (”community guru”… makes me blush ). It means a lot to me. I really appreciate you picking up the book, as well, and I can’t wait to hear your thoughts.
I think that the decision is reasonable. You and I both know that freedom of speech has no place on any professionally run community or website because freedom of speech means EVERYTHING. It’s not practical.
The important thing is to cultivate the proper community that fits within whatever your looking to accomplish or what your brand is. Do you want a website where people can’t feel safe browsing from work or around their family? There is no right answer there, just what your audience is. If so, there are things you’ll need to remove. Do you want a website that is riddled with personal attacks and bitter, nasty arguments? Again, no right answer, but whatever you decide will require maintenance.
As the Editor of the Leicester Mercury rightly points out, you can’t use resources you don’t have. If you don’t have the ability (whether financially or time wise) to properly manage a comments area, it’s better not to have one at all. That’s a wise choice and a sign of taking the responsibility seriously, rather than just trying to generate as many pageviews as you can and cash the check.
But that’s part of the issue, isn’t it? Most people don’t understand or have an idea of the responsibility and the commitment it takes to properly run a blog comment area, or forums, or some other form of social media that has to be managed. A lot of people think it’s the proverbial, stereotypical kid in their parents basement removing comments they don’t agree with. (As an aside, the “kid in the basement” can sometimes do a better job than anyone else – I was that kid!) They think of themselves as on the side of “right,” when they couldn’t be more wrong.
They can’t get past “OMG, THEY REMOVED MY COMMENT. I AM SOOOOOOOOOOO ANGRY. THEY HAVE INFRINGED UPON MY RIGHT TO SAY WHATEVER I WANT, WHEREVER I WANT, ABOUT WHOEVER I WANT ON THEIR PRIVATE OWNED WEBSITE. GRRRRRRRRRRR. I’LL SUE! I’LL WRITE LETTERS!” long enough to understand that someone is actually thinking about these things, not doing it willy nilly, and actually cares and is trying and has a responsibility, not to some angry readers, but to all, and to those who you write about, the people who work at the publication, the people who pay the bills and others and balancing that responsibility is a challenge.
Best of luck. If I can help or provide any advice, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Hi, interesting post Stuart, especially since I started reading Patrick’s book myself this week. I’m about to start an online community and already learning lots from it.
Best wishes,
Stephanie
Thanks for all the tweets! Hmm, talking about this today I wonder if the ‘Long Tail’ model might apply to the distribution of contributors in a community as it’s about a raking of popularity? See the wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail
Thanks for the nice wrap up – by the nature of the job, community managers sit at the nexus of a lot of people, roles, and needs making it a tough job regardless of experience level. Combine that with the fact that companies don’t yet have a standard way to articulate what they expect from the role and hiring younger resources because they ‘get’ the social media space (which they do), you get a rough mix.
The more we can do to 1) Help companies match their goals with the appropriate seniority and skill sets for the people they hire and 2) Help community managers understand how to build their internal core teams and push back on unclear or unreasonable expectations… the less strain there will be on the individuals. Critically important because it is never an easy role.
That sounds weird. Why would someone register with someone else email address knowing that they could not click on the confirmation email? And yet you get Hi…’ your account has been created,(…). I’d be interested to find out more when you do.
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Hmmm … thanks for the mention (genuinely). but it’s 70% (that’s
about 305 sites, rather than 70, of 436) … and the name is McMullin
(but I quite understand the confusion with the other speaker).
Best – Barry
Posted 29 Nov 2005 at 2:02 am ¶Barry,
Thanks I will make the corrections as you’ve pointed out.
Stuart
Posted 29 Nov 2005 at 6:51 am ¶Among doctors, research is a minority pursuit. Of course doctors appreciate its fruits, but can strain under the task of managing the torrent of information it engenders.
Most patients care passionately about their privacy. Confidentiality is an essential feature of the medical consultation, and the only way either party can break it is through express written consent, or rarely, subpoena. It is privileged information. The NHS is leaky enough as it is.
You might think anonymising the data would be easy, but in fact it isn’t. There are rather few people who both broke a leg on the 23 August 1974 and then had a left upper molar filled on 17 October 1983 for example. (presumably, haven’t got access to such a database). Two innocuous bits of health information could then be used to find more sensitive material.
I knew a German psychiatrist who kept two sets of records: one the hospital set, and the second, a small card file of expecially sensitive information that he kept locked and administered personally. You can be sure such systems would proliferate in the advent of a national NHS database. I think a sensitivity over the uses to which the Nazis (and the Stasi come to that) put Germany’s orderly state records underlay this. Everyone thought it was rather paranoid, or at any rate I did (I was a bit shocked actually), but I understand his fears much better now.
It is in nobody’s best interest, neither the doctor’s nor the patient’s, that we censor our discourse for fear it may later be harmful or embarrassing. So doctors take the responsibility of keeping health information private very seriously. Back in 1996 the BMA took the advice of Ross Anderson and said such a database would not be built. There’ll be stuff about it on the BMJ. I think it was around 1996 this really came up. It’s a tricky one and no mistake.
Posted 20 Jan 2006 at 9:04 am ¶Hi Stuart,
Nice to meet you yesterday.
My comments etc on the meeting are on Informaticopia
Rod
Posted 02 Mar 2006 at 9:13 am ¶Back in the 1980’s there was a system known as ladder notation, but it was very limited & siteswap enabled more complex patterns to be recorded eg multiplexing (& software programs to be written to simulate juggling patterns eg http://jugglinglab.sourceforge.net/). There are also some more recent notation systems eg Beatmap see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggling_Notation
However, as a juggler I’ve never used them preferring the art to the science – no notation form can put across the feel – when a throw (or catch) goes just right.
Posted 05 Apr 2006 at 1:53 pm ¶One word: defibrillator
Also, Piers wrote something not unrelated today that you might like:
http://monkeymagic.net/blog/archives/2006/04/10/sync.html
Hope you’re having fun!
Posted 10 Apr 2006 at 10:46 am ¶Thanks Lee, I
Posted 12 Apr 2006 at 6:44 pm ¶Thanks Rod..
Posted 13 Apr 2006 at 9:19 pm ¶Professor,
I must say, your diatribe smacks a bit of envy. “Amateurs”, “rich outsiders”, etc.
I wonder how many dig sites over the years have been mutilated by the “pros” rushing to posit or prove some personal theory or other?
Let the man be – he has as much or more experience than most field archaeologists in the field today.
Perhaps you would like an invite to help out in Bosnia?
I shall send cheese over to go with your w(h)ine.
Posted 27 Apr 2006 at 7:46 pm ¶I wouldn’t trust Barakat’s identification — google on Barakat and cambyses and you will find that he confused sand dollar fossils with human fossils.
The Mexican stone balls are natural.
http://tinyurl.com/pan4w
The Costa Rican ones are not, but they aren’t terribly old either
http://www.ku.edu/~hoopes/balls/faq.htm
http://www.mcguinnessonline.com/sphere/info.htm
Posted 08 Jun 2006 at 3:28 pm ¶Hi- I was just wondering whether you actually know Kaka or his family personally as I find your stories really interesting!
Posted 29 Jun 2006 at 1:36 pm ¶Hi! Though I don’t know Kaka’s family personally my inspiration came from the fact that my girlfriend Shirley used to live at the top of the road where Kaka grew up in Taguatina; and her mother still gets her nails done by the same lady who used to do Kaka’s mums nails (and who now works for Dior in Sao Paulo).
