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Tag: social networking

  • Social Nation by Barry Libert

    One of the “worlds” that is changing faster than it is staying the same is social media.

    It can feel daunting trying to catch up with what is happening in social media before it has morphed into something else again.

    And how many of the experts on the topic are little more than early and lucky entrants? All their “how-to’s” are no longer applicable because we are no longer early in the process nor is everyone lucky.

    Then comes Barry Libert, who in his collaborative work, Social Nation, gives us a great overview of best practices, primary perspectives, and strategic keys.

    Seven Principles for Building Your Social Nation

    If you are new to social networking, then you will love this book. Libert lays out a wonderful frame of reference for thinking about the skills, processes and purposes of social networking as a component of one’s business strategy.

    Those already interacting heavily on the web might find much of the content (more…)

  • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

    Clay Shirky, The Penguin Press, New York, 2008.

    By now you are well aware of my penchant for writers who affirm, confirm and otherwise provide research to back up my own assertions.

    As we at Bold Enterprises help you empower all people in your company, regardless of power, titles or places on the organizational chart, Clay Shirky examines the impact of the social dynamics taking place on the web on power and getting things done. With interesting results.

    Interesting because it is not merely people who are already in a working relationship who are experiencing new effectiveness with the power of the web behind them. That’s old news.

    But people who would never have had opportunity to meet much less collaborate are finding each other and making a difference in matters that are important to them.

    Who’s choosing these matters of importance? No longer the bosses and others with positional power. They don’t even figure into the equation, except maybe as a source of resistance.

    You and I are choosing these issues of personal and corporate importance and connecting with those who can help us and whom we can help as well.

    You need to check out Here Comes Everybody and get acquainted with our world of change, chaos, unlimited relationships, and the strange and wonderful forms of effectiveness that are being created moment by moment.