tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540716244041928492024-02-08T10:43:20.245-08:00InnovateWeb 2.0, Social Web, Semantic Web, Collaboration and stuff like that.Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-75560363286693498862012-04-15T23:54:00.001-07:002012-04-15T23:54:53.563-07:00Reflections: Online Information Conference 2011<div class='posterous_autopost'><p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://steve-dale.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Online_Info_Conf_logo_2011-reflect.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1991" title="Online_Info_Conf_logo_2011 reflect" src="http://steve-dale.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Online_Info_Conf_logo_2011-reflect-300x112.png" height="112" alt="" style="border-color: initial;" width="300" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Pretty exhausting, incredibly insightful and hugely enjoyable: that would sum up my three days as Chairman of this year’s <a href="http://www.online-information.co.uk/">Online Information Conference 2011</a>, held at the Olympia Conference Centre between 29<sup>th</sup> November and 1<sup>st</sup> December. The last time the event will be run at this venue, but more about that later.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">It was impossible to be everywhere and hear all of the presentations, so my reflections are by necessity limited to what I personally heard, saw or facilitated. To provide some overall context, the conference provided a forum dedicated to learning, debate, professional development, technology reviews and assessments, expert discussion and case-study presentations on what I would broadly describe as the ‘Information Professions”. There were four themed tracks:</p> <ul style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> <li>Going mobile: Information and Knowledge on the move</li> <li>Social Media: Exploiting knowledge in networks</li> <li>Building a framework for the future of the information profession</li> <li>New frontiers in information management</li> <li>Search and Information Discovery</li> </ul> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">The conference opened with a keynote presentation from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/craignewmark">Craig Newmark</a> on the topic “<strong><em>Effective Social Media: Past, Present and Future</em></strong>”.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Craig is possibly best known as the founder and inspiration behind <a href="http://www.craigslist.com/">Craigslist</a>, the largest online local classifieds and community moderated forum service in the world. He modestly refers to himself as a “Customer Service Manager’ for Craigslist, which he himself describes as diminishing role. His time is increasingly devoted to his philanthropic efforts, as defined by the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://craigslistfoundation.org/">Craigslist Foundation</a></span> <em>(“….a connector to bring together nonprofit leaders, business, government, philanthropy and craigslist community members to take greater responsibility for where they live, play and work</em>”), and the recently launched <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://craigconnects.org/">Craigconnects</a></span> (“<em>Using technology to give the voiceless a real voice, and the powerless real power</em>”).</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Craig covered quite a lot of ground in his presentation, from the earliest examples of “social media” as defined by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg">Gutenberg</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther">Luther</a> and the role of the printing press in achieving massive social change, to today’s use of social media and the internet to engage with and connect people and groups with similar interests.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">His focus is now very much on the nonprofits sector, where he spends about 60 hours of his working week. He referred to the scope and depth of the nonprofits sector as a “sea of help”, but pointed out that many of these people and organisations need help themselves in making more effective use of social media. He identifies Craigconnects as being a “hub”, helping nonprofit organisations that have similar aims and objectives to connect and collaborate together. He also sees social media as a way of getting more people involved in legitimate nonprofits, and to maybe identify the fake nonprofits, i.e. those that spend most or all of their income on themselves.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Another key theme to emerge from Craig’s keynote was the issue of fact-checking in the news business. Craig was keen to emphasise that he was not a journalist or an expert in the news industry, but felt that the disinvestment in investigative reporting and fact-checking had eroded the trust in news media. Craig was no doubt referring to the US press, but it seems to me there is some resonance on the issue of trust with the UK press, as reported via the <a href="http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/">Leveson inquiry</a> . In fact, “trust” was a recurrent theme in both Craig’s keynote, and the keynote for the second day of the conference by Rachel Botsman (see later reference), and as Craig noted: “<strong><em>Trust was the new black</em></strong>”.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">The key elements of the fact-checking debate is described in more detail in <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-newmark/restoring-factchecking_b_1117069.html">this article</a> by Craig, recently published in the Huffington Post. However, perhaps more memorable and particularly poignant is one of Craig’s remarks I noted from his keynote: “<strong><em>The press should be the immune system of democracy</em></strong>”.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">A pre-conference podcast by Craig is available from the <a href="http://www.online-information.co.uk/online2011/conference/podcasts.html">Online Information website</a>.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.rachelbotsman.com/">Rachel Botsman</a> was the keynote speaker on the second day of the conference. Rachel is a social innovator who writes, consults and speaks on the power of collaboration and sharing through current and emerging network technologies, including how it will transform business, consumerism and the way we live. She is the co-author with Roo Rogers of: <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whats-Mine-Yours-Collaborative-Consumption/dp/0007395914/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323167638&sr=8-1">What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption</a></strong>. TIME magazine recently called Collaborative Consumption “One of the top 10 ideas that will change the world.”</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Rachel is based in Australia and couldn’t be with us in London, so we had a 35-minute video that Rachel had produced especially for the conference, followed by 20 minutes of questions and answers via a live link-up with Rachel in Australia.