There’s a chance I may be back in Taguatina for the wedding of Kaka’s cousin, who runs the gym over the road, but I’ll just have to wait and see on that.
I would like to have the chance to meet Kaka and Caroline, but maybe they’ve read my website – and will post a nice comment like yours. Thanks!
Posted 30 Jun 2006 at 3:54 am ¶O great! I hope that you do get a chance to go to that wedding! I am such a huge fan of Kaka; I just adore him and so when I saw your comments I thought that I would ask you about them. I think that if you go to the wedding then there will definately be a chance for you to meet Kaka. I also hope that they see this website as you have done some great work on Kaka and Football etc.
Posted 30 Jun 2006 at 4:16 am ¶Hmm. What prompted this post?
Posted 02 Jul 2006 at 3:11 pm ¶Hi Michelle,
I guess partly just prompted by England’s failure in the World Cup..and by reading the FT piece on knowledge managment in preparing to meet some people at Ernest & Young: “Uncertainty is an inseparable part of decision-making and, as such, an intrinsic part of being a manager. To improve their chances of success, managers need to increase their flexibility, and this requires the capability to destroy obsolete knowledge that serves as an anchor to the past.” Thanks, I updated the piece to include the link to the FT article by Pablo Martin de Holan.
Posted 03 Jul 2006 at 4:51 am ¶Long since been done. < !....xxx...xxx...>
Posted 26 Jul 2006 at 3:05 pm ¶Ah well, nice to know.
Posted 26 Jul 2006 at 4:31 pm ¶Hey!
Just did a google search for mile high penguins and your blog appeared!
thanks for the namecheck, hope you will come and see us again soon
Waine (MHP)
Posted 22 Aug 2006 at 10:56 am ¶Cheers for uploading the first podcast – any chance you can link to the others? I don’t know if it’s me but I can’t download those podcasts via the Brahma website – the Flash looks pretty but clicking on the download link just launches a floating empty rectangle with a ‘close’ button…
Posted 25 Aug 2006 at 6:39 pm ¶Thanks, will see if I can get more podcasts in the series..
Posted 29 Aug 2006 at 5:00 am ¶found some good info that might prove that the pyramid site is actually naturally formed, check it out here
Posted 09 Sep 2006 at 4:06 pm ¶Hi Stuart,
Sorry it’s taken so long for me to respond; I don’t check blog comments and Flickr messages very often. With that out of the way, thank you for taking interest in my work and contacting me. A while back I remember reading your post on the headshift blog about sign-out and it’s interesting to see you continue to work in this area. As for me considering social software applications for sign-out, I’ve only ever done so informally. The utility of a historical record of sign-out notes has yet to be seen (this, in my mind, is where a wiki-like sign-out tool would be of benefit). So far the physicians I’ve spoken with have expressed only some interest in having that. I might pursue the comparison of blogs/wikis to sign-out later, but for now I’m focusing on structured data capture of to do items. Please keep me informed of what you’re finding. I’ll be sure to check out the ACE stuff again.
Best,
Tom
Posted 25 Sep 2006 at 3:50 pm ¶congrats Stu! (often wanted to comment here, but put off by the need to register)
Posted 02 Nov 2006 at 12:37 pm ¶Thanks Lee, I have switched off register.
Posted 03 Nov 2006 at 12:55 pm ¶Cheers Stuart. Let’s say at least that the borough of Hackney maybe isn’t quite as actively cycle-hostile as elsewhere. Plenty still to do, eg getting rid of the Stoke Newington one-way system and the M11-oriented one-way systems in the north-east of the borough. And cutting down on motor traffic and especially HGVs [don't go down the left-hand side of trucks, people!]. But yeah, it’s generally a nice place to cycle around.
Trevor
Posted 20 Nov 2006 at 9:23 pm ¶I’ve read an interesting article on Bosnian Pyramid about the corners of the pyramid. It would be an easy way to proof quickly the existance, but they dig near the corners but not the corners. Then they’ve dug somethin on the top of it, but not the top!? I’ve seen some pictures on Bosnian Pyramid Photo Gallery that really let me think again about this whole thing. Every day I believe less in this mystery.
Posted 01 Dec 2006 at 5:28 am ¶Thanks for your posting on this controversial issue – by coincidence there’s a presentation on the BPs on 12 December at the Bosnian Embassy so I’m going to try and get down there, and see whether it sounds like the ‘real deal’.
Posted 01 Dec 2006 at 11:37 am ¶I strongly recommend finding a private Brazilian teacher. If you “shop around” you’ll find people who are relatively cheap and good, and it’s a case of matching someone with a teaching style you like.
Posted 13 Dec 2006 at 6:21 am ¶Good to see common sense prevail. Wonder if it was anything to do with the threatened passenger protest planned for 6pm yesterday at Fenchurch Street?
Pete (www.c2cuser.co.uk)
Posted 19 Dec 2006 at 9:10 am ¶I also heard from an inside source that the fact they did not have enough trains to carry out the new timetable also played a part
Posted 21 Dec 2006 at 12:18 pm ¶Oh bad luck about the burglary! Glad to hear you didn’t lose too much stuff.
Cheers,
Trevor
Posted 13 Jan 2007 at 1:42 pm ¶Thank you so much for your support, and coming to the gigs.
it means a lot to us.
we have uploaded a couple of new songs and will hopeful start gigging again in the summer.
thank you so much
and have a great 2007
Dean
(mile high penguins)
Posted 05 Feb 2007 at 7:59 am ¶I’ve read an interesting article on http://www.bosnian-pyramid.net
Posted 16 Feb 2007 at 4:11 am ¶about the corners of the pyramid. It would be an easy way to proof
quickly the existence, but they dig near the corners but not the
corners. Then they’ve dug something on the top of it, but not the
top!? I’ve seen some pictures on that really let me think again about
this whole thing. Every day I believe less in this mystery.
I’ve read an interesting article on http://www.bosnian-pyramid.net
about the corners of the pyramid. It would be an easy way to proof
quickly the existence, but they dig near the corners but not the
corners. Then they’ve dug something on the top of it, but not the
top!? I’ve seen some pictures on that really let me think again about
this whole thing. Every day I believe less in this mystery.
Posted 16 Feb 2007 at 4:13 am ¶Thank you. This is the most extensive overview of tinnitus therapy protocol and research I have ever seen on the intenet. A great resource. Thanks for all your efforts.
J. Sheridan (tinnitus sufferer for over 5 years)
Posted 11 Apr 2007 at 10:35 am ¶THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted 13 Apr 2007 at 12:07 pm ¶Sadly, I am no longer writing for Linux User & Developer due, to put it bluntly, to problems getting paid. It was a tough decision, and I haven’t yet looked for another magazine to take my column, but at the end of the day I’m a freelancer and getting paid is a key part of my work!
Posted 02 May 2007 at 5:05 am ¶Hello Stuart
I want to introduce our company The Works Software who provide a shift logging and shift handover system called Lifetrack. Lifetrack came out of a two year research program sponsored by BP about 8 years ago to understand the social, communication and information dimensions of shift hand-over and operations logging. The research and the subsequent development of Lifetrack was conducted at Cambridge University by Dr Tony Holden.
