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		<item><title>Gestiona tu Reputación Online: monitoriza</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Sin duda los posts que más éxito ha tenido en este blog han sido aquéllos que trataban sobre las distintas herramientas y aplicaciones que nos permiten monitorizar nuestra presencia online, gestionar la Reputación Online a través de la monitorización, etc. En una serie de post en el blog de Territorio Creativo (&lt;a href=&quot;http://etc.territoriocreativo.es/etc/2009/11/gestiona-tu-reputacion-online-monitoriza-i.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Primera Parte&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://etc.territoriocreativo.es/etc/2009/12/gestiona-tu-reputacion-online-monitoriza-ii.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Segunda Parte&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href=&quot;http://etc.territoriocreativo.es/etc/2010/03/gestiona-tu-reputacion-online-monitoriza-y-iii.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Tercera Parte&lt;/a&gt;) he agrupado esas herramientas, además de incluirlas en dos presentaciones útiles a la hora de organizarnos la monitorización y que quiero compartir aquí con vosotros.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Gestiona Tu ReputacióN Online   Consejos Para Monitorizar&quot; href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/robertocarreras/gestiona-tu-reputacin-online-consejos-para-monitorizar&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Gestiona Tu ReputacióN Online   Consejos Para Monitorizar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=gestionatureputacinonline-consejosparamonitorizar-091217071406-phpapp02&amp;stripped_title=gestiona-tu-reputacin-online-consejos-para-monitorizar&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=gestionatureputacinonline-consejosparamonitorizar-091217071406-phpapp02&amp;stripped_title=gestiona-tu-reputacin-online-consejos-para-monitorizar&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; 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		<item><title>Social Engagement = Cultivating Customers Demands</title><description>Businesses are increasingly adopting customer-focused processes to gain competitive advantage. But for building a business around customers, companies need to understand them. They need to engage in regular dialogue and conversations.Research has shown strong evidence that Social Media Engagement correlates to Financial Performance (see report on world’s most valuable brands – Who’s most engaged?). This ...</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:02:05 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/lNkCG84-peI/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/lNkCG84-peI/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Social Business Summit: London and Austin</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Thursday this week I will be participating in the Dachis Group&#039;s Social Business Summit, speaking on &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Publicy and The Erosion Of Privacy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (incidentally, I am speaking on the same topic tomorrow, at the We Media conference in Miami).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dachis Group is also partnering with Somesso to hold a &lt;a href=&quot;http://somesso.com/&quot;&gt;Social Business Summit&lt;/a&gt; in London next week:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;On March 18, SOMESSO and &lt;a href=&quot;http://headshift.com/&quot;&gt;Headshift/Dachis Group&lt;/a&gt; will host Europe&amp;rsquo;s first Social Business Summit; an invitation-only event in the city of London, which is aimed at business and technology thought leaders interested in the future of social business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Today, the use of social tools in business has progressed from the experimental stage to the beginning of mainstream adoption. As with all transformational technologies, organisational culture change and technology adoption are closely related, with both influencing the other in subtle but important ways. We want to look ahead and consider the impact of social tools on the way we organise, structure and manage knowledge- and people-intensive businesses in the future, both internally and externally.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;If you wish to participate, by all means &lt;a href=&quot;http://somesso.com/request-invitation&quot;&gt;request an invitation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:21:22 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/social-business-summit-london-and-austin.html</link><guid>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/social-business-summit-london-and-austin.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Señor José Cuervo is on the look out for a Tequila Face… think you have what it takes?</title><description>I was invited to Diageo’s Jose Cuervo Tequila open audition at Cargo last week, to celebrate the launch of their latest Tequila Face initiative. To get into the Mexican mood, we were each transformed into various fictional characters (hence the pics). I played Juanita Sanchez, a Tequila and Coke loving Mexican DJ  The one ...</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:08:10 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/2EWwKGxu7DI/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/2EWwKGxu7DI/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Being the CEO of a Platform Business</title><description>In a long-tail world it&amp;#8217;s becoming increasingly impossible for any single organisation to deal with the fragmentation of demand. Apple&amp;#8217;s solution &amp;#8211; with its iPhone &amp;#8211; was to become the platform for others to service demand they identified. Those closest to their own niche could deliver products and services which were a better fit than ...&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=socialglue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5442617&amp;post=249&amp;subd=socialglue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1&quot; /&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:58:28 +0000</pubDate><link>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/being-the-ceo-of-a-platform-business/</link><guid>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/being-the-ceo-of-a-platform-business/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Eric Schmidt Google Keynote At Mobile World Congress</title><description>If you have an hour spare and want to see Eric Schmidt&amp;#8217;s keynote at Mobile World Congress Barcelona, check out the below &amp;#8211; with subtitles in case you miss any of the words.The best bits come from 35 minutes in &amp;#8211; question time. Interestingly, I have faced some of these questions (or assertions) before, ironically ...</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:15:59 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/qwRjPEtlsHA/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/qwRjPEtlsHA/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Eyehotel.tv – Life Is An Audition</title><description>Last year I came up with an idea for people to pay for hotel stays with their privacy. It&amp;#8217;s called Eyehotel.TV and is a social experiment to see whether real reality TV is more compelling than the manufactured versions we get on regular television. It is an experiment to see whether there is demand to ...</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:18:44 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/ruDMKslatro/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/ruDMKslatro/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Accessibility and your responsibility to the network</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://farm1.static.flickr.com/177/468487548_f48505c182_o.jpg&quot; onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://farm1.static.flickr.com/177/468487548_f48505c182_o.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 613px; width: 410px;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;By (almost) anyone&#039;s count, stats, vibe, gut, whatever... &#039;social media&#039; is becoming the dominant form of media across the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are collectively and globally spending more of our time taking part in it than we do passively receiving all the other broadcast media put together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And with that position of dominance comes responsibility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In large traditional media companies (such as the ones I spent much of my life working in) there is a demand for legal compliance. The big boys sign-up to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/&quot;&gt;W3C&lt;/a&gt; etc. They also make an effort to make their output e-accessible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They need to be seen to be meeting the needs of disabled users - whether those users have difficulty, seeing, hearing, moving etc. They see a box they need to tick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But there &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1581-Accessibility-and-Social-Media&quot;&gt;appears to be&lt;/a&gt; little thought for the needs of these users in many of the most mainstream of social tools, technologies and platforms. (&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben-zvan-photography/&quot;&gt;image - an open door -  via Ben Zvan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface&quot; title=&quot;Application programming interface&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot;&gt;APIs&lt;/a&gt; are of course usually available - which offers opportunities for those with the skills and the inclinations to create tools to improve accessibility. They result in great stuff like &lt;a href=&quot;http://accessibletwitter.com/&quot;&gt;Accessible Twitter&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href=&quot;http://icant.co.uk/easy-youtube/&quot;&gt;EasyYouTube&lt;/a&gt; for example, but by no means the whole solution. There aren&#039;t enough of them solving the whole range of issues, for a start.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You never see accessibility buttons easy to find on your sign in to Facebook etc. And many a sign-in process includes some unfriendly &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA&quot; title=&quot;CAPTCHA&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot;&gt;CAPTCHA&lt;/a&gt; processes, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;http://s3.polldaddy.com/p/2811204&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&#039;t have solutions - I do think it&#039;s going to take a motivated crowd response to sort out. But I also think, like so much else about a networked world, we all have to take responsibility for each other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I often say that one extra node on your network doubles its value (that&#039;s group forming network theory, folks).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conversely, if the barriers of accessibility preclude one extra node from joining your network you are halving its value. That&#039;s a sobering thought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or as Stowe Boyd puts it: &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&quot;I am made greater by the sum of my connections, so are my connections.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline&quot;&gt;CitizensOnline&lt;/a&gt; (the charity which I serve as a trustee) is trying to do something about access to the web - and I&#039;ll update you as soon as I&#039;m able on the detail of that. Dr Gail Bradbrook has started a blog on this &lt;a href=&quot;http://fixtheweb.wordpress.com/about/&quot;&gt;Fix The Web&lt;/a&gt; issue. She&#039;s also set up a poll you can take part in:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But in the meantime you could start doing your bit by providing captions for your videos, titling your photographs descriptively and usefully and limiting the abbreviations you use in your status updates (hat tip to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.practicalecommerce.com/member/131-Joseph-C-Dolson&quot;&gt;Joseph C Dolson&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#039;m not going to get this right myself every time. Expect howlers. How do I embed a description in the flickr-hosted image with this post, for example? But I do know it&#039;s in my interests - and that of the network - to try.&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tc.eserver.org/36280.html&quot;&gt;Accessibility and Social Media&lt;/a&gt; (tc.eserver.org)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/e28f8c77-b347-405c-b244-f1adc7aef0ae/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: medium none ; float: right;&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=e28f8c77-b347-405c-b244-f1adc7aef0ae&quot; alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; defer=&quot;defer&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-7490249193697769713?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:34:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/03/accessibility-and-your-responsibility.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/03/accessibility-and-your-responsibility.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>David Gerlernter on Flow</title><description>&lt;p class=&quot;style1&quot;&gt;William James once wrote, &quot;You can judge a man&#039;s intelligence by how well he agrees with you.&quot; In that regard, David Gelernter is my main man. In a recent but oddly titled piece at Edge.org (what a nice name!), Gelernter could have been reading one of my recent slide shows:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;- David Gelernter, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gelernter10/gelernter10_index.html&quot;&gt;Time To Start Taking The Internet Seriously&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;13. The traditional web site is static, but the Internet specializes in flowing, changing information. The &quot;velocity of information&quot; is important &amp;mdash; not just the facts but their rate and direction of flow. Today&#039;s typical website is like a stained glass window, many small panels leaded together. There is no good way to change stained glass, and no one expects it to change. So it&#039;s not surprising that the Internet is now being overtaken by a different kind of cyberstructure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;14. The structure called a cyberstream or lifestream is better suited to the Internet than a conventional website because it shows information-in-motion, a rushing flow of fresh information instead of a stagnant pool.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;15. Every month, more and more information surges through the Cybersphere in lifestreams &amp;mdash; some called blogs, &quot;feeds,&quot; &quot;activity streams,&quot; &quot;event streams,&quot; Twitter streams. All these streams are specialized examples of the cyberstructure we called a lifestream in the mid-1990s: a stream made of all sorts of digital documents, arranged by time of creation or arrival, changing in realtime; a stream you can focus and thus turn into a different stream; a stream with a past, present and future. The future flows through the present into the past at the speed of time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;style1&quot;&gt;16. Your own information &amp;mdash;&amp;nbsp;all your communications, documents, photos, videos &amp;mdash; including &quot;cross network&quot; information &amp;mdash; phone calls, voice messages, text messages &amp;mdash;&amp;nbsp;will be stored in a lifestream in the Cloud.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;17. There is no clear way to blend two standard websites together, but it&#039;s obvious how to blend two streams. You simply shuffle them together like two decks of cards, maintaining time-order &amp;mdash; putting the earlier document first. Blending is important because we must be able to add and subtract in the Cybersphere. We add streams together by blending them. Because it&#039;s easy to blend any group of streams, it&#039;s easy to integrate stream-structured sites so we can treat the group as a unit, not as many separate points of activity; and integration is important to solving the information overload problem. We subtract streams by searching or focusing. Searching a stream for &quot;snow&quot; means that I subtract every stream-element that doesn&#039;t deal with snow. Subtracting the &quot;not snow&quot; stream from the mainstream yields a &quot;snow&quot; stream. Blending streams and searching them are the addition and subtraction of the new Cybersphere.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;18. Nearly all flowing, changing information on the Internet will move through streams. You will be able to gather and blend together all the streams that interest you. Streams of world news or news about your friends, streams that describe prices or auctions or new findings in any field, or traffic, weather, markets &amp;mdash; they will all be gathered and blended into one stream. Then your own personal lifestream will be added. The result is your mainstream: different from all others; a fast-moving river of all the digital information you care about.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;19. You can turn a knob and slow down your mainstream: less-important stream-elements will flow past invisibly and won&#039;t distract you, but will remain in the stream and appear when you search for them. You can rewind your lifestream and review the past. If an important-looking document or message sails past and you have no time to deal with it now, you can copy the document or message into the future (copy it to &quot;this evening at 10,&quot; say); when the future arrives, the document appears again. You can turn a different knob to make your fast-flowing stream spread out into several slower streams, if you have space enough on your screen to watch them all. And you can gather those separate streams back together whenever you like.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;20. Sometimes you will want to listen to your stream instead of watching it (perhaps while you&#039;re driving, or sitting through a boring meeting or lecture). Software will read text aloud, and eventually will describe pictures too. When you watch your high-definition TV, you might let the stream trickle down one side of the screen, so you can stay in touch with your life.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;21. It&#039;s simple for the software that runs your Lifestream to learn about your habits; simple to figure out which emails (for example), or social updates, or news stories, you are likely to find important and interesting. It will therefore be easy for software to highlight the stream elements you&#039;re apt to find important, and let the others rush by quickly without drawing your attention.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;22. Lifestreams will make it even easier than it is today for software to learn the details of your life and predict your future actions. The potential damage to privacy is too large and important a problem to discuss here. Briefly, the question is whether the crushing blows to privacy from many sources over the last few decades will make us crumple and surrender, or fight harder to protect what remains.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;23. &lt;strong&gt;The Internet&#039;s future is not Web 2.0 or 200.0 but the post-Web, where time instead of space is the organizing principle &amp;mdash; instead of many stained-glass windows, instead of information laid out in space, like vegetables at a market &amp;mdash; the Net will be many streams of information flowing through time.&lt;/strong&gt; The Cybersphere as a whole equals every stream in the Internet blended together: the whole world telling its own story. (But the world&#039;s own story is full of private information &amp;mdash;&amp;nbsp;and so, unfortunately, no human being is allowed to hear it.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[emphasis mine]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Time is the new space.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I call it the Post-Everything Economy istead of the post-Web, but same same, all same.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How have I never met this guy?&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:34:44 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/david-gerlernter-on-flow.html</link><guid>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/david-gerlernter-on-flow.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>We police ourselves better than the Advertising Standards Agency ever could</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2509/4133866696_e893b04e83.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 375px;&quot; src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2509/4133866696_e893b04e83.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The uk&#039;s advertising standards authority wants to apply the same rules to brand-run Twitter accounts and Facebook pages as it does to TV ads and billboards: (via The Guardian)  &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/darbhb&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/darbhb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the face of it the drive to enforce legality, honesty and truthfulness seems wise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They (the Advertising Association) even say they are advocating this primarily to protect children; Always a good tactic to deploy to deflect those who would oppose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have to ask how they expect the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to police this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And more importantly, why they think they are better placed to police this than those they seek to protect?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/03/time-to-end-failed-experiment-of.html&quot;&gt;another example&lt;/a&gt; of the advertising world attempting to place a broadcast, centre-out solution on a peer-to-peer space. You ain&#039;t in Kansas anymore, Dorothy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They make the assumption that the act of setting up a page or account and filling it with dishonesty is equal to broadcasting that dishonesty to unsuspecting audiences. Which is to fundamentally misunderstand &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/davidcushman/why-traditional-ad-models-will-not-work-in-social-networks-and-what-will&quot;&gt;how distribution happens in social media&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We ONLY pass on that which we think is useful to those we think will also find it useful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we get that wrong our followers stop being our followers, our friends stop being our friends. It is in our interest only to share what we judge to be the honest and truthful (we make our own judgements about the legal - file sharing etc).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are best placed to make these judgements in the context of OUR communities of purpose (yes, and kids too - by the power of the wisdom of their crowds).&lt;br /&gt;We make those judgements fast, and, since the crowd offers self-correcting mechanics, we make them accurate and relevant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We at the edge, not them at the centre - and certainly not the ASA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry but your rules - quite literally - do not apply here.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-4970183273319807591?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:02:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/03/we-police-ourselves-better-than.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/03/we-police-ourselves-better-than.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>All Hail The Mighty Apple Ipad. Not.</title><description>The above was aired at the Oscars earlier. The first official iPad advert! Lovely isn&amp;#8217;t it?. I&amp;#8217;m a big fan of convergence. Any machine and a screen. But there are 4 reasons why I&amp;#8217;m not going crazy about the iPad:1. The inability to multi-task. I am a productivity fan so this is a deal breaker2. ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:28:10 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/k5HLH8EqW0A/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/k5HLH8EqW0A/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Scintillation</title><description>This is an experimental film made up of over 35,000  photographs. It combines an innovative mix of stop motion and live  projection mapping techniques.SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.Ich empfehle Fullscreen, wenn es der Rechner hergibt!</description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:30:31 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1328</link><guid>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1328</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Mlove Confestival Ticket &amp; Speaker Detail</title><description>We like to call out to the leading idea people and mobile passionistas to join us at a remarkable event this spring, set in the 100-room MLOVE castle:*****SPECIAL PRICING 25% OFF &amp;#8211; BOOK NOW AT WWW.MLOVE.COM*****We are glad to announce the newest additions to our speaker list:Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia (S.F. / NYC)Nick Heller, Strategic ...</description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:03:28 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/UWStQjmzts8/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/UWStQjmzts8/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Socialtext 4.0</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Watching Socialtext&#039;s announcement this week about the newest major release of their flagship technology, I knew that had done some great work. I got the demo today, and it looks really great.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Socialtext has extended way past the baseline functionality that made them a pioneer in social technology for business. They started with wikis, and last year released Socialtext signals, an integrated enterprise microblogging capability which has been a big hit with customers. Now they have released a new social architecture that includes support for groups.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;full-image-block ssNonEditable&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;width: 650px;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/storage/groups.png?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1267825150757&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Above you can see the Signals activity stream, and the user is selecting a specific group to filter the stream: after selection, only those activities that were registered in the context of the selected group will be displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Groups can be created by any user, and can be administered by one or more users. Members are invited by those with admin capabilities, and workspaces (wiki pages) can be created within groups or associated with groups.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;full-image-block ssNonEditable&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;width: 650px;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/storage/admin%20mode.png?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1267825138590&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Adding members is easy: you simply start typing the name and Socialtext autocompletes from the directory of known users. You can also invite people to participate in a group who are not in the current directory of users, such as inviting a consultant to participate on a project that is being managed as a group, and that user would only have access to that group, and not the entire Socialtext instance, or any other groups. (Actually, it seems that they could have simply named Socialtext &#039;groups&#039; &#039;projects&#039; instead, since they work in exactly the way that projects run.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;full-image-block ssNonEditable&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;width: 650px;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/storage/socialtext 4.0 groups homepage.png?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1267825729415&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once created, a group is a smaller instance of the complete Social text: it has an activity stream, members, workspaces, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A member of a group can enter the group to create content there, to interact with others, and see what&#039;s been happening via the activity stream. Alternatively, activities from the group context percolate out to the user&#039;s more general activity stream, as well. And the workspaces defined with groups can be accessed through the workspaces navigation, just like other workspaces, even when the user is outside the group.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Socialtext has also created a desktop client so that users can remain connected to their colleagues outside of a browser window. There are also mobile clients.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;full-image-block ssNonEditable&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;width: 650px;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/storage/xm68R.Screen shot 2010-03-05 at 13_35_13.png?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1267826077101&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&#039;t believe that deep analysis can come from such a cursory demo -- that requires days or weeks of use -- but at the same time it is clear to me that Socialtext has brought together a collection of social tools in a very well integrated framework.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The new group (or project) functionality allows a much finer grained social scale to be applied in the enterprise, which leads to sensible ways to minimize the torrent of upadtes in the activity stream. In fact, I don&#039;t know how Socialtext users in large companies could have survived the assault of hundreds or thousands of fellow employees signaling every time they modified a document, had a question, or made a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I asked about a threaded discussion display, because I had not seen one, and they showed me an alpha -- not ready to be released yet -- that supports that. It is very cool, and displays an arbitrary number of nested levels: it is not limited to one or a few levels of nesting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, all in all, a major step forward for Socialtext, and one that is likely to make their customers very happy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[disclosure: Socialtext is a sponsor of the upcoming Social Business Edge, 19 April 2010 in NYC.]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:19:11 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/socialtext-40.html</link><guid>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/socialtext-40.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>The Clockwork Universe Of Traditional Advertising Vs Chaos Theory Of The Now</title><description>Advertising has alot to do with Chaos Theory and I will show you how. However, lets start with a guy called Alan Turing who, by the way, was an absolute genius.Many may not have heard of him, but on the 10th of September 2009, Gordon Brown made a formal apology for the way Alan was ...</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:32:30 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/Sf-JPq0H4NI/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/Sf-JPq0H4NI/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Digital Billboards: Very Shiny</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Since I don&#039;t drive much, I often miss trends like digital billboards:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Matt Richtel, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/technology/02billboard.html?pagewanted=2&amp;amp;ei=5087&amp;amp;en=525b13d50bbc5237&amp;amp;ex=1283144400&quot;&gt;Electronic Billboards Called Another Driving Distraction &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The billboard industry argues that the new signs are part of a larger technological and economic shift to a paperless society (no more crews hoisting and removing ads from billboards) and that they give advertisers more flexibility.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Marketing materials published last year by &lt;a title=&quot;More information about Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Incorporated&quot; href=&quot;http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/clear-channel-outdoor-holdings-inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org&quot;&gt;Clear Channel&lt;/a&gt;, one of the nation&amp;rsquo;s biggest billboard companies, say the digital billboards are, among other things, ideal for posting game scores by advertisers like radio stations and sports bars. News organizations can also use them &amp;mdash; &amp;ldquo;as the Web site headline changes, so does the digital billboard,&amp;rdquo; the materials say.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;rdquo;It&amp;rsquo;s a very flexible, very responsible medium and very impactful,&amp;rdquo; said Ron Cooper, chief executive of Clear Channel Outdoor, which has 450 digital billboards and plans to add 150 more this year. Big corporations that have used them include ABC, &lt;a title=&quot;More information about AT&amp;amp;T Corp&quot; href=&quot;http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/at_and_t/index.html?inline=nyt-org&quot;&gt;AT&amp;amp;T&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title=&quot;More information about Coca-Cola Co&quot; href=&quot;http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/coca_cola_company/index.html?inline=nyt-org&quot;&gt;Coca-Cola&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title=&quot;More information about McDonald&#039;s Corp&quot; href=&quot;http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/mcdonalds_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org&quot;&gt;McDonald&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title=&quot;More information about General Mills Incorporated&quot; href=&quot;http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/general_mills_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org&quot;&gt;General Mills&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title=&quot;More information about Ford Motor Company&quot; href=&quot;http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/ford_motor_company/index.html?inline=nyt-org&quot;&gt;Ford&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a title=&quot;More information about Verizon Communications&quot; href=&quot;http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/verizon_communications_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org&quot;&gt;Verizon&lt;/a&gt;. &amp;ldquo;Consumers report seeing it, remembering the brand, remembering the advertisers.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He and others in the industry say they have been careful to make the signs memorable but not distracting. They say the &amp;ldquo;television on a stick&amp;rdquo; label is an exaggeration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s a slide projector &amp;mdash; it shows one image after the next,&amp;rdquo; said Bill Ripp, a vice president who oversees digital billboards for &lt;a title=&quot;More information about Lamar Advertising Company&quot; href=&quot;http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/lamar-advertising-company/index.html?inline=nyt-org&quot;&gt;Lamar Advertising&lt;/a&gt;, another large billboard company. &amp;ldquo;We were as concerned as anybody. We wouldn&amp;rsquo;t want to cause danger.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;So many people are concerned about the dangers of texting while driving, and now, digital billboards, that they forget the elephant in the room: It&#039;s driving that&#039;s dangerous. Let&#039;s get rid of the damn car culture! Then digital billboards would be a cool thing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, that to one side. Let&#039;s take the digital billboards on the highway theme to the extreme.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Imagine that in the near future your car could be outfitted with a transponder of some sort, like the one we use for EZPass toll booth systems. We could opt into ad networks so that when we are driving home late at night, after working too long one evening, all alone on the highway, the ad could be targeted us individually on that big shining billboard.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or imagine that Sunday afternoon, when a large number of Redskins fans are within sight of a digital billboard, and they opt to show the Redskins game scores. Five minutes later, the traffic is mostly soccer fans, so they get the DC United scores.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or you could text from your car, and your Twitter message could be displayed next to the scores.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or they could synchronize a series of displays to target you as you speed along, showing you five different shots of this years Camaro.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All of these things are obviously dangerous, at least to the driver of the car, but so are GPS systems, cell phones, reading while you drive (I have seen that a lot in Southern California), changing clothes while you drive (saw a woman putting on pantyhose while driving, once), applying mascara, eating, making out, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But putting up giant digital biillboards is an eyesore, and obviously intended to make people look at them. It&#039;s inherently a distraction, while drive-through fast food isn&#039;t. We should outlaw this.&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:20:06 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/digital-billboards-very-shiny.html</link><guid>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/digital-billboards-very-shiny.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Free</title><description>Zum wiederholten mal startet gerade eine Diskussion über Monetarisierung von Blogs, ausgehend diesmal von Basic Thinking, das nach Roberts Verkauf von einem kleinen Team von Redakteuren betreut wird &amp;#8211; und das sehr professionell und erfolgreich. Man kann den Content dort mögen oder nicht &amp;#8211; das spielt in diesem Zusammenhang keine Rolle.Dort hat man beschlossen, den ...</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:48:29 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1546</link><guid>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1546</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Negative comments are good for your blog</title><description>I am yet to meet a blogger who doesn’t like receiving comments and feedback on their articles… But occasionally, the feedback you receive is not what you had in mind.As your blog grows, it becomes more exposed to negative comments…. But these comments are in fact good for your blog.You can be wrongYes, really. Everyone ...</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:11:04 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/F_hGPUi8zxk/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/F_hGPUi8zxk/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Social Media in the Middle East: more at ARABNET March 25th &amp; 26th</title><description>A common feature across the Middle East region is that young people make up a relatively high percentage of the population (in some over 50% are less than 21 years old). In most countries the “net generation”, regardless of its geographic location or cultural background, tends to be comfortable with online technologies and prefer the speed and variety of content delivered through the ...</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:44:02 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/43t7W-yp-pY/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/43t7W-yp-pY/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Facebook Ads: Why Such An Oblique Approach Instead of Social Ads?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;The recent foofarah about Facebook ads (see Brad Stone&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/technology/04facebook.html?partner=rss&amp;amp;emc=rss&quot;&gt;Ads Posted on Facebook Strike Some as Off-Key)&lt;/a&gt; led contributor David Gallagher to an experiment:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/whats-in-your-facebook-ads/&quot;&gt;What&#039;s In Your Facebook Ads?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A look at Facebook&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/ads/create/&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Create an Ad&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt; page inspired an experiment. Facebook lets advertisers aim their messages at people in certain places or age ranges, but also at those who have particular keywords in their profiles. I realized I had posted almost no information about my favorite bands, hobbies and so forth, making it hard for anyone to target me. So I beefed up my profile with a keyword bonanza: Surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding, knitting, cooking, Xbox, Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter and so forth. (Keywords are for experimental use only and do not reflect actual interests. Except maybe Star Wars.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This produced some quick changes. Among other customized ads, I started getting the surfing- and cooking-themed campaigns shown above. In fact, foodies seem to be a big target for Facebook advertisers. But there were still plenty of junkier ads, like the Oprah one, which would seem to violate Facebook&amp;rsquo;s policy regarding the need for some connection between the image and the product being advertised. Unless Oprah is in need of debt relief.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;So this begs the question: Why do this in such an oblique way? Why not ask Facebook users to state, explicitly, through keywords and other cues, as to what they would like to hear offers about?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so I am a foodie. I would like to receive come ons about food, like premium meats, new restaurants, and the like. I could restrict to certain geographies, certain cuisines, whatever. I could set limits in other inventive ways, like &#039;only show me restaurant offers on places in lower manhattan rated very good and above.&#039; Yes, I want coupons, and discount codes, and invitations to happy hour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why all the subterfuge, sneaking around in the conversations I have with people, instead of just letting me set things up to make better proposals? Yes, by all means use my social network in smart ways, like &#039;rate ads passed along by my friends as twice as interesting as those with no recommendations&#039;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why can&#039;t ads -- good ones, ones that actually offer value for possessing them, like discounts or exclusive time-limited offers -- become social objects that increase in value by being passed around? Why can&#039;t discounts increase, for example, when many of my friends pass the same offer along to me?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Special offer today from Bottle Rocket: 15 of your friends have recommended Las Rocas de San Alejandro Garnacha 2008: that&#039;s a 15% discount for you!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why is Facebook so old school? Why can&#039;t they seem to be able to innovate in this area? Make the sharing explicit and give people simple direct incentives to share with each other. Social advertising is inevitable, but maybe not on Facebeek.&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:52:03 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/facebook-ads-why-such-an-oblique-approach-instead-of-social.html</link><guid>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/facebook-ads-why-such-an-oblique-approach-instead-of-social.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Patent Law Choking Innovation</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;full-image-block ssNonEditable&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/03/03/technology/bits-suepatent2/bits-suepatent2-blogSpan.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1267715037924&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Nick Bilton, &lt;a href=&quot;http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/an-explosion-of-mobile-patent-lawsuits/&quot;&gt;An Explosion of Mobile Patent Lawsuits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Within the last year, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/technology/companies/09apple.html&quot;&gt;Apple was sued&lt;/a&gt; by the Taiwanese company Elan Microelectronics over alleged infringement of touch-screen patents. Nokia went on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/technology/companies/21iht-nokia.html&quot;&gt;lawsuit spree&lt;/a&gt;, suing Apple, Samsung, LG and a variety of other mobile handset companies. Kodak sued several&amp;nbsp; companies over patents related to the companies&amp;rsquo; digital-imaging technology.&amp;nbsp;And on Wednesday, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/technology/03patent.html/&quot;&gt;Apple sued&lt;/a&gt; HTC, the Taiwanese handset maker.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although patent litigation is not new in the technology world, these suits, specifically around mobile, point to the drastically changing mobile landscape. Lawyers I spoke with explained that mobile technology was still in its infancy and these large computing companies were trying to stake their claim to the future of computing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Worst of all are the &#039;patent trolls&#039;, companies that buy patent with no intention of using them, but only to make money though suits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like selling complex financial instruments to governments and betting against their currencies. Parasites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our society has enacted laws for the benefit of the whole, including inventors, so that investments can be made and recouped. But when these laws are used to choke off innovation we are allowing oursleves to be harmed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We need to rework patent law so that those that wish to be protected by our common agreement to not copy patented ideas and processes cede some degree of ownership -- perhaps slowly increasing -- into a common pool of ownership. If Apple or HTC wish the American judicial system to recognize a patent on touch screen technology, we would exchange that for 5% ownership of the patent per year. After 20 years, the US patent would be &#039;owned&#039; by the US Patent Commons, which would release the patent to the world. And at the point that a majority ownership of the patent rights were under the control of the patent commons, we could license them to others even if Apple objected. This would mean the parochial interests of a single company -- perhaps even a single individual -- could block innovation that might benefit the world.&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:03:09 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/patent-law-choking-innovation.html</link><guid>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/patent-law-choking-innovation.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Life Laid Bare</title><description>&lt;p&gt;File under &#039;technology bound to make it&#039;s way into augmented reality&#039;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Rik Fairle, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/pentax-toughens-its-rugged-camera/?ref=todayspaper&quot;&gt;Pentax Toughens It Rugged Camera&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s a new trick that several vendors have added this year. In addition to face-recognition technology that can register as many as 32 faces, the [Pentax camera model] W90 includes new pet recognition that can recognize and enhance images of up to three preprogrammed faces of dogs and cats. You can set the camera to automatically snap the shutter when the pet turns its face toward the camera.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am personally more interested in people, but imagine walking through the park and being able to recognize Skippy and Beulah as they are walked by Carla Simon, the pretty girl in 48-D, all courtesy of Pentax glasses model ARP-120.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;full-image-block ssNonEditable&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;width: 700px;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/storage/carla%20skippy%20and%20beulah.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1267713129058&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;photo by Ed Yourdon&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Life and identity will be laid bare in a world of augmented publicy, like a drawing from David Macauley&#039;s &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Underground&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which reveals the complexities of the infrastructure below our feet, under the pavements and buildings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;full-image-block ssNonEditable&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/storage/underground.