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Continuing the thoughts from my previous post on OpenWashing… If openness is so good, why don’t tech companies simply share all their software code? Open Source is “a good thing” so why not opensource it all — going whole-hog? I get asked this question every so often. Funny, since I also get asked “Why would a company give anything [...]
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Recently someone asked me about OpenWashing. Let me share my thoughts here. OpenWashing is a derogatory term for companies who pretend to “do open source.” (We’ll discuss what that could mean.) The term is related to WhiteWashing (censoring information in order to “fix” history) and GreenWashing (portraying your product to be more environmentally sensitive than it [...]
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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 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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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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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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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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