Here are some appropriate links to our website that you may find of interest:
Home page: http://www.theworkssoftware.com/
Product Overview: http://www.theworkssoftware.com/shift_handover.php
The Lifetrack Approach: http://www.theworkssoftware.com/philosophy.php
Testimonials: http://www.theworkssoftware.com/testimonials.php
The interesting thing is that Lifetrack is customized to each environment and there is no reason why it cannot be applicable to patient healthcare. Anyway, be happy to talk/email further.
Regards
Dinesh
Posted 07 May 2007 at 10:41 pm ¶Stuart:
I’m part of Dell’s blog team and I just found your site. There’s a lot of interesting stuff here and I really like the Web 2.0 video. I’ve had occasion to explain the same concepts in it to friends before and have to say the video does it in a way that it would be very tricky for me to by myself in five minutes.
Based on Friday’s post, it sounds like progress is being made with the dead Dimension but if there is anything I can do from here to help get you back up and running, do feel free to contact me.
Neil
Dell, Inc.
neil@dell.com
Posted 15 May 2007 at 12:19 pm ¶Thanks Neil, really appreciate your comments. The DELL was delivered back today (well within the 5 working days) so finger’s crossed we’ll be up and working again asap.
Posted 16 May 2007 at 9:35 am ¶Perfect. I’m glad to hear that’s sorted out.
Posted 17 May 2007 at 8:42 am ¶MY favorite player in the world
i dream to play like you Kaka
i like the way you play.
keep it up Kaka.
Joseph Jocelyn
Posted 19 May 2007 at 10:09 pm ¶Darcus Howe, surely, rather than Marcus?
As celebrated in the Linton Kwesi Johnson number ‘Man Free’, in which LKJ chants “Darcus outa jail”.
Posted 22 May 2007 at 7:18 am ¶Thanks, error amended. Plus spelling ‘Exise’ to ‘Excise’.
Posted 22 May 2007 at 10:58 am ¶One thing i love aboutkaka is that he believes in god .It is true people believing in GOD aaint a waste of time.I beleive in god and iam happy .Kaka deserves the best in his life with his wife caroline.,I wish all them the best sucess ever.
Posted 25 May 2007 at 9:08 am ¶good grief – what a jumble of half-formed ideas this May 29th posting is. i did try to read it for a while. thanks.
Posted 29 May 2007 at 5:02 am ¶Yes, I had a bit of a hangover. And the funny thing was I went to the Pacino Cafe the next day and read an interview with an Italian artist who argued persuasively that we had experienced 30 years of post-modernism, and it was high time we moved on – & there’s me still stuck on modernism.
Posted 30 May 2007 at 4:04 am ¶Then to cap it all when we left the cafe right outside there was the result of a traffic accident, with a blue car firmly wedged between and green tram and a tree.
Thanks for coming to the launch – it was a good evening. I do personally think that consumer interactivity through what we are now calling Web 2.0 really will change the B2B space in future as well. I suspect many of the present service companies are going to find it hard to change as they still see this as something for teenagers…
Posted 05 Jun 2007 at 3:34 am ¶ah – those hangovers. Surreal scene with the green and blue and tree. Perhaps I should say “Post-Surreal”. But don’t we need a new phrase to mean “State-of-the-Art” ?
Posted 06 Jun 2007 at 4:37 pm ¶Hi Stuart,
Posted 20 Jun 2007 at 9:42 pm ¶I really like the idea of social media leveling the playing field for business. Of course those with more resources will always have more playing field to play in, but they’ll need the space because there’s a lot more people on the pitch…
Alex
(Melcrum)
Hi Stuart,
Posted 22 Jun 2007 at 9:35 am ¶Thanks for your post about our survey results. I agree that they show that corporations have finally seen that they can’t hold back from using social media tools any longer.
Some of the most interesting data from me were the responses to the question ‘Which social media tools are you currently using or intend to use within the next 12 months?’
To find out more about these results please visit our press room:
http://www.melcrum.com/about/press/smr.shtml
To find out about our new report, How to use social media to engage employees, please see the link below.
http://www.melcrum.com/offer/socialmedia/07a/
Thanks,
Coralie Thomson
Melcrum
Thanks Coralie, I’ll take a look. Using social media tools in my present role, site managing a global e-commerce website start-up, has certainly proven their worth. Cheers, Stuart
Posted 23 Jun 2007 at 7:41 am ¶Great suggestion re Live Chat. I think the BL website is largely a great resource. If advisers were allowed to build their presence and interactivity online, I think they could potentially extend their reach, value and trust.
Posted 11 Jul 2007 at 6:47 pm ¶Please add at least one representative of the largest group of health care providers to your advisory group–registered nurses. RNs bring a different perspective that also needs to be heard. Thank you!
Posted 15 Jul 2007 at 8:12 pm ¶Good suggestion for Google, be interesting to see if they pick up on it.
NB: The importance of nurses’ contribution was raised last year at a BCS meeting in terms of their need to contribute to the national IT programme planning for example.
Posted 16 Jul 2007 at 7:58 am ¶It looks like the Center for Nursing Advocacy has posted a response to Google regarding the lack of nurses on the Health Advisory Council. Now we just have to wait to see what Google’s response is.
Posted 16 Jul 2007 at 7:08 pm ¶what exactly is the sculpture committee ofSculpture Committee of the Martin Luther Square (SCMLS)?
Posted 25 Aug 2007 at 6:37 pm ¶(From email to me)
Dear Stuart,
Thank you for your interest in the Memorial Foundation. Hopefully, this will answer your question.
Early on, when Lei was first interviewed about the project, he was interviewed by the chinese news agency Xinhua, and in their efforts to translate the story, they mis spoke a few words. so when they say “Martin Luther Square” they’re referring to our memorial and when they say “Sculpture Committee” they mean our Exploratory Committee which is responsible for Lei’s initial discovery in St. Paul.
Regards,
Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr.
National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc.
Posted 27 Aug 2007 at 5:33 pm ¶Here is another good article about web 2.0 logos.
http://www.logoblog.org/wordpress/a-guide-to-web-20-logos/
Posted 12 Sep 2007 at 1:30 am ¶Nice. I’m glad that’s all taken care of.
Posted 05 Oct 2007 at 9:07 am ¶Hi if you’re a beginner you should check out this capoeira community full of tutorials and free Capoeira CDS
http://www.capoeira-forum.com
Posted 17 Oct 2007 at 5:32 am ¶Hi Stuart,
Posted 06 Nov 2007 at 4:37 pm ¶I’ve been to uni’, but I’m not a ‘complexity’ scientist.
I’m more into importing/adapting basic ideas from
complexity into everyday practical & personal use; but its
a pretty intuitive rather than logical approach. I dont
read too many books these days, I’m just trying to ‘live
it’ and see where it takes me.’
That’s great. Best of luck. Thanks again for giving my work a plug too.
Best wishes
Peter
Stuart, Thanks for your kind message – have you done a brick yet? Super easy and it makes you feel better! I am the first official brick addict….. Best wishes, Charlotte
Posted 15 Nov 2007 at 6:12 pm ¶Thanks Stuart. We are really thrilled how people are using this anonymous space to open up and honestly share what is going on for them on Big White Wall. Jenny
Posted 16 Nov 2007 at 9:08 am ¶Dear Charlotte & Jenny,
Posted 16 Nov 2007 at 9:39 am ¶I’m looking frwd to creating my 1st white-wall-brick and blogging that to help sprd the word shortly!
Regards,
Stuart
gordon brown is being shown round a hospital ward.
