Interesting post critiquing social media jargon and hype from Scott Berkun:
While I like and use Facebook and Twitter, there’s enough hype and abuse of words like innovation, transformation and revolution around all things social media that a critique is warranted – if only to take a shot at calibrating how people talk about this stuff. [...]
A while back I wrote a post on 10 ways to convince CEO’s to get blogging. Today I saw a tweet from Euan Semple reflecting on a point by Lee Bryant at the Corporate Social Networking Conference:
@euan Agreeing with @leebryant that it takes years to really get social stuff going in a business.
So what advice [...]
My two cents worth? To beat the competition it helps to be in the right time, at the right place. Social media can help you do this. Or to put it another way, with a quote taken from a nice post on the subject of social networking & profit: “Relevancy is not enough in advertising. It’s [...]
The challenge of 2012? To creatively use social media to generate a people-led Olympics, rather than a government-sponsored games. London ain’t Beijing baby!
See Rachel Clark’s blog on yesterday’s IET Pinkerton Lecture, on using social media to inspire change. Delivered by Alex Balfour, who is the Head of New Media for the London Organising Committee of [...]
Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War
And my comment on the blog post:
Thanks, great blog post and insightful comments. I can see what is meant by a war between KM & SM better from this discussion, as often the reality is disguised.
I’ve learned the hard way, for example in campaigning media, that the key cultural [...]
Liked the piece in Social Media Today by Marc Meyer which asks whether we try to do too much with social media (‘Are we slaves to the rhythm of social media?‘):
“What do you think? What is acceptable? Frankly I try to limit my time into blocks built around the work day and even at home. [...]
