A few slides to layout the principle of different feedback loops between your online community, your site, contributors, readers and other blogs and communities. Any feedback?
Feedback Loops
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…And thanks to tweet-feedback from Jenny Ambrozek (@sagenet) for the wider context around the power of feedback loops – see the Fast Company article [...]
Wayne Gretzky-Style ‘Field Sense’ May Be Teachable http://shar.es/m3E8W An application to social networking influence is my thought. Cheers!
My tweet today (above) follows my last blog post on the importance of location, rather than the number of connections, in determining an individual’s influence: “we may have got too focused on valuing networks in terms of who [...]
“How do you set aside the mind space to see patterns, make connections, and read what people want? How do you find the right thing to work on?” Nice piece on the limits of hard work, and the benefits of working smarter and what that means.
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I was going to write a long piece about the use of complexity science by innovative airline provider DayJet after hearing the inpsiring Brain Storm! podcast, but then realised that despite the Fast Company piece in 2007 saying they were able to predict the future they weren’t able to keep their head above water, and [...]
The Fundamental Law of Administrative Workings (F.L.A.W.): Things are what they are reported to be. The real world is what it is reported to be. (That is, the system takes as given that things are as reported, regardless of the true state of affairs.)..
The new Complexity Digest website has the catchy new url: turing.iimas.unam.mx/~comdig. Please update your bookmarks!
Plus read my own choice of article ‘Plectics: The study of simplicity and complexity‘
Murray Gell-Mann, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, USA/Europhysics News 33, 17-20 (2002).
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Watching Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England speaking live at the Mansion House he said something to the effect that the church did weddings and funerals, and people ignored the sermons. He said the Bank of England did sermons and burials, fluffing the intended analogy. The BBC then reported that the Bank said [...]
Just got hold of this recent study from HP Labs which demonstrates the feedback loop between attention and contributions to online communities. The abstract provides a nice introduction:
A significant percentage of online content is now published and consumed via the mechanism of crowdsourcing. While any user can contribute to these forums, a disproportionately large percentage [...]
Nice piece from Francois Gossieaux on the need for new management approaches for using web 2.0; links in with the tough subject of how to use social media for internal organisational change:
Social media allowed the social to scale beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before. To succeed in leveraging social media and the inevitable invasion [...]
A mild-mannered British physicist is trying to render Google irrelevant. Stephen Wolfram, the creator of Mathematica, a grandiosely ambitious piece of software, has come up with Wolfram Alpha, a grandiosely ambitious engine of knowledge.
Grandiosely ambitious, and grandiosely inexplicable. Put simply, Wolfram Alpha, due to launch in May, will “compute” answers to questions, where Google and [...]