Posted 19 Nov 2007 at 4:44 pm ¶at the first bed he enquires — and how are you?
the patient says — my love is like a red red rose.
he goes to the next bed and asks the same question.
and the patient answers— wee sleekit cooerin timmerous beasty.
he turns to the nurse and she says—- this is the serious Burns unit.
slange
Thanks; & reminds me of the poem from Burns’ Night last year: Comin’ Thro’ the Rye
Posted 19 Nov 2007 at 4:55 pm ¶your first brick is beautiful- if i knew what it was
Spread the word. We care about emotional health – you know it. Be open. Be honest. Be anonymous. Big White Wall welcomes Stuart Monkey!
Posted 22 Nov 2007 at 6:30 pm ¶The Brick Builder on Big White Wall is so cool. I am a brick junkie! Thanks for pointing out the site Monkey Man
Posted 23 Nov 2007 at 7:13 pm ¶yes but did’nt it work before?
Posted 26 Nov 2007 at 12:28 pm ¶The group heading the monument project is not being truthful with the media. Ed Jackson and Harry Johnson are quoted saying 51% of the granite will come from the US, yet no granite company in America has been contacted OR contracted.
Many people are going to be surprised at our next press conference in Georgia. We’ve found black stone cutters here in this country and they will be at the press conference.
Gilbert Young
Posted 01 Dec 2007 at 2:52 pm ¶Ooh, looks well parky!
Not sure if missing out on the full dynamic range of the air conditioning matters much
Posted 28 Dec 2007 at 9:47 pm ¶What a drag. But I have to say that flying short-haul is a really bad idea in any case.
Here’s how to get there the more civilised way.
(seat61.com is a great source of information on getting places by rail & sea. It won the best personal contribution category in the Responsible Tourism Awards last year.)
Cool Yule, Stuart & Shirley! xx
Posted 28 Dec 2007 at 10:03 pm ¶We thought we had most areas covered when we started our network, but every time we turn around, there is a new site out there. Guess we might have to add another hundred sites in the next year or so. For now, Passions Network is a network of 100 individual niche social networking sites, each with it’s own focus on a specific demographic group. The thing that sets the network apart from every other social network online is that members join one time, and then add the sites that match their ‘passions’ in life, into their single account, whether it be Eco issues, Sci Fi, Video Games or Pets. The entire list of sites is here. We are hoping to become a home for the advertisers aiming to reach each of the specific groups represented, but we’re still kindof in our infancy.
Posted 07 Jan 2008 at 10:16 am ¶Your my hero Kaka!! ur the best keep it up!! hope u have kids =)
Posted 12 Jan 2008 at 2:33 pm ¶Carlos Vergara!
I have heard of Voicepath but i don’t know many people who are using it as part of their business. When it comes to outsourcing or microsoft ontwikkeling for that matter, you should have the latest technology available in my opinion.
Posted 14 Jan 2008 at 5:53 am ¶Are there any reviews/ratings of new Social networking platforms?
Posted 16 Jan 2008 at 9:43 am ¶Hmm, that’s a nice question — I will have a poke around and see what in the way of reviews/ratings I can find, thanks v. much.
Stuart
Posted 16 Jan 2008 at 9:52 am ¶Ok, what I’ve found on review & rating:
OK speed survey direct link
Computing Which? report article
Posted 16 Jan 2008 at 10:43 am ¶the barclays premier iz guud 2. i wouldnt doubt kaka leaving for a british team.
Posted 26 Jan 2008 at 11:17 pm ¶Puppy rocks!
Posted 28 Jan 2008 at 2:01 pm ¶A superb programme. Excelent delivery. But what was the music used in the programme?
Does anybody know?
Wayne//
Posted 06 Feb 2008 at 5:33 am ¶Will try & find out. In the meantime the Independent had an amusing view of Dr Reynolds:
“Reynolds’s hour-by-hour account of the negotiations was engrossing and occasionally excruciating, not because the tension rose too high but because he sometimes coloured his third-person account of the conversations with first-person histrionics, channelling Hitler and Chamberlain through the person of a bespectacled and balding Cambridge academic. He’s not the first telly historian to get tempted by am-dram – Simon Schama is prone to drop into character while quoting a historical document – but it doesn’t work any better for him than it does for anybody else. Hide your eyes and hum loudly through those bits, but the rest is fascinating.”
Posted 06 Feb 2008 at 8:14 am ¶I live less than 2 few blocks away from the site. She’s still there, if it is indeed the same person. She’ll be up to 20 years in March, if your times are accurate.
Frankly, I don’t like her. She’s gotten to be more annoying in recent years, putting up signs about gentrification and such in the area during block parties and festivals. The South Main district has become a rather nice neighborhood now, with people of all races living there. Having somebody like her continually stirring the pot of racial hatred doesn’t help anything.
In my opinion, people like her only serve to continually divide people by color. The rest of us got over it and don’t care what race somebody is. Now, it’s people like Jacqueline that have become the problem. The rest of the world moved on past people like her, and IMO that’s a good thing.
Posted 07 Feb 2008 at 1:25 pm ¶I suppose that should unfortunately be “Not all residents”, Stuart.
Posted 14 Feb 2008 at 8:19 pm ¶Yep, unfortunate typo — changing to ‘Not all residents..’ ta.
Posted 15 Feb 2008 at 2:20 am ¶The FBI, under written directive from then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, began wiretapping King in 1961. J.Edgar Hoover feared that Communists were trying to infiltrate the Civil Rights Movement, but when no such evidence emerged, the bureau used the incidental details caught on tape over six years in attempts to force King out of the preeminent leadership position.
Posted 24 Mar 2008 at 1:42 pm ¶She has got to be one of the most attractive women that I have ever seen.
Posted 25 Mar 2008 at 3:10 pm ¶He was great!
Posted 17 Apr 2008 at 12:42 pm ¶hay mas bello q eres estas diosssssssssss
Posted 29 May 2008 at 10:16 pm ¶Social capital has always been a tacit element of sales recruitment, sometimes a principal one, especially in incestuous vertical markets. This translates to largely unenforceable anti-competition clauses in employment contracts.
It stands to reason that the exposure of social capital through LinkedIn and other similar networks is starting to be used in a forensic manner as in this example. It’s another case of our collective consciousness being slow to wake up to the threats, as well as the opportunities, presented by such social disclosure.
Your LinkedIn profile is also your summary CV and thus it is equally unsurprising that some organisations with high value knowledge workers see it as a threat and are considering new clauses in employment contracts that prevent their “intelectual assets” from being exposed on it!
Perhaps these developments represent the first signs of an impending turf war over social capital, with enterprise “control freakery” laid bare. I suspect such a war could only reflect badly on the enterprises that choose to fight it and following adverse publicity and reputational damage, they would quietly accept that they “rent”, rather than “own”, their employee’s social capital.
Posted 16 Jun 2008 at 7:12 am ¶By coincidence I came across a nice case study (pdf) on selectminds involving US law firm Goodwin Procter, which aims to foster a culture that is collaborative, entrepreneurial and practical. Scott Westfahl, director of professional development, then goes to make a real plus point about enhancing individual employee’s social capital: “Our commitment to developing our people starts even before their first day, for example, as a summer associate, and continues well after they have left our firm. We are fostering a collaborative culture with the hope that all of our employees substantially increase their own personal market value — both internally and externally — as a result of the professional development opportunities offered here at Goodwin.” Sounds like they’ve seen the light!