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1267711798611&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps like a scientific illustration of some living thing?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;full-image-block ssNonEditable&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;width: 600px;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/storage/Oettl Johann Nepomuk 1857 Klaus der Bienenvater aus Bhmen.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1267713520186&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&#039;Klaus, der Bienenvater aus B&amp;ouml;hmen&#039; by Johann Nepomuk Oettl, 1857.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We can&#039;t help but be changed by an augmented understanding of the world and our relationship to others. I continue to think the impacts of this will be largely benign, but in the hands of a police state this could become Orwellian.&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:01:24 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/life-laid-bare.html</link><guid>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/life-laid-bare.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>An Open Global Village</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I was rocked back on my heels when I read a Maureen Dowd &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/opinion/03dowd.html&quot;&gt;column yesterday&lt;/a&gt;. She has recently visited Saudi Arabia, and in discussions with the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal about the changes coming in the near future of that country&#039;s liberalization. After talking about women&#039;s role in the future Saudi Arabia -- there are female lawyers there, now, albeit in a very limited role, and Saud looks ahead to a time when women would drive cars -- she turned the discussion to technology:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I asked if technology &amp;mdash; Saudis love their cells, Berries and computers, and Bluetooth flirting is rampant in malls &amp;mdash; would pry open the obsessively private kingdom.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Privacy in the modern world is a relative term,&amp;rdquo; he replied. &amp;ldquo;How can you have privacy when you have the computer, Twitter and all the others? It is just part of the complications and difficulties of modern life.&amp;rdquo; (He and the king have never Twittered.) People now, he mused, sounding like a Saudi Garbo, just &amp;ldquo;have to worry about how to be alone.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Saud might have been the foreign minister of a western democracy, or the CEO of an American company. BUt here we have a Prince of Araby, a major leader in an Islamic, closed society, discussing the rise of publicy in an open web.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I bet that enormous societal change is coming, because once bluetooth flirting starts, and the foreign minister is talking about Twitter&#039;s impacts on the foundations of privacy, the global village is not far behind. No society can long withstand the lures and promise of an open web.&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:36:20 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/an-open-global-village.html</link><guid>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/an-open-global-village.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Pitching a BarCamp Sponsor</title><description>The movie explains what usually happens if a  barcamp organizer pitches a new barcamp sponsor.Wenn ich jemals ein Déjà-vu hatte, dann ist es das. Ein Gespräch, das ich schon hunderte mal geführt habe &amp;#8211; im gleichen Wortlaut. Jeder der schon mal auf Sponsorensuche für ein BarCamp war, wird jetzt unter dem Tisch liegen.Gefunden bei ...</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:53:52 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1537</link><guid>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1537</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Spolsky Blogicide Note Has Great Advice, And Bad</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Embedded in a deeply ambivalent post in which he announces the end of his blogging, Joel Spolsky distills great advice from Kathy Sierra on the topic of... blogging... which he is quitting to grow his business. Hmm.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, first, let&#039;s look at the advice from the incomparable Sierra, as channeled by Spolsky:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100301/lets-take-this-offline.html&quot;&gt;Let&#039;s Take This Offline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, what&#039;s the formula for a blog that actually generates leads, sales, and business success? I didn&#039;t even understand it myself until last year at the Business of Software conference, when one of the speakers, a well-known game developer and author named &lt;a class=&quot;informlink&quot; title=&quot;Kathy Sierra&quot; href=&quot;http://www.inc.com/topic/Kathy+Sierra&quot;&gt;Kathy Sierra&lt;/a&gt;, blew me away with an incredibly simple idea that explains why my blog successfully promoted my company while so many other blogging founders foundered.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To really work, Sierra observed, an entrepreneur&#039;s blog has to be about something &lt;em&gt;bigger&lt;/em&gt; than his or her company and his or her product. This sounds simple, but it isn&#039;t. It takes real discipline to not talk about yourself and your company. Blogging as a medium seems so personal, and often it is. But when you&#039;re using a blog to promote a business, that blog can&#039;t be about &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;, Sierra said. It has to be about your readers, who will, it&#039;s hoped, become your customers. It has to be about making &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt; awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, for example, if you&#039;re selling a clever attachment to a camera that diffuses harsh flash light, don&#039;t talk about the technical features or about your holiday sale (10 percent off!). Make a list of 10 tips for being a better photographer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you&#039;re opening a restaurant, don&#039;t blog about your menu. Blog about great food. You&#039;ll attract foodies who don&#039;t care about your restaurant yet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you make superior, single-source chocolate, don&#039;t write about that great trip you took to the &lt;a class=&quot;informlink&quot; title=&quot;Dominican Republic&quot; href=&quot;http://www.inc.com/topic/Dominican+Republic&quot;&gt;Dominican Republic&lt;/a&gt; to source cocoa beans. That&#039;s all about you. Instead, write the definitive article about making chocolate-covered strawberries. For the next 10 years, whenever a gourmand or a baker searches &lt;a class=&quot;informlink&quot; title=&quot;Google Inc.&quot; href=&quot;http://www.inc.com/topic/Google+Inc.&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; for a recipe on how to make chocolate-covered strawberries, he or she will find your post. Helping your users make awesome chocolate-based confections is likely to attract readers who might buy fancy chocolate, and that&#039;s the point of a successful blog. Writing about trips to the Dominican Republic is going to attract only people who might want to travel to the Dominican Republic. Unless you&#039;re selling that, you shouldn&#039;t be blogging about it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;But then, if you are successful at attracting foodies, or camera afficianados, or programmers, invest ten years and then quit?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am at ten years and counting too. I started blogging in 1999, and with only a few hiccups along the way, have kept at it ever since. It is certainly not for everyone, and Spolsky is right when he says that most corporate blogs stink.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Writing is very hard, and writing well is incomparably hard. It is unlike other business challenges or work. It&#039;s not like writing emails, or planning, or hiring, or selling. And it has the negative characteristic of demanding a great deal of time. And it is a largely solitary pursuit that takes you away from others, like most forms of creativity. (See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/1/10/the-costs-of-being-a-creative.html&quot;&gt;The Costs Of Being A Creative&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am betting that Spolsky has simply run out of time. His company has grown to 30+, and he is imbedded in nearly every process of the business, I bet, every product line. I don&#039;t know him, but it sounds like he has thrown himself into a plan to aggressively dedicate himself to the business, and to perhaps emulate the secrecy of Steve Jobs and Apple in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He is after a different sort of role for himself, the CEO of a much bigger, more closed company.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think he is chasing the past, though. That there is a place for a CEO to continue to chase a bigger, more open dream, like Tim O&#039;Reilly and Craig Newmark have done.&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:24:50 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/spolsky-blogicide-note-has-great-advice-and-bad.html</link><guid>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/spolsky-blogicide-note-has-great-advice-and-bad.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Yammer: Giant Step Or Misstep?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;A week ago, Yammer released a big upgrade to their &#039;Twitter for the Enterprise&#039; solution. But in a very strange way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They have introduced something called &#039;Communities&#039; which are intended to complement their existing corporate accounts. But they way they work is confusing. Or at least I am confused.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The original model for Yammer still stands for people who want to create a Yammer network for people sharing a corporate email domain. For example, I created a domain for &#039;Edgewards.com&#039; a year ago. To join, people have to have an email account in that mail domain. And following the Get Satisfaction model, anyone with a corporate account can join, and the company can choose to claim the account later, and become the administrator of the system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, the Yammer baseline model is a perplexing mix of open and closed. People don&#039;t have to be explicitly invited to join, but they have to possess a valid corporate email address, which means thay have to have been admitted to that email group. So it is actually closed. But if you are the proud possessor of a harvard.edu email address, it might feel like an open experience to join the Yammer group associated made up of current and past students of Harvard University.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, they have created a wrinkle. Any user can create &#039;communities&#039; where those invited do not necessarily share a company email domain. In principle, this would allow a business to create working groups involving consultants, partners, clients, whoever.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;full-image-block ssNonEditable&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;width: 500px;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/storage/yammer stammer1?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1267629822331&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The UI allows the creator to pass along the adminstration right of being able to invite new members to everyone, if they wish. That&#039;s not confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is confusing is that the heading says I am creating a network, when I clicked on a tab to create a community. I thought what I had before -- with the Edgewards.com domain -- was a network.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It turns out that the &#039;community&#039; is actually just another network, with slightly relaxed invitation options. All networks and communities show up on a pull-down list that allows me to switch from context to context very easily, using the same login identity: an identity initially created in a network, or by being invited to a community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If this confuses you a bit, Yammer won&#039;t help much, because there is nothing written up in the help system about any of this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And then there is a secong point of confusion, or maybe annoyance. Yammer is displaying a checklist of tasks that they suggest I undertake to complete the set-up of my new community:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;full-image-block ssNonEditable&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;width: 500px;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/storage/yammer%20stammer2.png?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1267630701181&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was momentarily excited to see that Yammer had implemented tasks! See the to-do list&#039;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But it&#039;s not true. It&#039;s some narrowly defined approach to making me go through a small number of predefined items on a fixed checklist. There is no way for me to add tasks, assign them to people, check status, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Isn&#039;t that one of the most basic ideas in the coordination of work? Without that, I don&#039;t know why I would even use a tool like Yammer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, this release of Yammer seems more of a misstep than a giant step. I am sure that communities have eben widely asked for, but the lack of explanation and the confation with networks is problematic. And I still need tasks to get anything done in work-oriented networks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(hat tip to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.martijnlinssen.com/2010/03/from-closed-to-open-yammer-180s-entire.html#comment-form&quot;&gt;Martijn Linssen&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:58:58 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/yammer-giant-step-or-misstep.html</link><guid>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/yammer-giant-step-or-misstep.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>I Missed My Fifteen Minutes</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, apparently, the uploaded presentation I had given for the NYC AIIM chapter was briefly popular on Slideshare:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;via email&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/stoweboyd/the-new-web-social-realtime-and-mobile&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The New Web: Social, Real-Time, And Mobile&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is being tweeted more than any other document on SlideShare right now. So we&#039;ve put it on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/#hot-on-twitter&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;homepage of SlideShare.net (in the &quot;Hot on Twitter&quot; section)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;By the time I went to look at it, it had marched off the list into obscurity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:47:39 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/i-missed-my-fifteen-minutes.html</link><guid>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/i-missed-my-fifteen-minutes.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Can you help design the future?</title><description>I&#039;ve been lucky enough to bag myself a place at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://somesso.com/london10/agenda/&quot;&gt;SOMESSO / Headshift Social Business Summit&lt;/a&gt; in London on March 18.&lt;br /&gt;Places are limited to 100 and keynote speakers include &lt;a href=&quot;http://somesso.com/london10/speakers/#jeff-dachis&quot;&gt;Jeff Dachis&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.twitter.com/jobsworth&quot;&gt;JP Rangaswami&lt;/a&gt;. It&#039;s very much not just a passive consumption event though. Attendees are expected to help design the future.&lt;br /&gt;If you&#039;d like to join us, I do have a limited number of discount codes available to distribute.&lt;br /&gt;To get one, drop me an email (davidpcushman AT gmail DOT com) and - if you don&#039;t feel I know you already - outline why you think you should be there.&lt;br /&gt;See you on March 18.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you&#039;re US-based, can I point you at an event which &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ninety10group.com/&quot;&gt;Ninety Ten&lt;/a&gt; (the company I work for) is supporting in New York on April 19: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edgewards.com/sbe/2010/1/11/announcing-social-business-edge.html&quot;&gt;Social Business Edge&lt;/a&gt;. It&#039;s run by &lt;a href=&quot;http://ninety10group.com/&quot;&gt;90:10&lt;/a&gt; collaborator &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/&quot;&gt;Stowe Boyd&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if you&#039;ve got your social biz thinking cap on, please consider submitting a nominee for the latest round of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/03/nominate-social-business-innovator.html&quot;&gt;Social Business Innovation Awards&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-6692491463546596754?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:03:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/03/can-you-help-design-future.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/03/can-you-help-design-future.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Angry of Percy Street</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3428/3934149502_1d6696c44e.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 419px; height: 282px;&quot; src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3428/3934149502_1d6696c44e.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I&#039;m fuming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#039;ve just wasted more than an hour on a call which could have lasted 30 seconds. If the caller had been upfront and honest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An organisation called me because they had been &#039;given my name&#039; in association with my work with &lt;a href=&quot;http://ninety10group.com/&quot;&gt;NinetyTen&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline&quot;&gt;CitizensOnline&lt;/a&gt; (at least that&#039;s what they &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;said&lt;/span&gt;). They felt we should be introduced to senior people in the UK Government to help effect change after the next election.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They asked questions about what I/we do. They listened carefully as I outlined the impact of the network on every aspect of our lives - and how what we do focuses on creating new efficiencies through social technologies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They asked how we could see ourselves and our services fitting in with local government and national government requirements and processes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And when I asked what they needed from us they said a 650-word document about what we do, to place in front of Public Sector commissioners (the people with the purse strings).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It would be part of a book (a page in fact) guiding these commissioners in what needs to change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh - and that&#039;ll cost me £3995.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stunned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#039;m angry &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;font-size:85%;&quot; &gt;(image by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/darrenhester/&quot;&gt;darrenhester)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for a number of reasons:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;1. I feel like a fool. I feel fooled.&lt;/span&gt; I was (mis)led on to believe there was genuine interest among senior government officials in trying to make sense of the power of collaboration, of &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-make-more-pegs-more-round-more.html&quot;&gt;wikifixing&lt;/a&gt;, of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-does-it-mean-to-be-platform.html&quot;&gt;platform approach to the organisation&lt;/a&gt;. In fact I was being asked to buy an advertorial. A 650-word listing. The whole approach was disingenuous and as far from transparent as I ever want to try to see through.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;2. This is no way to serve the &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community&quot; title=&quot;Community&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot;&gt;community&lt;/a&gt; of commissioners&lt;/span&gt; this content is intended for. Serving the community FIRST is a guiding principle in media for me. To do this you get the best, most relevant content you can get from all sources, rivals included. Certainly NOT JUST FROM THOSE WHO WILL PAY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;3. As a UK taxpayer, I&#039;m concerned at the implication&lt;/span&gt; from the vendors of this listing that commissioners will spend public money based on a company&#039;s appearance (or otherwise) on a paid-for listing (you say &#039;book&#039;, I say ad listing.) Any UK &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sector&quot; title=&quot;Public sector&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot;&gt;public sector&lt;/a&gt; commissioners that does should be shown the door for both negligence and incompetence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the record, those of you with an interest in public sector (particularly commissioners), a number of 90:10 consultants have deep experience of working with UK Governments at both national and local level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We use listening technologies to discover people who care about issues and use social tools to bring them together and surface their concerns to enable improved efficiencies in the production, marketing and delivery of products and services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We don&#039;t need to appear on a paid-for list to tell you that. If you&#039;d like to know how we can help you, give us a call, drop us an email, let&#039;s meet face to face. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ninety10group.com/&quot;&gt;Ninety Ten&lt;/a&gt; awaits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just don&#039;t expect us to show up in a book sent to you free any time soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tip for everyone else on planet earth: If you are expecting me to pay to create your content say so right up front. It&#039;ll save us both a lot of time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tonyscott.org.uk/2010/02/08/i-went-to-ukgovcamp-2010/&quot;&gt;I went to UKGovCamp 2010&lt;/a&gt; (tonyscott.org.uk)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn/news/2258676/analyst-tory-win-herald&quot;&gt;Analyst: Tory win would herald IT spending cuts&lt;/a&gt; (channelweb.co.uk)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://r.zemanta.com/?u=http%3A//www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/17/outsourcing-boom-as-cuts-bite&amp;amp;a=13154880&amp;amp;rid=3221cb55-aee3-4ec3-a531-23d519c83f06&amp;amp;e=80cf16481a2361d0c36ce1a3d7e5e6ab&quot;&gt;Boom times for outsourcing firms as public sector cuts bite&lt;/a&gt; (guardian.co.uk)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techmeme.com/100121/p2&quot;&gt;Tim Berners-Lee unveils government data project (BBC)&lt;/a&gt; (techmeme.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/3221cb55-aee3-4ec3-a531-23d519c83f06/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: medium none ; float: right;&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=3221cb55-aee3-4ec3-a531-23d519c83f06&quot; alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; defer=&quot;defer&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-6832679424780578851?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:19:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/03/angry-of-percy-street.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/03/angry-of-percy-street.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Nominate a social business innovator</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S4zXaEkJ80I/AAAAAAAAD6k/7FPn1R-hJNQ/s1600-h/socbiznomineefeb2010.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 236px;&quot; src=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S4zXaEkJ80I/AAAAAAAAD6k/7FPn1R-hJNQ/s320/socbiznomineefeb2010.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443962892486046530&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It&#039;s March. So it must be time for the next (the second!) monthly Social Business Innovation Award.&lt;br /&gt;And, just as last month, they can&#039;t happen without you.&lt;br /&gt;Right now we need to work together on nominations; making them and attracting suggestions from others.  Later in the month we&#039;ll need to join together to vote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/social-business-innovation-awards-jan.html&quot;&gt;Last month&lt;/a&gt; found a worthy winner in BusinessCard2.0.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This month let&#039;s focus on businesses and organisations which have created,, or significantly improved, their products or services using digital social tools - from forums, microblogs, blogs and ideas platforms to &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network&quot; title=&quot;Social network&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot;&gt;social networks&lt;/a&gt;, email and &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS&quot; title=&quot;SMS&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot;&gt;SMS&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As last month, please nominate, with any relevant links, by posting a comment below.&lt;br /&gt;Those that appear in the final nominees list will be entitled to display the badge you see here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please call on your friends to join in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;What are these awards all about?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Social business innovation: Efficiency and tranformation through the use of social tools.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have the best set of tools in history for people to find each other and act together to create and improve on the things that matter to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are we doing with them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some businesses and organisations are grasping them to &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/search?q=wikifix&quot;&gt;wikifix&lt;/a&gt; their products and services, to deliver best-fit &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_and_development&quot; title=&quot;Research and development&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot;&gt;R&amp;amp;D&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_product_development&quot; title=&quot;New product development&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot;&gt;NPD&lt;/a&gt; and join in waste-free people-powered communications and marketing. &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2009/12/2020-vision.html&quot;&gt;The wikifixing of the world has begun&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those engaging in the process reach new levels of efficiency thanks to an ever-better fit with the needs of their partners - those formerly known as the customer. &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;(By way of disclosure, that&#039;s what we at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ninety10group.com/&quot; style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;90:10 Group &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;help organisations with)&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you will join with me to celebrate the best of them - and through this find a path to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2008/04/communities-of-purpose-are-business.html&quot;&gt;communities-of-purpose&lt;/a&gt;-driven &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2009/12/role-of-21st-century-organisation.html&quot;&gt;future of the organisation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So each month this blog will host a Social Business Innovation of The Month award, nominated by you and voted on by you. The format is very much inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://neilperkin.typepad.com/only_dead_fish/2010/01/post-of-the-month-december-09-the-vote.html&quot;&gt;Neil Perkin&#039;s ThinkTank&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The awards are to recognise great work in open/social business/organisational design/innovation/tranformation/efficiency using social technologies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The winners will enter a case-study Hall of Fame to be shared with all - and in which the winners can revel in the glory of their peers&#039; admiration ;-). More importantly, we can all get inspiration and guidance.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/01/announcing-social-business-innovation.html&quot;&gt;Announcing: Social Business Innovation Awards&lt;/a&gt; (fasterfuture.blogspot.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2010/01/social-business-innovation-awards.html&quot;&gt;Social Business Innovation Awards&lt;/a&gt; (stoweboyd.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/02/prweb3608894.htm&quot;&gt;BusinessCard2 Wins Social Business Innovation Award&lt;/a&gt; (prweb.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/06aff581-767f-4100-99b3-3b344899c5be/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: medium none ; float: right;&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=06aff581-767f-4100-99b3-3b344899c5be&quot; alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; defer=&quot;defer&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-7318043883866841308?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:57:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/03/nominate-social-business-innovator.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/03/nominate-social-business-innovator.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>First Gestures At True/Slant, And A Messifesto</title><description>&lt;p&gt;The first evidence of my participation at the True/Slant content news network:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://files.droplr.com/files/10178/vjE4Y.Screen%20shot%202010-03-01%20at%2011:03:29.png&quot; alt=&quot;http://files.droplr.com/files/10178/vjE4Y.Screen%20shot%202010-03-01%20at%2011:03:29.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am going to be writing about the exploding New York technology scene and related topics in a new blog at True/Slant. I am not sure of the title, but I like the &#039;greenhouse&#039; metaphor. I am looking for suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;About the beat: I am obviously intrigued with the NYC tech scene. That&#039;s why I left San Francisco for New York. The ingredients needed for deep innovation in technology have always been in place for NYC, except maybe smart investors, and in the last few years, Fred Wilson, John Borthwick, and a growing mob of really smart and innovative early stage investors have appeared on the New York scene. That seemes to have been the tipping point, and things are now coming together. But it has to be more than a few far-sighted investors, so I want to dig into the social underpinnnings of this milieu and relate the stories.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I will continue to write what I have been writing here, and what I write there should be complementary and not duplicative, although I might cross post once in a while.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, no, it&#039;s not true that I am working with them because there is a slash in the site&#039;s name. Those are lies spread by my enemies.&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:04:25 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/first-gestures-at-trueslant-and-a-messifesto.html</link><guid>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/first-gestures-at-trueslant-and-a-messifesto.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>The Death of Advertising – Media owners time to innovate</title><description>David Cushman and I recently attended OMEXPO in Madrid to present &amp;#8216;The Death of Advertising&amp;#8217; to the Spanish digital industry (Powerpoint below). What we are getting at is that we believe all the energy put into making the way ads are delivered online better hasn&amp;#8217;t led to much value for either the user, the advertiser ...&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=socialglue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5442617&amp;post=241&amp;subd=socialglue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1&quot; /&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:57:09 +0000</pubDate><link>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/the-death-of-advertising-media-owners-time-to-innovate/</link><guid>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/the-death-of-advertising-media-owners-time-to-innovate/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>90:10 France se désiste de Paris 2.0…</title><description>La blogosphère a parlé, nous avons écouté, et après mûre réflexion finalement décidé de ne pas participer à Paris 2.0, un évènement qui avait pourtant l’air prometteur.Je suis sûre que vous avez tous vu les nombreux articles à ce sujet publiés dans la blogosphère française&amp;#8230;En ce qui nous concerne, ce n’est que partie remise, et ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:55:19 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/2wx185kSMT8/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/2wx185kSMT8/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Time to end the failed experiment of advertising</title><description>As promised, here&#039;s the slidedeck &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/jamie247&quot;&gt;Jamie Burke&lt;/a&gt; and I presented in Madrid last week. By way of disclosure we were in Madrid for the official launch of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ninety10group.com/es&quot;&gt;90:10 Spain&lt;/a&gt; - and took the opportunity to present our thinking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://omexpo.com/madrid/2010/&quot;&gt;OMEXPO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The slides ask the question, if advertising didn&#039;t exist today, would you reinvent it? We think too much digital tech, innovation and effort has been focused on making a better message when what is better for &lt;i&gt;all &lt;/i&gt;parties is that we should work together on making better things.&lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-does-it-mean-to-be-platform.html&quot;&gt;Platform thinking&lt;/a&gt; that delivers value innovation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#039;s time time to end the insanity of repeating the failed experiment of advertising. Time to start creating platforms for change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video will follow later this week... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;__ss_3304801&quot; style=&quot;width: 425px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;display: block; margin: 12px 0pt 4px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/davidcushman/the-death-of-advertising-omexpo-madrid-2010&quot; title=&quot;The Death Of Advertising: Omexpo Madrid 2010&quot;&gt;The Death Of Advertising: Omexpo Madrid 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;355&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=forslidesharethedeathofadvertisingomexpo2010-100301053058-phpapp01&amp;amp;stripped_title=the-death-of-advertising-omexpo-madrid-2010&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;/&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;/&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=forslidesharethedeathofadvertisingomexpo2010-100301053058-phpapp01&amp;amp;stripped_title=the-death-of-advertising-omexpo-madrid-2010&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;padding: 5px 0pt 12px;&quot;&gt;View more &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/&quot;&gt;presentations&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/davidcushman&quot;&gt;david cushman&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;h6 class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt;&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-advertising-didnt-exist-would-you.html&quot;&gt;If advertising didn&#039;t exist would you feel the need to invent it?&lt;/a&gt; (fasterfuture.blogspot.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/we-want-more-than-incrementally-better.html&quot;&gt;We want more than incrementally better messages&lt;/a&gt; (fasterfuture.blogspot.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smlxtralarge.com/2009/11/04/9010-a-company-purpose-built-for-the-networked-society/&quot;&gt;90:10 a company purpose built for the networked society&lt;/a&gt; (smlxtralarge.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://herd.typepad.com/herd_the_hidden_truth_abo/2009/12/bumble-and-the-human-voice.html&quot;&gt;Bumble and the human voice&lt;/a&gt; (herd.typepad.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/6085be62-2005-4685-b7d3-ada63ea5dd26/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=6085be62-2005-4685-b7d3-ada63ea5dd26&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script defer=&quot;defer&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-4592270737755896043?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:51:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/03/time-to-end-failed-experiment-of.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/03/time-to-end-failed-experiment-of.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Google Facts And Figures – Infographic</title><description>&amp;#160;&amp;#160;             More&amp;#160;&amp;#187;</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:43:50 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/mRzhc9M2SkE/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/mRzhc9M2SkE/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>What Lies Beneath</title><description>&amp;#8211;Today in the Sunday Times there was an article about ITV advertising revenue growing by 18%.Almost at the end of the article was mention of the CEO hitting the cost saving targets.In the same way as we must differentiate revenue (vanity) from profit (sanity), we must ensure that financial growth is specified in terms of ...</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:56:45 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/jkZDo-fxuUc/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/jkZDo-fxuUc/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Privacy Is Old</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Lohr says our approaches to online privacy are no good, but the experimental alternatives he mentions are at best mildly interesting, but don&#039;t seem to be strong in any way:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Steve Lohr, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/technology/internet/28unbox.html?sudsredirect=true&quot;&gt;&lt;a&gt;Redrawing the Route to Online Privacy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the Internet, things get old fast. One prime candidate for the digital dustbin, it seems, is the current approach to protecting privacy on the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;articleInline&quot; class=&quot;inlineLeft&quot;&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;inlineBox&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;jumpLink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/technology/internet/28unbox.html?sudsredirect=true#secondParagraph&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;image&quot;&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;caption&quot;&gt;Lorrie Faith Cranor supports developing &amp;ldquo;privacy nudges,&amp;rdquo; like short on-screen messages that remind users of the implications of data they&#039;re about to send.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is an artifact of the 1990s, intended as a light-touch policy to nurture innovation in an emerging industry. And its central concept is &amp;ldquo;notice and choice,&amp;rdquo; in which Web sites post notices of their privacy policies and users can then make choices about sites they frequent and the levels of privacy they prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But policy and privacy experts agree that the relentless rise of Internet data harvesting has overrun the old approach of using lengthy written notices to safeguard privacy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These statements are rarely read, are often confusing and can&amp;rsquo;t hope to capture the complexity of modern data-handling practices. As a result, experts say, consumers typically have little meaningful choice about the online use of their personal information &amp;mdash; whether their birth dates, addresses, credit card numbers or Web-browsing habits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;There are essentially no defenders anymore of the pure notice-and-choice model,&amp;rdquo; said Daniel J. Weitzner, a senior policy official at the &lt;a title=&quot;Administration&amp;rsquo;s Web site.&quot; href=&quot;http://www.ntia.doc.gov/&quot;&gt;National Telecommunications and Information Administration&lt;/a&gt; of the Commerce Department. &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s no longer adequate.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have to break with the old, and start with a redefinition of the frame we are using to think about these issues. We need to think about publicy, not privacy.&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:29:57 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/privacy-is-old.html</link><guid>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/privacy-is-old.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Operational Publicy</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Jeff Jarvis was nearly marooned due to the recent storm in the Northeast, but thi sled him to a new insight about the powerful opportunities for business through operational publicy: simply publishing what used to be private.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Jeff Jarvis, Operaitonal Transparency&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am in Tampa waiting to fly back home to New Jersey and, thanks to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/02/snowicane_--_wh.php&quot;&gt;snowicane&lt;/a&gt; but rather than sitting in the usual information vacuum to which airlines subject us, I am watching as Continental shows us the status of the flights that were supposed to bring our jet in from LA to Cleveland to Newark to Tampa. I saw the flight to Cleveland canceled, then the one to Newark canceled, and I figured we were doomed when I saw the aircraft number for my flight erased. But then I saw us assigned a new jet, one that flew into Tampa from Houston last night.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;rsquo;s simply amazing. Continental is practicing operational transparency. It opened up information is [it] already has to us, the customers, so we can be informed and empowered. This way, I&amp;rsquo;m not cursing the airline and its employees. I&amp;rsquo;m well aware that our flight might be canceled and that&amp;rsquo;s entirely out of Continental&amp;rsquo;s control, so I wouldn&amp;rsquo;t blame them. But every time this has happened in the past, I hated being in the dark; I hated being lied to by airlines; I simply want more information. And now an airline is giving it to me. Bravo for Continental.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What information does your company have that you can and should share with your customers?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jeff published a link to Continental Airlines Flight Status and Information page, which does not show the page as he saw it. I wish he had created a screen capture, instead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But even without the eye candy, the idea is striking. How much of a transformation can be ushered in simply by exposing information to people that matters to them given the situation. And I am not talking about trivial examples, like waiting on hold when calling a customer support line and being told &#039;average wait time is under 5 minutes.&#039;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Consider consumer examples, like the current status of your car repair after a collision.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or at a local governmental level, a personal example: I would have liked to have known when the county was planning to plow my street after the recent snowmageddon. As it was, I walked out one morning to take my mother to a doctor&#039;s appointment, and the plows came down the street and blocked my driveway with almost 4 feet of slushy, heavy snow. It took 20 minutes to clear a path for the cat, and they came around again, and would have plowed me in a second time if I hadn&#039;t asked them to wait long enought to get the car -- and my mother -- out. If they published the schedule -- even in real-time, based on where the trucks were -- I would have left a few minutes early and avoided this hassle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On a business basis, imagine the level of publicy in your internal processes for partners and clients: shouldn&#039;t things be as open as UPS shipping status? Or as Continental&#039;s flight status information?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some industries seems to thrive on this sort of publicy, like street food vendors, or at least the best ones. They are constantly alerting their customers about where they are headed, what&#039;s on the menu, and when they plan to arrive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Businesses should simply aspire to be as public as &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/schnitzeltruck&quot;&gt;@Schnitzeltruck&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:56:15 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/operational-publicy.html</link><guid>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/operational-publicy.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Yet Another Earthquake: The Pressing Need For Emergency Codes</title><description>&lt;p&gt;During the Haitian Earthquakes first frightening days, the web world reacted in nearly instinctive fashion, clamoring for help, money, and technological approaches to mobilizing. The world&#039;s larger response led to emergency crews trying to assist, doctors and nurses working in makeshift hospitals, and people the world over sending money and emergency supplies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even so, the devastation was unimaginable. And the Haitian people are in a terrible state, and likely to be facing years of rebuilding and healing. Hundreds of thousands are dead, and millions have been injured or grieving for loved ones.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We cannot predict disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, and tornadoes, but we can do a much better job of coordinating our responses, and the natural communication that accompanies these disasters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A number of approaches have been developed in recent months for trying to structure messages in Twitter to better relay emergency needs or requests. Many of these are based on the now commonly used hashtag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My perspective is that hashtags are not really an appropriate way to encode complex information in Twitter or other streams of communication. In everyday use, hashtags are used to indicate the theme or topic of a tweet. They are not used to denote different parts of the tweet, they way that prepositions are used in natural language, for example. And perhaps worst of all, hashtags are based on natural language words or acronyms. So hashtags like &#039;#have&#039; or &#039;#need&#039; are understandable only to those who read English.languages. A disaster in Dagestan (a Russian republic on the Caspian Sea) might involve 15 or more language groups, with Russian being one of the smallest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I read a piece in the New York Times recently that included a map of the most likely danger spots for catastrophic earthquakes. Here&#039;s a map:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;full-image-block ssNonEditable&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;width: 600px;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/storage/sub-instanbul2-custom2.