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Putting the System Back into Social

March 12, 2009

Social Media is a demanding master with the uncanny ability to determine the absence or presence of checks and balances.  As a self correcting market, what you do not say can have a greater impact than what you do say. Of Profit and Peril: There are great perils in getting social media wrong and great [...]

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Creative Credit Crisis

March 1, 2009

Social media needs a definite product that the whole industry can rally around – that product is ‘communication’. Very few problems are created by improved communication. Most problems are solved by better communication. Communication improves information, knowledge and innovation. Solved problems are defined as innovations. It’s a simple matter of how we organize ourselves; like a creative industry or a control industry.

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The First Mile in Social Media

February 6, 2009

The secret to finding a business case for social media can be found in “The Last Mile”. It would seem that innovators and entrepreneurs would be strafing each other to fill this vastly under served market and lucrative market segment.

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Out of Cache; Will Work For Bandwidth

December 31, 2008

We can measure the time in minutes, we can measure distance in miles, and we can measure mass in grams – so how do we measure Innovation?  Am I missing something or is this possibly the most stunning omission in the history of civilization?  Who is keeping score? Where’s the referee? This is serious business, [...]

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Web 3.0; An Elephant Never Forgets

December 18, 2008

The opportunity for America reminds me of the elephant that is convinced since birth that the slender rope tying him to the fence post is stronger than he.  When the elephant grows up, he still believes the rope is stronger even though the elephant now has gained the strength to pull the whole building down.  [...]

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Social Media; The Central Bank for Knowledge Assets?

November 20, 2008

It is very interesting to watch Social Media follow familiar trajectories as earlier paradigms in finance.  I see many social media platforms struggling to make human knowledge tangible in their respective markets.  The challenge is so simple, yet so complex.  Let the litmus test for knowledge tangibility be as follows; “Can you buy groceries with [...]

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2008 Financial Crisis: The End Game

November 7, 2008

The year is 2020, no burning cities, no mass hysteria, no bread lines; the economy is on an exponential growth curve.  The financial crisis of 2008 ended in an anticlimactic sort of way.  Sure, lots of hedge fund bankers were unemployed for a while and many companies once deemed titans of industry have disappeared, but [...]

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