Posted 19 Jun 2008 at 10:21 am ¶http://www.gonulerdal.com
Posted 28 Jun 2008 at 11:41 am ¶KAKA= Football as it should be!
Posted 01 Jul 2008 at 2:36 am ¶Heres how the House leadership will use this rule to control where and what I say and even exercise influence over your website/blog etc
If the Ds rule change were in effect today, before I could post this, your website/blog would have to be preapproved as complying with House rules, my post would require a disclaimer that it was “produced by a House office for official purposes,” and the CONTENT of my post would have to be preapproved by the House Franking Committee as complying with “existing content rules and regulations.”
This is a violation of your First Amendment rights and mine, and is an outrageous attempt by House leadership to stifle and control you and me. If Rs were in charge I would be just as outraged – forget the party label – I do not want the federal gov’t/House of Representatives certifying your website or the content of my posts. I am writing this post personally, in my official capacity, so it would fall precisely under their new rule and you and I would both be in violation unless we subjected ourselves and my words to their prior approval/editing.
I am always ready to admit I am wrong but I am an attorney and this is what the letter means.
This is a story worth following because I am going to continue to vigorously exercise my First Amendment rights on every social media outlet I can reach. It is my right as an American and my duty as a representative.
thanks
John Culberson
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 1:13 am ¶Thanks John, I’ve uploaded Capuano’s Mailing Standards Committee letter (pdf) regarding this issue to Brady. Looking forward to your Qikking of Capuano and Brady.
Regards,
Stuart G Hall
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 12:36 pm ¶Thanks for the link, but since it was me who asked the question about how to get the semantic web to actually happen, I should point out it was a bit of a leading question – it’s a perception I encounter a lot, and I wanted an answer I could pass on.
Anyway, the videos are online now (http://www.nesta.org.uk/future-of-web/) and they give you a much better idea of the whole event (though I still sound like an idiot).
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 6:15 pm ¶Actually, it’s not being hosted at Rackspace… Our PressHarbor service is a service of our company Rackshare… We are not affiliated with Rackspace and our servers are not located there. But we certainly wish them well!
Posted 12 Aug 2008 at 9:37 pm ¶Hi,Thanks for such a wonderfull information.Understanding the odds. Learning how to win at poker means accepting this is a game of both chance and skill.
Posted 25 Aug 2008 at 5:27 am ¶Thanks. It struck me that a really exceptional part of the art of poker is the difficulty of managing perception of an opponent’s intentions, with one’s own self-control. It’s hard to have both, by the nature of how deeper perception works. Of course you can learn tell tale signs without being perceptive but if you are talking about high pressure games, with big stakes, and the nature of the unpredictable then that knowledge will only take you so far before you are in uncharted territory. Hence why Boyd’s OODA method is useful as you are quickly learning in context of how your opponent behaves. It’s not so far away from the counter-punch strategy in boxing, you pretend to be weaker than you really are in order to encourage your opponent to reveal their behavourial patterns. Makes sense to me anyhow;-)
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Posted 01 Sep 2008 at 5:52 pm ¶Google Chrome is very fast, but there are no extensions…. so i keep my Firefox.
Posted 04 Sep 2008 at 3:23 pm ¶‘Fraid I get nothing from the link for Monarch. The presentation seems to be in the secret, proprietary Shockwave format, which as far as I know can’t be viewed by people running free software.
A web search comes up with lots of sales links and a page or two of astroturfing, but nothing else much about the software.
Oh well!
Cheers…..
Posted 11 Oct 2008 at 3:48 am ¶I hear what you’re saying Trevor. There’s also the point made on IT Counts by Duncan Hardy that “Monarch looks useful but it still relies on having machine readable data in the first place. The big problem is getting information from paper onto spreadsheets”.
Maybe there’s an open source solution you can suggest?
Posted 13 Oct 2008 at 8:01 am ¶Hi Stuart, good to see that you are keeping in touch with all of the old MDXers!
Hope you are well.
Adam
Posted 15 Oct 2008 at 8:44 am ¶Stuart: An employer might use software to monitor and limit social networking time, so employees don’t spend it to excess. What do you think? Detailed discussion –Ben
Posted 29 Oct 2008 at 5:50 pm ¶Benjamin: I think it helps if there is a policy in place up front so all employees know where they stand. Personally I think it’s about getting the balance right. Last place I worked banned the use of instant messaging for a while as I recall, even though it was useful for project managing teams across the globe. Maybe it’s about setting out reasonable boundaries which employees and employers can both benefit from. For example allowing use of social networking sites during lunch hour only. Or instant messaging when just for business purposes.
It’s also important for businesses to keep an eye on the social media space, as no matter how fine grained their regulations may be they need to externally monitor conversations which may damage their brand (as well as keep a note of positive customer praise!). Check out the HowSociable? free web 2.0 brand checker for example.
Posted 29 Oct 2008 at 10:37 pm ¶I should also add that with a social networking platform such as WordFrame that because of the way Youtube RSS doesn’t quite work, you can’t autopost videos using that route:
“You can’t do anything to fix the problem. Youtube.con does not generate correct RSS feeds. There is a specification that they don’t follow strictly. But WordFrame needs correct feeds in order to autopost them. So these feeds does not go through our rss validation process (we follow strictly RSS feeds format specification) and cannot be autoposted.” Rumen Yankov, WordFrame support.
See the full chain of thought at: http://forums.wordframe.net/Forums/13961
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Posted 12 Nov 2008 at 11:20 pm ¶Glad you like the post, the pingback for it seems to have got caught in our spam filter oddly. Askimet has now been taught the error of its ways…
Guess knowing how to use the software properly might be easier said than done, but the more people in the sector use it, the faster everyone will learn. Certainly the Hammersmith and Fulham council tax video on Youtube taught people the problems of astroturfing pretty quickly for one.
Posted 20 Nov 2008 at 10:40 am ¶Hi. I regularly announce this forum. This is the oldest culture undisputed to ask a topic.
Posted 30 Nov 2008 at 4:04 pm ¶How numberless in this forum are references progressive behind, disingenuous users?
Can I bank all the advice that there is?
I am here at a forum newcomer. Until I read and deal with the forum.
Posted 04 Dec 2008 at 9:10 pm ¶Let’s learn!
Jakob is not right about everything! For example he uses the 90-9-1 rule for readers/commenters/creators of content. But when looking at social network sites this does not give a full picture of what’s going on, you need to include other sites your visitors look at to understand user behaviour better, and who to attract to your site. See more on this topic on my blog at http://tinyurl.com/5emwsz
Posted 05 Dec 2008 at 12:08 pm ¶Thanks for the plug Stuart.
I have another one on how to actually get viewers for those videos – otherwise it’s a tad pointless, (p)reaching-to-the-converted:
http://paulcanning.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-not-to-do-video-about-recycling.html
Also posted before about where political dialogue *is actually happening on YouTube (i.e. off the radar of the ‘engagerati’)
Posted 08 Dec 2008 at 6:43 pm ¶http://paulcanning.blogspot.com/2008/04/could-british-teacher-ever-do-this.html
Hoping that it will be good though it is ironic that the show touted as the best in Europe starts with a couple of Americans on stage.
Posted 09 Dec 2008 at 6:44 am ¶Hmm, yes, I hope no-one makes the mistake of heading off to Boulevard MacDonald for a bite!