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1267280259988&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt; &lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Sources: Koeri-Bogazici University, Istanbul (Istanbul analysis); Center for International Earth Science Information Network  and Center for Hazards and Risk Research, Earth Institute at Columbia University. Via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/24/world/20100224-quake-map.html&quot;&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I studied linguistics in college, and I estimate that at least 50 languages are used in these areas by hundreds of millions of people. Spanish, Creole Friench, and various Native Amercian languages in South America are dwarfed by the Asian and Indonesian languages. Arabic, Mandarin, Hindi, Urdu, and other widely known major languages are involved, but most Amercians can&#039;t even come up with the name of the national language of Indonesian -- Bahasa Indonesia -- which is spoken by around 200 million people there. It is the fourth most populous nation on earth, and an earthquake like the one that shook haiti to pieces could kill millions there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My point is that we should develop a better way to transmit messages related to emergencies, and it should not be based on natural language keywords, which is what hashtag-based approaches do. A better microsyntax should be developed, using only common special characters, as we do with commas, apostrophes, and question marks in written language.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;People have been using hashtags because 1/ they are fairly well understood, and 2/ they are supported in an obvious way by Twitter search and other search tools.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, we should push ahead with a better approach and build tools to support it. That support might include adopt by Twitter and other tool vendors to support the use of these emergency codes in a direct fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I making the following proposition: A working group of interested parties should be formed, including representatives of various emergency and charitable groups involved in disaster recovery, to collectively develop a workable approach to messaging during emergencies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I believe that such an approach has to have several characteristics:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;A workable approach cannot be based on keywords that are derived from natural language, like hashtags.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The microsyntax should be distinctive, and unique: it should conflict as little as possible with other uses of punctuation, for example.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Various scenarios of use should be developed based on the experiences of those involved in disaster response and recovery to make certain that the broadest collection of use cases are covered.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Open source software to support this system should be designed and developed. This could include the development of an emergency codes server, which could be collecting emergency codes messages from Twitter and other services, in collaboration with Twitter and those services. This would potentially offload demand from the everyday services during emergencies, and allow for integration with other emergency-oriented applications. (This would also allow for blocking individuals or applications who might seek to exploit the service for spamming or outright disruption of messaging.)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;In such a model, victims, families, press, and responders could use everyday communication channels -- cell phones and PCs with Twitter clients or via SMS -- while those involved in mobilizing relief, coordinating materials and personnel, or tracking the status of people and places could be provided with specialized applications that could aggregate emergency encoded messages into a better big picture.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have proposed the outlines of a microsyntax for emergency codes (see &lt;a href=&quot;../../message/2010/1/18/disaster-microsyntax-project-epic-tweak-the-tweet-and-emerge.html&quot;&gt;Disaster Microsyntax: Project EPIC, Tweak The Tweet, And Emergency&amp;nbsp;Codes&lt;/a&gt;). It is very provisional, but has some of the characteristics needed. Here&#039;s a sample tweet, based on a hypothetical hurricane called Bette that has struck New England:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;!bette /usps, provincetown MA/ !@hassan haque: compound fracture of the lower right leg&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Emergency messages (in this proposal) start with the unambiguous &#039;!&#039; as the first character, and then the name of the disaster: naming must be undertaken by some international body. Then there is a location tag (or geoslash) indicating the US post office in Provincetown Massachusetts. Then there is some information about a specific individual, Hassan Haque, indicated by &#039;!@&#039;, and followed by a text field, indicated by &#039;:&#039;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The specifics of this proposed microsyntax for emergency codes are less important than the fact that this -- and other possible approaches -- would work just as well for Bahasa Indonesia, Spanish, or Turkish.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And the microsyntax might not be seen by the originator of the message. If I were the person in the USPS building, typing this on my iPhone, I could be using a free application that formats emergency codes, or a feature of a Twitter client to support them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In that case I might be provided with a simple form interface where I pick the sort of message -- information about a person -- and I merely key in the data: I type in location, the person&#039;s name, and the text. That app would formulate as a standard emergency code, and out it would go into the Twitter stream. The official emergency codes server would gather that and other emergency codes, and other applications would slice and dice the information to display it, make planning easier, and to serve as a repository for others. Hassan&#039;s family might access that information to find his status and location, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The crisis in Chile is another wake up call. It doesn&#039;t seem to be anything like what we have seen recently in Haiti, or what we can anticipate if we get a serious temblor in Instanbul or Jakarta. The NY Times piece I mentioned above stated that seismologists estimate that a nighttime earthquake of the sort predicted for Instanbul would lead to at least 30,000 deaths in the city, not including the surrounding countryside, and unknown levels of injured and displaced. A similar quake in Indonesia could mean 10-20 million deaths.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We should take steps now to build the system we need, instead of responding instinctively at the time of the next catastrophe.&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:59:20 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/yet-another-earthquake-the-pressing-need-for-emergency-codes.html</link><guid>http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/yet-another-earthquake-the-pressing-need-for-emergency-codes.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Paris 2.0, vous y allez?</title><description>90:10 France co-organisera le prochain Paris 2.0 du 8 au 12 mars prochains à l’Espace Kiron.Alors c’est quoi Paris 2.0?Paris 2.0 c’est plus de 120 intervenants de tout secteur du web social et du 2.0, média, marketing, communication, innovation, design, enterprise, qui partageront avec vous leurs expériences et réflexions en cours des médias sociaux, ...</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:33:03 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/ojpbI-Vp2Lk/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/ojpbI-Vp2Lk/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Is she you?</title><description>Does anyone know anything about this? It&amp;#8217;s going viral&amp;#8230;  </description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:03:43 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/8EdxEsyLBpc/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/8EdxEsyLBpc/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>For Your Social Communities to Work, Fish Where the Fish Are</title><description>There is a great opportunity for businesses to use social media to enable conversations and to create communities that extend their capabilities and engage their constituents in richer ways that results in higher retention, lower risk, increased ROI, and faster operational capacity.Businesses entering the social media space must first figure out where their audience is ...</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:43:44 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/j38tjlknAME/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/j38tjlknAME/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Watch Your Words</title><description>&amp;#8211;We are no longer living in times where our private conversations remain private.Our inner thoughts, expressed amongst friends, quietly, are now subject to instant distribution over millions of people within seconds, and frankly, there is no delete button quick enough, provided someone can screenshot before you have second-thoughts.Misinterpretation is so easy when information is taken ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:33:04 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/son08LK6MBw/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/son08LK6MBw/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>We want more than incrementally better messages</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S4QJqJSBGjI/AAAAAAAAD6U/e2iSbOJAPzI/s1600-h/betamax.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 242px;&quot; src=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S4QJqJSBGjI/AAAAAAAAD6U/e2iSbOJAPzI/s400/betamax.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441484869421046322&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;There&#039;s a rule about new technologies - &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_edge&quot; title=&quot;Bleeding edge&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot;&gt;bleeding edge&lt;/a&gt; tech doesn&#039;t equal bleeding edge demand. I&#039;m old enough to remember &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax&quot; title=&quot;Betamax&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot;&gt;Betamax&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;file:///C:/Users/David/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-5.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Electronics companies have a track record in this kind of failure. Famously (and quoted in &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Ocean-Strategy-Uncontested-Competition/dp/1591396190%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1591396190&quot; title=&quot;Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant&quot; rel=&quot;amazon&quot;&gt;Blue Ocean Strategy&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-i&quot;&gt;Phillips CD-i  &lt;/a&gt;was a commercial flop because it tried to do too many things - and customers weren&#039;t sure what value it could add to their lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That and the fact the games were rubbish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Phillips added and added technical functions and spec. With all this &#039;special stuff&#039; - the execs were convinced the market would lap it up. But they forgot to ask what the user would find useful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Innovation is only any good if it&#039;s useful to people. The more people it is useful to, the better the outcome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Often the focus of innovation is on ourselves - how can we make things better for us. Or it&#039;s on showing off how technically clever we are (our spec&#039;s bigger than your spec).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And isn&#039;t that what a huge chunk of digital marketing has been all about? Sharper and sharper focus on tracking and responding to online behaviour - cleverer and cleverer tech, more and more spec?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the better to serve the right ad at the right time with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the innovation focused on building a better advert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What we&#039;re talking about here is a technological arms race in pursuit of incremental improvements in quality or relevance of messages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which is the answer you&#039;d come up with if you asked advertising and marketing teams what they wanted from digital innovation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But is it what all elements of the route to market actually WANT from the best-ever ability to connect with people that digital technologies enable?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is a better advert what the manufacturers and service providers want from digital technology? Is it the best they can expect from our growing ability to form &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2008/04/communities-of-purpose-are-business.html&quot;&gt;communities of purpose&lt;/a&gt; at the drop of a hat?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And is a better advert what &#039;consumers&#039; want?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, I know, the right information at the right time becomes really &#039;useful&#039; so you could argue the more effective you are at this the more effective your &#039;adverts&#039; for all parties. There is some truth in this. Ads that take this approach attain much higher click-thru rates (but all those that don&#039;t get clicked must still be counted as spam).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More importantly, this is defaulting to the belief that what we all want is better messaging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What if that isn&#039;t true? What if what we all actually want (manufacturers and service providers -&lt;br /&gt;customers, too) is improvement in quality or relevance of products and services?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More potential &#039;customers&#039; for advertising would find that useful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the role of advertising and marketing may just be in deploying your skills and relationships to improve the quality and relevance of products and services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do you &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-make-more-pegs-more-round-more.html&quot;&gt;innovate that using digital tools&lt;/a&gt;? Well that&#039;s pretty much what I&#039;ll be talking about at OMEXPO in Madrid tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Expect references to the best set of tools to bring us together (the social technologies which form the web) being wasted on gathering eyeballs - and how &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-does-it-mean-to-be-platform.html&quot;&gt;platform thinking&lt;/a&gt; can put them to their best use: innovating better and more relevant products and services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you there (slides will follow :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/merkapt/slides-business-model-innovation-euromed&quot;&gt;Slides Business Model Innovation Euromed&lt;/a&gt; (slideshare.net)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://paulisakson.typepad.com/planning/2009/10/opening-new-doors.html&quot;&gt;Opening New Doors&lt;/a&gt; (paulisakson.typepad.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/innovate100-com-the-best-startups-from-over-the-world&quot;&gt;Innovate100.com - The Best Startups From Over The World&lt;/a&gt; (killerstartups.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-advertising-didnt-exist-would-you.html&quot;&gt;If advertising didn&#039;t exist would you feel the need to invent it?&lt;/a&gt; (fasterfuture.blogspot.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/db5fcefe-1fb9-4521-981e-d45d6c7a8a3b/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: medium none ; float: right;&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=db5fcefe-1fb9-4521-981e-d45d6c7a8a3b&quot; alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; defer=&quot;defer&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-6884900907955552263?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/we-want-more-than-incrementally-better.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/we-want-more-than-incrementally-better.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>No 10 Bullying row: The unintended victim</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S4OhPh-bqNI/AAAAAAAAD6Q/yuh83g6BpTw/s1600-h/BullyingUK.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S4OhPh-bqNI/AAAAAAAAD6Q/yuh83g6BpTw/s320/BullyingUK.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;76&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The whole National Bullying Hotline mess of the last couple of days (links below will fill you in on the row surrounding British PM Gordon Brown) has had one unintended victim:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bullying.co.uk/&quot;&gt; BullyingUK&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This genuine and effective charity has been tarred with a very nasty and impactful brush. Some of its would-be clients - many of them vulnerable school kids - have been put off by the fear that their confidentiality will be breached - in the same way (very much allegedly) that No10 staff reportedly had theirs breached by The National Bullying Helpline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So let&#039;s be very clear BullyUK has absolutely nothing to do with the self-proclaimed National Bullying Helpline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if the national press, and the &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.conservatives.com/&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; title=&quot;Conservative Party (UK)&quot;&gt;Conservative Party&lt;/a&gt; care as much about bullying as the screaming headlines suggest, then perhaps they will &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bullying.co.uk/index.php/young-people/advice/make-a-donation.html&quot;&gt;join me in donating to BullyingUK right here and now&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They have a lot of damage to repair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps you will join in too?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should make clear, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bullying.co.uk/&quot;&gt;BullyingUK&lt;/a&gt; have been very careful not to solicit donations during this sensitive period for fear of accusations of cashing in. And I think that&#039;s very wise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But (and in line with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-does-it-mean-to-be-platform.html&quot;&gt;platform approach&lt;/a&gt; I advocate all organisations take) I&#039;m equipped with the belief and the tools to play my part in righting this wrong. And now, so are you.&lt;br /&gt;So let&#039;s do what they can&#039;t. Together. You&#039;ll &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/bullyinguk&quot;&gt;find them on twitter&lt;/a&gt;, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donate, by all means - but ask others to, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/2010/02/23/show-support-for-bullying-uk-in-case-of-mistaken-identity/&quot;&gt;blog about this&lt;/a&gt;, tweet about it. Thank you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://r.zemanta.com/?u=http%3A//www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7293319/Founder-of-bullying-charity-facing-questions.html&amp;amp;a=13538351&amp;amp;rid=5ac6f368-7ab2-4a5e-bbcb-bcc7abd44bac&amp;amp;e=84a3144553cae8f7529d8fbdd7775e8e&quot;&gt;Founder of bullying charity facing questions&lt;/a&gt; (telegraph.co.uk)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/02/22/bullying-helpline-now-slammed-by-others-orgs-too/&quot;&gt;Bullying Helpline now slammed by others orgs too&lt;/a&gt; (liberalconspiracy.org)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://r.zemanta.com/?u=http%3A//www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/feb/22/national-bullying-helpline-patrons-resign&amp;amp;a=13502222&amp;amp;rid=5ac6f368-7ab2-4a5e-bbcb-bcc7abd44bac&amp;amp;e=8314803dcbea2c319de420a8cd381972&quot;&gt;Patrons resign from bullying helpline&lt;/a&gt; (guardian.co.uk)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/public-accounts/2010/02/christine-pratt-bullying&quot;&gt;Is Christine Pratt a bully?&lt;/a&gt; (newstatesman.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704454304575081122600079814.html&quot;&gt;Charity Backtracks on Brown Bullying Claim&lt;/a&gt; (online.wsj.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2010/02/breach-of-confidentiality.html&quot;&gt;A Breach of Confidentiality&lt;/a&gt; (iaindale.blogspot.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/5ac6f368-7ab2-4a5e-bbcb-bcc7abd44bac/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=5ac6f368-7ab2-4a5e-bbcb-bcc7abd44bac&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script defer=&quot;defer&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-4670226750043277367?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:36:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/no-10-bullying-row-unintended-victim.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/no-10-bullying-row-unintended-victim.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Fancy going on a European road trip? Read on</title><description>We&amp;#8217;ve been busy here at 90:10 working on the launch of the new Honda CR-Z Hybrid through Social Media, and our plan is to create a crowdsourced European Road Movie, featuring Internet users from the four corners of Europe! Pretty cool, huh?We&amp;#8217;re currently at the first stage of the campaign, where Internet users can submit ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:43:42 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/5HEy0DLZQ9Q/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/5HEy0DLZQ9Q/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>The ‘advanced’ Thinking Of Basic Principles</title><description>Last week in Barcelona I enjoyed a panel discussing Mobile Advertising and Marketing with some of the top thinkers from all over the world.Paul Berney, the EMEA President of the Mobile Marketing Association asked me whether, after saying for several years that Privacy, Permission and Preference were the key focal points, I was happy that ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:15:13 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/Zzn0R4meSBA/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/Zzn0R4meSBA/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>If advertising didn&#039;t exist would you feel the need to invent it?</title><description>I&#039;ll be in Madrid for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://omexpo.com/en/&quot;&gt;OMEXPO&lt;/a&gt; on Feb 24-25. I&#039;ll be presenting alongside &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/jamie247&quot;&gt;Jamie Burke&lt;/a&gt; (CEO at 90:10) on the, obviously, non-controversial subject of: &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;The Death of Advertising.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is how our 45 minutes is being sold:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;90:10&#039;s Jamie Burke and David Cushman confront you with the end of business as usual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They&#039;ll examine how everything you thought you knew about traditional advertising will fail you in the rapidly emerging and increasingly dominant networked world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They&#039;ll explain how the shift from a broadcast world to a network of peers disrupts content creation, distribution and user experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And they&#039;ll ask what lessons Spain&#039;s advertising industry can learn from the peer-powered disruption tearing the UK&#039;s media landscape apart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you landed in a world without advertising today, would you reinvent it?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, of course, I&#039;ll be making the slides available via slideshare shortly after. Expect some conclusions involving platforms, naturally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jamie and I arrive around 1pm on the 24th and leave on the evening of the 25th. If you&#039;d like to meet with us while we&#039;re there, please drop either of us a line: david AT ninety10group DOT com or Jamie AT ninety10group DOT com.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-5849662550966374367?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:44:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-advertising-didnt-exist-would-you.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-advertising-didnt-exist-would-you.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Plenty More Phish In The Sea</title><description>&amp;#8216;Phishing&amp;#8217; (pronounced &amp;#8216;fishing&amp;#8217;) is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Below is an informative video by Sophos about the &amp;#8216;LOL&amp;#8217; Twitter Phish that&amp;#8217;s swimming around at the moment.For those in the know, these ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:22:06 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/Tv8-LEYkUao/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jonathanmacdonald/~3/Tv8-LEYkUao/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>How Foursquare helps Consumers and Businesses</title><description>Since last quarter of  2009, we&amp;#8217;ve seen companies like FourSquare and Gowalla &amp;#8211; companies allowing customers to check into physical locations and earn badges or points, discounts and share/show nearby contacts where they are &amp;#8211; gaining heavy traction (more than 1 million FourSquare checkin per week).So why many thinks that 2010 will be dominated by ...</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:06:12 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/GsezV6gRXq4/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/GsezV6gRXq4/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Interactive webinar with Gerd Leonhard and Alan Moore</title><description>&lt;p class=&quot;zemanta-img&quot; style=&quot;margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 310px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GerdLeonhard_MediaFuturist.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1b/GerdLeonhard_MediaFuturist.jpg/300px-GerdLeonhard_MediaFuturist.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Gerd Leonhard&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ; display: block;&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zemanta-img-attribution&quot;&gt;Gerd Leonhard via &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GerdLeonhard_MediaFuturist.jpg&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Two of the brightest lights to guide you into the networked world, Alan Moore and &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.mediafuturist.com/&quot; title=&quot;Gerd Leonhard&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot;&gt;Gerd Leonhard&lt;/a&gt;, have buddied up to present a joint webinar:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Cambria;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mediafutures.eventbrite.com/?ref=ebtn&quot;&gt;Thriving commercially in social  media and the networked society&lt;/a&gt;:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;An interactive seminar with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.mediafuturist.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Gerd Leonhard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot; href=&quot;http://smlxtralarge.com/consultancy/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Alan Moore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Cambria;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both are acclaimed authors, bloggers and consultants to a wide-range of global organisations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Places are strictly limited&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt; and priced at just $50.&lt;/span&gt; Gerd and Alan are both good friends of mine - and fellow collaborators at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ninety10group.com/&quot;&gt;90:10&lt;/a&gt;. Trust me - that&#039;s around 1% of their combined day rates - so quite a bargain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But just in case you need even more of an incentive, there&#039;s a special discount code available on a first-come first-served basis. It&#039;ll bag you a decent &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;15% off&lt;/span&gt; the price. To get it just &lt;a href=&quot;mailto://david@ninety10group.com&quot;&gt;drop me an email&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The webinar is on Monday, March 1, 2010 from 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (ET)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smlxtralarge.com/2010/02/16/online-seminar-with-gerd-leonhard-and-alan-moore/&quot;&gt;Online seminar with Gerd Leonhard and Alan Moore&lt;/a&gt; (smlxtralarge.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2010/01/joining-9010.html&quot;&gt;Joining 90:10&lt;/a&gt; (stoweboyd.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bombtune.com/bombtune/2009/10/music-convergence.html&quot;&gt;Music Convergence&lt;/a&gt; (bombtune.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/ee367440-3707-46c3-8c17-c0f99e620315/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: medium none ; float: right;&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=ee367440-3707-46c3-8c17-c0f99e620315&quot; alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; defer=&quot;defer&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-7400566948623103259?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:02:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/interactive-webinar-with-gerd-leonhard.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/interactive-webinar-with-gerd-leonhard.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>PR 2.0 = Communicating WITH, Not To</title><description>Social Media and Web 2.0 are altering the entire media landscape, placing the power of influence in the hands of the &amp;#8216;crowd&amp;#8217;, a crowd made of regular people with opinions, expertise and the passion of sharing those opinions with friends, colleagues and people.Brian Solis believes that communications technology is going to fundamentally change how we ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:52:26 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/5o3lgqQyKkU/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/5o3lgqQyKkU/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Make maps relevant: Redraw the world niche by niche</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.handmaps.org/maps/hand_drawn_map_six_hells.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.handmaps.org/maps/hand_drawn_map_six_hells.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;467&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I like &lt;a href=&quot;http://foursquare.com/&quot;&gt;FourSquare&lt;/a&gt;. As a predominantly iPhone-using mobilist I find it user friendly and quite compelling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact that colleague &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.laurenceborel.com/&quot;&gt;Laurence Borel&lt;/a&gt; is (was, heh heh) Mayor of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ninety10group.com/&quot;&gt;90:10&lt;/a&gt; at 17 Percy St provides a great location-based nudge, for example (the more you check in at a location, the more points you accrue - you may even get to be Mayor... ah hem, I guess you have to be there).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like the way tips can be delivered with both positive and negative power:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#039;ask for Joe he makes a mean cocktail&#039;&lt;br /&gt;&#039;avoid the soup - it tastes like dishwater&#039;&lt;/blockquote&gt;And I think there&#039;s a further two potentials likely to emerge. The first is for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/search?q=wikifix&quot;&gt;wikifixing&lt;/a&gt; of venues and locations: A kind of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brandtags.net/&quot;&gt;brand tags.net&lt;/a&gt; for shops, bars, restaurants, offices, airports etc. (&lt;i&gt;image via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.handmaps.org/mapsind.php?mapID=52&quot;&gt;handmaps.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second is an extraordinary potential to redraw the WHOLE map niche by niche (by each niche and for each niche) wresting control from the centre to the edge. It&#039;s our world, we should map it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By following the emerging folksonomies FourSquare and those that will follow it (right up to and including ubiquitous &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Augmented reality&quot;&gt;augmented reality&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/not-a-wall-a-world-the-future-of-user-experience.html&quot;&gt;Minority Report all around us&lt;/a&gt;) have the potential to disrupt the &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_production&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Mass production&quot;&gt;mass production&lt;/a&gt; version of the world - the one with a shared taxonomy on a centrally quality-assured (agreed) map.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are two quite distinct plays: The brandtags version allows people to name a venue based on how they feel about it. The number of people who check into that location under its new title will indicate how much others agree.&lt;br /&gt;In brandtags, consumers share keyterms for how they would describe a brand. On Foursquare if I label London&#039;s Kings Cross Railway Station, with, &#039;The Slough of Despond&#039; it&#039;s likely a number long suffering commuters will check into The Slough.&lt;br /&gt;A restaurant which serves bad food could get renamed by disgruntled diners and if others agree, the check-ins at Chez Crap will rise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&#039;s the crowd wikifixing individual locations then.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then there&#039;s the greater opportunity of the long tail of mapping OUR multiple niche realities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The maps we are used to are a view from the centre. They are an iconic example of a world view literally (super)imposed on us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buildings get given their official names - not the ones we use. I wonder if you can find Big Ben or The Pineapple on an &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=50.9316,-1.451&amp;amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;amp;q=50.9316,-1.451%20%28Ordnance%20Survey%29&amp;amp;t=h&quot; rel=&quot;geolocation&quot; title=&quot;Ordnance Survey&quot;&gt;OS map&lt;/a&gt; of London?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And those are just folksonomy terms everyone uses. How would the people in your office direct you to a nearby Thai restaurant? In the way a sat-nav would? Or like a human - &#039;just past the sandwich shop, opposite the pub and left past the bank&#039;&lt;br /&gt;Couldn&#039;t this kind of folksonomy be built in to deliver a world view (map) of shared usefulness to your particular niche? We would create maps of relevance with our own naming conventions and iconography.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Relevance always beats quality. You can have the most &#039;correct&#039; map in the world, but if its icons and taxonomies mean little to me then I can&#039;t use it. We create meaning through our use in communities of purpose and in the context of our communities of purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Great &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Location-based service&quot;&gt;location based services&lt;/a&gt; and geolocation will enhance our experience of the physical world. Making our understanding of it more relevant for each community of purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#039;s an important and symbolic example of the network disrupting anything that functions from the centre, out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you can not only have your own world view, you can draw it and put a name to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://singularityhub.com/2010/02/17/minority-report-interface-is-real-hitting-mainstream-soon-video/&quot;&gt;Minority Report Interface Is Real, Hitting Mainstream Soon (Video)&lt;/a&gt; (singularityhub.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://davefleet.com/2009/12/line-locationbased-apps-privacy/&quot;&gt;Where&#039;s The Line With Location-Based Apps and Privacy?&lt;/a&gt; (davefleet.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://r.zemanta.com/?u=http%3A//www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/17/london-new-tube-map-thames&amp;amp;a=7705554&amp;amp;rid=1ed21a63-5b63-40f5-a03d-a8e44384797c&amp;amp;e=c454bcdeb3801272f3269e6a067e16cd&quot;&gt;Where has my beloved Thames gone?&lt;/a&gt; (guardian.co.uk)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/19/yelp-updates-with-check-ins-foursquare-not-happy/&quot;&gt;Yelp updates with check-ins, Foursquare not happy&lt;/a&gt; (tuaw.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/14/locations-social-paradox/&quot;&gt;Location&#039;s Social Paradox&lt;/a&gt; (techcrunch.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gigaom.com/2009/11/16/foursquare-opens-api-invites-developers-to-play/&quot;&gt;FourSquare Opens API, Invites Developers to Play&lt;/a&gt; (gigaom.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/01/23/twitter-local-trending-matters/&quot;&gt;Where You Are and Why It Matters: Twitter and Local Trending&lt;/a&gt; (thenextweb.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.onsoftware.com/social-location-apps-gowalla-vs-foursquare/&quot;&gt;Social location apps: Gowalla vs foursquare&lt;/a&gt; (en.onsoftware.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2009/11/10/google-latitude-features/&quot;&gt;Google Latitude Now Tracks Location History, Alerts You to Nearby Friends&lt;/a&gt; (mashable.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/1ed21a63-5b63-40f5-a03d-a8e44384797c/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=1ed21a63-5b63-40f5-a03d-a8e44384797c&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script defer=&quot;defer&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-1801532664148495068?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:37:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/make-maps-relevant-redraw-world-niche.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/make-maps-relevant-redraw-world-niche.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Blogger relations 101: common courtesy</title><description>It has recently come to my attention that some PRs have no manners whatsoever&amp;#8230; Let me explain.Scenario 1:The buying off bloggers agency recently emailed me offering €30 to pen a few kind words about a (boring) website. Due to work commitments, I forgot to send them a polite no thank you. Two weeks later, they ...</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:13:12 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/QwAAGckzWZU/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/QwAAGckzWZU/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Social Business Innovation Awards: Jan 2010 winner</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S3kZDKHLucI/AAAAAAAAD6E/FiKM5BLKdq4/s1600-h/socialBuswinnerJan2010.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 252px; height: 246px;&quot; src=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S3kZDKHLucI/AAAAAAAAD6E/FiKM5BLKdq4/s400/socialBuswinnerJan2010.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438405567071369666&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We have a winner in the first Social Business Innovation Awards: January 2010. Securing 62% of the vote, the winner is...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged&quot; style=&quot;margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 260px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crunchbase.com/company/businesscard2&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0001/8641/18641v4-max-250x250.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image representing BusinessCard2 as depicted i...&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ; display: block;&quot; width=&quot;250&quot; height=&quot;64&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zemanta-img-attribution&quot;&gt;Image via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crunchbase.com/&quot;&gt;CrunchBase&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://businesscard2.com/&quot;&gt;BusinessCard2.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven&#039;t used it myself but... in a nutshell: &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.linkedin.com/&quot; title=&quot;LinkedIn&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot;&gt;LinkedIn&lt;/a&gt; taken beyond the silo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It beat off better known (at least to me) challengers Twelpforce (2nd with 14%) and &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.local-motors.com/&quot; title=&quot;Local Motors&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot;&gt;Local Motors&lt;/a&gt; (with 10%).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/vote-in-first-social-business.html&quot;&gt;Check out all the January 2010 nominations here&lt;/a&gt; (along with the purpose of the awards).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If nothing else, January&#039;s vote has served to surface something new to me - and likely new to you too. We&#039;re discovering stuff we didn&#039;t know we needed to know about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So BusinessCard2 becomes the first to enter our Social Business Innovation &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_of_fame&quot; title=&quot;Hall of fame&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot;&gt;Hall of Fame&lt;/a&gt;. The process of selecting the next to join it will be started when we open nominations later this month for the February 2010 award. Please join in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&#039;s BusinessCard2 co-founder &lt;a href=&quot;http://lieflarson.businesscard2.com/&quot;&gt;Lief C Larson&lt;/a&gt; (of Workface Inc) on what makes BusinessCard2 a good example of social business innovation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;How our model works:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Individual-level transparency is a major opportunity in the future of social business.  We have created BusinessCard2, a service that helps professionals network and exchange business cards online without face to face interaction.&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Tens of thousands of users have created a card with us.  The card acts as a web container that holds all the information that makes us digitally distinct: a utility to inform and educate.  Customers and prospects use it to peer deeper into the great people behind the company.  Fundamentally we believe business is about two people forming new connections.&lt;br /&gt;&quot;To help BusinessCard2 users reach more customers and prospects, we built unique technology that makes the card portable.  For instance, those with a card can visit BusinessCard2-enabled websites and drop their card.  BusinessCard2 was built to most closely mimic the process of sharing business cards in the real world, but as a process on the internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;How social tools are used to innovate:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;BusinessCard2 is itself a social tool.  It has been designed to provide portability beyond any singular walled garden social network.  However, we have also implemented ways that BusinessCard2 can be shared in existing social networks, such as Facebook and &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/&quot; title=&quot;Twitter&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&quot;From my perspective, business isn&#039;t just about those you all ready know (the current social network), but also about reaching out to those you don&#039;t yet know (the network potential).  Our technology road map is focused on using the social infrastructure to build visibility within specific markets and help give our users the tools to form new connections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Case study:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are not focused on specific user case studies at this time.  There are so many different use cases for BusinessCard2 that calling out specific instances does a disservice to it&#039;s potential.  Rather, we are focused on how BusinessCard2 is incorporated into many different social situations: from social networks like Facebook, to high-traffic websites, to CMS (such as blogs, wordpress, etc.).  I have a three minute video here that shows how to integrate BusinessCard2:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/efDMok3fzNU&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/efDMok3fzNU&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;I also have &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/user/BusinessCard2#p/a/u/1/pfLm3FZtXjQ&quot;&gt;a brief video here&lt;/a&gt; that helps you understand what BusinessCard2 looks like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;BusinessCard2 on Social Business:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of our core beliefs is that business is not just about companies, products, and services - but about meaningful connections between two people.  At the organizational level, a company is defined as the sum of its parts.&lt;br /&gt;&quot;The parts are the people.  We seek individual-level freedom and transparency at the professional level.  We aspire to help power the autonomy of any person engaged in business to take their identity with them across the web.   We hope to help help encourage social business by giving the public open access to the millions of incredible people behind the companies, products, and services we use every day.&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Each person who creates a BusinessCard2 has formed a social compact where they have complete control over their identity, and agree to expose that identity openly across the web.  You do not need to log in to BusinessCard2 to view a person&#039;s card.  Anyone with a BusinessCard can take their card anywhere they wish and share it freely.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/vote-in-first-social-business.html&quot;&gt;Vote in the first social business innovation awards&lt;/a&gt; (fasterfuture.blogspot.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/are-contacts-friends-google-tweaks-social-hub-buzz-over-privacy-concerns/&quot;&gt;Are contacts friends? Google tweaks social hub Buzz over privacy concerns&lt;/a&gt; (taragana.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chris.pirillo.com/facebook-desktop/&quot;&gt;Facebook Desktop&lt;/a&gt; (chris.pirillo.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2010/02/12/socialtalk/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%253A+Mashable+%2528Mashable%2529&quot;&gt;SocialTALK Helps Businesses Diffuse Social Media Clutter&lt;/a&gt; (mashable.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2010/02/10/business-web-presence/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%253A+Mashable+%2528Mashable%2529&quot;&gt;4 Elements of a Successful Business Web Presence&lt;/a&gt; (mashable.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/6e8e9e0c-e981-4f1d-baef-5157fcdf4ac7/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: medium none ; float: right;&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=6e8e9e0c-e981-4f1d-baef-5157fcdf4ac7&quot; alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; defer=&quot;defer&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-153724022551854479?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:59:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/social-business-innovation-awards-jan.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/social-business-innovation-awards-jan.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Reputación Online e Identidad Digital</title><description>&lt;p&gt;¿Qué se puede decir de éste tema tan interesante y amplio en 300 palabras? Algo difícil sin duda, ya que requeriría mucha más extensión para hablar como merece de dos conceptos tan amplios. Pero he tratado de aportar unas pinceladas sobre ello en un interesante proyecto desarrollado por &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.well-comm.es/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Wellcomm&lt;/a&gt;. Bajo el título “Perspectivas de la comunicación 2010” han recogido la opinión de 36 grandes profesionales del sector de la Comunicación (la mía de eterno aprendiz suma la 37) La intención de este eBook es convertirse en “barómetro de lo que acontece y testigo de los cambios vertiginosos que afectan al mundo de la comunicación”, tal como señalanSilvia Albert y Rosa Matías en el &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.well-comm.es/wellcommunity/?p=2696&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Blog WellCommunity&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEyNjYxMTY2NjcyOTAmcHQ9MTI2NjExNjY3MDkyMiZwPTEwMTkxJmQ9c3NfZW1iZWQmZz*yJm89MzdiMjUzODg*NTY4/NDJiY2I*YjdhZDIyZjBhMjU5MWQmb2Y9MA==.gif&quot; height=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;0&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;/&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Perspectivas de la comunicación 2010&quot; href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/wellcommtalento/perspectivas-de-la-comunicacin-2010&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Perspectivas de la comunicación 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;355&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; data=&quot;http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=cdocumentsandsettingsrosamatiasmisdocumentoswellcomwellcomunitylibroscomunicacinlibrowellcommlibrowellcomm2010-100210131733-phpapp02&amp;stripped_title=perspectivas-de-la-comunicacin-2010&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;data&quot; value=&quot;http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=cdocumentsandsettingsrosamatiasmisdocumentoswellcomwellcomunitylibroscomunicacinlibrowellcommlibrowellcomm2010-100210131733-phpapp02&amp;stripped_title=perspectivas-de-la-comunicacin-2010&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;src&quot; value=&quot;http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=cdocumentsandsettingsrosamatiasmisdocumentoswellcomwellcomunitylibroscomunicacinlibrowellcommlibrowellcomm2010-100210131733-phpapp02&amp;stripped_title=perspectivas-de-la-comunicacin-2010&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tanto la creación de la Identidad Digital como la gestión proactiva de la Reputación Online son asuntos estratégicos en la empresa. Sobre éste concepto y la monitorización como vía de gestión de la reputación online estoy elaborando una serie de posts en Territorio Creativo, bajo el título “Gestiona tu Reputación Online: monitoriza” (&lt;a href=&quot;http://etc.territoriocreativo.es/etc/2009/11/gestiona-tu-reputacion-online-monitoriza-i.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Parte 1&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href=&quot;http://etc.territoriocreativo.es/etc/2009/12/gestiona-tu-reputacion-online-monitoriza-ii.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Parte 2&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;La Reputación Online es un término clave en cuya definición tenemos que trabajar todavía mucho y queda camino por recorrer para construir la vertiente online de este concepto tan amplio como es la Reputación. Dos de las personas con las que más aprendo cada día y mis referentes en este tema son &lt;a href=&quot;http://quor-wom.blogspot.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Miguel del Fresno&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href=&quot;http://victorpuig.es/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Víctor Puig&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Podéis encontrar más información interesante sobre éstos temas en:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://quor-wom.blogspot.com/2009/10/reputacion-online-aportando-orden-al.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Investigación de la Reputación Online: aportando orden al debate sobre qué es y qué no es Reputación Online&lt;/a&gt;, Miguel del Fresno.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.collabtopia.com/espiral-reputacion-online/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;La espiral de la Reputación Online&lt;/a&gt;, Collabtopia.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.elqudsi.com/articulos/gestion-de-la-reputacion-online/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Gestión de la Reputación Online&lt;/a&gt;, Ismael El-Qudsi.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://abladias.blogspot.com/2009/11/reputacion-online-o-identidad-digital.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;¿Reputación Online o Identidad Digital?&lt;/a&gt;, Fernando Polo.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;10%&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si te ha gustado este post y quieres seguir lo publicado en este blog puedes &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;suscribirte a las entradas con tu lector de RSS&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;recibir cada actualización en tu correo electrónico&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=6sGzqY-P8qM:_oRRXI4EJd8:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=6sGzqY-P8qM:_oRRXI4EJd8:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=6sGzqY-P8qM:_oRRXI4EJd8:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:12:05 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/6sGzqY-P8qM/388232088</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/6sGzqY-P8qM/388232088</guid></item>    
