The Blogger’s Transformation

January 3, 2011

One of the habits of highly effective people is to “seek to understand before being understood.”  This habit teaches us to approach life with openness and willingness to learn — as a precondition to our effective contributions to the world.  Some of us are quite good a “taking it all in” and processing lots of [...]

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The Sin of Self-orientation.

December 30, 2010

The following pattern impacted three areas of my life recently, so it seemed worth speaking about here.  The details are not so important to share here.  The impact of self orientation, and a recommended cure is.  Your reactions to this are most welcome. I’ll start with a parable that is told about greed, but it [...]

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Industry Research about the Social Strategist.

November 18, 2010

Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang)  of the Altimeter Group just published a research report last week.  You should read it. I’d like to share with you why I say so, and what you can learn from this.  When you are finished reading this blog post, read the report, then come back and share your thoughts below. Image by thekenyeung [...]

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Giving credit is not difficult.

November 15, 2010

We live in an increasingly open world where digital sharing is the norm. When we send an email link to our friends, post a link on a Facebook wall, or retweet someone, we become syndicators of other people’s content. The technical and legal issues around this behavior are complex. Moreover, there are many philosophical arguments  about [...]

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What you should learn from the E2.0 folks.

November 10, 2010

I could not keep myself away from the E2.0 Conference.  I live nearby and I find that there is much to learn from this industry.  I also love the people who operate in this space.  Not only does this space attract good people, they are smart and nice people. But what does this mean to [...]

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Chasing trends? or letting trends chase you.

November 8, 2010

In Jacob Morgan’s excellent article in CMSwire today, he posed the question if CIOs will be coming to Social or if Social will be coming to CIOs.  When we spoke about the question, I shared my thoughts and he quoted me well.  I figured I’d take a moment and elaborate here. When I hear the generic form [...]

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Open Source and the “three forces” model.

October 25, 2010

The speech I linked to in my last post highlighted three social forces: the hierarchical delegation of power via governance the horizontal dispensation of wealth via the marketplace and the social behaviors associated with community membership. The third force, the Community, operates differently than the other two – as it does not manage contractual goods [...]

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