Trying in vain to get to see the event live via ustream.tv but it ain’t workign in either IE7 or Opera 9.51 for me, though maybe it’s a firewall issue;-)
Posted 09 Dec 2008 at 10:01 am ¶@stuart: say ONE ‘name’ amplifies your request, then you get fresh attention. It snowballs. I did a piece for Chris Brogan pro bono and it attracted something like 50 followers the following day. Scoble talks about me – another 50. Go figure.
Posted 16 Dec 2008 at 6:12 pm ¶Thanks Dennis, the wonders of high profile endorsement!
Posted 17 Dec 2008 at 4:25 pm ¶Hi Stuart,
I read those predictions on social networking and profits. FB will not be able to make money through advertising but will have to do it through subscriptions.
Like this, I have made my share of 10 predictions for 2009
http://windchimesindia.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/predictions2009/
Have a look and let me know what you think of it
Nimesh
Posted 22 Dec 2008 at 7:26 am ¶Best of luck with all your Sift endeavours, Stuart. Speak soon.
Posted 06 Jan 2009 at 12:14 pm ¶Or you can read the amended version now… not sure I got it right about the anniversary, but still sounds like a great initiative, and have now linked to the main Twestival sites too.
Posted 11 Jan 2009 at 11:45 pm ¶Thanks Kerry. And many congrats on today’s launch of the LabourList.
Posted 12 Jan 2009 at 8:04 am ¶Hi Stuart,
Posted 12 Jan 2009 at 12:00 pm ¶Good luck with the new job – does that mean relocation to Bristol ?
All the best
Nick
hey, glad that Kerry had such a good informal chat with me about Twitter and the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol ( http://www.pmstudio.co.uk/open-studio-friday ). Yes I shall be at the Twitter event in Bristol
I am also hoping to attract/invite Blaine Cook (the inventor of Twitter!) to the Bristol event, as he’s now based in Belfast (and it’s a quick flight to Bristol anyway!)
You can follow me at:
http://www.twitter.com/samdownie
My sites are at:
http://www.dsoundz.co.uk
http://www.bristol-sounds.com
Thanks!
Posted 12 Jan 2009 at 12:02 pm ¶Yep relocation to Bristol, with Shirley!
Posted 12 Jan 2009 at 12:13 pm ¶Hi Sam, thanks, now following you on Twitter; would be great to have Blaine Cook at the event.
t.v.much
Posted 12 Jan 2009 at 12:16 pm ¶The poor dear fellow has lost his Mojo if in fact he ever had one. Despite declaring to the whole world that he ate a cats liver when he was twelve, I still find myself watching to see what he’ll do next.
Posted 27 Jan 2009 at 6:53 am ¶Hope he cooked the cat’s liver before eating it!
Posted 27 Jan 2009 at 9:17 am ¶Amazing, isn’t it?? It’s going to be an incredibly interesting 4 years, I’d imagine!
Posted 28 Jan 2009 at 2:14 am ¶Yeh, that was pretty funny. But then the onion is usually pretty spot on. I love the “Aircraft Deicer”. Awesome.
Posted 16 Feb 2009 at 3:48 pm ¶Yeah, I see Facebook has backed down on theprivacy terms:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10166456-2.html
OK, time to reactivate my account. My niece in Perth will be pleased.
Posted 18 Feb 2009 at 10:06 am ¶Apparently @kate_day (a journo for the Telegraph) wants to quote my response to the TOSser debacle:
http://twitter.com/CannonGod/status/1222478577
Posted 18 Feb 2009 at 2:47 pm ¶@Jake Fudge She certainly does! It’s a good point well made. Thanks and thanks to Stuart for the link.
Posted 18 Feb 2009 at 3:17 pm ¶@kate_day my pleasure!
& it’s now 07:32 p-alto time;-)
Posted 18 Feb 2009 at 3:32 pm ¶if you like the cambridge alumni magazine you might like my quick points on articles from obama to FB to cricket? http://tinyurl.com/b8m595
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Posted 26 Feb 2009 at 9:21 am ¶Hi Stuart,
Thanks for the link and an interesting post overall. I have to confess this copy of CAM is still in its wrapper in my house. May be time to open it…
Matt
Posted 27 Feb 2009 at 5:50 pm ¶Where will the next Darwin come from asks David Attenborough? Maybe from Twitter, say I: http://tinyurl.com/cn4q6r
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Posted 04 Mar 2009 at 11:00 am ¶Latest trials & tribulations of Facebook in brief: http://www.stuart-hall.com/2009/03/06/facebook-blinks-copies-twitter-still-gets-it-wrong/
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Posted 06 Mar 2009 at 4:06 pm ¶http://tinyurl.com/c2r2ep I should be drinking a beer at Leicester Beer Festival now
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Posted 11 Mar 2009 at 9:01 pm ¶My own take on Forbes piece on why its time for all CEOs to get serious with web 2.0 tools to beat the recession http://tinyurl.com/db2k8s
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Posted 12 Mar 2009 at 9:36 am ¶@SoMediaAcademy Ta, my own list of CEO reasons to get serious about FB & Twitter http://tinyurl.com/db2k8s got any more to add?
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Posted 12 Mar 2009 at 9:40 am ¶CEOs should use twitter and facebook- Forbes http://tinyurl.com/db2k8s
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Posted 12 Mar 2009 at 12:59 pm ¶Great list Stuart – will RT.
Posted 12 Mar 2009 at 5:54 pm ¶@stuartgh Great list! RT Ta, my own list of CEO reasons to get serious about FB & Twitter http://tinyurl.com/db2k8s got any more to add?
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Posted 12 Mar 2009 at 5:56 pm ¶Death of newspapers by Clay Shirky: http://bit.ly/H3qLd Experimentation could help I say, but is it too late?: http://tinyurl.com/d3pw5s
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Posted 14 Mar 2009 at 1:53 pm ¶@stoweboyd Thanks for Clay’s piece. Experimentation could help I say, but is it too late?: http://tinyurl.com/d3pw5s
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Posted 14 Mar 2009 at 1:55 pm ¶@mhequalities And all I got was a commerative beer glass! Anyhoo I’ve blogged a welcome to you on Twitter http://tinyurl.com/cgecu6 Cheers!
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Posted 19 Mar 2009 at 9:46 am ¶Thanks Stuart. The award was for community engagement and so this is a real tribute to the Big White Wall Community. Take care, Jenny
Posted 30 Mar 2009 at 7:18 pm ¶Any lightweight social network analysis tools out there that can plugin to an existing online community? http://tinyurl.com/cs7tba — thanks
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Posted 02 Apr 2009 at 3:49 pm ¶Hi Stuart..Telligent is doing quite a bit of research in social analytics.
Our enterprise offering is here:
http://tinyurl.com/5jbwa6
You should speak with Marc Smith, Telligent’s Chief Social Scientist.
Please let me know if you’d like to further the discussion or have feedback.
Best,
Posted 02 Apr 2009 at 7:00 pm ¶george dearing
Great, thanks, I’ll be in touch!
Posted 03 Apr 2009 at 8:33 am ¶Social media needs to come with new management thinking? | Stuart …: Nice piece from Francois Gossieaux on the.. http://bit.ly/3CO2gb
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Posted 03 Apr 2009 at 7:13 pm ¶Unlocking the real value of community profiles http://tr.im/irAe
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Posted 08 Apr 2009 at 2:59 pm ¶Profiles add huge value to an online community, and I think you are right in your implication that their value is often overlooked.