		<item><title>My thoughts on Google Buzz so far</title><description>With last week’s rollout of Google Buzz, Google has fired its first serious salvo at Facebook in the battle for the social networking crown&amp;#8230; But is Google Buzz really all it&amp;#8217;s cracked up to be?So where does Google Buzz fit in the Social Media world? From what I&amp;#8217;ve seen, Google Buzz seems to fit in ...</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:33:12 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/6683BIXOX-U/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/6683BIXOX-U/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Valentine’s Day at Piccadilly Circus</title><description>Last year, I had the opportunity to work on the relaunch the McDonald&amp;#8217;s Piccadilly Circus sign through Social Media using Facebook, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, whilst also engaging with a few London-based bloggers.By standing on the pavement at Piccadilly Circus, you can have a unique and quirky picture taken right under the sign.McDonald&amp;#8217;s have just added ...</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:38:20 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/Hpw3wiQUjrI/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/Hpw3wiQUjrI/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>What does it mean to be a platform organisation?</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S3PkgArgkoI/AAAAAAAAD58/DxmO4k1aOzE/s1600-h/Platformorg.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;&quot; src=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S3PkgArgkoI/AAAAAAAAD58/DxmO4k1aOzE/s400/Platformorg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436940413755757186&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I&#039;ve been writing about the platform as primary organisational (and conceptual) framework pretty much as long as I&#039;ve been writing this blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I&#039;ve never stopped to pull the essentials together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;What is a platform organisation?&lt;/b&gt; How does yours become one?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let&#039;s start with a definition. Mine: &lt;i&gt;A platform organisation uses its available resources to find, connect and support those who share its Purpose.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be clear, I mean both within and without the organisation&#039;s own membranes. Those membranes must become permeable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, it does this with certain outcomes in mind. And to my mind these are they:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Why be a platform organisation?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crowd-sourcing solutions offers three key benefits:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;http://hbr.org/product/value-innovation-the-strategic-logic-of-high-growt/an/R0407P-PDF-ENG&quot;&gt;Value innovation:&lt;/a&gt; Access to more &#039;customer&#039; minds in real-time increases the likelihood of &#039;blue ocean&#039; solutions. These are those which seek to create new market space - where competition is irrelevant and benchmarking forgotten. Internal-only teams are more likely to default to tried and tested, me-too iterations delivering incremental efficiencies within current market confines. Value innovators look for things that customers value in common. Crowds deliver this. Then they ask: &quot;what if we started anew?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-make-more-pegs-more-round-more.html&quot;&gt;Better-fit solutions&lt;/a&gt;. Involving those for whom an outcome is intended in shaping that outcome results in a closer fit with their real needs. You make what you want; &lt;i&gt;We make what we want&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;3. Increased marketing and advertising efficiencies. Outcomes are more likely to be embraced by those who have played a part in creating them - the perfect start point for &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Peer-to-peer&quot;&gt;peer-to-peer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Advocacy&quot;&gt;advocacy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are others; You get closer to your customer; the customer feels they have skin in your game; you matter more to them; you get low-cost &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_product_development&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;New product development&quot;&gt;NPD&lt;/a&gt;, R&amp;amp;D, marketing, PR, advertising, customer support etc etc - but I think all these fall into the above three key reasons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;How to be(come) a platform organisation:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Start with the big why:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gapingvoid.com/2008/10/18/the-purpose-idea-ten-questions-for-mark-earls/&quot;&gt;Purpose&lt;/a&gt;. Platform organisations thrive on bringing people together to create &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve_fitting&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Curve fitting&quot;&gt;best-fit&lt;/a&gt; outcomes but why would those outside your org want to join with you?&lt;br /&gt;What is wrong with your industry, the way stuff gets done, how people are treated... the world... What is wrong with any of those things, that your org is out to put right?&lt;br /&gt;Know this and express this through action. This is your first step to the Purpose-Driven Collaboration that platform organisations can share in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Discovery and introduction:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through expressing your purpose, and actively seeking those who share it, the latent community will emerge: those who care about the same stuff you do and who are willing to join you in working on it: communities of purpose. Join them, support them, contribute to them, provide for them. They were always there, the platform organisation&#039;s role is to discover and introduce them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Community - groups&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People join groups for three reasons:&lt;br /&gt;1. Self-expression&lt;br /&gt;2. To talk about the thing they care about&lt;br /&gt;3. To fix the thing they care about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plenty of community tools enable 1 and 2. But 3 is too often disregarded. It is the key part. Social tools are not simply for connection, they are to enable outcomes that those people connecting care about. The platform organisation understands that &#039;social media&#039; is 90% social, 10% media. It brings people together to make better stuff, not better messages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Better messages are a necessary consequence of better stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So ensure that their wikifixing contributions can be surfaced, acted on and the value created, shared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#039;s nice to know that people are talking about you, saying nice things (or bad things) and where those things are being said. But much better to surface their concerns and join with them in addressing them - find ways for them to collaborate with you in fault finding and fixing and integrate that into work flows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Systems which enable you to prioritise response and identify shared pinch points - from sophisticated conversation auditing to simple votes - offer some of the tools.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the first step is to be open to &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboration&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Collaboration&quot;&gt;collaborative&lt;/a&gt; change in the first place. And that starts in your head.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2010/02/pepsi-refresh-project-an-insiders-view-guest-post-by-bonin-bough.html&quot;&gt;Pepsi Refresh Project: An Insider&#039;s View - Guest Post by Bonin Bough&lt;/a&gt; (beth.typepad.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/18ec4d71-0ed3-4d45-823b-0344a67ce7d1/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=18ec4d71-0ed3-4d45-823b-0344a67ce7d1&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script defer=&quot;defer&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-8432589861832229912?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:53:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-does-it-mean-to-be-platform.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-does-it-mean-to-be-platform.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Why &#039;innovation&#039; fails</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-img&quot; style=&quot;margin: 1em; display: block; float: right; width: 310px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Yelena_Slesarenko_jumping_2007.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Yelena Slesarenko at Stavanger Games 2007.&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Yelena_Slesarenko_jumping_2007.jpg/300px-Yelena_Slesarenko_jumping_2007.jpg&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ; display: block;&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;225&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zemanta-img-attribution&quot;&gt;Image via &lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Yelena_Slesarenko_jumping_2007.jpg&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;There&#039;s a reason many a CEO views an offer to &#039;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Innovation&quot;&gt;innovate&lt;/a&gt;&#039; with a mixture of fear and disdain: Somewhere approaching 9 out of 10 business innovations fail.&lt;br /&gt;There are lots of reasons:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(To summarise and plagiarise the &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.hbr.org/&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; title=&quot;Harvard Business Review&quot;&gt;Harvard Business Review&lt;/a&gt; (Jan/Feb 10) and Robert H Miles&#039; &lt;a href=&quot;http://hbr.org/2010/01/accelerating-corporate-transformations-dont-lose-your-nerve/ar/1&quot;&gt;Accelerating Corporate Transformation&lt;/a&gt;...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Managers come over all conservative - what starts as a game changer ends up as a watered-down version of what it could/should have been.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;No one gets given the space to change. Your team continue to be set the same old targets and have to deliver against the same responsibilities - yet are expected to layer on the new stuff alongside that very busy day job. They default to what they regard as the &#039;must do&#039; rather than the &#039;important to do&#039;. Their job descriptions don&#039;t get changed.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Then there&#039;s &#039;Initiative Gridlock&#039; which loosely translates as &#039;what we&#039;re doing ain&#039;t good enough, but we&#039;ll keep on plugging away until we think of something better... only we never get time to think of anything better.&#039; There&#039;s a great &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Albert Einstein&quot;&gt;Einstein&lt;/a&gt; quote that the boardroom should keep in mind: &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&quot;The definition of madness is repeating the same experiment and expecting different results.&quot; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;It&#039;s easier to repeat than to change&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Harvard-Business-Review-Paperback/dp/0875842623%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0875842623&quot; rel=&quot;amazon&quot; title=&quot;Innovation (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)&quot;&gt;Innovation&lt;/a&gt; often fails in the implementation phase - because you didn&#039;t involve the people who you need on board to make it happen, in the process of shaping what it is that needs to happen.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;That leads to its own set of issues - if the guys doing the implementation don&#039;t have the change in their soul their focus is going to be reduced and their efforts and the outcome blunted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;So lots of stumbling blocks to overcome. No wonder an innovation has just one chance in 10 of success.&lt;br /&gt;But I do think there are ways of improving your chances AND overcoming those obstacles at the same time.&lt;br /&gt;The first is not to equate innovation with incremental improvement. I always think of the image of the guy doing the &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fosbury_Flop&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Fosbury Flop&quot;&gt;Fosbury Flop&lt;/a&gt; for the first time. Real innovation is not a little bit better. It is not a repeat of the previous experiment, but bigger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is revolutionary.&lt;br /&gt;I think the definition of Innovation from wikipedia re &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_processing&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Signal processing&quot;&gt;Signal Processing&lt;/a&gt; is helpful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&quot;the innovation is the difference between the observed value of a variable at time t and the optimal forecast of that value based on information available prior to time t. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.uk/url?ei=vXVxS-qvOo6M0gTEwfygCw&amp;amp;sig2=92Hxl5So9y8XTTRsTzfl0A&amp;amp;q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_%28signal_processing%29&amp;amp;ei=vXVxS-qvOo6M0gTEwfygCw&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=define&amp;amp;ct=&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;ved=0CBgQpAMoAQ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH8mKH5kkz7HAZuU9uD4_nENM7sqg&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:green;&quot;&gt;en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_(signal_processing)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other words: &quot;How much better could this thing be?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;How much better depends on where you look from. If you look at the issue from the perspective of the same old &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_chain&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Supply chain&quot;&gt;supply chains&lt;/a&gt; you have always analysed, and delivering with same set of resources you&#039;ve always had to play with, you are almost certain to identify how incrementally better YOU can m&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S3KtUIEBLII/AAAAAAAAD5o/YWULtvwhUS0/s1600-h/InnovationHeadroom.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;&quot; src=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S3KtUIEBLII/AAAAAAAAD5o/YWULtvwhUS0/s400/InnovationHeadroom.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436598261462936706&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ake it. Small headroom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But if you look at every aspect of that supply chain and imagine you have the global resource of all those who care about solving the same problem you face, then you can start to spot the revolutionary change you and the crowd can deliver TOGETHER. Big headroom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can either seek to innovate solutions using the resources you have at your disposal within the org, or you can seek to innovate solutions using all those resources PLUS the world outside.&lt;br /&gt;I wonder how many of those failed 9/10 innovations tried to do it all on their own?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2009/12/role-of-21st-century-organisation.html&quot;&gt;The truly innovative organisation&lt;/a&gt; sees itself as an connecting, enabling platform.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can add. &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2009/11/9010-open-for-business.html&quot;&gt;We can transform&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.innoveer.com/index.php/2009/12/14/harvard-business-review-innoveer/&quot;&gt;Field Perspective: Optimizing Sales and Marketing (Harvard Business Review)&lt;/a&gt; (blogs.innoveer.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://petervan.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/how-real-is-your-innovation/&quot;&gt;How real is your Innovation ?&lt;/a&gt; (petervan.wordpress.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/hamerhokie/creative-diversity-how-do-i-manage-it-in-my-organization&quot;&gt;Creative Diversity How Do I Manage It In My Organization&lt;/a&gt; (slideshare.net)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20100201007013/en&quot;&gt;Maddock Douglas Launches &#039;Innovation Engine&#039; Community and Idea Marketplace&lt;/a&gt; (eon.businesswire.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/Maikelmiggelbrink/integrated-customer-innovation-2482590&quot;&gt;Integrated Customer Innovation&lt;/a&gt; (slideshare.net)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://myventurepad.com/MVP/92274&quot;&gt;Innovation Is Not A Strategy&lt;/a&gt; (myventurepad.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/f40771dc-40f5-426d-ab39-5131142693ae/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=f40771dc-40f5-426d-ab39-5131142693ae&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script defer=&quot;defer&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-3215829153281000497?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:50:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-innovation-fails.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-innovation-fails.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Blogger relations – the good, the bad and the ugly</title><description>Engaging with bloggers is by far the hardest aspect of digital PR; emailing news releases to bloggers often won&amp;#8217;t do the trick &amp;#8211; bloggers want good content but they also want to get something out of being approached, a product perhaps an invitation to an event, some may even ask for cash (I think we ...</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:20:06 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/dABlZiGQ-UI/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/laurenceborel/lhMG/~3/dABlZiGQ-UI/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Comunica 2.0: un proyecto de Telefónica Latinoamérica</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Hace unos días tuve el placer de compartir un interesante desayuno de trabajo con José María Álvarez-Pallete, presidente de Telefónica Latinoamérica, su equipo de Comunicación y dos amigos a los que considero grandes referentes personales: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ivanpino.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Ivan Pino&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.benitocastro.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Benito Castro&lt;/a&gt;. La verdad es que fue una interesante reunión y me agradó especialmente por la claridad en los conceptos por parte del equipo y la gran apuesta personal y profesional que están realizando dentro de la compañía por instaurar una plataforma de Comunicación Interna que adopta las principales herramientas de la web social.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Y la tarea no es nada fácil porque imaginaos lo que supone coordinar la comunicación interna dentro de un grupo (Telefónica LATAM) con más de 60.000 empleados repartidos en trece países. El objetivo lo tienen muy claro:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Incrementar la productividad&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aumentar el sentido de pertenencia&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Descubrir talento y potenciar el compromiso&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Facilitar la comunicación y el diálogo entre los empleados y entre éstos y la compañía&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Retención del conocimiento&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Reducción en el TTM (Time To Market)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Teniendo claros los objetivos a priori y la importancia de la implementación de las herramientas 2.0 en la Comunicación Interna, ¿cómo vendes la idea dentro de la compañía? Ellos se inspiraron &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.commoncraft.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;CommonCraft&lt;/a&gt; y elaboraron el siguiente vídeo para presentarlo en el Comité de Dirección el 5 de marzo de 2009:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;344&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; data=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/FXruXdiFvRs&amp;hl=es_ES&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;data&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/FXruXdiFvRs&amp;hl=es_ES&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;src&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/FXruXdiFvRs&amp;hl=es_ES&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;El proyecto Comunica 2.0 se sustenta sobre tres patas fundamentales:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wiki&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ecosistema de blogs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Red Social&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Para la integración del primero de ellos, localizaron a los empleados con perfil geek, quienes fueron los verdaderos impulsores y prescriptores de la iniciativa. Así, nace la figura de los &lt;i&gt;WikiGardeners&lt;/i&gt;, quiénes supervisan el proyecto, y de los &lt;i&gt;WikiChampions&lt;/i&gt;, con el objetivo de incentivar la participación. La segunda fase abre paso al ecosistema de blogs desde el corporativo a los personales, pasando por los blogs de cada una de las áreas de negocio. La tercera fase se desarrolla con la creación de la red social interna.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Durante el encuentro tomé nota de&lt;b&gt; ideas, frases, apuntes y algunas tendencias que me gustaron especialmente y que quiero compartir&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Somos partidarios más de pedir perdón que permiso.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Necesidad de adoptar éstas herramientas en beneficio del negocio y de las personas.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cada vez hablaremos menos de redes y más de plataformas.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Las aplicaciones desarrolladas por parte de terceros y las Comunidades de Desarrolladores como tendencia (tal como ya hacen Nokia, Ericsson, Microsoft, Apple, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;La unilateralidad de antes respondía a la unilateralidad de los medios de antes; hoy en día es necesaria la bilateralidad.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;El objetivo es convertir las herramientas en algo cotidiano.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;De cara a los empleados es necesario elaborar una orientación, nunca unas normas.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;“Nos hemos equivocado muy pocas veces cuando hemos escuchado a la gente”, José María Álvarez-Pallete.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gracias a la web 2.0 el público quiere y puede comunicarse y lo hará con nosotros o sin nosotros, así que tenemos que aprender de ello.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Para terminar, os dejo la &lt;b&gt;presentación del proyecto Comunica 2.0&lt;/b&gt;.  &lt;object height=&quot;355&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; data=&quot;http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=presentacincomunica2-0-100207101213-phpapp01&amp;stripped_title=comunica-2-0&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;data&quot; value=&quot;http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=presentacincomunica2-0-100207101213-phpapp01&amp;stripped_title=comunica-2-0&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;src&quot; value=&quot;http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=presentacincomunica2-0-100207101213-phpapp01&amp;stripped_title=comunica-2-0&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;10%&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si te ha gustado este post y quieres seguir lo publicado en este blog puedes &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;suscribirte a las entradas con tu lector de RSS&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;recibir cada actualización en tu correo electrónico&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=kcMIvKRqYVM:3pznAQ3WYpw:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=kcMIvKRqYVM:3pznAQ3WYpw:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=kcMIvKRqYVM:3pznAQ3WYpw:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:50:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/kcMIvKRqYVM/380176636</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/kcMIvKRqYVM/380176636</guid></item>    
		<item><title>One to watch: ThingLink.org</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S3Es_yUg2RI/AAAAAAAAD5g/nkUmmBMH9J8/s1600-h/ThingLink.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 209px;&quot; src=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S3Es_yUg2RI/AAAAAAAAD5g/nkUmmBMH9J8/s400/ThingLink.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436175699564091666&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I don&#039;t often do a &#039;one to watch&#039; these days. Everything moves so fast I&#039;d rather just back the web.&lt;br /&gt;But on this occasion I have been pointed at something by (&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/willsh&quot;&gt;twitter.com/willsh&lt;/a&gt;) that has significant potential and which I think you should explore: &lt;a href=&quot;http://thinglink.org/&quot;&gt;ThingLink.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#039;s a social network for things and could play it&#039;s part in the emerging web of things in a very interesting way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So far as I understand (and I have only just applied for a beta invite) it crowd sources the identification of objects and their relationship with other objects. The result is a social graph for a thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That could get very interesting. Imagine the Amazon &#039;People who like this also like this&#039; extended to ALL objects? Real relationships identified and shared and multiplied; rather than market researched samples extrapolated until they burst.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Layer on real-time and location and some very complex relationships could be revealed as they emerge and as they create value.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A fascinating area to keep up to speed with. Hope you&#039;ll join me in trying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/1e4b90ce-41b3-4fc2-8f7b-927e2b94facc/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: medium none ; float: right;&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=1e4b90ce-41b3-4fc2-8f7b-927e2b94facc&quot; alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; defer=&quot;defer&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-108264910862311506?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:19:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/one-to-watch-thinglinkorg.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/one-to-watch-thinglinkorg.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Mirror neurones - more stuff you need to know about influence</title><description>Some more stuff you need to know about &#039;influence&#039;. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/darrenbbc&quot;&gt;via @DarrenBBC&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/XzMqPYfeA-s&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/XzMqPYfeA-s&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Less rational (Homo Sapiens) - more &lt;a href=&quot;http://herd.typepad.com/herd_the_hidden_truth_abo/2008/06/whos-with-homo-mimicus.html&quot;&gt;Homo Mimicus&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, go back and &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/itll-be-sad-day-when-we-finally.html&quot;&gt;think about the flock again&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-6071127283813714832?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:51:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/mirror-neurones-more-stuff-you-need-to.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/mirror-neurones-more-stuff-you-need-to.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Book review: Monkeys With Typewriters:</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ewv5zWJFL._SS500_.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ewv5zWJFL._SS500_.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I went to Essex University with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.interactiveknowhow.com/about/&quot;&gt;Jemima Gibbons&lt;/a&gt;. In fact, we were both elected to serve on the same small editorial committee of Vulture, the student union rag. I’d tell you what year that was. But I&#039;m too much of a gentleman…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We found each other again less than a year ago. Via Twitter, naturally. She came along to a hastily arranged tweet-up in Camden Town – which was where she told me about the book she was completing. Had we stumbled upon each other earlier Jemmia says I&#039;d likely have played a cameo in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.triarchypress.com/pages/Monkeys_with_Typewriters.htm&quot;&gt;Monkeys With Typewriters&lt;/a&gt; myself (insert your own gags here).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jemima’s book is “a novelistic approach to social computing” according to Luis Suarez.&lt;br /&gt;It certainly has a story-telling quality – scenes described, images evoked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ll admit it wasn’t an approach I was comfortable with at first, but it grew on me – and I found myself drawn in attracted by the page-turning storyness of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s a story in which I happen to know a great many of the characters. ‘Social’ is a relatively small world – particularly in London where the majority of the plot unfolds. Perhaps that added to the fascination… I kept reading on looking out for the next friend to get a mention…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes there is more story-telling description than actual insight – but that’s not altogether a bad thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many, when faced with creating a mass media portrayal of the interwebs (book, magazine article, latest BBC4 TV series…) default to a way of describing aA Big Thing that it is out to do and who is out to do this big thing and to whom – very centre-out notions and essentially a broadcast approach.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reality is the web is what it is. It is all of us. It is what each of us makes it. It is what emerges from our interactions. There is no grand plan, there is no editorial committee…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jemima’s approach (and the clue is in the title, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Monkeys-Typewriters-Myths-Realities-Social/dp/0956263143&quot;&gt;Monkeys With Typewriters&lt;/a&gt;… brave when your surname is Gibbons) is much closer to the latter ‘reality’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s a guide book for those in organisations coming to terms with the shifting sands beneath their feet (as hierarchy and central control are swept away and improved upon by adhoc self-forming &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2008/04/communities-of-purpose-are-business.html&quot;&gt;communities of purpose&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it’s a guide book that is more practical than most, coming complete with buzzword demystification and a 30-step guide to ‘getting social’ thrown in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the impact of group forming network theory then this is probably not the book for you. But if you’re just starting to understand that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-power-of-the-network/4590198&quot;&gt;everything the network touches it will disrupt&lt;/a&gt;, then Monkey’s With Typewriters will set you on the right path without making your brain bleed. And we all know someone who could do with that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://broadstuff.com/archives/1991-Voting-for-Social-Media-in-the-Workplace.html&quot;&gt;Voting for Social Media in the Workplace&lt;/a&gt; (broadstuff.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://constantlyfurious.blogspot.com/2010/02/silly-bercow-doth-protest-too-much.html&quot;&gt;Silly BerCow doth protest too much&lt;/a&gt; (constantlyfurious.blogspot.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gapingvoid.com/2010/02/04/gapingvoids-thoughts-on-blogging-2010/&quot;&gt;gapingvoid&#039;s thoughts on blogging, 2010&lt;/a&gt; (gapingvoid.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/f81060ec-e7d4-4d3a-84c6-69863b404a16/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=f81060ec-e7d4-4d3a-84c6-69863b404a16&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script defer=&quot;defer&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-3057704384648415195?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:16:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/book-review-monkeys-with-typewriters.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/book-review-monkeys-with-typewriters.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>It&#039;ll be a sad day when we finally understand influence</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bethharte/0QNxOQgvUaUicUV1GerybwLZ1lD4ANcPlbDAOkxwqFcXKBJ9gMGzR8OQppuC/influence.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bethharte/0QNxOQgvUaUicUV1GerybwLZ1lD4ANcPlbDAOkxwqFcXKBJ9gMGzR8OQppuC/influence.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;221&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A fascinating post by fellow &lt;a href=&quot;http://ninety10group.com/&quot;&gt;90:10&lt;/a&gt;er &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://stoweboyd.com/&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; title=&quot;Stowe Boyd&quot;&gt;Stowe Boyd&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/its-betweenness-that-matters-not-your-eigenvalue-the-dark-ma.html&quot;&gt;... The Dark Matter of influence&lt;/a&gt;) has been rolling around my head since I read it yesterday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stowe discusses this Arvix Post, titled &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24748/?ref=rss&amp;amp;a=f&quot;&gt;Best Connected Individuals Are Not the Most Influential Spreaders in Social Networks.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To summarise; influence is derived from how close you are to other influencers in a network - how low and short the number of links from you to how many other influencers (not the number of your connections, as often assumed).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which validates why network analysis is such a crucial element when trying to &#039;identify influencers&#039;. &lt;i&gt;(image &lt;a href=&quot;http://bethharte.posterous.com/the-potential-misinterpretation-of-influence&quot;&gt;via Beth Harte&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stowe concludes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;The subtle, dark-matter mystery of social networks is that influence is oblique, and &lt;b&gt;not easily determined by the sorts of tools we have today&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;It is not your follower count, or who you follow, per se. But, instead, do you have short paths into other social scenes, both incoming and outgoing? That is the deep structure of being truly connected: bridging over different social scenes, acting as a conduit, a vector, a filter and amplifier for ideas good and bad, the best insights, and deadly viruses.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Influence is fluid. It resides less in the node and more in the interactions between the nodes. It is the interactions which change the state of the group, not a change in the condition of the nodes (think water H2O molecules and ice, water, steam - an example &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://herd.typepad.com/&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; title=&quot;Mark Earls&quot;&gt;Mark Earls&lt;/a&gt; (another &lt;a href=&quot;http://ninety10group.com/&quot;&gt;90:10&lt;/a&gt; collaborator) refers to in his book &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Herd-Change-Behaviour-Harnessing-Nature/dp/0470060360?&amp;amp;camp=2486&amp;amp;creative=10522&amp;amp;linkCode=waf&amp;amp;tag=coincidence-21&quot;&gt;Herd&lt;/a&gt;. (Update, Mark has now posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://herd.typepad.com/herd_the_hidden_truth_abo/2010/02/influence-the-influentials-and-the-influenced.html&quot;&gt;his own response&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This means that giving interesting things to people to do together - bringing them together around things they care about (through shared purpose), to act on those things, has more value than spotting the influencer and giving them some sort of message you expect them to go off and influence others with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Influence has a certain value: in crisis management, identifying those with the likelihood of having their voice heard by a greater number and in giving likely start points for the real job of peer to peer distribution. If you&#039;re going to try to turn the flock, you&#039;re bound to think it best to start off by working with the big birds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And to Stowe&#039;s point about the tools, influence is complex, but not complicated. It can be deconstructed nuance by nuance; function by function.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day - and perhaps quite soon - we will have the tools to fully understand it in real time. And that concerns me. Because at the point we can truly understand influence we&#039;re but a tiny step from using that power for ill. Manipulation, springs to mind. It could all become very &#039;broadcast&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People influence each other. They change the state they are in. Help them find each other, support their conversation, help them act on it. That will always generate more value (for ALL parties) than an influential voice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be the platform.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24748/?ref=rss&quot;&gt;Blog - Best Connected Individuals Are Not The Most Influential Spreaders in Social Networks&lt;/a&gt; (technologyreview.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2010/02/03/matrix-companies-should-factor-social-influence-in-total-customer-lifetime-value/&quot;&gt;Matrix: Companies Should Factor Social Influence in Total Customer Lifetime Value&lt;/a&gt; (web-strategist.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/01/stowe-boyd-backs-inaugural-social.html&quot;&gt;Stowe Boyd backs inaugural Social Business Innovation Awards&lt;/a&gt; (fasterfuture.blogspot.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2010/01/joining-9010.html&quot;&gt;Joining 90:10&lt;/a&gt; (stoweboyd.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/167620&quot;&gt;Taking Social Business on the Road&lt;/a&gt; (socialmediatoday.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://myventurepad.com/MVP/71594&quot;&gt;It&#039;s Not About Influence - It&#039;s About Trust&lt;/a&gt; (myventurepad.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://myventurepad.com/MVP/80063&quot;&gt;The Things You Learn About People&lt;/a&gt; (myventurepad.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://herd.typepad.com/herd_the_hidden_truth_abo/2010/02/influence-the-influentials-and-the-influenced.html&quot;&gt;Influence, the influentials and the influenced&lt;/a&gt; (herd.typepad.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/f9edf5c7-ec70-409c-8d28-3c6cdd78f8af/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=f9edf5c7-ec70-409c-8d28-3c6cdd78f8af&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script defer=&quot;defer&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-3165905852575102073?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:36:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/itll-be-sad-day-when-we-finally.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/itll-be-sad-day-when-we-finally.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>The 3 Reasons People Join Groups</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1322/914167548_3eae197749_b.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1322/914167548_3eae197749_b.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;212&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;One of the organisations I advise asked for my thoughts on setting up (let&#039;s say enabling) a Facebook community this morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The success or failure of any groups that form, via pretty much any tools, comes down to the same thing - how well are you enabling those involved to achieve the three things they join groups to do?&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;(&lt;i&gt;image courtesy &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevlar/&quot;&gt;Kbaird&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Three Reasons People Join Groups:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;1. Express themselves: Usually this is support for or antipathy toward something. It&#039;s how people know that group X is one that cares about the same stuff they do.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;2. Discuss what needs fixing about it. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;3. Fix it&lt;/blockquote&gt;Facebook has the tools for &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer&quot; title=&quot;Peer-to-peer&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot;&gt;peer-to-peer&lt;/a&gt; comms - but pages and groups veer towards broadcasting at an audience without extreme caution. Success depends on what the community is given and in how much they talk to each other. Communities talk to each other, audiences are broadcast at.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One way &#039;founders&#039; of groups can encourage more interaction is by appointing interested folk to roles in which they can take more ownership of the group. Obviously ongoing support for the group through tools, content and interaction is critical , too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Few groups get past point 1.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To point 3, make clear in the group how people joining can help and what they can actually do to manifest that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peer-to-peer interaction is always less about the &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_marketing&quot; title=&quot;Viral marketing&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot;&gt;viral marketing&lt;/a&gt; of a message, more about bringing people together who care, to talk - and then act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:&#039;Times New Roman&#039;;font-size:medium;color:black;&quot;   &gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;;font-family:Arial;font-size:small;&quot;  &gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://georgevanantwerp.com/2010/01/27/the-state-of-social-media-marketing/&quot;&gt;The State of Social Media Marketing&lt;/a&gt; (georgevanantwerp.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-i-hate-automation-in-human.html&quot;&gt;Why I hate automation in human communication&lt;/a&gt; (fasterfuture.blogspot.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/01/prweb3524244.htm&quot;&gt;Harris Connect Introduces the Next Generation of Community Connections An Application Built on Facebook Platform&lt;/a&gt; (prweb.