Month: December 2008

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    Goodbye 2008

    http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2639782&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.Via

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    Happy Christmas

    Well, it's been quite a year. Over the past 12 months the traffic to this blog has doubled, the number of subscribers has trebled, and I met some amazing people through it. Somewhere along the line I passed a few markers: two […]

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    The Evolution Of The Internet

    Pew Research have surveyed over 500 leading internet experts, activists and commentators about the impact of networked technologies on society over the next decade or so. There's quite a bit you'd expect – mobile as the primary connection tool, improvements in the […]

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    Flow Charts

    From the ever insightful XKCD. Via

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    People First (2)

    Great comment from Mark on the People First post below: "This has been my mantra for ages.That's what the Herd is all about: other people are far more important in shaping individual behaviour than marketing or advertising activity. To paraphrase Thomas Schelling, […]

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    People First

    Dan has linked to a great call to action from Richard Millington. His Online Community Manifesto expresses the view that we know a lot about technology but relatively little about communities – how they form, how they interact, the talents needed to […]

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    Obvious

    I've read a few things recently questioning the value of involvement in social technologies: how recession means retrenchment back to more 'traditional' models…meanwhile the big social networks continue to struggle to find a model that works…how the vast majority of blogs are […]

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    Selling Ideas

    Selling is a real life skill. Everyone sells. We sell things, we sell who we are, we sell our ideas. We're always selling. Which is why it's so strange that the biggest mistake made in the business of selling (even by salespeople) […]

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    Post Of The Month – November ’08 – Winner

    I'm delighted to announce that the winner of Post of the Month for November 2008 is Charles with his excellent post on rewiring it all. There was a great shortlist of posts this month, but happy that Mr Frith won it (he's […]

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    Firestarters

    Times are tough. The recruitment market is tough. But here are 5 reasons why employing people who blog is more important than ever: They start fires. Blogging forces you to come up with new stuff. To be interesting. They understand the value […]

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