Yes, the community manager should encourage members to complete their profiles (a good start is for the community manager to complete their own!). Even better is when members encourage other members to fill out their profiles.
I find that very effective, and it comes across as less of ‘an order’ than if the request comes from someone in a position of perceived authority (such as a community manager).
- Martin Reed
Posted 08 Apr 2009 at 3:24 pm ¶Profiles add huge value to an online community, and I think you are right in your implication that their value is often overlooked.
Yes, the community manager should encourage members to complete their profiles (a good start is for the community manager to complete their own!). Even better is when members encourage other members to fill out their profiles.
I find that very effective, and it comes across as less of ‘an order’ than if the request comes from someone in a position of perceived authority (such as a community manager).
- Martin Reed
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Posted 08 Apr 2009 at 3:24 pm ¶Thanks Martin, I like your point about the power of members asking other members to complete their profiles. BTW by coincidence I noticed today that MySpace recently made some tweaks to bring ‘real names’ into greater prominence and utility on the community.
Posted 08 Apr 2009 at 3:45 pm ¶Thanks Martin, I like your point about the power of members asking other members to complete their profiles. BTW by coincidence I noticed today that MySpace recently made some tweaks to bring ‘real names’ into greater prominence and utility on the community.
This comment was originally posted on http://www.stuart-hall.com/)“>Stuart Glendinning Hall
Posted 08 Apr 2009 at 3:45 pm ¶@crutherford interesting. here’s my brief blog http://tinyurl.com/cs7tba on the subject. Our communities at Sift.com are based on drupal.
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Posted 16 Apr 2009 at 4:09 pm ¶Leicester amplified | Stuart Glendinning Hall http://tinyurl.com/dfhlb8
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Posted 16 Apr 2009 at 5:43 pm ¶we20 meetup in Leicester this weekend: http://www.stuart-hall.com/2009/04/23/we20-in-leicester/
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Posted 23 Apr 2009 at 8:34 pm ¶Best practice for a professional online communty’s house rules? See HBO standards page inspired thoughts: http://tinyurl.com/dfxwuy
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Posted 29 Apr 2009 at 9:14 am ¶Hi Stuart,
I was intrigued by the implied assumption in this statement:
“But if as community manager you have a large percentage of members that are anonymous this will obviously negative impact on the quality of conversations.”
I would argue that a very large proportion of online communities thrive on the fact that they are anonymous, but anonymous in the sense that the users do not use their real names but are still identifiable.
Communities such as Facebook thrive on real names since the data they store correlate directly with the real world. however, where there is no need for this mapping real name may not be essential and can even be detrimental in certain cases e.g. support groups, medical advice forums etc.
Posted 29 Apr 2009 at 1:57 pm ¶Hi Stuart,
I was intrigued by the implied assumption in this statement:
“But if as community manager you have a large percentage of members that are anonymous this will obviously negative impact on the quality of conversations.”
I would argue that a very large proportion of online communities thrive on the fact that they are anonymous, but anonymous in the sense that the users do not use their real names but are still identifiable.
Communities such as Facebook thrive on real names since the data they store correlate directly with the real world. however, where there is no need for this mapping real name may not be essential and can even be detrimental in certain cases e.g. support groups, medical advice forums etc.
This comment was originally posted on http://www.stuart-hall.com/)“>Stuart Glendinning Hall
Posted 29 Apr 2009 at 1:57 pm ¶Fair point Mark, I guess in my defence I was trying to argue against the default use of usernames. Real names certainly makes sense for professional networks where knowing who’s who can be a positive bonus to encourage networking.
I’ll keep an eye out for blog posts which example the value of anonymity, particularly for sites where sensitive content. Off the top of my head Patient Opinion (www.patientopinion.org.uk) makes good use of usernames — Frostbite298 through to magic259!
Posted 29 Apr 2009 at 2:19 pm ¶Fair point Mark, I guess in my defence I was trying to argue against the default use of usernames. Real names certainly makes sense for professional networks where knowing who’s who can be a positive bonus to encourage networking.
I’ll keep an eye out for blog posts which example the value of anonymity, particularly for sites where sensitive content. Off the top of my head Patient Opinion (www.patientopinion.org.uk) makes good use of usernames — Frostbite298 through to magic259!
This comment was originally posted on http://www.stuart-hall.com/)“>Stuart Glendinning Hall
Posted 29 Apr 2009 at 2:19 pm ¶Interesting addition to this debate in a LinkedIn post from Adrian Gaskell from CMI:
“First impressions used to be all about the first time two people came face to face.
“These days, first impressions are as likely to be formed via perusal of a person’s website or Facebook page, as they are to be formed from actually meeting them.
“Now a study has compared first impressions gleaned from face-to-face contact and from Facebook pages, and found a close parallel between the two.
“People judged to be likeable via one medium were also judged as likeable via the other.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WJB-4VFC84N-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=cab56725a9aa0daf7d83976f50d4747c
“A good case for making sure your profile page or introduction thread are on the money.”
Posted 12 May 2009 at 8:47 am ¶Thanks for the quote Stuart
Sat through the Wolfram launch last night on Justin.tv which made for quite an exhilarating event. (Imagine if @NASA flight centre opened up to the internet and get live feedback)
I made several tweets during the event which readers may find entertaining, along with several more feedback posts where I think the service could be taken: http://bit.ly/2PferP
~Jake
Posted 16 May 2009 at 5:33 pm ¶Nice one thanks Jake that’s great to have the link to the feedback posts.
– NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis and Wolfram — two in one week!
Posted 16 May 2009 at 5:51 pm ¶BTW this piece from Clay Shirky critiquing the semantic web is interesting too as a related issue? http://www.shirky.com/writings/semantic_syllogism.html
Posted 19 May 2009 at 9:34 am ¶Hello Mr. Hall,
Thanks so much for the kind words (”community guru”… makes me blush
). It means a lot to me. I really appreciate you picking up the book, as well, and I can’t wait to hear your thoughts.
I think that the decision is reasonable. You and I both know that freedom of speech has no place on any professionally run community or website because freedom of speech means EVERYTHING. It’s not practical.
The important thing is to cultivate the proper community that fits within whatever your looking to accomplish or what your brand is. Do you want a website where people can’t feel safe browsing from work or around their family? There is no right answer there, just what your audience is. If so, there are things you’ll need to remove. Do you want a website that is riddled with personal attacks and bitter, nasty arguments? Again, no right answer, but whatever you decide will require maintenance.
As the Editor of the Leicester Mercury rightly points out, you can’t use resources you don’t have. If you don’t have the ability (whether financially or time wise) to properly manage a comments area, it’s better not to have one at all. That’s a wise choice and a sign of taking the responsibility seriously, rather than just trying to generate as many pageviews as you can and cash the check.
But that’s part of the issue, isn’t it? Most people don’t understand or have an idea of the responsibility and the commitment it takes to properly run a blog comment area, or forums, or some other form of social media that has to be managed. A lot of people think it’s the proverbial, stereotypical kid in their parents basement removing comments they don’t agree with. (As an aside, the “kid in the basement” can sometimes do a better job than anyone else – I was that kid!) They think of themselves as on the side of “right,” when they couldn’t be more wrong.