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/531c073c-8601-4d1e-b203-6168c868a994/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=531c073c-8601-4d1e-b203-6168c868a994&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script defer=&quot;defer&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-6646167487947705566?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/3-reasons-people-join-groups.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/3-reasons-people-join-groups.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Vote in the first social business innovation awards</title><description>&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot; src=&quot;http://static.polldaddy.com/p/2630154.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;noscript&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/2630154/&quot;&gt;Name the Social Business Innovation Award winner for Jan 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:9px;&quot;&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.polldaddy.com&quot;&gt;polls&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/noscript&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S2cJbSa9SRI/AAAAAAAAD48/K_fReZGjGZM/s1600-h/SocialBusinessInnovationlogo.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 181px; height: 187px;&quot; src=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S2cJbSa9SRI/AAAAAAAAD48/K_fReZGjGZM/s400/SocialBusinessInnovationlogo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433321839851817234&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The nominations are now closed and the &lt;b&gt;voting is now open&lt;/b&gt; in the first ever Social Business Innovation Awards. Don&#039;t worry if your favourites aren&#039;t on the list, we all get the chance to nominate again for the next month&#039;s when the voting closes on this round on Feb 11.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those who missed the nomination phase, to reiterate, this is what it&#039;s all about:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Social business innovation: Efficiency and tranformation through the use of social tools.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have the best set of tools in history for people to find each other and act together to create and improve on the things that matter to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are we doing with them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some businesses and organisations are grasping them to &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/search?q=wikifix&quot;&gt;wikifix&lt;/a&gt; their products and services, to deliver best-fit R&amp;amp;D and NPD and join in waste-free people-powered communications and marketing. &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2009/12/2020-vision.html&quot;&gt;The wikifixing of the world has begun&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those engaging in the process reach new levels of efficiency thanks to an ever-better fit with the needs of their partners - those formerly known as the customer. &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;(By way of disclosure, that&#039;s what we at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ninety10group.com/&quot; style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;90:10 Group &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;help organisations with)&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you will join with me to celebrate the best of them - and through this find a path to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2008/04/communities-of-purpose-are-business.html&quot;&gt;communities-of-purpose&lt;/a&gt;-driven &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2009/12/role-of-21st-century-organisation.html&quot;&gt;future of the organisation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So each month this blog will host a Social Business Innovation of The Month award, nominated by you and voted on by you. The format is very much inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://neilperkin.typepad.com/only_dead_fish/2010/01/post-of-the-month-december-09-the-vote.html&quot;&gt;Neil Perkin&#039;s ThinkTank&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The awards are to recognise great work in open/social business/organisational design/innovation/tranformation/efficiency using social technologies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The winners will enter a case-study Hall of Fame to be shared with all - and in which the winners can revel in the glory of their peers&#039; admiration ;-). More importantly, we can all get inspiration and guidance.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;The winner will enter a Hall of Fame where we can collectively gawp upon fine thinking, share opinions and get inspired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, here are this month&#039;s nominees (note they do not have to be from the last month (at least initially), the monthly cycle is just to keep this rolling and keep us collectively scouring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;The Nominations are&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thecitysquareproject.com/&quot;&gt;1. The City Square Project &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dl class=&quot;avatar-comment-indent&quot; id=&quot;comments-block&quot;&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c9080241808069166188&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/profile/10457425245287473120&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Proposed by Eaon Pritchard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c9080241808069166188&quot;&gt;Eaon said: &lt;i&gt;Tiny steps but i was interested to see this initiative from developers in my home town of Aberdeen using the web to gather input from the people of the city into making a plan to potentially transform a city centre space. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c9080241808069166188&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c9080241808069166188&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/21/best-buy-goes-all-twitter-crazy-with-twelpforce/&quot;&gt;2. Best Buy (Twelpforce) &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c9080241808069166188&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c504656654822913098&quot;&gt;Proposed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://tedshelton.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Ted Shelto&lt;/a&gt;n: &lt;i&gt;I&#039;d like to suggest that large companies should get kudos for doing brave things and Best Buy has really gone all out. Every Best Buy store now has a sign up on the front door about their Twitter initiative, &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/Twelpforce&quot;&gt;Twelpforce&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c504656654822913098&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c504656654822913098&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/AFKRrgFIkgI&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/AFKRrgFIkgI&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c504656654822913098&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c504656654822913098&quot;&gt;3. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.local-motors.com/&quot;&gt;Local Motors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c504656654822913098&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c504656654822913098&quot;&gt;Proposed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://neilperkin.typepad.com/&quot;&gt;Neil Perkin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c504656654822913098&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c504656654822913098&quot;&gt;A great example that I have been recently obsessing about is &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.local-motors.com/&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; title=&quot;Local Motors&quot;&gt;Local Motors&lt;/a&gt; in the US who crowdsource design for their models, and whom I wrote about here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/7v8eBq&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/7v8eBq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c504656654822913098&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c504656654822913098&quot;&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;340&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/z74tARLPZwY&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/z74tARLPZwY&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;340&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c504656654822913098&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c8809501929141503123&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://draft.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7815640431651173676&amp;amp;postID=1821628626922436286&quot; name=&quot;c8809501929141503123&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c4392130270926946607&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://draft.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7815640431651173676&amp;amp;postID=1821628626922436286&quot; name=&quot;c4392130270926946607&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://businesscard2.com%20/&quot;&gt;4. BusinessCard2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nominated anonymously (?): &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://businesscard2.com/&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; title=&quot;BusinessCard2&quot;&gt;BusinessCard2&lt;/a&gt; is helping make small business, social business. Check them out here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://businesscard2.com/&quot;&gt;http://BusinessCard2.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c4392130270926946607&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c4392130270926946607&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.snausages.com/&quot;&gt;5. Snausages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c4392130270926946607&quot;&gt;Nominated by me and shared by &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell/joshs_posts/&quot;&gt;Josh Bernoff&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.delmonte.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Del Monte&lt;/a&gt; developed the newest product in its Snausages line, Breakfast Bites, using input from a social network of dog owners it formed. According to an Advertising Age video and article, Del Monte developed its new Breakfast Bites product in just six weeks with the guidance of the exclusively formed group of pet consumers.&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dl class=&quot;avatar-comment-indent&quot; id=&quot;comments-block&quot;&gt;&lt;dt class=&quot;comment-author &quot; id=&quot;c4392130270926946607&quot;&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/yP_3bpCPZaQ&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/yP_3bpCPZaQ&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VOTING CLOSES ON February 11, 2010. Nominations for the next (February 2010) award will open shortly after.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot; src=&quot;http://static.polldaddy.com/p/2630154.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;noscript&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/2630154/&quot;&gt;Name the Social Business Innovation Award winner for Jan 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:9px;&quot;&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.polldaddy.com&quot;&gt;polls&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/noscript&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/01/announcing-social-business-innovation.html&quot;&gt;Announcing: Social Business Innovation Awards&lt;/a&gt; (fasterfuture.blogspot.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2010/01/social-business-innovation-awards.html&quot;&gt;Social Business Innovation Awards&lt;/a&gt; (stoweboyd.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=51433&quot;&gt;Social Technographics: Conversationalists get onto the ladder&lt;/a&gt; (downes.ca)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stuartbruce.biz/2010/01/forrester-researchs-new-social-technographics-ladder.html&quot;&gt;Forrester Research&#039;s new Social Technographics ladder&lt;/a&gt; (stuartbruce.biz)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogherald.com/2009/07/24/where-twitter-wants-to-be/&quot;&gt;Where Twitter Wants to Be&lt;/a&gt; (blogherald.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/cb9c72e4-a2c5-4e13-b25f-e9d0f9174126/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=cb9c72e4-a2c5-4e13-b25f-e9d0f9174126&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script defer=&quot;defer&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-1821628626922436286?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:57:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/vote-in-first-social-business.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/02/vote-in-first-social-business.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Living with Robots</title><description>Honda hat ein nettes Video über Entwicklung von Robotern gestellt, mit ein paar interessanten Einsichten. Ich bin ja ausgemachter ASIMO Fan   Ich hoffe, dass ich die Marktreife dieser Dinger noch erlebe!Weitere Kurzdokumentationen zu verschiedenen  anderen Themen gibt es hier: http://dreams.honda.com/(Disclaimer: Honda ist unser Kunde bei 90:10 Group)</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:54:11 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1532</link><guid>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1532</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Why I hate automation in human communication</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-img&quot; style=&quot;display: block; float: right; margin: 1em; width: 310px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Failwhale.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;The Twitter fail whale error message.&quot; height=&quot;225&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/de/Failwhale.png/300px-Failwhale.png&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none; display: block;&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zemanta-img-attribution&quot;&gt;Image via &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Failwhale.png&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/wadds&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:inherit;&quot;&gt;Stephen Waddington&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:inherit;&quot;&gt; was kind enough to ask for my thoughts on Bots (and specifically Twitter Bots) for his &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://reputationonline.co.uk/2010/01/27/stephen-waddington-on-twitter-followers-just-say-no-to-auto-mate/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:inherit;&quot;&gt;latest article on Reputation Online&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:inherit;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;He&#039;s also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/&quot;&gt;blogged&lt;/a&gt; about his motivation for writing the article.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:inherit;&quot;&gt;Stephen has compiled the thoughts of several social thinkers and you can read the aggregation in his article.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:inherit;&quot;&gt;But I thought it may be good to share the interview Stephen conducted with me as part of that process, in full.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:inherit;&quot;&gt;So, here it is:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stephen:&lt;/b&gt; Is there a real world equivalent to script building in the virtual world? I&#039;m looking for a metaphor?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Me:&lt;/b&gt; It&#039;s a little like someone who arrives at a university&#039;s Freshers&#039; Week and goes about indiscriminately joining each and every club and society. And then they refuse to come to any of the meetings unless they first get appointed to the organising committee. By people they don&#039;t yet know and whom don&#039;t yet know them.&lt;br /&gt;Or the speed dater who takes everyones number and doesn&#039;t call anyone.&lt;br /&gt;Or the boss of a large org who expects everyone to greet him by name each morning but doesn&#039;t bother learning the names of his staff to respond with.&lt;br /&gt;In short it&#039;s anti-social in the purist form: ie not the way humans expect each other to behave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stephen:&lt;/b&gt; Is the size of a network as a means of measuring influence/authority appropriate under any circumstances?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Me:&lt;/b&gt; If that network is a perfect match for the niche you are interested in. That is a perfect match, and a perfect match Right Now.  But the reality is influence flows. It&#039;s a real-time web in a real-time world.&lt;br /&gt;Think of a flock. Think of the times you tried to change the direction the flock was moving in. If you succeeded you may claim some influence. If you failed, where was the influence then? Same network - at least the same nodes - in play. But the interactions between the nodes vary on each occasion. And it is in the interactions that change-in-state occurs. Finding nodal start points is important, but the peer to peer mechanic itself is more vital.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stephen:&lt;/b&gt; What is the downside of using a script to build a social network? Technically and socially?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Me:&lt;/b&gt; Technically it&#039;s likely you will be in breach of many networks&#039; terms and conditions. Check out twitters rules, for an example. But more critically you will mark yourself out as using social networks in a broadcast, one-to-many way. No one wants to talk to someone who doesn&#039;t listen.&lt;br /&gt;I have this dream that as us humans spot the bots we block them, refuse to follow them etc to such a degree that the fuzzy edge around our communities hardens against them. And we end up with a walled off &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Escape-New-York-Region-2/dp/B00004CYRZ%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00004CYRZ&quot; rel=&quot;amazon&quot; title=&quot;Escape from New York [Region 2]&quot;&gt;Escape From New York&lt;/a&gt; scenario where the bots are all following each other, broadcasting welcome messages at each other. Every bot talking but nobody listening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stephen:&lt;/b&gt; Agencies are flogging bots as a means to build guaranteed follower numbers? How should an agency that deems this inappropriate counter this from a sale perspective?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Me:&lt;/b&gt; Well, we have to point out that follower numbers don&#039;t equal interaction or desired outcome. Social media means nothing in its own right.  We have the best set of tools for connecting people in history. So what are you going to do with them? Harvest eyeballs? Come on! Ditch the spam-tastic waste machine of the 20th century - get efficient. Keep your million eyeballs, I&#039;d rather connect with a small group of people who care sufficiently about the purpose at hand to want to make it better. These people find each other through genuine human interactions, not carpet bombing. Famous for 15 people beats famous for 15 minutes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stephen:&lt;/b&gt; What should clients/agencies be measuring?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Me:&lt;/b&gt; Outcomes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stephen:&lt;/b&gt; Are there any other points that you&#039;d want to make on this topic?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Me:&lt;/b&gt; There is an exception to my anti-auto position. It is to take advantage of the growing Web of Things. Automated reports from devices, buildings etc that I choose to receive status reports from are welcome. I&#039;m also ok with bloggers adding an RSS feed of their posts (and similar) provided that isn&#039;t the only or major representation of themselves in any particular network. If the content prompts conversation in the environment in which it is shared, or helps people with shared purpose find each other, that&#039;s a good thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/01/twittercom-vs-the-twitter-ecosystem.html&quot;&gt;Twitter.com vs The Twitter Ecosystem&lt;/a&gt; (avc.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://myventurepad.com/MVP/66064&quot;&gt;Twitter Usage is Very Concentrated According to Harvard Research&lt;/a&gt; (myventurepad.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/eac17970-a57d-4a3a-9632-45df3a3341cd/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=eac17970-a57d-4a3a-9632-45df3a3341cd&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script defer=&quot;defer&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-4733298472926468804?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:37:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-i-hate-automation-in-human.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-i-hate-automation-in-human.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Euan comes from behind the firewall</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; &quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;My good friend &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.euansemple.com/theobvious/&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;Euan Semple&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt; is running &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.online-information.co.uk%2Fonline09%2Ftraining_workshops.html&amp;amp;i=0&amp;amp;d=Z718YW43-446V-4Z89-80W5-UVZ72U1W65W5&amp;amp;e=davidpcushman@googlemail.com&quot; style=&quot;color: #2a5db0;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot; text-decoration: underline;color:#002bdc;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;a series of workshops&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt; in London in the next few months covering various aspects of the business use of social media. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; &quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;He has run similar events for many years inside orgs - now he&#039;s opening up to offer them outside. I commend them to you - I know from personal experience how good Euan&#039;s work is - it&#039;s one of the many reasons he was one of the first people I asked to join the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ninety10group.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;90:10 group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt; of consultants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;I&#039;ll leave the rest to Euan:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse;&quot;&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&quot;There are three workshops offering you a comprehensive understanding of the impact the web on the workplace and the information you need to do something about it.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;border-collapse: separate; &quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;Workshop One Wednesday 24 February &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.online-information.co.uk%2Fonline09%2Ftraining_programme_24February.html&amp;amp;i=1&amp;amp;d=Z718YW43-446V-4Z89-80W5-UVZ72U1W65W5&amp;amp;e=davidpcushman@googlemail.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:black;&quot;&gt;GETTING TO GRIPS WITH THE WIRED WORLD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;border-collapse: separate; &quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;Workshop Two Wednesday 10 March &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.online-information.co.uk%2Fonline09%2Ftraining_programme_10March.html&amp;amp;i=2&amp;amp;d=Z718YW43-446V-4Z89-80W5-UVZ72U1W65W5&amp;amp;e=davidpcushman@googlemail.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:black;&quot;&gt;HOW TO MANAGE THE NETWORKED WORKFORC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;E&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;border-collapse: separate; &quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;Workshop Three Wednesday 24 March &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.online-information.co.uk%2Fonline09%2Ftraining_programme_24March.html&amp;amp;i=3&amp;amp;d=Z718YW43-446V-4Z89-80W5-UVZ72U1W65W5&amp;amp;e=davidpcushman@googlemail.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE IN THE POST INDUSTRIAL AGE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-550876975830587064?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:04:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/01/euan-comes-from-behind-firewall.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/01/euan-comes-from-behind-firewall.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>10 Reasons Why Your Social Media Strategy Will Fail</title><description>I compiled this for a presentation - with the real-time help of &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/vero&quot;&gt;@vero&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/andrewspong&quot;&gt;@andrewspong&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/picklejar&quot;&gt;@picklejar&lt;/a&gt; - and thought it might be useful to share here. By all means add to it by making comments on this post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Your &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2009/12/using-social-media-fail.html&quot;&gt;Social + Media&lt;/a&gt; Strategy Will Fail If:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;You think of yourselves as owners rather than as an enabling platform&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You don’t place social + media at the heart of what you do (it can’t be layered on)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You fail to listen – and join in&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You don’t go where your communities are&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Your message doesn’t match your actions (authenticity)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You try to use peer-to-peer for push/broadcast (you can&#039;t use it, you can participate in it)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You set yourselves up as a ‘brand’ or ‘corporation’ rather than as a human - and speak like a brochure.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You approach it as a purely comms medium and make it just one department’s responsibility.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You fail to think (honestly) about what’s in it for the user&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You don’t give it enough time (don’t do campaigns, do relationships)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2009/10/social-media-change.html&quot;&gt;Social + Media = Change&lt;/a&gt; (fasterfuture.blogspot.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.killerstartups.com/Comm/getmoot-com-collaborate-with-your-team&quot;&gt;GetMoot.com - Collaborate With Your Team&lt;/a&gt; (killerstartups.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/3ce92f0d-7ab7-4a0c-84d9-4a466967f9a9/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=3ce92f0d-7ab7-4a0c-84d9-4a466967f9a9&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script defer=&quot;defer&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-6208270563999551424?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:11:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/01/10-reasons-why-your-social-media.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/01/10-reasons-why-your-social-media.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Social Media at Work…arguments for businesses to make it happen!</title><description>I&amp;#8217;m still amazed to see that social media still can’t get enough respect in the workplace&amp;#8230; and still many multinationals don&amp;#8217;t get it.They always invoke the same reasons:- security- performance &amp;#38; ROI- not a priority- for young consumers- for B2C, we are in B2B.While it&amp;#8217;s certain that most companies&amp;#8217; executives I&amp;#8217;ve met think they should ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:41:25 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/G4GjySiECDA/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/G4GjySiECDA/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Stowe Boyd joins the 90:10 Group</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S1cwMejxy1I/AAAAAAAAD4o/aALMqMDUsw8/s1600-h/9010logo.jpg&quot; onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428860866738113362&quot; src=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S1cwMejxy1I/AAAAAAAAD4o/aALMqMDUsw8/s400/9010logo.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 159px; width: 278px;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:black;&quot;&gt;We announced it on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ninety10group.com/&quot;&gt;90:10 site&lt;/a&gt;, and he&#039;s blogged it himself, but I couldn&#039;t let the arrival of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/stowe-in-one-paragraph.html&quot;&gt;Stowe Boyd&lt;/a&gt;, as part of 90:10&#039;s community of consultants, pass without comment on my own blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CC9ZiW-BzxU/S1cuSMbO6FI/AAAAAAAAD4Y/pf2lO8YfW74/s1600-h/9010+for+blog.jpg&quot; onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;You see, Stowe has been an inspiration to me for quite some time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I love his mantra: &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;I am made greater by the sum of my connections - and so are my connections&quot;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It&#039;s such a powerful expression of the power of the network; of the value of nodes connecting and the subsequent interaction; of none-of-us-is-cleverer-than-all-of-us. I quote it liberally, in presentations, online and in my book (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/content/4590198&quot;&gt;The Power of the Network&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We met for a curry in London, a good few years ago - while I was still at emap/Bauer. We built on that in New York when we both spoke at Widget Web Expo there in 2008. I started writing the occasional post for his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stoweboyd.com/message&quot;&gt;/Message&lt;/a&gt; blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We hit it off. We believe in the same stuff. He&#039;s wise. And good fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We&#039;ve kept the connection live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So it&#039;s fantastic to know a man of Stowe&#039;s global standing (he coined the term social tools in 1999, for example) believes enough in what we are doing with 90:10 that he wants to join us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Every one of our consultants is someone I know and personally trust. And by implication those who join up trust me (and by association 90:10).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;They also happen to form a constellation of stars with unparalleled knowledge and expertise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We get to call on wonderful minds and they get to call on us - and we tell the world we trust each other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you don&#039;t know Stowe, find out more about him, and the rest of the 90:10 crew, &lt;a href=&quot;http://ninety10group.com/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-8618110830495306658?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:19:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/01/stowe-boyd-joins-9010-group.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/01/stowe-boyd-joins-9010-group.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>No 1 in the UK; No 11 in the world</title><description>I came across &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fpte.co.uk/2010/01/12/worlds-top-100-pr-blogs-january-2010/&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; recently. A list of blogs in which FasterFuture emerges as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fpte.co.uk/2010/01/12/worlds-top-100-pr-blogs-january-2010/&quot;&gt;No1 in the UK (No 11) globally&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;|It always interests me; the lists this blog ends up on. What is pleasing is that there is never one type.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On this occasion it&#039;s a list of the &#039;100 Top PR Blogs&#039; derived from those in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://adage.com/power150/&quot;&gt;Adage Power 150&lt;/a&gt; ranking (which lists advertising/marketing/pr/marcomms types of blogs). As an aside, looks to me like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nevillehobson.com/&quot;&gt;Neville Hobson&#039;s&lt;/a&gt; blog is missing from the list - and that certainly sits higher than FasterFuture in the Adage rankings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FasterFuture has also been ranked among the &lt;a href=&quot;http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2009/09/top-of-publishing-pops-almost-lucky-no7.html&quot;&gt;top 10 &#039;publishing&#039; blogs&lt;/a&gt; globally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it&#039;s currently listed in the top 5000 of all blogs (there are some 300m globally) by the up-and-down-o-meter that is Technorati. Interestingly I saw FasterFuture appear in Technorati&#039;s top 100 small business blogs at one point, not so long ago, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marketing? Advertising? PR? Publishing? Business?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yep, FasterFuture is about all of that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a converging world where (as &lt;a href=&quot;http://friendfeed.com/zeroinfluencer&quot;&gt;David Bausola&lt;/a&gt; so nicely puts it) Mess is Lore, I&#039;m happy not to fit comfortably in any centrally contrived niche :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;fieldset class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;legend class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nickburcher.com/2009/07/adage-power-150-european-top-100-blog.html&quot;&gt;AdAge Power 150 European top 100 blog ranking - July 2009&lt;/a&gt; (nickburcher.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://t4w.blogs.com/spinningaround/2009/11/latest_top_uk_weblogs.html&quot;&gt;the Uk&#039;s Top Marketing Weblogs&lt;/a&gt; (t4w.blogs.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.beingpeterkim.com/2009/07/rising-above.html&quot;&gt;Rising above&lt;/a&gt; (beingpeterkim.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/53f15fae-4bd1-49fc-a626-a65b39ca43d1/&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=53f15fae-4bd1-49fc-a626-a65b39ca43d1&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt;&lt;script defer=&quot;defer&quot; src=&quot;http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;FasterFuture is regularly updated by David Cushman&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7815640431651173676-8017155643015797831?l=fasterfuture.blogspot.com&#039; alt=&#039;&#039; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:51:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/01/no-1-in-uk-no-11-in-world.html</link><guid>http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2010/01/no-1-in-uk-no-11-in-world.html</guid></item>    
		<item><title>El vídeo online, un contenido corporativo estratégico</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;150&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/three_screens.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;El vídeo online se está convirtiendo en uno de los formatos imprescindibles para la generación y distribución de contenido por parte de las empresas y un elemento estratégico desde el punto de vista de Comunicación y Relaciones Públicas, entretenimiento o como soporte publicitario. Ello se explica por la nueva forma de consumo de contenido de nuestro público y por el cambio en su comportamiento gracias a las herramientas de la web social. Así, el vídeo online continúa captando la atención tanto de los productores como de los consumidores.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-you-watched-and-searched-for-on.html&quot;&gt;Las cifras de visionados de los diez vídeos más vistos YouTube en 2009 son espectaculares&lt;/a&gt;. La actuación de Susan Boyle en Britain’s Got Talent aparece como el vídeo más popular del año, con más de 120 millones de visitas; imaginaos lo que eso supone en un canal de YouTube que genere ingresos mediante publicidad. Pero &lt;b&gt;no sólo YouTube&lt;/b&gt; es una plataforma idónea para este tipo de contenido, ya que según un reciente estudio de Nielsen &lt;b&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.strangelove.com/blog/2009/11/facebook-popular-video-site/&quot;&gt;Facebook se ha convertido en la tercera red más activa de consumo y distribución de vídeo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. La misma compañía señala que el consumo de vídeo en las principales redes sociales &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/time-spent-viewing-video-on-social-networking-sites-up-98-year-over-year-in-october/&quot;&gt;ha crecido un 98% en tan solo un año&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Otra clara tendencia está siendo el lifestream en vídeo, el vídeo generado en directo para el consumo en tiempo real. La multitud de herramientas que surgen cada día para ello es reveladora: &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.ustream.tv/&quot;&gt;Ustream&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://12seconds.tv/12cast&quot;&gt;12cast&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.twitvid.com/&quot;&gt;Twitvid&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.livecast.com/corporate/index.html&quot;&gt;Livecast&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.flixwagon.com/&quot;&gt;Flixwagon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://qik.com/&quot;&gt;Qik&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.kyte.tv/home/index.html&quot;&gt;Kyte&lt;/a&gt;…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Según un informe de Microsfot Advertising y ZenithMedia, &lt;b&gt;España es el país europeo donde un mayor número de internautas han visto vídeos online en el ordenador&lt;/b&gt;, un 87% frente al 63% de franceses. Sin embargo, somos los últimos a la hora de consumirlo en dispositivos móviles, un 16% de usuarios lo han hecho, frente al casi 30% del Reino Unido. Los encuestados afirman que en el ordenador, se consume sobre todo contenido en streaming, series, deportes, repeticiones o los mejores momentos de ciertos programas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pero los usuarios no sólo consumen contenido. &lt;b&gt;Casi uno de cada cinco internautas (18%) ha subido vídeos a plataformas como YouTube&lt;/b&gt;, alcanzando hasta el 30% en la franja de edad de 18 a 24 años. Así, según The Cocktayl Analysis, un 35% de internautas acude al menos una vez a la semana a dicho servidor y un 64% al menos una vez al mes, siendo los contenidos más visitados los referidos a humor, música y contenidos no profesionales subidos por amigos o conocidos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;150&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;http://www.newstex.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/distributors-video.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Además existe un &lt;b&gt;importante componente social&lt;/b&gt; como característica de este nuevo consumo, ya que según los resultados del estudio, &lt;b&gt;el 44% de los vídeos no sólo se ven sino que también se comparten&lt;/b&gt;, con familiares y amigos principalmente. El cambio  en la manera tradicional de consumir contenidos audiovisuales es ya una realidad innegable. El consumo de vídeo online se ha convertido en una revolución en el consumo de contenidos audiovisuales.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Las descargas dejan paso progresivamente al streaming&lt;/b&gt;, una tecnología que permite ver vídeos y escuchar canciones en webs especializadas sin necesidad de descargar y almacenar los archivos. Ésta es la principal conclusión del &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.fundacionorange.es/fundacionorange/analisis/eespana/e_espana09.html&quot;&gt;informe eEspaña 2009&lt;/a&gt;, realizado por la Fundación Orange. Los datos del informe señalan que el 47,8% de los internautas utilizaron el streaming para ver películas en el último año, frente al 37,3% que se descarga películas gracias a programas de intercambio de archivos P2P.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Así, en España, la productora y distribuidora Filmax Entertainment ha lanzado su plataforma &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.yodecido.com/&quot;&gt;Yodecido.com&lt;/a&gt;, un catálogo de 3 millones de canciones y 700 películas de pago. No pueden volver la espalda al nuevo público y prefieren subirse al streaming antes de que les pase por encima: los internautas pueden ver de forma completamente gratuita películas con publicidad.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;En España, son claros los ejemplos de verdaderas apuestas por el vídeo online, tal es el caso (¿cónoces más ejemplos que te gusten? Anímate a compartirlos o a darlos a conocer en los comentarios):&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://malviviendo.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Malviviendo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: un grupo de amigos que está recibiendo año tras año un gran número de premios, gracias a la generación de contenido en vídeo para su serie.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://dnovae.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Digital Novae Media&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: empresa que ofrece consultoría y asesoría en desarrollo y estrategia de negocio, contenidos, tecnología aplicada a la mejora estratégica… y que está apostando por la eficiencia en la codificación, desarrollando WEB TV’s para Hombres G y &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://sonypicturespresenta.com/&quot;&gt;Sony Pictures España&lt;/a&gt;, entre otros.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://agoranews.es/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;AgoraNews&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: la primera agencia de vídeo online de nuestro país. Que está ampliando su estrategia y modelo de negocio gracias a su expertise, desarrollando plataformas para empresas y anunciantes, como la generada para eBay en el concurso &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.navidadsinestres.com/&quot;&gt;Navidadsinestres&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://hombresg.tv/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hombres G&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: que se están convirtiendo en unos verdaderos generadores de contenido, tanto en tiempo real (con aplicaciones como Qik), como en ensayos, giras, producciones de series, junto con marcas como Peugeot…&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.nikodemo.tv/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nikodemo.tv&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: “Queremos abanderar la revolución de outsiders de video online con una ‘ventana de relevancia’ irreverente y gamberra, en la que &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.calicoelectronico.com/&quot;&gt;Cálico Electrónico&lt;/a&gt; actúa de locomotora para los que apuestan por la ‘generación playlist’ y que están un poco hartos de la tiranía del broadcasting…”, según asegura &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://qtorb.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Albert García Pujadas&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Los nuevos canales de distribución de contenido, las redes sociales, el cambio en el comportamiento del consumidor y generador de contenidos, así como la tecnología, están creando un clima realmente favorable para el vídeo online como formato de generación y distribución de contenido corporativo, así que veremos con qué nos sorprende este año.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Más información:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.leadingnewthinking.com/files/Estudio_video_online_200906_resumen%20en%20Espa%C3%B1ol.pdf&quot;&gt;ESTUDIO de Havas Digital: “El consumo de video online en España”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; -pdf-&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/digital/e3i3fdb706572f41f07c44a89179506c31f&quot;&gt;Audience for online video keeps climbing&lt;/a&gt; (AdWeek)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://robertocarreras.es/post/236109619/el-video-online-conecta-con-los-blogs-y-crea-un-nuevo&quot;&gt;El vídeo online conecta con los blogs y ¿crea un nuevo prime time?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;10%&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si te ha gustado este post y quieres seguir lo publicado en este blog puedes &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;suscribirte a las entradas con tu lector de RSS&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;recibir cada actualización en tu correo electrónico&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=1JnIH-VYzYw:nxbzgnbVmac:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=1JnIH-VYzYw:nxbzgnbVmac:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=1JnIH-VYzYw:nxbzgnbVmac:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:35:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/1JnIH-VYzYw/341666418</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/1JnIH-VYzYw/341666418</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Brand 2.0: when crowdsourcing becomes a must..</title><description>In my previous post &amp;#8216;Media Social = Etoile de Mer&amp;#8216; (in French), I mentioned the example of Red Hat a company that has managed to succeed while participating in and contributing to internal and external communities through social networks. This open source model has thus demonstrated that it is entirely possible to design, develop and ...</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:31:17 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/4BhNTDLc_Zc/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/4BhNTDLc_Zc/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>10 aplicaciones imprescindibles para Facebook</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;185&quot; width=&quot;250&quot; src=&quot;http://www.publispain.com/facebook/imagenes/facebook03.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Probablemente el crecimiento que ha vivido Facebook durante este año, en el que ha alcanzado más de 350 millones de usuarios, continue a lo largo del que está a punto de comenzar. Cada vez son más las marcas, empresas, grupos de música, ONG’s, etc., que crean sus páginas, perfiles, eventos, grupos o causas en esta red social que se ha convertido en la más importante del mundo. Pero sí queremos diferenciar nuestros perfiles o fan pages debemos conocer algunas aplicaciones imprescindibles para ello. Os dejo una selección de las que me han parecido más útiles (añado alguna nueva, pero recogen dos de los posts que han tenido más éxito durante este año en el blog):&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?sid=9314bee6f412e4b30ad600c2d1faf574&amp;id=9953271133&amp;ref=search&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Networked Blogs&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: se trata de una aplicación que cuenta ya con cerca de 400.000 usuarios y a la que se suman 500 blogs cada día, según Read Write Web. Gracias a esta aplicación puedes llevar tu blog a Facebook y crear comunidad en torno al mismo. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Puedes incluir la aplicación en tu perfil o en cualquier página.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Importar el feed del blog al perfil y a la página.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Incluir un blogroll en tu perfil para promocionar tu blog y los que sigues.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sirve como directorio de blogs, organizado por temas o localización geográfica.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Leer nuevos post y votar aquéllos que más te gustan.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Seleccionar un listado de blogs favoritos.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=23798139265&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;RSS Connect&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: gracias a esta aplicación es posible incluir cualquier contenido sindicado (RSS) en tu muro, en las etiquetas o en como una pestaña más de tu perfil o en una página corporativa de Facebook. Los feeds se actualizan automáticamente.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2344132808&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Simplaris Blogcast&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: es una de las maneras más sencillas de integrar el contenido de un blog dentro de Facebook. El contenido de nuestro blog se actualiza automáticamente en Facebook, independientemente de cuál sea nuestro editor de blog. La aplicación se puede agregar al apartado de información de tu perfil, al perfil o una etiqueta customizable. También puede incluirse en cualquier página de Facebook, al igual que la anterior.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=8826748878&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Blog&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: otra interesante aplicación para llevar el contenido de un blog a Facebook. Su uso es muy sencillo. Aunque personalmente prefiero las tres primeras.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=14103720714&amp;ref=appd&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Blog It&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: es muy útil para llevar el contenido que generamos en distintas plataformas a Facebook (como WordPress, LiveJournal, Twitter, Tumblr…)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=20678178440&amp;ref=pr&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Poll&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: es la principal aplicación de encuestas para Facebook. Te permite agregar encuestas a tu perfil o bien a una página corporativa, además de editarlas con etiquetas html.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=24265472995&amp;ref=s&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Professional Profile&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: interesante herramienta cuando mezclamos amigos y contactos profesionales, ya que crea una nueva pestaña enfocada al perfil profesional.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/applications/My_LinkedIn_Profile/6394109615&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;My LinkedIn Profile&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: permite incluir un logo de LinkedIn en diferentes formatos en tu página principal con acceso directo a tu perfil de LinkedIn.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://tweetpo.st/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;TweetPo.st&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: permite llevar el contenido de Twitter a Facebook pero aportando un valor añadido. Normalmente no tenemos los mismos “amigos” en una y otra red, por lo que los mensajes de Twitter (RT, @…) pueden resultar extraños para los usuarios de Facebook. Lo que hace es traducir el código lingüístico y formal de Twitter al propio de Facebook. Ej.: si pongo un reply al usuario de Twitter @xxx la aplicación lo lleva a Facebook con su nombre real: “Perico Palotes”. Además, cada uno de los links que incluimos en Twitter lo lleva a Facebook como si se tratase de un enlace de los internos.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://apps.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2490221586&amp;b&amp;ref=pd&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;SlideShare&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: esta aplicación nos permite integrar, tanto en pestaña nueva como en la página de nuestro perfil, todos los documentos que actualizamos en SlideShare.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;223&quot; width=&quot;185&quot; src=&quot;http://www.codigogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/facebook-apps.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Más información y recursos&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/facebook-fan-badge/&quot;&gt;Facebook Fan Badge: Show love for your favorite fan pages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.focus.com/fyi/marketing/facebook-marketing-toolbox-100-tools-and-tips-tap-facebook/&quot;&gt;The Facebook Marketing Toolbox: 100 Tools and Tips to Tap the Facebook Customer Base&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://facebookflow.com/2009/08/17/profile-box-widget/&quot;&gt;Make a Widget for Your Facebook Profile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.labnol.org/internet/tutorial-write-a-facebook-application/10116/&quot;&gt;How to Write Your Own Facebook App in 5 Minutes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://teayudofacebook.blogspot.com/2009/12/facebookdiferencias-entre-perfilgrupo-y.html&quot;&gt;Facebook: diferencias entre perfil, grupo y página&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2009/10/24/facebook-apps-guide/&quot;&gt;HOW TO: Find and Add Facebook Apps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2009/10/06/facebook-blog-integration/&quot;&gt;HOW TO: Integrate Facebook With Your Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;10%&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si te ha gustado este post y quieres seguir lo publicado en este blog puedes &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;suscribirte a las entradas con tu lector de RSS&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;recibir cada actualización en tu correo electrónico&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=jeNFat_BqIg:15-52uEqt2g:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=jeNFat_BqIg:15-52uEqt2g:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=jeNFat_BqIg:15-52uEqt2g:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:28:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/jeNFat_BqIg/306594188</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/jeNFat_BqIg/306594188</guid></item>    
		<item><title>What’s next…?</title><description>&amp;#8230;in Social Media:“At least one of the dominant tools for social networking will wind down and decline and people will leave it nearly as quickly as they joined it. I have no idea which one it will be, but not even Facebook or Twitter is immune from the possibility. The viral effect works in both ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:12:51 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/tIKjqJFFpSg/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/tIKjqJFFpSg/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Feliz Navidad: mis deseos para 2010</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;133&quot; width=&quot;199&quot; src=&quot;http://www.elchupete.com/blog/images/make-a-wish.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hace unas semanas recibí la invitación de &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.interactividad.org/2009/12/23/predicciones-para-social-media-en-2010-documento-colaborativo/&quot;&gt;Marc Cortés para participar en un documento sobre predicciones para 2010 en Social Media&lt;/a&gt;. Más que predicciones apunté unas pinceladas sobre lo que deseo para el año próximo y lo que veo, tras este año, que se está configurando como tendencia. Eran unas breves ideas que quiero compartir con vosotros (al mismo tiempo que desearos una Feliz Navidad y desearos lo mejor para el año que comienza: 2010 será un gran año sin duda)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;El que dejamos atrás ha sido un año difícil, pero crucial al mismo tiempo; ya que a pesar de la delicada situación económica vivida, la web social, tanto desde el punto de vista corporativo como de las personas, ha demostrado que no es una moda pasajera. &lt;b&gt;La web social se ha consolidado en uno de los años más difíciles&lt;/b&gt;, en plena crisis. La tecnología y el gran número de herramientas surgidas entorno Internet no han hecho más que plasmar un cambio en el comportamiento de las personas. Más que predecir sólo apuntar algunas ideas que me gustaría que ocurriesen a lo largo de 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dejaremos de hablar de Social Media&lt;/b&gt;. El término web social me gusta, sin embargo plantea dudas, ya que ¿cuál sería la otra web que no es social? Todo Internet en su conjunto forma el nuevo ecosistema, que ya no es ni un medio, ni una sola web, sino toda una realidad económica, empresarial, educativa, etc., que acompaña y vive paralela a la realidad offline.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Se crearán los primeros &lt;b&gt;departamentos específicos de Social Media&lt;/b&gt;, con un componente de Management en la estrategia corporativa, tal como funcionan los departamentos de Marketing, Comunicación, Marketing, etc. Serán los responsables de trazar la estrategia online, en paralelo y colaboración con otros departamentos.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Surgirán las primeras compañías que integren en su gestión, creación de productos, diseño, estrategia, etc., las herramientas sociales así como la opinión de sus públicos, caminando hacia lo que comenzamos a denominar &lt;b&gt;“Social Business”&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;La web en tiempo real&lt;/b&gt;, que durante 2009 dio sus primeros pasos como fenómeno, vivirá en 2010 su consolidación. Si el pasado año vivimos el afianzamiento de Twitter, la compra de FriendFeed por parte de Facebook, la integración de resultados en tiempo real en las páginas de Google, la proliferación de servicios de streaming de vídeo como Ustream o hasta el propio Google Wave, durante este año veremos la aparición de nuevas aplicaciones que permitan la emisión de contenidos desde cualquier dispositivo conectado a la red, así como su consumo en tiempo real. &lt;b&gt;Gadgets como los smartphones, iPhone… y la clara apuesta de las operadoras de Telecomunicaciones por tarifas de datos y el acceso a las redes sociales a través de los terminales, contribuirán sin duda a asentar esta nueva forma de producir y consumir contenidos&lt;/b&gt;. El tiempo real afectará también a las acciones publicitarias, de marketing, de comunicación…&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;El vídeo online se consolidará como “el contenido”&lt;/b&gt;, como soporte publicitario, corporativo, de comunicación, entretenimiento, etc. Se afianzarán formatos como las series y las producciones específicas para Internet.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;La medición y el ROI será la prioridad&lt;/b&gt;. Será el año de la &lt;b&gt;Reputación Online&lt;/b&gt; y su definición como concepto, donde diferenciaremos de la investigación online de la monitorización, de lo cualitativo respecto a lo cuantitativo.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Surgirán un gran número de empresas que desempeñen su actividad económica dentro de Facebook (ecommerce, juegos, publicidad, etc.), red que continuará consolidándose, gracias sobre todo a Facebook Connect y a los desarrollos y acuerdos a los que llegue con otras redes sociales (como MySpace…)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Os dejo el documento completo elaborado por Marc Cortés y los titulares de cada uno de los participantes&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;View Social Media Predictions 2010 on Scribd&quot; href=&quot;http://www.scribd.com/doc/24431112/Social-Media-Predictions-2010&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Social Media Predictions 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;object data=&quot;http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=24431112&amp;access_key=key-169s7uom9neo7g6fdhnt&amp;page=1&amp;version=1&amp;viewMode=list&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; height=&quot;500&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot; id=&quot;doc_553132662731280&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;name&quot; value=&quot;doc_553132662731280&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;align&quot; value=&quot;middle&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;quality&quot; value=&quot;high&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;play&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;loop&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;scale&quot; value=&quot;showall&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;wmode&quot; value=&quot;opaque&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;devicefont&quot; value=&quot;false&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;bgcolor&quot; value=&quot;#ffffff&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;menu&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;mode&quot; value=&quot;list&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;src&quot; value=&quot;http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=24431112&amp;access_key=key-169s7uom9neo7g6fdhnt&amp;page=1&amp;version=1&amp;viewMode=list&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://yoriento.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Alfonso Alcantara&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Consultor y coach en desarrollo profesional y empleo 2.0&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“En 2010 las redes sociales definitivamente serán las autopistas de las ideas”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.grupointercom.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jacobo Álvarez&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Director Negocio Grupo Intercom y Socio en Multiplica&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“El 2010 el año en el que, al menos en el móvil, la suma de geolocalización y redes personales y profesionales nos liberen del exceso de información y nos ayude a acceder a información más relevante de nuestro entorno”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://jlantunez.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jose Luis Antúnez&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Fundador de YouAre y Coorganizador de Evento Blog España&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“El real-time es la extrapolación de la vida real a la web. Y en la vida real se hace dinero vendiendo y pagando cosas”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.enriqueburgos.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Enrique Burgos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Responsable de Marketing Relacional de Unidad Editorial&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Solo demostrando el valor que aporta a las marcas (económico &amp; imagen) se lograra una mayor comprensión por las altas direcciones de las empresas”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.netoraton.es/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cesar Calderón&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Socio Director en Autoritas Consulting&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“2010 será el año en el que las administraciones públicas descubran los Social Media y comiencen a conversar con los ciudadanos”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.interactividad.org&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Marc Cortés&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Socio-Director RocaSalvatella y Profesor Marketing Electrónico (ESADE)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Dejaremos de hablar de Social Media y empezaremos a hablar de Social Business”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.llorenteycuenca.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Adolfo Corujo y todo el equipo de Llorente &amp; Cuenca&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Director Senior Llorente&amp;Cuenca&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Para el usuario, 2010 será el año de… La explosión de la búsqueda en Tiempo Real”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://titonet.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fernando de la Rosa&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Socio y fundador de Seis Grados&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“2010 ES UN AÑO DE RE-INVENCIONES: EL PRINCIPIO DE NUEVOS MERCADOS Y DE LA AGONÍA DE OTROS”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/rogerdomingo&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Roger Domingo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Director Editorial Deusto / Gestión 2000/ Alienta / CEAC&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“La incorporación del mundo de la empresa a las redes sociales conllevará también un incremento de la publicidad en las mismas, lo cual pondrá en peligro la tan deseada ‘conversación cluetrainiania’”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/fegido&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fernado Fegido&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Director de Negocio Digital de Caja Navarra&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“El año 2010 será otro año en el que deberemos de seguir evangelizando y capacitando a muchos responsables de Márketing y Comunicación”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://tristanelosegui.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tristán Elósegui&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Responsable de Marketing Digital de Canal+ y Organizador del The Monday Reading Club&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“La crisis va a favorecer el crecimiento de los medios sociales”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.theplateishot.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ricard Espelt&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Regidor de Nuevas Tecnologías de Copons&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“La ciudadanía, cada vez más consciente del poder de las redes sociales, va a provocar pequeñas “revoluciones” en el devenir de la política española”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://es.marekfodor.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Marek Fodor&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Emprendedor y Business Angel del sector tecnológico&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Bajará notablemente el crecimiento de twitter, comparado con el año 2009”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.comunidadenlared.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jose Antonio Gallego Vázquez&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Responsable de Comunidad del BBVA&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Se dará el caso de comunidades enteras que renuncian a las redes sociales, que se bautizarán como “Amish digitales””&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://qtorb.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Albert García Pujadas&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: CEO Nikodemo&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“El video se impondrá como formato de comunicación habitual y como soporte publicitario de primer orden”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.xavierguell.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Xavier Guell&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Weyoose y Coorganizador de Cava&amp;Twitts&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Adiós humo, hola servicio”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://loogic.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Javier Martín&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Blogger y emprendedor&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Es la hora de vender!”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://blogs.alianzo.com/socialnetworks/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jose Antonio del Moral&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: CEO de Alianzo&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Volveremos a hablar de Web 2.0 y no tanto de social media. En el fondo todo es social y no sólo los media”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.latejedora.es/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ícaro Moyano&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Director Comunicación tuenti&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“¿GRPs? Mejor recomendaciones”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://sebasmuriel.es/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sebastian Muriel&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Director de red.es&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Será el año en el que no se dejará de hablar del Social Media en los medios tradicionales”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.ecuaderno.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;José Luis Orihuela&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Profesor de la Universidad de Navarra&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“La red y sus aplicaciones se vivirán cada vez más como una experiencia móvil”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://eadminblog.net/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Alberto Ortiz de Zárate&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Director de Atención Ciudadana en Gobierno Vasco&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Empezaremos a hacer un uso inteligente de las redes sociales. En ese camino, la relevancia se desplazará de las herramientas hacia las estrategias de comunicación”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://ictlogy.net/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ismael Peña&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Profesor Universitat Oberta de Catalunya&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Abogo por una construcción del portafolio, por una vuelta a la web personal o institucional, utilizando los social media como un juego de espejos que nos refleje allí donde debamos estar también presentes”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.genisroca.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Genis Roca&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Socio Director RocaSalvatella&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“En resumen, las palabras clave para este 2010 serán: Indicadores, Gestión y Resultados”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.algoquehacer.net/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Esteban Trigos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Marketing Innovator Director – Double You&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Las marcas empezarán a incorporar en sus mensajes un nuevo giro a la hora de comportarse: serán más sociales”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.marcvidal.cat/espanol/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Marc Vidal&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: CEO de Cink&lt;br/&gt;“Será el momento de los Net estrategy por encima de los Managers de comunidad”&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;10%&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si te ha gustado este post y quieres seguir lo publicado en este blog puedes &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;suscribirte a las entradas con tu lector de RSS&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;recibir cada actualización en tu correo electrónico&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=WFyXB0ZZJ1Y:V6K2zsQk50k:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=WFyXB0ZZJ1Y:V6K2zsQk50k:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=WFyXB0ZZJ1Y:V6K2zsQk50k:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:40:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/WFyXB0ZZJ1Y/298471911</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/WFyXB0ZZJ1Y/298471911</guid></item>    
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		<item><title>Traditional Media vs Social Media: outlook for 2010!</title><description>We’re in a new age of realtime information. Earthquakes, the San Diego fires, the shootings in Mumbai, the situation in Iran, and even Michael Jackson’s death. The realtime web beat the mainstream media easily to each of these stories.But, will this disparity increase going forward?In 2008, the terrorist attacks in Mumbai were communicated more quickly ...</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:13:22 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/tBY1si8itdI/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/tBY1si8itdI/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>¿Qué es una marca para ti?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;244&quot; width=&quot;160&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.guiasenior.com/images/marcas_2008.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Me llega una &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chrisg.com/what-is-a-blog-meme/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;meme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; por dos vías, a través de &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.enriqueburgos.com/2009/12/que-es-una-marca-para-ti.html&quot;&gt;Enrique Burgos&lt;/a&gt; y a través de &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://blogdedponte.blogspot.com/2009/12/buscando-definicion-de-marca.html&quot;&gt;Daniel Ponte&lt;/a&gt;, así que no me queda más remedio que contestarlo. A pesar de que no soy muy partidario de sentar cátedra a través de definiciones, porque no creo que sea el más indicado para hacerlo si detrás no he dedicado un periodo de reflexión o investigación. La idea parte de Borja y Jaime (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://marketingtakeaway.com/2009/12/16/damas-y-caballeros-%C2%A1abran-juego/&quot;&gt;MarketingTakeAway&lt;/a&gt;), que solicitaban desde su blog una definición de “marca”. Hasta ahora ha habido varias:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.joanjimenez.com/new/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joan Jiménez&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;i&gt;“tu marca es lo que la gente piensa de ti”&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://tristanelosegui.com/2009/12/16/se-busca-definicion-de-marca/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tristán Elosegui&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;i&gt;“para mi es el conjunto de sensaciones y sentimientos positivos que las experiencias con un producto/servicio te provocan. Es el diferencial que hace que no nos planteemos comprar productos de la competencia”&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://blogdedponte.blogspot.com/2009/12/buscando-definicion-de-marca.html&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Daniel Ponte&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;i&gt;“un conjunto de emociones y sentimientos que consiguen seducir a un cliente para después de crear una relación en el tiempo de tal forma que, aunque no siempre compre el producto, lo sitúe siempre en la mente como su primera opción”&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.enriqueburgos.com/2009/12/que-es-una-marca-para-ti.html&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Enrique Burgos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;i&gt;“una marca es un elemento de relación entre el consumidor y un producto. Es un atributo que lo hace diferente e influye en la toma de decisión de compra”&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://daniseuba.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/se-busca-definicion-de-marca/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dani Seuba&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: “una marca es una historia/experiencia con la que un anunciante rodea un producto que fábrica. Esta historia tendrá varios puntos de acceso para el consumidor, cada uno, aportará un matiz diferente a la historia y eso puede hacerla enriquecer o todo lo contrario. Como toda buena historia necesita la presencia activa de un receptor que la entienda, la comprenda y la comparta en los mismos términos que le es recibida. Sino la historia degenerará y no cumplirá su cometido de transmitir unos valores de un producto a un consumidor”.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://marketingtakeaway.com/2009/12/16/damas-y-caballeros-%C2%A1abran-juego/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Borja Muñoz&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;i&gt;“es un símbolo que opera como un contrato tácito entre el productor y el consumidor/cliente/comprador. Además debe diferenciarse del resto de marcas y su posicionamiento debe quedar claro en la mente del 3C´s”&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://marketingtakeaway.com/2009/12/16/damas-y-caballeros-%C2%A1abran-juego/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jaime Valverde&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;i&gt;“es un conjunto de asociaciones que cada persona tiene sobre un producto/servicio/persona o cualquier otra cosa que le generan una expectativa de experiencia. Cuando estas asociaciones son similares para muchas personas existe una marca fuerte. Es por lo tanto un sentimiento que nos produce un producto o servicio entendido en sentido amplio”&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.interactividad.org/2009/12/18/%C2%BFque-es-una-marca-para-ti/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Marc Cortés&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;i&gt;“la marca se traduce en el conjunto de sensaciones (emocional) y pensamientos (racional) que una persona tien respecto a un producto, servicios, experiencia o persona y que configuran un valor en su imaginario”&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Antes de definir la marca, para mi es importante tener en cuenta &lt;b&gt;dos puntos de vista distintos&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;El del consumidor&lt;/b&gt;: para quien la marca tiene un valor, da información y facilita la elección de un producto u otro.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;El del fabricante&lt;/b&gt;: sobre ella hay que volcar los esfuerzos de Marketing, Comunicación, Relaciones Públicas, Publicidad… para que dotarla de los valores y atributos diferenciales que se quieren comunicar y asociar a esa marca. La marca permite crear una imagen corporativa y consolidar el prestigio de la empresa.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Y aquí me tiro a la piscina: &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;“una marca es un conjunto de atributos y valores que queremos representar y plasmar en un producto, con el fin de lograr un &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posicionamiento&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;posicionamiento&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt; que decante la elección del consumidor hacia dicho producto”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sin más, porque creo que este tipo de definiciones deben ser plasmadas tras un largo proceso de maduración e investigación. Si me ha parecido interesante de este meme, la velocidad a la que circulan hoy en día gracias a Twitter. Le paso la pelota a &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.joanjimenez.com/new/&quot;&gt;Joan Jimenez&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://theorangemarket.com/&quot;&gt;Javier Varela&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://comunicacionsellamaeljuego.com/&quot;&gt;Pablo Herreros&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;10%&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si te ha gustado este post y quieres seguir lo publicado en este blog puedes &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;suscribirte a las entradas con tu lector de RSS&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;recibir cada actualización en tu correo electrónico&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=yIelgFOPa3M:HQGt9Guv4b0:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=yIelgFOPa3M:HQGt9Guv4b0:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=yIelgFOPa3M:HQGt9Guv4b0:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:06:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/yIelgFOPa3M/287677688</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/yIelgFOPa3M/287677688</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Comunicatelo, un agregador de noticias sobre Comunicación y RRPP</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Recientemente publiqué una &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://robertocarreras.es/post/199555662/entrevista-a-victor-gil-entre-otras-cosas-creador-de&quot;&gt;entrevista a Víctor Gil&lt;/a&gt;, creador de &lt;b&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://mktfan.com/&quot;&gt;mktfan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, un agregador de noticias especializado en Marketing, Social Media, Branding, Tendencias, etc. Hace no mucho también conocí de la existencia de &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://comunicatelo.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Comunícatelo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, un proyecto personal de &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://es.linkedin.com/in/saramorenoflores&quot;&gt;Sara Moreno&lt;/a&gt;, que consiste en un agregador centrado en Comunicación y Relaciones Públicas, pero muy enfocado también hacia temas relacionados con la web social y los Social Media, así que nadie mejor que ella para explicarlo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;100&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4187489371_73275940a9_m.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Qué es Comunícatelo?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://comunicatelo.com/&quot;&gt;Comunícatelo&lt;/a&gt; es una página web que funciona como un colector de noticias sobre comunicación, periodismo, Relaciones Públicas, Social Media, etc., indexando automáticamente los artículos publicados en diversos medios y blogs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;La web proporciona un seguimiento automático de noticias del sector comunicación y a la vez almacena los artículos que indexa para crear una base de datos que sirve información al buscador de noticias. Así, cualquier usuario interesado puede recuperar las noticias que se han publicado sobre un determinado tema o en relación a una palabra clave.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Además, la página acoge un blog -&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://comunicatelo.com/Blog/&quot;&gt;ComunícateBlog&lt;/a&gt;-, en el que comparto mi visión sobre la actualidad del sector e información que creo pueden ser de interés, además del foro de la comunidad RRPP&amp;Tweets, un punto de encuentro de profesionales de la comunicación y las Relaciones Públicas interesados en la web social.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Cuál es el objetivo de Comunícatelo?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;El objetivo principal es ofrecer a los usuarios la posibilidad de acceder a todas las noticias que se han publicado recientemente en un solo lugar, para que puedan estar al tanto de la actualidad de una manera rápida y sencilla. La disposición de las noticias en la página, separadas en dos categorías –blogs y medios de comunicación-, permite leer de un solo vistazo los titulares del día.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Un segundo objetivo, sin duda más ambicioso, es ofrecer información útil para participar en la construcción de esta nueva “ciencia” que es la Comunicación online, y ayudar a los profesionales que ya trabajan o que quieren orientar su carrera profesional a esta nueva ‘rama’ de la Comunicación.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Cómo surge Comunícatelo?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://comunicatelo.com/&quot;&gt;Comunícatelo&lt;/a&gt; nace como un intento de dar respuesta a un problema que compartimos los que queremos estar al tanto de las noticias sobre comunicación, periodismo y redes sociales: la sobrecarga de información.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Creo que estar informado nunca fue tan fácil y tan difícil al mismo tiempo. Internet ha facilitado el acceso a la información pero a la vez nos ha complicado muchísimo la vida. No hay tiempo material para estar al día de todas las noticias que nos interesan y que se publican en medios y blogs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Google Reader nos lo ha puesto un poco más fácil, pero no lo suficiente. Y fue entonces cuando empecé a madurar la idea de poner en marcha una página que ofreciera toda esa información. Estudié varias formas para hacerlo de la mejor manera posible y decidí que lo mejor era centralizar los artículos que cada fuente distribuye por rss.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Quién hace Comunícatelo?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Es un proyecto personal que no recibe apoyo alguno de empresas u otras personas, y que sólo cuento con la ayuda desinteresada de dos amigos que me echan una manita con el diseño y (una gran mano) con la programación.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aparte de esto, me gusta pensar que construyen &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://comunicatelo.com/&quot;&gt;Comunícatelo&lt;/a&gt; todos los blogueros y los medios de comunicación que escriben sobre temas de comunicación, RRPP, periodismo, redes sociales, nuevas tecnologías aplicadas a la comunicación. etc. Y yo, aportando un granito de arena en forma de blog.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4188252688_0f9316302e_m.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Para qué sirve registrarse?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Además de para poder hacer comentarios en la sección de RRPP&amp;Tweets, sirve para poder comentar en las noticias. Entiendo que mucha gente pueda pensar que no es necesario, pero mi idea es construir una buena base de datos que aprovechar en el futuro (por ejemplo, para enviar un boletín con las mejores noticias de la semana) Me planteé seriamente si merecía la pena ponerlo en marcha desde el principio y decidí que sí.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;El futuro de Comunícatelo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Los planes inmediatos pasan por trabajar el diseño y resolver los problemas de funcionamiento interno de la página, como el formato en que se indexan los artículos dependiendo del servicio de RSS que utilice cada página. El principal problema es que hay blogs que distribuyen sólo parte del artículo por rss mientras que otros ofrecen el artículo completo (con o sin foto) y eso dificulta la homogeneización del formato en que “entran” los artículos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A medio plazo, el proyecto más ambicioso es crear una nueva sección que ofrezca noticias de blogs y medios internacionales.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A largo plazo nos planteamos segmentar los artículos por temas para facilitar el acceso a la información, un proyecto que supondría un salto cualitativo para la página y que daría lugar a un concepto de web de noticias de terceros mucho más organizado y complejo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;10%&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si te ha gustado este post y quieres seguir lo publicado en este blog puedes &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;suscribirte a las entradas con tu lector de RSS&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;recibir cada actualización en tu correo electrónico&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=VbnB3qM-Kzc:Z7kmzDS1tIc:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=VbnB3qM-Kzc:Z7kmzDS1tIc:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=VbnB3qM-Kzc:Z7kmzDS1tIc:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:45:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/VbnB3qM-Kzc/284882143</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/VbnB3qM-Kzc/284882143</guid></item>    
		<item><title>&quot;Champions for África&quot;, un regalo para tod@s</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;217&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2501/4185772046_48319c8a55_m.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Un grupo de twitteros y blogueros (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/eburgosgarcia&quot;&gt;Enrique Burgos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/simdalom&quot;&gt;Chema Martínez-Priego&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/mariainfante&quot;&gt;Maria Infante&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/ilde&quot;&gt;Ildefonso Mayorgas&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/Gonzalomartin&quot;&gt;Gonzalo Martín&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/Borjatube&quot;&gt;Borja Muñoz&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/QuintusInnova&quot;&gt;Carlos de Miguel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/mdmgamero&quot;&gt;María Gamero&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/ma_garcia&quot;&gt;Manuel Ángel García&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/NazcaExperience&quot;&gt;David Bayón&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/mberzosa&quot;&gt;Millán Berzosa&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/gongarcia&quot;&gt;Gonzalo García&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/Jtravieso&quot;&gt;Jesús Travieso&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/danielrodrigo&quot;&gt;Daniel Rodrigo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/popiplo&quot;&gt;Pablo López&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/digitalmeteo&quot;&gt;Emilio Rey&lt;/a&gt;…), un grupo de amigos, nos hemos reunido esta mañana con Kanouté, Sergio Ramos y Unicef en el estadio Santiago Bernabéu. El objetivo apoyar un proyecto solidario.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Los jugadores nos han pedido que hiciésemos todo lo posible por difundir el proyecto &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://championsforafrica.es/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;“Champions for África”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, que consiste en un partido que enfrentará el próximo 22 de diciembre a las 20:00 horas a una selección de la Liga BBVA frente a una selección de jugadores africanos. El objetivo recaudar fondos para los niños de África, un objetivo sin duda digno de apoyar. Un proyecto que está impulsado por Unicef y la Fundación Kanouté.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;La web social no se ha hecho esperar, si hay algo que importa en ella son las personas&lt;/b&gt;, y en unos momentos las muestras de apoyo a través de twitter han sido tremendas, fijaos si no en los &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.twingly.com/search?q=championsforafrica&amp;sort=published&amp;content=microblog&quot;&gt;resultados que ofrece la búsqueda de “championsforafrica” en Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;180&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4005/4184246621_91a07a794d_m.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Os dejo algunos apuntes entorno a este proyecto&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sólo con el precio de una entrada (cuyos precios oscilan entre los 5 y 20 euros) un niño africano recibe educación durante un año.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;La educación en África es el eje central del evento.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;En África Subsahariana, uno de cada tres niños ven negado su derecho a ir a la escuela y aprender, quedando atrapados tras un muro insalvable de ignorancia, pobreza y discriminación.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;La iniciativa es altruista desde todos los que forman o formamos parte de ella.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Se necesitan fondos para luchar por una educación básica de calidad para todos los niñoes en África.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Los fondos conseguidos se destinarán a los programas &lt;b&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.unicef.es/alianzas/pymes/escuelas.htm&quot;&gt;Escuelas para África de UNICEF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; y la &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.fundacionkanoute.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ciudad de los Niños en Mali de la Fundación Kanouté&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Cómo puedes apoyar el proyecto?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Si estás en Madrid no dudes en &lt;b&gt;asistir con la familia, amigos… al partido&lt;/b&gt;. Una causa así merece la pena. Compra las entradas a través de la web &lt;a href=&quot;http://championsforafrica.es/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;championsforafrica.es&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Si estás fuera, puedes enviar un &lt;b&gt;SMS con la palabra “AFRICA” al 28028&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Seguir el proyecto en &lt;b&gt;Twitter &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/ChampionsAfrica&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;@ChampionsAfrica&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/pages/Champions-for-Africa/205800836379&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Seguir el proyecto en Facebook&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Puedes ver&lt;b&gt; imágenes de la presentación&lt;/b&gt; realizadas por &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.com/emiliorey/ChampionsForAfrica#&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Emilio Rey&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/enriqueburgosgarcia/sets/72157622999075128/detail/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Enrique Burgos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (la que ilustra este post) Además, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://sinfuturoysinunduro.com/2009/12/15/champions-for-africa-martes-22-de-diciembre/&quot;&gt;la entrevista a Kanouté y Luis López de Unicef realizada por SinFuturoYSinUnDuro&lt;/a&gt;. Para consultar los jugadores que participan, compra de entradas, etc., visita &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://championsforafrica.es/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;ChampionsforAfrica.es&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=TFZDHQpB03g:XnoKKdijmQ4:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=TFZDHQpB03g:XnoKKdijmQ4:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=TFZDHQpB03g:XnoKKdijmQ4:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:45:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/TFZDHQpB03g/283513712</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/TFZDHQpB03g/283513712</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Communities, Word of Mouth, Real Time at #leweb: what else!</title><description>LeWeb this year was greater than ever.More than 2,500 participants from 46 countries attended the event in Paris. More than 100,000 followed the event live from their desktop or iPhone via Ustream. All the major internet players were present on stage: Google, Microsoft, Twitter, MySpace, Orange, BT, Facebook, Ning, SixApart, Nokia, PayPal, FON, Meetic, Deezer, ...</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:11:12 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/HYt9wEuTu-o/</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mediazbiz/~3/HYt9wEuTu-o/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Social Tech used by Enterprise at an operational level @BTCare Interview</title><description>The market cycle for social technology, at least outside of the US only recently crossed the ‘Chasm’ from simply being this disruptive innovation that nobody, apart from the founders, made any money out of&amp;#8230;. Social Media.In part this &amp;#8216;chasm&amp;#8217; was crossed largely by PR applying the technological innovation to their business function. That made sense ...&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=socialglue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5442617&amp;post=234&amp;subd=socialglue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1&quot; /&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:41:42 +0000</pubDate><link>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/social-tech-used-by-enterprise-at-an-operational-level-btcare-interview/</link><guid>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/social-tech-used-by-enterprise-at-an-operational-level-btcare-interview/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Manifiesto en defensa de los derechos fundamentales en internet</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;140&quot; width=&quot;140&quot; src=&quot;http://a10.idata.over-blog.com/0/55/19/29/david-hammerstein-personal/digital-policia.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ante la inclusión en el Anteproyecto de &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.elmundo.es/mundodinero/2009/11/27/economia/1259307832.html&quot;&gt;Ley de Economía Sostenible&lt;/a&gt; de modificaciones legislativas que afectan al libre ejercicio de las libertades de expresión, información y el derecho de acceso a la cultura a través de Internet, los periodistas, bloguers, usuarios, profesionales y creadores de internet manifestamos nuestra firme oposición al proyecto, y declaramos que:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Los derechos de autor no pueden situarse por encima de los derechos fundamentales de los ciudadanos&lt;/b&gt;, como el derecho a la privacidad, a la seguridad, a la presunción de inocencia, a la tutela judicial efectiva y a la libertad de expresión.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;La suspensión de derechos fundamentales es y debe seguir siendo competencia exclusiva del poder judicial&lt;/b&gt;. Ni un cierre sin sentencia. Este anteproyecto, en contra de lo establecido en el &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/Admin/constitucion.t1.html#c2s1&quot;&gt;artículo 20.5 de la Constitución&lt;/a&gt;, pone en manos de un órgano no judicial -un organismo dependiente del ministerio de Cultura-, la potestad de impedir a los ciudadanos españoles el acceso a cualquier página web.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;La nueva legislación creará inseguridad jurídica en todo el sector tecnológico español&lt;/b&gt;, perjudicando uno de los pocos campos de desarrollo y futuro de nuestra economía, entorpeciendo la creación de empresas, introduciendo trabas a la libre competencia y ralentizando su proyección internacional.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;La nueva legislación propuesta amenaza a los nuevos creadores y entorpece la creación cultural&lt;/b&gt;. Con Internet y los sucesivos avances tecnológicos se ha democratizado extraordinariamente la creación y emisión de contenidos de todo tipo, que ya no provienen prevalentemente de las industrias culturales tradicionales, sino de multitud de fuentes diferentes.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Los autores, como todos los trabajadores, tienen derecho a vivir de su trabajo con nuevas ideas creativas, modelos de negocio y actividades asociadas a sus creaciones. Intentar sostener con cambios legislativos a una industria obsoleta que no sabe adaptarse a este nuevo entorno no es ni justo ni realista&lt;/b&gt;. Si su modelo de negocio se basaba en el control de las copias de las obras y en Internet no es posible sin vulnerar derechos fundamentales, deberían buscar otro modelo.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Consideramos que las industrias culturales necesitan para sobrevivir alternativas modernas, eficaces, creíbles y asequibles y que se adecuen a los nuevos usos sociales&lt;/b&gt;, en lugar de limitaciones tan desproporcionadas como ineficaces para el fin que dicen perseguir.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Internet debe funcionar de forma libre y sin interferencias políticas&lt;/b&gt; auspiciadas por sectores que pretenden perpetuar obsoletos modelos de negocio e imposibilitar que el saber humano siga siendo libre.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Exigimos que el Gobierno garantice por ley la &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutralidad_de_red&quot;&gt;neutralidad de la Red&lt;/a&gt; en España&lt;/b&gt;, ante cualquier presión que pueda producirse, como marco para el desarrollo de una economía sostenible y realista de cara al futuro.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Proponemos una verdadera reforma del derecho de propiedad intelectual orientada a su f&lt;/b&gt;in: devolver a la sociedad el conocimiento, promover el dominio público y limitar los abusos de las entidades gestoras.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;En democracia las leyes y sus modificaciones deben aprobarse tras el oportuno debate público y habiendo consultado previamente a todas las partes implicadas&lt;/b&gt;. No es de recibo que se realicen cambios legislativos que afectan a derechos fundamentales en una ley no orgánica y que versa sobre otra materia.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=186879394498&amp;ref=mf&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Grupo en Facebook&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=QXMfm45ZK-o:QCBQFbN7zlo:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=QXMfm45ZK-o:QCBQFbN7zlo:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=QXMfm45ZK-o:QCBQFbN7zlo:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:59:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/QXMfm45ZK-o/266201409</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/QXMfm45ZK-o/266201409</guid></item>    