They can’t get past “OMG, THEY REMOVED MY COMMENT. I AM SOOOOOOOOOOO ANGRY. THEY HAVE INFRINGED UPON MY RIGHT TO SAY WHATEVER I WANT, WHEREVER I WANT, ABOUT WHOEVER I WANT ON THEIR PRIVATE OWNED WEBSITE. GRRRRRRRRRRR. I’LL SUE! I’LL WRITE LETTERS!” long enough to understand that someone is actually thinking about these things, not doing it willy nilly, and actually cares and is trying and has a responsibility, not to some angry readers, but to all, and to those who you write about, the people who work at the publication, the people who pay the bills and others and balancing that responsibility is a challenge.
Best of luck. If I can help or provide any advice, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Patrick
Posted 20 May 2009 at 9:19 pm ¶New blog post: Trolls, spammers, sock puppets & free speech http://bit.ly/12cwvt
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Posted 21 May 2009 at 8:16 am ¶New blog post: Trolls, spammers, sock puppets & free speech http://bit.ly/12cwvt (via @stuartgh)
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Posted 21 May 2009 at 8:36 am ¶Hi, interesting post Stuart, especially since I started reading Patrick’s book myself this week. I’m about to start an online community and already learning lots from it.
Posted 21 May 2009 at 9:02 am ¶Best wishes,
Stephanie
@stuartgh thanks for the mention on your blog – interesting that Patrick responded. I think he agreed with me?. http://tinyurl.com/pjkf9x
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Posted 21 May 2009 at 1:14 pm ¶@stuartgh thanks for the mention on your blog – interesting that Patrick responded. I think he agreed with me?. http://tinyurl.com/pjkf9x
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Posted 21 May 2009 at 1:14 pm ¶New blog post: The value of attention to online community success http://bit.ly/Gac8K
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Posted 24 May 2009 at 12:09 pm ¶HP Labs study demonstrates feedback loop between attention & contributions to online communities http://bit.ly/Gac8K @stuartgh
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Posted 24 May 2009 at 9:39 pm ¶@aleksk HP Labs report on attentional feedback in online communities, in case it’s of use or interest: http://tinyurl.com/re4uoy
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Posted 24 May 2009 at 10:21 pm ¶HP Labs study demos feedback loop between attention & contributions to online communities http://bit.ly/Gac8K @stuartgh (via @josiefraser)
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Posted 24 May 2009 at 10:40 pm ¶HP Labs study demonstrates feedback loop between attention & contributions to online communities http://bit.ly/Gac8K RT @josiefraser
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Posted 25 May 2009 at 7:01 am ¶Value of attention to online community success: http://bit.ly/Gac8K (via @stuartgh). Wondering how it could apply to wikis
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Posted 25 May 2009 at 9:22 am ¶How to pay special attention to your top community contributions http://bit.ly/EGoWi
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Posted 26 May 2009 at 7:33 am ¶How to maintain online communities – http://bit.ly/Gac8K
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Posted 26 May 2009 at 10:43 am ¶How to maintain online communities – http://bit.ly/Gac8K
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Posted 26 May 2009 at 10:43 am ¶Reading @stuartgh’s interesting blog on Trolls, Spammers, Sock Puppets and Free Speech (http://bit.ly/13Aw0r)
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Posted 28 May 2009 at 10:25 am ¶Reading @stuartgh’s interesting blog on Trolls, Spammers, Sock Puppets and Free Speech (http://bit.ly/13Aw0r)
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Posted 28 May 2009 at 10:25 am ¶Shame you can’t add ‘don’t be boring’ to community rules
RT @tomewing: (http://bit.ly/13Aw0r) – I still think bores are a bigger problem!
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Posted 28 May 2009 at 1:13 pm ¶Shame you can’t add ‘don’t be boring’ to community rules
RT @tomewing: (http://bit.ly/13Aw0r) – I still think bores are a bigger problem!
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Posted 28 May 2009 at 1:13 pm ¶Thanks for all the tweets! Hmm, talking about this today I wonder if the ‘Long Tail’ model might apply to the distribution of contributors in a community as it’s about a raking of popularity? See the wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail
Just a thought at the end of Thursday.
Posted 28 May 2009 at 4:34 pm ¶New blog post: Predicting content popularity & thus revenue http://bit.ly/paIt2
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Posted 29 May 2009 at 11:34 am ¶New blog post: Get vanity http://bit.ly/CX9K5
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Posted 31 May 2009 at 7:58 pm ¶New blog post: Why it’s worth helping your community manager avoid burnout http://bit.ly/kwsDy
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Posted 04 Jun 2009 at 9:14 am ¶@stuartgh Says you should make sure your community manager doesn’t burn out. http://bit.ly/10WxYv
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Posted 04 Jun 2009 at 9:54 pm ¶@stuartgh Picks up the theme of helping your community manager avoid burn out. http://bit.ly/10WxYv – thanks for the mention!
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Posted 05 Jun 2009 at 11:02 am ¶@stuartgh Picks up the theme of helping your community manager avoid burn out. http://bit.ly/10WxYv – thanks for the mention!
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Posted 05 Jun 2009 at 11:02 am ¶Hi Stuart -
Thanks for the nice wrap up – by the nature of the job, community managers sit at the nexus of a lot of people, roles, and needs making it a tough job regardless of experience level. Combine that with the fact that companies don’t yet have a standard way to articulate what they expect from the role and hiring younger resources because they ‘get’ the social media space (which they do), you get a rough mix.
The more we can do to 1) Help companies match their goals with the appropriate seniority and skill sets for the people they hire and 2) Help community managers understand how to build their internal core teams and push back on unclear or unreasonable expectations… the less strain there will be on the individuals. Critically important because it is never an easy role.
Thanks for the mention!
Rachel
Posted 05 Jun 2009 at 11:10 am ¶New blog post: Is your community manager a shortcut to Enterprise 2.0? http://bit.ly/B6REl
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Posted 08 Jun 2009 at 1:30 pm ¶Update via Twitter on 10 June:
RT @kevinmarks Marc Smith is showing off http://www.codeplex.com/NodeXL – Excel-based Social Network Analysis [hmm, looks nice]
Posted 10 Jun 2009 at 9:44 pm ¶New blog post: Snapshot of #ocu2009 Twitter stream http://bit.ly/1B5mJB
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Posted 10 Jun 2009 at 9:46 pm ¶On the basis of HP Labs research top Facebook contributors should be 1st in line for vanity urls not staff & journos: http://bit.ly/Gac8K
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Posted 11 Jun 2009 at 5:40 pm ¶New blog post: Half of iPhone users access social networking from their mobile http://bit.ly/f2hlK
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Posted 12 Jun 2009 at 9:57 am ¶Half of iPhone users access social networking from their mobile … http://bit.ly/4nH5m
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Posted 12 Jun 2009 at 11:07 am ¶Half of iPhone users access social networking from their mobile: http://bit.ly/4nH5m #iphone #socialmedia #socialnetwork #socialnetworking
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Posted 12 Jun 2009 at 2:25 pm ¶New blog post: BT credit card #fail http://bit.ly/ssIR9
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Posted 19 Jun 2009 at 5:58 am ¶New blog post: Complexity Digest gets a new site http://bit.ly/rTTO0
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Posted 20 Jun 2009 at 3:33 pm ¶@shanitomorrow New blog post: Proving social media ROI http://bit.ly/BAAAR ..it’s a simple approach to using KPIs!
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Posted 24 Jun 2009 at 12:09 pm ¶That sounds weird. Why would someone register with someone else email address knowing that they could not click on the confirmation email? And yet you get Hi…’ your account has been created,(…). I’d be interested to find out more when you do.
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