		<item><title>BarCamp Mainz &amp;#8211; Domains weg</title><description>Mir ist eben zu Ohren gekommen, dass ein Unternehmen die folgenden Domains von BarCamp Mainz registriert hat und sich weigert, die Seiten auf die entsprechende Internetpräsenz des BarCamp Mainz weiterzuleiten. Dabei handelt es sich um:www.barcampmainz.de sowie www.bcmz.deAbgesehen von der rechtlichen Bewertung, von der ich ehrlich gesagt keine Ahnung habe und auch nichts wissen will, gehören ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:34:11 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1519</link><guid>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1519</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Umfrage der FH Furtwangen zum &amp;#8220;Phänomen BarCamp&amp;#8221;</title><description>Der Masterstudiengang CSM der Fakultät Digitale Medien an der FH Furtwangen hat sich dem „Phänomen BarCamp“ von wissenschaftlicher Seite genähert und will dazu auch eine Befragung von Barcamp-Teilnehmern durchführen.Alle die schon mal dabei waren, können sich daran beteiligen. DIe Umfrage ist anonym.http://www.netzstudien.org/limesurvey/index.php?sid=53163〈=de</description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:02:28 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1516</link><guid>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1516</guid></item>    
		<item><title>De los Social Media al Social Business</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Este es un extracto del post &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://etc.territoriocreativo.es/etc/2009/10/de-los-social-media-al-social-business.html&quot;&gt;“De los Social Media al Social Business”&lt;/a&gt;, publicado en el blog de Territorio Creativo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Social Media is like teen sex. Everyone wants to do it, nobody knows how. When it’s finally done, there is surprise it’s not better”, &lt;/i&gt;Avinash Kaushick, Analytics Evangelist, Google.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;El impacto que ha causado la web 2.0, tanto en términos sociales como tecnológicos, ha influido notablemente a la hora de considerar los beneficios de su implementación en las empresas, hasta el punto de hablar de Empresa 2.0. &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://andrewmcafee.org/blog/&quot;&gt;Andrew McAfee&lt;/a&gt;, Universidad de Harvard, define el término como &lt;b&gt;la utilización de plataformas de software social emergente dentro de las empresas, o entre empresas, sus socios y clientes&lt;/b&gt;. Si bien se trata de una nueva forma de hacer empresa, este modelo habla más de la adopción tecnológica que de la gestión 2.0 de la empresa.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;239&quot; width=&quot;230&quot; src=&quot;http://fernandotellado.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/cultura_empresa.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Las organizaciones deben apostar por interiorizar esas herramientas dentro de todas las áreas y, lo que es más importante, &lt;b&gt;adoptar esta tecnología y la filosofía que han venido a traer los Social Media en su modelo de gestión y de negocio&lt;/b&gt;, caminando lentamente hacia lo que en Estados Unidos empiezan a denominar ya el Social Business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Este concepto está empezando a desarrollarse desde que se produjese hace poco más de un mes la compra de la londinense &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.headshift.com&quot;&gt;Headshift&lt;/a&gt; por el grupo estadounidense &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.dachisgroup.com&quot;&gt;Dachis&lt;/a&gt;, fundado en 2008 por Jeffrey Dachis y en el que trabajan referentes mundiales en Social Media, como &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.dachisgroup.com/2009/10/welcome-to-the-dachis-group-collaboratory&quot;&gt;Peter Kim y David Armano&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Las posibilidades que ofrecen los medios sociales para conectar la empresa con las personas son enormes, no sólo para el departamento de Marketing o Comunicación, sino que deben ser adoptadas por otras funciones del negocio, como: Legal, IT, Producto, RRHH, etc. Pero no ya su uso, sino la filosofía de colaboración y conocimiento compartido que han venido a traer. Como dice David Armano: &lt;b&gt;“Social” debe ser reemplazado por “es cómo hacemos negocio”&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No sirven las acciones individuales sino forman parte de una estrategia conjunta, es decir, sino están integradas dentro de un modelo de gestión de negocio. Starbucks, por ejemplo, ha sabido captar la idea y comenzar a unir los puntos a través de iniciativas como &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;MyStarbucksIdea&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, que sólo el primer año ha recibido ya 70.000 ideas. Porque estar abierto al conocimiento compartido beneficia a todos: &lt;b&gt;Software Libre, Linux, Firefox, aplicaciones para iPhone, las API’s de Twitter o Facebook&lt;/b&gt;, son claros ejemplos de ello (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://theopen100.wikispaces.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Aquí podéis encontrar un wiki con el top 100 de empresas que siguen esta filosofía&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) De manera que la empresa social es aquella que busca la perfecta conjunción entre Sociedad, Tecnología y Trabajo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;190&quot; width=&quot;212&quot; src=&quot;http://www.wikinoticia.com/images/etc-blog-marketing/etc.territoriocreativo.es.wp-content.uploads.2009.10.social-business.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Para Armano, el Social Media ya no sirve para explicar la actual realidad que vivimos, ya que&lt;b&gt; la palabra “Media” limita la visión del fenómeno y viene cargada de significado de décadas de Publicidad&lt;/b&gt;. Una visión limitada, ya que la web social se ve como un nuevo canal de comunicación, algo de lo que no cabe la menor duda, pero que no avanza hacia la implicación del usuario en la cadena de valor del negocio ni a otros actores como distribuidores, empleados, etc. Una visión de la Web 2.0 revolucionaria y motor de cambio y transformación en la manera en la que trabajamos, colaboramos y nos comunicamos.&lt;b&gt; Un cambio en la manera de pensar&lt;/b&gt;: no en la línea de social como medio y sí en la línea de ser una empresa realmente social.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A pesar de todo, no deja de ser una teoría que está dando sus primeros pasos al otro lado del Atlántico. Una teoría que propugna que la empresa debe hacer un uso de los medios sociales mucho más allá de una acción en Twitter interesante, un blog que le convierta en referente o cualquier otra acción, y pensar mucho más allá de las ventas, coberturas, impactos, etc. &lt;b&gt;Debemos pensar como la participación a través de las tecnologías sociales puede mejorar los resultados, procesos, modelos de negocio, innovación, desarrollos y un largo etcétera en cualquier organización&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;10%&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si te ha gustado este post y quieres seguir lo publicado en este blog puedes &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;suscribirte a las entradas con tu lector de RSS&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;recibir cada actualización en tu correo electrónico&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=5XK2NAFHdrw:kej_suEuxAU:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=5XK2NAFHdrw:kej_suEuxAU:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=5XK2NAFHdrw:kej_suEuxAU:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:01:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/5XK2NAFHdrw/254759300</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/5XK2NAFHdrw/254759300</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Dreamforce Keynote mit Marc Benioff</title><description>Ich bin zur Dreamforce-Konferenz (Disclaimer: von Salesforce eingeladen) und werde die Keynote live bloggen. Ich habe noch keine Ahnung was mich erwarten wird, aber die Spannung ist groß. Dreamforce Keynote</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:53:51 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1503</link><guid>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1503</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Social Technology: Making Big Business Small</title><description>I was recently at Barcamp Hamburg hosted by 90:10’s very own Franz Patzig (Head of Germany). Before he was a successful blogger, digital analyst and social media strategist I recently found out he started out his working life doing ‘time’ in his family’s chain of butchers. I know the cliché of a German and sausages ...&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=socialglue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5442617&amp;post=223&amp;subd=socialglue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1&quot; /&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:03:42 +0000</pubDate><link>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/social-technology-making-big-business-small/</link><guid>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/social-technology-making-big-business-small/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Relaciones Públicas en un mundo hiperconectado</title><description>&lt;p&gt;La semana pasada participé en &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://blogslaconversacion.com/&quot;&gt;“Blogs La Conversación”&lt;/a&gt;, en una mesa redonda titulada “Relaciones Públicas en un mundo hiperconectado”. Fue una grata experiencia, sobre todo por la compañía: &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://ivanpino.com/&quot;&gt;Ivan Pino&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.anuncios.com/&quot;&gt;Manuel Luque&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://es.linkedin.com/in/ignaciovilloch&quot;&gt;Ignacio Villoch&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://octaviorojas.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Octavio Rojas&lt;/a&gt;. Precisamente para fomentar la conversación la dinámica del evento no estaba hecha para presentaciones, no obstante la había preparado y como creo que cada presentación debe ser exclusiva y única para cada ocasión no quiero dejar de compartir las ideas que había que llevaba a modo de presentación. Lo dicho, más que presentación son ideas sueltas que buscaban generar debate sobre la actual situación del sector (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://ivanpino.com/tres-cuestiones-por-resolver-en-el-sector-de-la-comunicacion-online/&quot;&gt;muy al hilo de la mesa redonda sobre Comunicación y Marketing Online de este pasado fin de semana en el EBE&lt;/a&gt;) Debemos pelear juntos por dar forma a un sector, aprender y compartir, y no entre nosotros por destruirlo ;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; height=&quot;355&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; data=&quot;http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=relacionespublicasenunmundohiperconectado-091116103950-phpapp02&amp;stripped_title=relaciones-publicas-en-un-mundo-hiperconectado&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;src&quot; value=&quot;http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=relacionespublicasenunmundohiperconectado-091116103950-phpapp02&amp;stripped_title=relaciones-publicas-en-un-mundo-hiperconectado&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;10%&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si te ha gustado este post y quieres seguir lo publicado en este blog puedes &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;suscribirte a las entradas con tu lector de RSS&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;recibir cada actualización en tu correo electrónico&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=7QyyjZ5CUDw:ZiZY-NAkcmE:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=7QyyjZ5CUDw:ZiZY-NAkcmE:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=7QyyjZ5CUDw:ZiZY-NAkcmE:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:45:39 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/7QyyjZ5CUDw/246140939</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/7QyyjZ5CUDw/246140939</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Business oath to seek and serve a greater good</title><description>I was reading an article in The Economist today about 400 MBA students at Harvard Business School taking an unofficial oath to ‘serve the greater good’. They were rather smugly dismissed as naive or cynically regarded as attempting to market themselves in order to stand out in a competitive graduate job market. But the fact ...&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=socialglue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5442617&amp;post=215&amp;subd=socialglue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1&quot; /&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:54:51 +0000</pubDate><link>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/business-oath-to-seek-and-serve-a-greater-good/</link><guid>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/business-oath-to-seek-and-serve-a-greater-good/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>El vídeo online conecta con los blogs y ¿crea un nuevo prime time?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;El crecimiento del vídeo en la red continua imparable y se ha convertido en uno de los formatos más útiles en cualquier acción de Comunicación, Marketing o Publicidad, ya que se trata de un contenido &lt;b&gt;fácilmente consumible, compartible y distribuible&lt;/b&gt;. Pero debemos mirar más allá de las acciones concretas y pensar en cómo emplear el vídeo para generar contenidos de valor para nuestros públicos. Así, la &lt;b&gt;creatividad &lt;/b&gt;es una cualidad estratégica a la hora de crear nuevos formatos para distribuir nuestros contenidos, ya que &lt;b&gt;en la nueva web social no tiene cabida la unidereccionalidad del contenido corporativo&lt;/b&gt;. No podemos hacer las cosas como veníamos haciéndolas adaptadas al nuevo entorno social, sino que debemos cambiar, innovar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable”&lt;/i&gt;, Gari Kaspárov&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ya comentamos que &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://robertocarreras.es/post/190148804/video-online-e-identidad-digital-el-caso-de-titanluxtv&quot;&gt;España es el país europeo donde más vídeo online se consume y cómo las descargas van dejando paso progresivamente al streaming&lt;/a&gt;. Pero vía Read Write Web he encontrado un interesante estudio de Sysomos titulado &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://sysomos.com/reports/video/&quot;&gt;“A look inside online video engagement”&lt;/a&gt;, sobre qué plataformas de vídeo son las más utilizadas por los bloggers, el pérfil de éstos, uso por ciudades, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sysomos ha realizado este estudio para analizar el &lt;b&gt;comportamiento de los bloggers ante el contenido en vídeo&lt;/b&gt; y los datos resultan muy interesantes para captar la tendencia en consumo y uso de vídeo por parte de los nuevos generadores de contenido. El vídeo se ha convertido es un &lt;b&gt;elemento imprescindible para los bloggers y muy utilizado para compartirlo entre sus lectores&lt;/b&gt;. El estudio ha examinado cada plataforma de vídeo y contabilizado el número de enlaces dentro de los posts de los blogs a los vídeos, ya sean embebidos o a través de enlace directo al contenido. Lo verdaderamente interesante del estudio es que &lt;b&gt;recoge datos del mercado europeo&lt;/b&gt;, no sólo estadounidense como sueler ser habitual. Se ha realizado en 100 millones de posts entre julio y septiembre de este año.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;“We believe this is the first in-depth exploration of how bloggers are engaging with video-sharing services”&lt;/i&gt;, Sysomos&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Un dato nada revelador es que en Europa &lt;b&gt;el 80,5% de los bloggers utilizan vídeos de YouTube&lt;/b&gt;, plataforma seguida de Vimeo (8,7%) y de Dailymotion (6,8%)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;166&quot; width=&quot;416&quot; src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2754/4082674573_2889d956e9_o.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Según los datos del estudio, &lt;b&gt;España (5,6%) ocupa el tercer país en el uso de vídeo online en blogs, solamente por detrás de Estados Unidos (31,9%) y Brasil (6,6%)&lt;/b&gt;, superando a países Reino Unido, Francia, Alemania, Canadá…:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;166&quot; width=&quot;416&quot; src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2533/4083441624_243f2cd2a7_o.gif&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Los bloggers &lt;b&gt;más activos en el uso del vídeo por ciudades del mundo&lt;/b&gt; residen en:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nueva York&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sao Paulo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Londres&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Madrid&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;París&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Los Ángeles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Toronto&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lisboa&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Buenos Aires&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Chicago&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Barcelona&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Respecto al perfil demógrafico, &lt;b&gt;el grupo mayoritorio en uso de vídeo en sus blogs es el que comprende a los bloggers entre los 20-35 años (57,1%) seguido de los que tienen entre 35 y 60 años (22,1%)&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;166&quot; width=&quot;416&quot; src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2534/4082694415_721e5797d7_o.gif&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Los días en de la semana en los que más vídeos se emplean en posts son los martes y los miércoles&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;             &lt;img height=&quot;175&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3512/4083469010_6b0fb957c2_o.gif&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Las horas del día en las que más vídeos se cuelgan están comprendidas &lt;b&gt;entre las 10 y las 12 de la mañana&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;      &lt;img height=&quot;160&quot; width=&quot;357&quot; src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2515/4082719991_62a56644cf_o.gif&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lo cual &lt;b&gt;se ajusta a las horas en las que se produce un mayor consumo de vídeo, que son entre las 14 y las 16 según otro estudio de Visible Measures&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;b&gt;¿será éste el nuevo prime time…?&lt;/b&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;180&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2767/4082729181_d145b5ec45_o.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;10%&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si te ha gustado este post y quieres seguir lo publicado en este blog puedes &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;suscribirte a las entradas con tu lector de RSS&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;recibir cada actualización en tu correo electrónico&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=ZQHWnOUvDaE:MJy7LrCqYeQ:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=ZQHWnOUvDaE:MJy7LrCqYeQ:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=ZQHWnOUvDaE:MJy7LrCqYeQ:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:33:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/ZQHWnOUvDaE/236109619</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/ZQHWnOUvDaE/236109619</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Entrevista a Joan Jimenez, +j</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Hace un tiempo publiqué una entrevista a &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://robertocarreras.es/post/199555662/entrevista-a-victor-gil-entre-otras-cosas-creador-de&quot;&gt;Víctor Gil&lt;/a&gt;, hoy nos toca conocer un poco más a fondo a &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.joanjimenez.com/new/&quot;&gt;Joan Jimenez&lt;/a&gt;. Es muy interesante este formato, sobre todo para conocer a la gente con la que tenemos relación online, pero que al estar en lejos no vemos con tanta frecuencia como a la gente del lugar en que vivimos. Así que, conozcamos un poco más a Joan.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;381&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;http://destinosactuales.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/joan_jimenez.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Quién es Joan Jimenez?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joan Jimenez es alguien que se esfuerza cada día por seguir creyendo que las cosas pueden ser maravillosamente simples.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Qué es +joanjimenez?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;+joanjimenez es mi marca, la proyección de lo que soy adaptado al mundo en el que vivo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Para el mundo en el que vivo por el momento… soy un Brand Angel, un consultor de Branding Social y un Artista Multimedia&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Qué es un brand angel?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Es el ángel de la guarda estratégico de una marca, en entornos sociales.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Qué son los social media para Joan Jimemez?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cualquier medio de comunicación multidireccional que genere conversación social.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pero de verdad… ¿qué es lo importante… tecnología, herramientas o personas?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lo importante no es sólo inventar el fuego, sino aprender a saber que hacer con él.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Qué debe prevalecer para ti la web social o los social media?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No distingo entre ambas cosas, de la misma manera que no distingo entre Internet 1.0 o 2.0… desde mi punto de vista Internet es la RED SOCIAL y el MEDIO SOCIAL por excelencia… y siempre lo ha sido, lo que pasa es que durante unos años sencillamente nos hemos creído que el CINE siempre seria en Blanco y Negro y mudo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Tienen un lugar las marcas en este espacio?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Las marcas son las indiscutibles protagonistas de este nuevo espacio, ya que todas las personas se convierten en marcas y todas las marcas en medios de comunicación.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Esto representa un cambio radical del paradigma en la relación entre marcas y personas, además de una gran oportunidad para construir una sociedad realmente responsable y sostenible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Cómo deberíamos introducir una marca en social media?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Con calma, perseverancia y mucho sentido del olfato y del oído… contrastando constantemente lo que tenemos dentro con las posibilidades que nos da la conversación con lo que existe fuera.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Apostando por?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;La coherencia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Crees que los usuarios quieren conversar?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Conversar es el medio para conseguir el fin: que nos quieran y ser reconocidos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;En una empresa, ¿qué es más importante, una marca personal o una marca conjunta en social media? (por ejemplo Ford tiene una marca persona, Zappos sí, pero no tanto… qué te parece mejor?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Depende del interior de la marca y del entorno donde vaya a relacionarse… cada caso es único, como cada persona.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;193&quot; width=&quot;201&quot; src=&quot;http://javieriniesta.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/b1ea27c6052af9a320403373ac35fd0d2.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Cómo influyen los SM en la publicidad, el marketing, la comunicación convencionales?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obligan a aceptar que la realidad ha cambiado y que las reglas del juego a partir de ahora serán muy diferentes. El Establishment del Marketing por ejemplo, deberá aprender a ser humilde y entender que para VENDER las marcas deben SER queridas primero, lo que implica aceptar del protagonismo del Branding como la primera y pieza clave de un puzzle Estratégico. Hacer planes de Marketing en entornos sociales sin tener una sólida base construida a través de la conversación del Branding, es sin duda, todo un nuevo deporte de aventura… ;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Son complementarios?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Se pueden complementar eficazmente si se aceptan las nuevas reglas. Antes se definía una estrategia de comunicación en todos los medios convencionales y por último, de manera residual se adaptaban las campañas a la red… de manera que a menudo se producían los consiguientes patinazos. Ahora las grandes marcas son cada vez más inteligentes y empiezan a escuchar y a conversar en la red antes de hablar por medios convencionales, con lo que se definen estrategias mucho más acertadas y sus inversiones en comunicación se hacen mucho más eficaces.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Cómo ves el panorama español en la actualidad?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Estamos en el limbo: el viejo mundo no acaba de morir y el nuevo no acaba de nacer… necesitamos desaprender urgentemente para poder seguir aprendiendo al ritmo que las necesidades requieren, si no queremos en esta parálisis de manera permanente.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Hacia dónde caminamos?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Caminamos hacia una pared en la que tenemos que abrir una puerta urgentemente si no queremos estrellarnos irremediablemente.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Hacia donde deberíamos caminar?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deberíamos caminar hacia la eficacia, basarnos en el capital del conocimiento y ser muy realistas… o sea, todo lo contrario de lo que se ha hecho hasta ahora.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Todo está por hacer y todo es posible… entonces ¿por qué deberíamos apostar? (creatividad, no ceñirnos a modelos convencionales…)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yo apostaría fundamentalmente por conseguir una sólida Actitud basada en aprender a escucharnos a nosotros mismos y a nuestro entorno, con esta sólida Actitud puedes alcanzar una gran Convicción en lo que haces y con esa Convicción… todo fluye.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Para terminar… una recomendación a una persona que te lea en este humilde blog ;-)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Que no busque sus respuestas en las mías, eso sería demasiado fácil.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;10%&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si te ha gustado este post y quieres seguir lo publicado en este blog puedes &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;suscribirte a las entradas con tu lector de RSS&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;recibir cada actualización en tu correo electrónico&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=p2y_0ET5xrU:OgIH57GLyVw:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=p2y_0ET5xrU:OgIH57GLyVw:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=p2y_0ET5xrU:OgIH57GLyVw:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:07:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/p2y_0ET5xrU/232887534</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/p2y_0ET5xrU/232887534</guid></item>    
		<item><title>90:10 Group &amp;#8211; spannende Zeiten voraus</title><description>Es war schon lange Zeit für eine Veränderung. Seit 1991 bin ich nun schon selbstständig und bestreite seither als Einzelkämpfer meinen Lebensunterhalt. Nachdem ich beschlossen hatte, die der Sicherheit des mittelständischen, elterlichen Bertriebes mit allen Vor- und Nachteilen den Rücken zu kehren und mich fortan alleine und ohne Unterstützung durch die Welt zu schlagen, habe ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:57:07 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1471</link><guid>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1471</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Unkonferenz in Unternehmen &amp;#8211; Beispiel T-Systems MMS</title><description>Am 11.09 fand bei T-Systems MMS in Dresden das DigitalLifeCamp, die erste interne Unkonferenz, als Weiterbildungsmaßnahme statt. Mission: Interdisziplinärer Wissensaustausch und Auseinandersetzung mit innovativen Technologien. Da ich durch mein Engagement bei BarCamps mittlerweile einige Erfahrungen mit diesem Format  gesammelt habe, hat man mich seitens T-Systems engagiert, um bei der Planung und Durchführung des Events beratend ...</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:08:14 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1457</link><guid>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1457</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Being a 90:10 Business</title><description>As you may or may not have heard we recently left Brando Social to setup The 90:10 Group.  It’s been a great 13 months that saw us grow from a team of 2 to 15, build a network of leading thinkers from around the globe and achieve some pretty significant client wins along the way. ...&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=socialglue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5442617&amp;post=207&amp;subd=socialglue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1&quot; /&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:53:13 +0000</pubDate><link>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/being-a-9010-business/</link><guid>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/being-a-9010-business/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Blogs. La Conversación 2009: Comunicación y Relaciones Públicas en un mundo hiperconectado</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;71&quot; width=&quot;158&quot; src=&quot;http://farm1.static.flickr.com/89/267672263_f1d276f3bd.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recuerdo hace un tiempo cuando seguía &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://blogslaconversacion.com/&quot;&gt;Blogs La Conversación&lt;/a&gt; a través de Internet y leía lo que se publicaba sobre el evento. Así que grata fue la sorpresa cuando me contactaron hace unos meses desde la organización (gracias Elvira y &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://octaviorojas.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Octavio&lt;/a&gt;) para participar en una mesa sobre “Comunicación y Relaciones Públicas en un mundo hiperconectado”, a mi, que lo único que hago es mucho trabajo -o trabajar mucho-, alguna que otra acción y leer e investigar todo cuanto cae entre mis manos o delante de mis ojos. Agradecido, no me quedó otra que aceptar esa invitación; así que espero veros en ese evento… Por supuesto, no para enseñar nada a nadie, sino para compartir y organizar todo cuanto vemos y leemos cada día y, sobre todo, con la intención de pasarlo bien. Estaré encantado de compartir mesa con Iván Pino (el artífice… ya sabes ;), Ignacio Villoch, Manuel Luque y Octavio Rojas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Os dejo el programa del evento:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;11 de Noviembre 2009. Aula Magna (Edif. A) de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Ciudad Universitaria)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;9:30 Recepción y Bienvenida&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;10:00 Mesa RRPP&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Manuel Luque (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.anuncios.com/&quot;&gt;Anuncios&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.linkedin.com/in/IgnacioVilloch&quot;&gt;Ignacio Villoch&lt;/a&gt; (Comunicación y marca en el Centro de Innovación de BBVA) &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://ivanpino.com/&quot;&gt;Iván Pino&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Roberto Carreras&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moderador: &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://octaviorojas.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Octavio Rojas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;11:30 Proyección de Videoblogs&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;11:45 Coffee Break&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;12:00 Mesa: Revolución Política e Internet&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gumersindo Lafuente (Soitu.es)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.joshuanovick.com/&quot;&gt;Joshua Novick&lt;/a&gt; (Antevenio)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nagore de los Ríos (Directora de Participación ciudadana, contenido multimedia y 2.0 del Gobierno Vasco)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moderador: &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://periodistas21.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Juan Varela&lt;/a&gt; (Periodistas21)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;13:30 Proyección Video Blogs&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;13:45&lt;/b&gt; Entrega de premio al ganador del Primer Concurso Iberoamericano de Videoblogs a cargo de &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://blogslaconversacion.com/2009/10/21/alejandro-arranz-entregara-el-premio-del-concurso-de-videoblogs-blc09.php&quot;&gt;Alejandro Arranz&lt;/a&gt; (Director general de Innovación y Tecnología del Ayuntamiento de Madrid.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;14:00 Comida&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;15:30 Proyección Videoblogs&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;16:00 Mesa: La crisis e Internet&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/mberzosa&quot;&gt;Millán Berzosa&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.comunitae.com&quot;&gt;Comunitae.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/desdelamoncloa&quot;&gt;José Antonio Álvarez-Canal Estrada&lt;/a&gt; (Gabinete de la Secretaría de Estado de Comunicación del Ministerio de La Presidencia)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moderador: &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.rosajc.com/&quot;&gt;Rosa Jiménez&lt;/a&gt; (El País)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;17:30 Proyección de Videoblogs&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;17:45 Coffee Break&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;18:00 Mesa: Blogs y Nostalgia&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isabel Franco&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://blogslaconversacion.com/2009/10/26/milagros-revenga-participara-en-la-mesa-blogs-y-nostalgia.php&quot;&gt;Milagros Revenga&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://blogslaconversacion.com/2009/10/20/juan-alberto-estallo-marti-participa-en-la-mesa-de-%E2%80%9Cblogs-y-nostalgia%E2%80%9D.php&quot;&gt;Juan Alberto Estallo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moderador: &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://blogslaconversacion.com/2009/10/26/barbara-yuste-participa-como-moderadora-en-la-mesa-%E2%80%9Cblogs-y-nostalgia%E2%80%9D.php&quot;&gt;Bárbara Yuste&lt;/a&gt; (ABC)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;21:00 Beers &amp; Blogs&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=clBhqekb4t4:_jmr-xRiK6Q:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=clBhqekb4t4:_jmr-xRiK6Q:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=clBhqekb4t4:_jmr-xRiK6Q:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:03:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/clBhqekb4t4/225233266</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/clBhqekb4t4/225233266</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Un nuevo modelo de Marketing, Publicidad y Comunicación: el Tiempo Real</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;239&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2675/4014097478_83b3971069_m.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/robertocarreras/un-nuevo-modelo-de-marketing-publicidad-y-comunicacin-el-tiempo-real&quot;&gt;ARTÍCULO PUBLICADO EN YOROKOBU: &lt;b&gt;PINCHA AQUÍ PARA ACCEDER AL ARTÍCULO DE LA REVISTA&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hace unos días uno de los blogs más importantes sobre Social Media, Tecnología y Tendencias, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/&quot;&gt;Read Write Web&lt;/a&gt;, marcaba como tal la web en tiempo real (Real Time) y su influencia en entornos corporativos, especialmente para los departamentos de PR, Marketing, Publicidad, etc. &lt;b&gt;El tiempo real está siendo este año una parte imprescindible de muchos productos y empresas de Internet&lt;/b&gt;: Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, Google, Delicious o WordPress, entre otros. Quizá se trate de una de las mayores tendencias en el entorno de Internet y los Social Media, y una de las que más afecte también al mundo empresarial, junto con lo que se empieza a conocer como Social Business, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://theblogconsultancy.typepad.com/techpr/2009/09/the-role-of-social-and-digital-media-in-business-consulting-dachis-acquires-headshift.html&quot;&gt;tras la compra de Headshift por Dachis Group&lt;/a&gt;, o lo que el periódico británico The Guardian ha llamado &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/sep/02/headshift-dachies-social-network-startup&quot;&gt;“the ‘Facebookification’ of Business”&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;El tiempo real no sólo nos afecta cómo usuarios y en acciones de Twitter&lt;/b&gt;, sino que desde Friendster hasta Facebook ahora, la web en tiempo real es algo más que lo que tus amigos y conocidos piensan, comentan o hacen en 140 caracteres. El número de usuarios de Twitter (más de 50 millones según los últimos datos) y la compra de FriendFeed por parte de Facebook pueden parecer hechos aislados, pero no lo son porque son miles los desarrolladores que trabajan para crear aplicaciones entorno a ello. La información y la comunicación entre los usuarios de Twitter fluye a un ritmo imparable cada momento. Hace poco, leía en &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/opinion/27iht-edmurray.html&quot;&gt;The New York Times&lt;/a&gt; una reveladora frase al respecto: &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;“Email is a local train now. Twitter, is the express”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;La web en tiempo real se configura como una nueva forma de comunicación y de distribución del contenido. Herramientas como Facebook o Twitter se han convertido &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://robercapla.tumblr.com/post/147588626/como-se-distribuye-el-contenido-en-internet&quot;&gt;en el medio de distribución de contenido más usado por parte de los usuarios, 24 y 10,8% respectivamente, superando juntos incluso al correo electrónico (11,1%)&lt;/a&gt; Todo esto influye directamente en la actividad de los profesionales de nuestro sector y en las acciones de Marketing, Publicidad, Comunicación y Relaciones Públicas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Esta velocidad en la comunicación &lt;b&gt;obliga a elaborar un contenido y unos mensajes específicos&lt;/b&gt;. La anticipación y el tiempo real aplicado a nuestro trabajo diario. &lt;b&gt;Creatividad e innovación se imponen&lt;/b&gt; como nunca antes en cualquier acción o cualquier campaña. Un ejemplo del tiempo real es el vídeo en directo. Recientemente Visa empleó en sus banners vídeo en directo mostrando distintas ciudades alrededor del mundo, Intel incluyo chat en directo en los suyos (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/digital/e3i801548f98188f77a3baf1cf98174cb57&quot;&gt;Are Banner Ads Poised for Creative Renaissance?&lt;/a&gt;), mientras que &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.thevolvotwitterad.com/&quot;&gt;Volvo realizó una acción muy interesante integrando Twitter en sus anuncios y vídeos de YouTube&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sin embargo, al igual que sucede en otros ámbitos de los Social Media, lo que verdaderamente está haciendo evolucionar nuestro negocio no es la tecnología, &lt;b&gt;sino el cambio en el comportamiento del consumidor o cliente y en la manera en la que acceden, comparten, comentan y distribuyen información y contenido&lt;/b&gt;. Por ello, la clave no radica en la velocidad a la que podemos comunicarnos con ellos, sino &lt;b&gt;la velocidad a la que esperan respuesta a cualquiera de sus dudas o necesidades&lt;/b&gt;. Todo ello requiere nuevas estrategias por parte de las empresas y los profesionales no sólo debemos estar atentos al tiempo real, sino que debemos anticiparnos a tendencias, deseos, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;De hecho, cada vez son más los profesionales y las marcas que establecen su presencia en Twitter para estar al corriente de los problemas de los consumidores, de sus intereses, deseos, etc. Y no sólo influye la presencia, &lt;b&gt;el saber localizar a nuestros consumidores y lo que están comentando a cada instante es fundamental&lt;/b&gt;, para lo que contamos con un gran número de herramientas gratuitas que permiten monitorizar los Social Media en tiempo real.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;198&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;http://www.nomaders.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/twitter-social-icons.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mientras escribía este artículo, he decidido comentarlo en Twitter para que algunos profesionales del sector me enviasen su opinión al respecto, tiempo real en estado puro:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://cristinaaced.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cristina Aced&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/blogocorp&quot;&gt;@blogocorp&lt;/a&gt;): yo diría q hace más necesaria (aún) la monitorización de conversaciones en la Red: el cliente ya no (quiere) espera(r)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.google.com/profiles/105348764932453609688&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tomeu Cabrer&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;(&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/tomeucabrer&quot;&gt;@tomeuCabrer&lt;/a&gt;): tengo varias webs que las visitas proporcionadas por twitter y facebook rozan las cifras de google organic. creo q ho los usuarios no buscan la info en buscadores sino preguntan en su red y sus contactos facilitan los links&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://es-la.facebook.com/daniel3marti&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Daniel Martí&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/daniel3&quot;&gt;@daniel3&lt;/a&gt;): el tiempo real se acerca cada vez más al tiempo de éxito o de negocio efectivo (se acorta), lo pasado comunica menos=&gt; Red&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.simdalom.com/blog/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chema Martínez Priego&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (@&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/simdalom&quot;&gt;simdalom&lt;/a&gt;): Que la marca tenga dimensiones históticas hace que la relación sea rica, más humana y relevante para el destinatario. Ahora es responsabilidad de MK y PR crear esa relación y dotarla de valor real.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.joanjimenez.com/new/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joan Jiménez&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/joanjimenez&quot;&gt;@joanjimenez&lt;/a&gt;): Tanto en Facebook como en Twitter, el factor “tiempo real” es clave para mantener el “hilo” de la conversación en entornos sociales… ;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://presscom.tumblr.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rodrigo Ponce de León&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.joanjimenez.com/new/&quot;&gt;@rodrigopdl&lt;/a&gt;): multiplicidad de canales, ubicuidad de las respuestas, monitorización inmediata y estructura comunicación interna más ágil.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.fotomaf.com/blog/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mauro A. Fuentes&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/fotomaf&quot;&gt;@Fotomaf&lt;/a&gt;): Con la llegada de servicios como TW o FB es esencial que la conversación sea a tiempo real, unas horas de silencio pueden hacerte perder $$$&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://blogdedponte.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Daniel Ponte&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/dponte&quot;&gt;@dponte&lt;/a&gt;): interacción directa con el cliente ayudando a mejorar e incrementar valor en los servicios. Gran oportunidad para las marcas&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.cuchola.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beatriz Martínez Jurado&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/cuchola&quot;&gt;@cuchola&lt;/a&gt;): El tiempo real permite exibir valor de manera cercana y sincera, te da a conocer, te acerca y se acercan tus públicos que son los nuevos responsables del Brand Equity.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.redecoratuvida.es/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Luis Pablos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/luispablos&quot;&gt;@luispablos&lt;/a&gt;): El lifestream es una oportunidad para las marcas para ser transparentes y enseñar todo lo que hacen y dicen en la Red.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://comunicapolis.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rosa del Blanco&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/rdelblanco&quot;&gt;@rdelblanco&lt;/a&gt;): Permiten compartir información en tiempo real eliminando fronteras, participar en debates globales. Para las PR se trata de una herramienta que dará mucho juego aunque aún estamos dando los primeros pasos en España.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://comunicacionsellamaeljuego.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pablo Herreros&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/pabloherreros&quot;&gt;@PabloHerreros&lt;/a&gt;) El tiempo real hace más prescindible el papel de “gatekeeper” del periodista de medios. Obliga a agencias y departamentos de comunicación a hacer un seguimiento constante y, sobre todo, a ser TRANSPARENTES.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://etc.territoriocreativo.es/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Juan Luis Polo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/juanluispolo&quot;&gt;@juanluispolo&lt;/a&gt;) El papel, al igual que la energía, no desaparecerá sólo se transformará… y su aportación a la comunicación y el MK, también.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://blog.comunitae.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Millán I. Berzosa&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/mberzosa&quot;&gt;@mberzosa&lt;/a&gt;) Hace que el Marketing sea más eficaz: potencia la relación con tu target y permite estar más y mejor conectados. Obliga a ser dinámicos, flexibles.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Las Relaciones Públicas, el Marketing y la Publicidad, así como la manera que teníamos de comunicarnos con la gente están cambiando.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;10%&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si te ha gustado este post y quieres seguir lo publicado en este blog puedes &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;suscribirte a las entradas con tu lector de RSS&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;recibir cada actualización en tu correo electrónico&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=PsGfrRzWqzw:cfIEVESgfFQ:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=PsGfrRzWqzw:cfIEVESgfFQ:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=PsGfrRzWqzw:cfIEVESgfFQ:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:21:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/PsGfrRzWqzw/216589616</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/PsGfrRzWqzw/216589616</guid></item>    
		<item><title>BarCamp Hamburg &amp;#8211; Info zur Anmeldung</title><description>Gerade habe ich folgenden Newsletter verschickt:Hallo BarCamper,nicht mehr ganz 4 Wochen und das BarCamp Hamburg öffnet seine Türen. Wie auch im vorherigen Jahr, werden wir 400 Plätze haben. Die Anmeldung für die Veranstaltung, die dieses mal schon an einem Freitag beginnt, öffnen wir am kommenden Mittwoch, den 21.10.2009Ab 12.00 Uhr kann man sich für die ...</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:03:15 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1452</link><guid>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1452</guid></item>    
		<item><title>The Social Media Count</title><description>Interessante Visualisierung von Social Media Statistiken. Die Quellen aus denen sich die Zahlen speisen, stehen beim Orignalpost von Personalize Media und sollen laufend Updates erfahren. Das Widget und ein weiters zum Thema Mobile, beide zum Einbinden, findet man ebenfalls dort.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:55:13 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1448</link><guid>http://www.franztoo.de/?feed=atom&amp;amp;p=1448</guid></item>    
		<item><title>21 pasos a seguir para monitorizar tu marca y controlar la conversación</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;140&quot; width=&quot;140&quot; src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2636/3967036669_4b59b64055_m.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;El eterno debate en cualquier acción en Social Media: la necesidad de monitorizar. Una ardua, pero necesaria, tarea a la hora de elaborar informes de cualquier acción y, aunque nos pese, a la hora de mostrar resultados de nuestras acciones, no nos sirven los meros números de followers o amigos, no significan mucho si van acompañados de algo más cualitativo y cuantitativo. En este sentido ha sido muy revelador el post de &lt;b&gt;Marc Cortés&lt;/b&gt; titulado &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.interactividad.org/2009/09/28/de-cada-10-amigos-on-line-9-no-existen/&quot;&gt;“De cada 10 amigos online, 9 no existen”&lt;/a&gt;. No podemos valorar el trabajo por horas, eso no le sirve al cliente (ni a nosotros mismos si somos honestos), sino que debemos ir más allá y demostrar las acciones conseguidas. La tarea no es fácil pero es posible y con la colaboración entre todos podremos llegar a crearnos una caja de herramientas adaptada a nuestras necesidades.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recientemente &lt;b&gt;Gaby Castellanos&lt;/b&gt; ha publicado un interesante post sobre herramientas, explicadas cada una de ellas, para medir en Social Media (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.gabycastellanos.com/51-herramientas-social-media/&quot;&gt;51 herramientas Social Media&lt;/a&gt;), divididas en categorías: Facebook, Facebook y Twitter, Twitter, Blogs, Conversaciones, Buzz y Brand, Tráfico, Multimedia, Social Bookmarking, y, finalmente, Username y Seguridad.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aquí publiqué hace algún tiempo &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://robertocarreras.es/post/81756750/herramientas-para-monitorizar-la-presencia-online&quot;&gt;un post/listado que he ido actualizando con herramientas para monitorizar online&lt;/a&gt;, también dividido por categorías: Buscadores de noticias; Buscadores de Blogs; Buscadores de Microblogs; Suscriptores de RSS; Buscadores de tags; Marcadores y agregadores; Comentarios; Seguimiento de Buzz; Buscadores en Redes Sociales; Twitter; Buscadores en foros; Conversaciones; Fotos y vídeos; Análisis, gráficos y comparativas; Buscadores de personas; ¿Qué opinan de ti?; Valorar una web económicamente; y, finalmente, específicos de Social Media. Más otro post más resumido con &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://robertocarreras.es/post/115851494/14-herramientas-imprescindibles-para-monitorizar-el&quot;&gt;14 herramientas imprescindibles para monitorizar el clima online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Excelentes fuentes&lt;/b&gt; son &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.javiergodoy.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Javier Godoy&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://quor-wom.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Miguel del Fresno&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://ivanpino.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Iván Pino&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;En este post quería hacerme eco y reproducir uno excelente que he visto en el blog del sueco &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.ronnestam.com&quot;&gt;Johan Ronnestam&lt;/a&gt; que recoge 21 pasos a seguir para monitorizar tu marca online y controlar la conversación (que me he permitido la licencia de traducir, añadir y quitar libremente…):&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lo primero y más sencillo ve a &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.google.com/alerts&quot;&gt;Google Alerts&lt;/a&gt; e introduce las palabras clave de tu empresa, sector, competencia, etc., que quieras monitorizar. Google Alerts no sólo permite agregar suscripciones de noticias de medios, sino que las amplía a blogs y a la web.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Después haz lo mismo suscribiéndote a las alertas de &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://socialmention.com/alerts/&quot;&gt;Social Mention&lt;/a&gt;, un buscador más específico de Social Media y, quizá, uno de los más completos.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ahora crea una cuenta en &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.netvibes.com/&quot;&gt;Netvibes&lt;/a&gt; y mantén esta ventana del navegador abierta.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abre una nueva ventana.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;En la nueva ventana ve a &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://socialmention.com/&quot;&gt;Social Mention&lt;/a&gt; e introduce las keywords que quieres monitorizar (serán similares al punto 1)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Una vez que obtengas el resultado pincha sobre el icono de RSS que aparece en la parte superior a la derecha.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Selecciona el link y cópialo en el navegador.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Vuelve a la ventana donde tienes abierta la cuenta de Netvibes.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;En la parte de arriba selecciona nueva etiqueta (&lt;i&gt;tab&lt;/i&gt;) y nómbrala con la palabra que hayas introducido como keyword en Social Mention.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;En la parte superior de la izquierda pincha sobre el botón verde “Ad Content” y elige “Ad a Feed” en el menú.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Situa tu marcador en el campo que dice “Enter a feed address or website url or auto detection” y pégalo.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Haz click en el botón “Add Feed” encima de dónde has pegado el link.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ahora pincha sobre el pequeño botón verde que dice “add” y el resultado aparecerá debajo de la etiqueta que has denominado con la palabra clave o keyword.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Vuelve a Social Mention y ahora vuelve a introducir la palabra clave pero seleccionando la pestaña de Microblogs debajo de la barra de búsquedas.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Vuelve a realizar el proceso y ahora tendrás añadidos en Netvibes los resultados referidos a esa keyword aparecidos en Microblogs.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Repite este proceso para completar las búsquedas en todas las áreas de Internet sobre las que realiza búsquedas Social Mention (Blogs, Microblogs, Bookmarks, Comentarios, Eventos, Imágenes, Noticias, Vídeos y Q&amp;A)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Una vez finalizado el proceso, en el navegador en el que estaba Social Mention abre &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.icerocket.com/&quot;&gt;IceRocket&lt;/a&gt; (otra de las mejores herramientas gratuitas que existen)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;En IceRocket puedes encontrar el RSS a la izquierda.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Y a realizar nuevamente el proceso de creación de etiquetas que desees en Netvibes.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Una vez hecho esto, ve a &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.twingly.com/&quot;&gt;Twingly&lt;/a&gt; para realizar las mismas búsquedas en blogs y microblogs.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lo último en todo el proceso: ve a las preferencias de tu navegador y haz de Netvibes tu página de inicio, de manera que siempre puedas consultar de un vistazo todas las novedades.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Este es un proceso lento y aburrido, pero una vez implementado el consultar todo lo que se dice online sobre tu marca y producto será coser y cantar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;10%&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si te ha gustado este post y quieres seguir lo publicado en este blog puedes &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;suscribirte a las entradas con tu lector de RSS&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;recibir cada actualización en tu correo electrónico&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=UzMFXYXzT9g:mY17vP7i4dg:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=UzMFXYXzT9g:mY17vP7i4dg:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=UzMFXYXzT9g:mY17vP7i4dg:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:10:37 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/UzMFXYXzT9g/200530237</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/UzMFXYXzT9g/200530237</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Entrevista a Víctor Gil, entre otras cosas, creador de mktfan</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Hoy traemos una novedad en este blog; la ocasión lo merecía ya que recientemente Víctor Gil ha creado una excelente herramienta: mktfan. Un agregador de noticias social sobre marketing, social media, tendencias, estudios… En definitiva, todos esos temas que tenemos dispersos entre Twitter, Facebook, Netvibes, Google Reader (Bloglines…), etc. Vamos a conocerle un poco más -os aseguro que merece la pena- y a su proyecto: no os perdáis ni un detalle, las palabras de Víctor son puro néctar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;255&quot; width=&quot;215&quot; src=&quot;http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs241.snc1/8823_1261991429616_1224602263_803936_3570666_n.jpg&quot; id=&quot;myphoto&quot;/&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Quién es&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://victorgil.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Víctor Gil&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Me siento muy cómodo con la descripción que tenía antes en mi blog: “Salmantino de nacimiento, catalán de empadronamiento y extremeño de corazón. Sociólogo de vocación, y analista de tendencias de consumo de profesión”. Está claro que la lírica no es lo mío, ¿verdad? Creo que hoy la gente me conoce más por los libros que he escrito: &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.crossumer.com/&quot;&gt;Crossumer&lt;/a&gt; (Gestión 2000, 2008) y &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://victorgil.com/2009/05/coolhunting-el-arte-y-la-ciencia-de-descifrar-tendencias-empresa-activa-2009/&quot;&gt;Coolhunting&lt;/a&gt; (Empresa Activa, 2009) Puede que también haya bastante gente que asocie mi nombre a &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.tcanalysis.com/&quot;&gt;The Cocktail Analysis&lt;/a&gt;, una empresa de investigación de mercados que fundé junto a &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://the-cocktail.com/planeta/aggregator/sources/4&quot;&gt;Felipe Romero&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.the-mixer.net/&quot;&gt;Alberto Knapp&lt;/a&gt; en 2006, proyecto del que me desvinculé hace unos meses para poner en marcha una nueva compañía: &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://victorgil.com/2009/09/maqueta-de-presentacion-de-cool-insights/&quot;&gt;Cool Insights&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Nos podrías dar unas pinceladas sobre coolhunting?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Intentaré resumir de qué va, pero la última vez que emprendí esta tarea me salieron más de 180 páginas! Me enrollo como las persianas. Soy muy pesado, lo sé.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bien, &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;el coolhunting es una nueva disciplina, que se ubica a medio camino entre el marketing, i+d, investigación comercial y la estrategia, que tiene como misión detectar hacia dónde se encaminan los gustos y preferencias de los consumidores para inspirar la innovación a nivel de producto, marca, comunicación y distribución&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Para Víctor, ¿qué son los medios sociales?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Entiendo que los medios sociales son el conjunto de soportes o plataformas disponibles en la red utilizados por los usuarios para dirigirse, comunicar o interaccionar con otras personas (su audiencia)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Cómo afectan al coolhunting?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;El aumento de la penetración de uso y consumo de los medios sociales afecta de forma directa al coolhunting en varios frentes. Tiene diversas implicaciones de gran calado. Destacaré las que, a mi juicio, son más relevantes:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Multiplica exponencialmente el fenómeno de la fragmentación de los medios&lt;/b&gt;. Si prácticamente cada usuario se convierte en medio (sería tal vez más apropiado decir soporte), eso significa que en la actualidad hay en el mundo más de mil millones de emisores masivos de mensajes (al menos potencialmente) En la medida en que los medios juegan un rol fundamental en la difusión de las innovaciones y las tendencias que posteriormente se convierten en moda, nuestra labor de pronóstico se complica enormemente; son infinitos los mensajes que tenemos que monitorizar.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Los ritmos de adopción de las innovaciones  se han acelerado hasta niveles desconocidos&lt;/b&gt;. El fenómeno de las redes sociales ha propiciado la configuración de una verdadera sociedad en red, en la que los ritmos de adopción de innovaciones (novedades) se han acelerado de forma drástica. Me gusta poner un ejemplo que creo que todos hemos observado con perplejidad: las famosas galletas de la suerte de Facebook. ¿Cuánto tiempo tardaron en convertirse en moda en todo el globo? ¡48 horas!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Desde la perspectiva de la metodología que utilizamos en coolhunting para detectar las tendencias, tiene también sus implicaciones&lt;/b&gt;. Hoy infinidad de tendencias se gestan o se difunden a través de los medios sociales; por fuerza tenemos que estar en ellos para captarlas. Es evidente que no le podemos perder el pulso a lo que sucede en la calle, pero estoy convencido de que, si algo de lo que sucede allí es relevante, no tardará mucho en manifestarse en la red.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Y a la comunicación y PR de una empresa?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Por supuesto que tienen implicaciones. &lt;b&gt;Todas las reglas que conocíamos se ven radicalmente alteradas desde el momento en el que cualquier persona tiene a su disposición una audiencia potencial de más de mil millones de individuos&lt;/b&gt; (interconectados entre sí con un máximo de 6 grados de separación) En Crossumer abordé exhaustivamente la trascendencia de este hecho. Si alguno de tus lectores tiene interés en profundizar, puede descargar varios capítulos del libro en los que se analiza (&lt;a href=&quot;http://victorgil.com/2009/03/crossumer-claves-para-entender-al-consumidor-de-nueva-generacion/)&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://victorgil.com/2009/03/crossumer-claves-para-entender-al-consumidor-de-nueva-generacion/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://victorgil.com/2009/03/crossumer-claves-para-entender-al-consumidor-de-nueva-generacion/&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Por qué crees que las empresas deben estar presentes en los medios sociales?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bueno, &lt;b&gt;en general las empresas tienen la obligación de estar en todos aquellos espacios en los que se encuentran sus consumidores, actuales o potenciales&lt;/b&gt;. En la medida que los medios sociales tienen  ya una penetración prácticamente universal entre los usuarios de Internet, no hay demasiadas justificaciones para argumentar lo contrario. &lt;b&gt;Es cierto que aún existen determinados targets para los que Internet y los medios sociales les sigue quedando lejano&lt;/b&gt; (amas de casa tradicionales, clases bajas, seniors…), pero esto tampoco debería ser un freno para las empresas que se dirigen a ellos: en muchos casos los pocos representantes que hay en Internet de estos colectivos, son líderes de opinión en sus contextos, y hacen de prescriptores y correa de transmisión con los que están fuera de entornos digitales.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Eso sí, la incursión en los medios sociales por parte de las empresas debe ser entendida más como una oportunidad que como obligación. &lt;b&gt;Estar presente es un medio, no un fin en sí mismo&lt;/b&gt;. Si no se tiene claro qué es lo que se pretende (objetivos), y qué rol se va a jugar (estrategia), tal vez sea más oportuno limitarse exclusivamente a “escuchar”. Esto último sí que es ya ineludible para cualquier compañía, opere en el sector que opere, y se dirija al target que se dirija.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Cómo deben enfocar esa presencia: estrategia, principios de participación…?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Antes de enfocar nada, resulta fundamental estudiar dónde está y qué es lo que hace tu target en los medios sociales&lt;/b&gt;. Esto es muy de sentido común, y a pesar de ello, pocas compañías lo llevan a cabo. Lamentablemente, somos muy dados a dejarnos llevar por los hypes y a imitar lo que ya están haciendo otros.&lt;b&gt; Las posibilidades que ofrecen los medios sociales son infinitas&lt;/b&gt;. Tendemos a pensar en clave de comunicación, pero aún están por explorar y explotar muchos caminos en otros ámbitos, como el del  CRM o la distribución. Es tras un análisis concienzudo del target en la red cuando va a surgir, casi de manera natural, la estrategia a adoptar y los principios de participación. Dejadme que ponga un ejemplo en el que, visto desde fuera, entiendo que no se ha llevado a cabo este ejercicio inicial.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;¿Qué gana, por ejemplo,  una conocida marca de sopicaldos teniendo poco más de mil followers en twitter? Si analizas qué usuarios interaccionan con la enseña en esta plataforma, enseguida te das cuenta de que es gente que, de algún modo,  está profesionalmente relacionada con los Social Media o el marketing. Bien, si lo que pretenden es que éstos les citen en charlas y artículos como caso de éxito (PR), no me parece una mala inversión de recursos, pero si, en realidad, lo que se persigue es interaccionar con su target, &lt;b&gt;creo que destinar demasiados recursos a twitter (como mínimo los del community manager) es un error, cuando hay infinidad de alternativas que pueden ser mucho más eficientes para este fin&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;El perfil del usuario de twitter es muy particular. Con frecuencia se arguye que son prescriptores… ¡Cómo si un prescriptor lo fuera en todos los campos! Tenemos que aprender a diferenciar muy claramente entre trendsetter, líder de opinión y presciptor. Si a mí alguien me quiere influir en temas de alimentación, ¡que lo haga a través de mi madre o de un profesional de la nutrición! Vamos, cualquiera a quién yo atribuya credibilidad (expertise) en ese campo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;81&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2479/3963557429_6fbd302363_m.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Recientemente has creado &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://mktfan.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;mktfan&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;, ¿de dónde surge la idea?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;El proyecto surge de una preocupación personal que creo es bastante compartida: apenas tenemos tiempo ni capacidad de atención suficiente para abarcar todo lo que se publica sobre marketing, tanto en medios especializados, como, cada vez más, en las redes sociales que utilizamos&lt;/b&gt;… No sé vosotros, pero yo me siento totalmente desbordado. A veces me dan ganas de desengancharme de Google Reader, twitter y facebook… pero no soy capaz; no hay cosa que me fastidie más que ir a una reunión o evento y que todo el mundo comente alguna noticia o caso de éxito del que tú ni has oído hablar. Soy así de friki, sí, pero qué le vamos a hacer… supongo tampoco soy el único al que le pasa esto.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;¿Solución? ¿Seguir dedicando horas y horas a rastrear las decenas (o centenares) de fuentes que cada uno tenemos? Ni quiero, ni puedo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pues bien, dándole vueltas al tema, hace unos días, se me ocurrió que &lt;b&gt;si entre todos, con mucho menos esfuerzo, hacemos el trabajo de filtrar lo que nos parezca relevante, todo será mucho más llevadero. Y así nació &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://mktfan.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;mktfan.com&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;En todo caso, es importante señalar que la intención es que &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://mktfan.com/&quot;&gt;mktfan&lt;/a&gt; sea mucho más que un repositorio de contenidos (lo cual de por sí ya está bastante bien) donde vamos subiendo lo que nos vamos encontrando. Hay que depurar este proceso, que creo que no es del todo eficiente.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Y cómo se puede hacer más eficiente?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lo suyo es que el filtrado colaborativo se lleve a cabo de una manera más racional y organizada, para que esto no se convierta en un espacio en el que unos pocos se “pegan la currada” de revisar infinidad de fuentes (muchas de las cuales son coincidentes) para &lt;b&gt;entresacar de lo bueno, lo mejor&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;El objetivo es que todos ahorremos tiempo sin renunciar a estar al tanto de todo lo más relevante que pasa en el mundo del marketing&lt;/b&gt;. Bajo esta premisa, estoy trabajando en el desarrollo de una lógica de colaboración que creo que es mucho más eficiente y eficaz. Muy pronto lo compartiré con la comunidad para ver si, entre todos, somos capaces de ver cuál podría ser la mejor vía técnica para implementar algunas de las ideas que llevo en la cabeza.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Qué otras ventajas se te ocurren que puede aportar &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://mktfan.com/&quot;&gt;mktfan&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Creo que somos muchos los que observamos una deriva peligrosa en los medios sociales que es una consecuencia de su éxito. Es cierto que hoy eso que llamamos “la conversación” en cierto modo subsiste, pero resulta mucho más complicada seguirla, porque el nivel de ruido es ensordecedor. ¿De verdad es necesario que todos tengamos que repetir cual loritos lo que ya ha dicho &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/&quot;&gt;Seth Godin&lt;/a&gt; en su blog para no aportar absolutamente nada nuevo?, ¿no sería más provechoso disponer de un espacio único en el que, entre todos, pudiéramos discutir si muchas de las cosas que él plantea tienen verdaderamente fundamento? Me preocupa enormemente que la conversación se fragmente, porque la consecuencia ya la estamos experimentando: palidece.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;¿Y qué decir de twitter? Sinceramente, tampoco creo que sea el espacio más adecuado para llevar a cabo conversaciones que conllevan análisis más o menos profundos. &lt;b&gt;Twitter es  conversación en estado puro, pero, por diversos motivos, no es el lugar para el análisis&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sé que el hecho de que reivindique mktfan como espacio de conversaciónn, puede levantar suspicacias. Como alguien me dijo el otro día, a todos nos gusta “jugar en casa” (léase, en nuestro medio o blog) Es algo que entiendo, pero el problema es que no tenemos tiempo para ir todos los días de casa en casa. &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://mktfan.com/&quot;&gt;mktfan&lt;/a&gt; no pretende monopolizar la conversación en torno a temas de marketing. ¡Faltaría más! Si acaso, se persigue “concentrar” la conversación entre aquellas personas que compartan estas sensaciones que muchos experimentamos. Si somos 10, pues somos 10.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Quién puede subir noticias a &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://mktfan.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;mktfan&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cualquiera puede subir enlaces a contenidos en mktfan&lt;/b&gt;, siempre y cuando los considere realmente de interés para la comunidad. Eso sí, antes de subir nada, es importante que a través del buscador nos aseguremos de que alguien no ha subido ya ese contenido.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Por lo tanto, ¿es una herramienta muy cómoda para ver en un solo lugar todas las noticias relacionadas con Social Media, Comunicación, Tendencias…?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bueno, hoy no es así porque la comunidad no cuenta con masa crítica suficiente para asegurar que se está rastreando todo lo que puede ser relevante, pero es el objetivo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; width=&quot;180&quot; src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2618/3964333562_99db1652b3_m.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Existe la posibilidad de suscribirse a los contenidos, buscarlos, retuitearlos, etc.?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Efectivamente, &lt;b&gt;cuenta con todas estas posibilidades&lt;/b&gt;. Para suscribirnos a contenidos, contamos, por un lado, con las RSS para quienes utilizan lectores de feeds (Google Reader, Netvibes…) y, por otro, con la posibilidad de guardar contenidos que nos interesen en nuestro perfil y en el de los grupos a los que pertenezcamos. También &lt;b&gt;dispone de opciones de búsqueda avanzada&lt;/b&gt; (está en el pie de página) El pasado fin de semana se ha incorporado un botón para que sea más cómodo &lt;b&gt;retuitear contenidos&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;¿Qué otros usos le podemos dar a &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://mktfan.com/&quot;&gt;mktfan&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bien, mktfan puede ser algo más  que una comunidad de filtrado colaborativo del estilo de menéame. Incorpora algunas funcionalidades relacionales que entre todos tendremos que ir viendo cómo podemos darle uso. Por ejemplo, &lt;b&gt;existe la posibilidad de hacer amigos y compartir con ellos contenidos&lt;/b&gt;. Asimismo, cabe existe la opción de &lt;b&gt;interactuar &lt;/b&gt;con éstos a través de un sistema de mensajería interno. Creo que &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://mktfan.com/&quot;&gt;mktfan&lt;/a&gt; puede llegar a ser también un espacio para conocer  gente con la que compartimos intereses, bien por amistad o networking. ¿Por qué no?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Por último, la preguntilla indiscreta, ¿qué gana Víctor Gil con &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://mktfan.com/&quot;&gt;mktfan&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sé que con lo que voy a decir espantaré a cualquier eventual inversor que pudiera tener interés en mktfan: no hay modelo de negocio para la explotación de esta  comunidad con vistas a generar rentabilidad. Por el momento, lo que quiero es que se cumplan los objetivos que han impulsado la puesta en marcha del proyecto: &lt;b&gt;optimizar mi tiempo a la hora de mantenerme al día de las tendencias en marketing&lt;/b&gt;; algo que es necesario para lo que yo me dedico. Para conseguirlo, sé que tengo que colaborar y compartir con otras personas, las cuales, a su vez, encontrarán también otras vías adicionales de recompensa (notoriedad, reconocimiento, networking…) &lt;b&gt;Para mí mktfan es un win win&lt;/b&gt;. Todos ganamos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ser altruista en muchas facetas de mi vida –y especialmente en la profesional- siempre me ha reportado beneficios&lt;/b&gt; (o al menos así lo percibo) Sé que suena paradójico, pero soy altruista,  y me gusta compartir,  por puro egoísmo. Cuando comparto conocimiento (a través de los informes públicos de las empresas en las que he estado,  o los post, artículos y libros que he escrito) es probable que le aporte un valor a quienes lo reciben, pero yo también tengo mi recompensa con su feedback, que siempre enriquece el planteamiento original. Por otro parte,&lt;b&gt; al compartir, también estoy demostrando un expertise que mejora la percepción que tienen de mí en el sector profesional en el que desarrollo mi actividad&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Por otro lado, ya que me pongo, de esta experiencia también me gustaría extraer algunos aprendizajes sobre crowdsourcing y gestión de comunidades que vengo aplicando desde hace años al coolhunting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;10%&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si te ha gustado este post y quieres seguir lo publicado en este blog puedes &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;suscribirte a las entradas con tu lector de RSS&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;recibir cada actualización en tu correo electrónico&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=bCus1RgbMJQ:UXkaHL8AE9M:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=bCus1RgbMJQ:UXkaHL8AE9M:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=bCus1RgbMJQ:UXkaHL8AE9M:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:05:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/bCus1RgbMJQ/199555662</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/bCus1RgbMJQ/199555662</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Dando la bienvenida a Yorokobu... y a los apasionados</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Si hay algo especialmente bonito en el mundo laboral es la sensación que vives cuando te encuentras con personas que de verdad creen en lo que hacen por encima de todo, les apasiona su trabajo y lo convierten en su vida, no viviendo para trabajar -cosa que no me gusta especialmente- sino disfrutando de su quehacer diario y de sus ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Escribiendo este post de bienvenida a &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.yorokobu.es/&quot;&gt;Yorokobu&lt;/a&gt; me he acordado de &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.digitalmeteo.com/equipo/emilio-rey-hernandez/&quot;&gt;Emilio Rey&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/digitalmeteo&quot;&gt;@digitalmeteo en Twitter&lt;/a&gt;), una persona increíble, apasionada por lo que más le gusta desde que era pequeño: la meteorología. A través de su cuenta de Twitter (en su BIO se define como “El hombre del tiempo en Twitter”) le puedes preguntar el tiempo que va a hacer en tal o cual lugar, si ese día en el que te juegas millones de euros en un rodaje lloverá o no… Todo lo responde con la mayor inmediatez. Es tu hombre del tiempo personal, pero no sólo esta es una de sus estrategias de negocio, son varias más que desarrolla con su equipo &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.digitalmeteo.com&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Digitalmeteo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Pero, sobre todo, es una gran persona a la que merece la pena conocer por su pasión.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;75&quot; width=&quot;150&quot; src=&quot;http://foro.meteored.com/dlattach.html%3Battach=58694%3Btype=avatar&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Otro apasionado es &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://juanmarketing.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Juan Sánchez&lt;/b&gt; y su Pasión por el Marketing&lt;/a&gt;… y tantos otros que conozco y he conocido últimamente. Pero continuando con el objeto de este post, quiero &lt;b&gt;dar la bienvenida a un nuevo proyecto&lt;/b&gt;, un nuevo medio de comunicación sobre Marcas, Social Media, Internet, Comunicación, Publicidad, Marketing, etc. Se trata de &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.yorokobu.es/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Yorokobu&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Un proyecto que ha nacido de la pasión de un equipo que siempre ha creído en lo que hacía y que ha apostado firmemente por ello.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hasta ahora colaboraba escribiendo artículos para Brandlife (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/robertocarreras/relaciones-con-medios-presentation&quot;&gt;Hacia un nuevo modelo de Relaciones con Medios&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/robertocarreras/uso-periodstico-de-twitter&quot;&gt;Twitter: cuando la actualidad se escribe en 140 caracteres&lt;/a&gt; y algunos otros en la edición online), de donde viene la mayor parte del equipo de Yorokobu, pero ahora me convierto en tránsfuga -palabra tan de moda ;)- para colaborar en lo que pueda con ellos (el primer artículo que saldrá en papel en octubre se titula: &lt;i&gt;“Un nuevo modelo de Marketing, Publicidad y Comunicación: el Real Time”&lt;/i&gt;) Su proyecto, además de la edición impresa, cuenta con:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.yorokobu.es/&quot;&gt;Edición online &lt;/a&gt;en la que cuelgan interesantísimo contenido a diario.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cuenta en Twitter: &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/yorokobumag&quot;&gt;@YorokobuMag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;70&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2545/3948099214_ff25d9ba51_m.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;El &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.yorokobu.es/equipo/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;equipo de Yorokobu&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; está formado por: Juan Moreno, Mar Abad, Marcus Hurst, Santos Henarejos, José Luis Colomina, David  García, Fermín Abella, Rocío Martí (&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://robertocarreras.es/post/77566289/rodearse-de-los-mejores-el-ejemplo-de-los-hoplitas&quot;&gt;seguid trabajando en equipo como los hoplitas&lt;/a&gt;) Y como ellos mismos señalan en su web:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Nos gusta la comunicación, la innovación, las tendencias, las estrategias de las marcas, las aventuras de los emprendedores… Y, en definitiva, la creatividad y todo lo que nos haga aprender y pasarlo bien.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Yorokobu habla de todas estas cosas. Te lo contamos en esta web, en Twitter (@yorokobumag) y en una revista mensual (nuestro espacio para el análisis, la reflexión, la creatividad y el placer de adentrarte en el mundo de las marcas desde una lectura de sillón).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Todo esto lo hacemos un equipo de personas que se dedican desde hace años a buscar la mejor creatividad que se hace en cualquier parte del mundo para contártelo a ti.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;¿Quién nos lee? Profesionales del mundo de la comunicación, marketing, publicidad, creatividad, diseño, medios de comunicación, medios sociales, start-ups, arte… Y todos los que quieren conocer proyectos interesantes de las marcas en todo el mundo, creatividad en cualquiera de sus formas e iniciativas empresariales.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Y ¿por qué Yorokobu? Porque un día se cruzó esa palabra en nuestra vida. Nos gustó. Descubrimos que significa “estar feliz” en japonés y nos gustó más todavía.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;¡¡Mucha suerte en esta nueva etapa!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;10%&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si te ha gustado este post y quieres seguir lo publicado en este blog puedes &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;suscribirte a las entradas con tu lector de RSS&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;recibir cada actualización en tu correo electrónico&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=O7bzunqhWzQ:7h2B0eXFkUM:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=O7bzunqhWzQ:7h2B0eXFkUM:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=O7bzunqhWzQ:7h2B0eXFkUM:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:46:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/O7bzunqhWzQ/195053057</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/O7bzunqhWzQ/195053057</guid></item>    
		<item><title>What if MSN bought Twitter?</title><description>There has been a lot of speculation on the value of Twitter and quite rightly. I won’t explore it all but the most recent one says maybe a billion but I think this kind of assessment of the value of social media has to be done differently if it’s going to be done seriously.To begin ...&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=socialglue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5442617&amp;post=199&amp;subd=socialglue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1&quot; /&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:14:45 +0000</pubDate><link>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/what-if-msn-bought-twitter/</link><guid>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/what-if-msn-bought-twitter/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Vídeo online e Identidad Digital: el caso de TitanluxTV</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; width=&quot;178&quot; src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3536/3928074221_cf04635ee6_m.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;El vídeo online ya no es tendencia, es una realidad innegable. Según &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.puromarketing.com/18/5672/el-video-online-modifica-habitos-consumo-medios-espanoles.html&quot;&gt;un estudio&lt;/a&gt; de &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://advertising.microsoft.com/home/home&quot;&gt;Microsoft Advertising&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.zenithmedia.es/&quot;&gt;ZenithMedia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;b&gt;España es el país europeo donde un mayor número de internautas han visto vídeos online en el ordenador&lt;/b&gt;, un 87% frente al 63% de franceses. No obstante, somos los últimos en lo que a ver vídeo en el móvil se refiere, un 16% de usuarios lo han hecho, frente al casi 30% del Reino Unido. Según &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/mickstravellin/universal-mccann-international-social-media-research-wave-3&quot;&gt;Universal McCann&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;b&gt;el 86,6% de los internautas españoles consume video a través de Internet en portales como YouTube&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;En Internet cambian los hábitos muy deprisa. La multitud de ofertas y la gratuidad de una gran parte de las mismas hacen que los usuarios se vuelvan muy eficientes, como está ocurriendo en el consumo de cine y música por la Red. &lt;b&gt;Las descargas dejan paso progresivamente al streaming&lt;/b&gt;, una tecnología que permite ver vídeos y escuchar canciones en webs especializadas sin necesidad de descargar y almacenar los archivos. Ésta es la principal conclusión del informe &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.fundacionorange.es/fundacionorange/analisis/eespana/e_espana09.html&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;eEspaña 2009, realizado por la Fundación Orange&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Esta clara tendencia afecta a las empresas y a la forma en que pueden apostar por generar nuevos contenidos de valor y atractivos para el usuario (también a las tradicionales cadenas de televisión: &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.expansion.com/2009/09/21/empresas/medios/1253565343.html&quot;&gt;Las televisiones negocia unirse en un macroportal de Internet&lt;/a&gt;) Cada vez son más las empresas que apuestan por crear su propio canal de televisión en Internet. &lt;b&gt;Hoy mismo se presenta &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.nestle-tv.es/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;NestléTV&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Iniciativas interesantes me parecen las que realiza &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://dnovae.com&quot;&gt;Digital Novae Media&lt;/a&gt; (empresa con la que colaboro en muchos proyectos, para que no haya dudas ;-), debido a la optimización en la codificación del vídeo, como por ejemplo la TV de &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.sonypicturespresenta.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sony Pictures&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; o la de la &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://tv.cac.es/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias de Valencia&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ayer conocía un nuevo canal de televisión que me ha llamado especialmente la atención, porque han creado toda una estrategia de Identidad Digital entorno al mismo y para distribuir su contenido en todas las herramientas que han decidido utilizar. Se trata de &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.titanlux.tv/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;TitanluxTV&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, que además de ofrecer interesantes contenidos ha planificado su presencia en:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Facebook: &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=128585249283&quot;&gt;grupo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/titanluxtv&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/titanluxtv/&quot;&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/titanluxtv&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Han agregado suscripción al contenido vía mail o RSS.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2500/3928081315_327a1e40fd_m.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Además de la Identidad Digital del canal han creado un &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://www.titanlux.tv/blog/&quot;&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt;, en el que dan consejos sobre usos de colores, cómo pintar, etc., así como información de sus productos. Todo ello combinado con acciones de Comunicación y PR en medios offline.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quizá este se convierta en un buen ejemplo de acciones corporativas en Social Media; de momento, lo que de verdad me parece importante es que se realicen apuestas de este tipo en España, apostando por los nichos de público y que sirven para dar muestra a otro tipo de empresas de lo que se está haciendo en nuestro país (por cierto, seguimos ampliando ejemplos en el &lt;a target=&quot;_self&quot; href=&quot;http://sites.google.com/site/socialmediawiki/&quot;&gt;Social Media Wiki&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;10%&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Si te ha gustado este post y quieres seguir lo publicado en este blog puedes &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;suscribirte a las entradas con tu lector de RSS&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RobertoCarreras&quot;&gt;recibir cada actualización en tu correo electrónico&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=1KtXTSU11aU:s2toZYIO5fE:yIl2AUoC8zA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=yIl2AUoC8zA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=1KtXTSU11aU:s2toZYIO5fE:qj6IDK7rITs&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=qj6IDK7rITs&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?a=1KtXTSU11aU:s2toZYIO5fE:7Q72WNTAKBA&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RobertoCarreras?d=7Q72WNTAKBA&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:04:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/1KtXTSU11aU/190148804</link><guid>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoCarreras/~3/1KtXTSU11aU/190148804</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Some questions to ask when thinking about making a website.</title><description>When a client asks you to build a website you should consider the below before responding.. - What is the desired action? Not what is the desired website action but human action? Is it to buy something. Believe something. Join something. Contribute something. What does the role of the website play in achieving that goal? - Does ...&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=socialglue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5442617&amp;post=192&amp;subd=socialglue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1&quot; /&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:04:41 +0000</pubDate><link>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/some-questions-to-ask-when-thinking-about-making-a-website/</link><guid>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/some-questions-to-ask-when-thinking-about-making-a-website/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>Some inconvenient truths about the networked world that could save your asses.</title><description>It’s nothing new to suggest that the Network disrupts all it touches. Working as a specialist in the networked space over the last year it shouldn’t have come as a surprise all the things I had previously believed as a marketer, professional, businessman and more should also be disrupted. By focusing purely on working with ...&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=socialglue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5442617&amp;post=179&amp;subd=socialglue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1&quot; /&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 16:44:53 +0000</pubDate><link>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/some-inconvenient-truths-about-the-networked-world-that-could-save-your-asses/</link><guid>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/some-inconvenient-truths-about-the-networked-world-that-could-save-your-asses/</guid></item>    
		<item><title>What should a qualification in social media look like?</title><description>What should the syllabus look like for a qualification in social media?&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=socialglue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5442617&amp;post=160&amp;subd=socialglue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1&quot; /&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:55:50 +0000</pubDate><link>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/what-should-a-qualification-in-social-media-look-like/</link><guid>http://socialglue.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/what-should-a-qualification-in-social-media-look-like/</guid></item>    
 
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