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">The keynote was broadly based on the <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whats-Mine-Yours-Collaborative-Consumption/dp/0007395914/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323167638&sr=8-1">book</a> (a highly recommended read). It gives a stark perspective of western societies’ 40-year addiction to hyper-consumerism, and the impact this is having on people, society and the planet’s resources. The key question is whether we can continue as we are for the next 40 years or more, or whether we have to consider other economic models. I’m guessing that the broad vote is for the latter, which is why we’re witnessing the explosive growth of what Rachel refers to as “Collaborative Consumption”</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com//the-movement/cc-pioneers-and-protagonists_archive.php">Collaborative Consumption</a> is the process of sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting and swapping, reinvented and massively scaled using internet and social network technologies. Rachel described three main systems:</p> <h3 style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Product Service Systems</h3> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Based on the idea of paying for usage of a product without needing to own the product outright. Car sharing or bike sharing are typical examples. Witness the huge success of bike sharing schemes such as London’s <a href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/14808.aspx">Barclays Bike Hire</a>.</p> <h3 style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Redistribution Markets</h3> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Redistribute used or pre-owned goods from where they are not needed to someone or somewhere where they are. Examples of this type of market include <a href="http://www.uk.freecycle.org/">Freecycle</a> and <a href="http://london.craigslist.co.uk/">Craigslist</a> .</p> <h3 style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Collaborative Lifestyles</h3> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">It's not just physical goods that can be shared, swapped and bartered. People with similar interests are forming groups to share and exchange assets such as time, space, skills and money. Examples include <a href="http://tuttleclub.wordpress.com/">The Tuttle Club</a> , <a href="http://thecubelondon.com/">The Cube</a> and <a href="http://www.landshare.net/">Landshare</a>.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Rachel was keen to emphasise that these new and emerging peer to peer (P2P) models, utilising the power and reach of the internet and social networks to massively scale, can and will co-exist with the traditional business to consumer (B2C) services. Though there is evidence that some B2C corporates are adapting their services to deliver the same sort of flexibility offered by the P2P market. For example BMW’s recently announced <a href="http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/265954/bmw_drivenow_car_sharing_scheme.html">car sharing scheme</a>.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Rachel’s video included a few case studies of how “micro-entrepreneurs” are creating products and services by renting selling or trading “idling time” – i.e. the time that a product or service is not being used. This could be the car that sits on the driveway for 22 hours out of every 24, the spare room that only gets used when there are visitors, or that power-drill in the tool cupboard that has only been used for 3 minutes. Services such <a href="http://www.airbnb.com/">Airbnp</a> (room renting), <a href="http://www.zipcar.com/">Zipcar</a> (car renting) or <a href="http://www.taskrabbit.com/">TaskRabbit</a> (paying for someone to do a chore) were all mentioned. Rachel had asked the founders of TaskRabbit what was the most requested task. The answer – perhaps unsurprisingly – was assembling IKEA furniture! So, if there are any budding IKEA experts reading this – get yourselves registered on TaskRabbit and start earning some extra money!</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Inevitably the issue of “trust” came up, as in who would we trust to drive our car, or stay in our house? Evidence from the many P2P services that have sprung up over the past two years would indicate that broadly speaking, people are good and considerate and that there have been very few instances of theft or vandalism (though not to trivialise the impact this may have had on the victims). Rachel went on to say that we will increasingly come to rely on our “<strong>Reputation Capital</strong>”, as an indicator of trust when transacting products and services in this emerging (and potentially huge) P2P market.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Reputational Capital might typically be defined or influenced by our engagement with online and offline communities and marketplaces. As such (and as I noted in my closing remarks), we’re increasingly familiar with “social media”, “social networks” and “social business”, we now need to seriously consider “<strong>social reputation</strong>”, i.e. how we act and behave online. Our own <strong>Reputational Capital</strong> will be a valuable commodity that we all need to nurture and protect as we become increasingly reliant on the internet as a marketplace.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">I’m not sure if Craig or Rachel will be reading this blog, but if they are, grateful thanks from me, the organising committee and the delegates for your excellent and inspiring keynotes.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">In the interest of brevity, I will limit the remainder of my reflections on the overall three days of the conference to a few bullet points. These are based on my personal observations or comments from the delegates.</p> <ul style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> <li>There was a huge volume of “tweets” on Twitter – more than I’ve seen at any previous conference. The conference hashtag was #online11. Twitter was used by the conference delegates to share what they were hearing and seeing, and as a channel for raising questions to the presenter (there was a Twitter Moderator at all of the sessions to ensure any questions were picked up and answered).</li> </ul> <ul style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> <li>We wanted to encourage more interaction with and between delegates at this conference. There was a “speed networking” event, facilitated by <a href="http://wearefuturegov.com/">FutureGov Consulting</a> and utilising the <a href="http://www.simpl.co/">Simpl.co</a> website for submitting new ideas or offers of help. This didn’t quite go as planned, mainly because it was scheduled against too many other events. A lesson learnt for next time.</li> </ul> <ul style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> <li>Some great audience participation at the “Essential Competence – Demonstrating Value” session facilitated by <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/ianwooler">Ian Wooler</a>and <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sandra-ward/0/4bb/83b">Sandra Ward</a>, where delegates were given real coins of the realm (pennies) to vote on a range of options for measuring the value of information and knowledge services. All of the coins were returned afterwards (clearly an honest crowd!).</li> </ul> <ul style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> <li>David Gurteen ran one of his eponymous <a href="http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/kcafe">Knowledge Café’s</a>. It was well attended and we received some good feedback. Speaking to a few delegates afterwards I was just slightly surprised that none of them had previously attended a Knowledge Café – which is a fairly well-established process for encouraging conversations and networking. At least they will now be able to take this process back to their respective organisations. Some <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gurteen/sets/72157628295067933/">photos</a> from the Knowledge Café.</li> </ul> <ul style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> <li>The was a lot of interest in the “Going Mobile” track. Maybe these statistics from a recent article in <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://wallblog.co.uk/2011/11/23/uk-leading-the-way-as-mobile-social-networking-use-skyrockets-across-europe/">The Wall</a></span> go some way to explaining this: <ul> <li>35% of UK mobile users access social networking sites on their phones (European average is 23%)</li> <li>Mobile social networking use in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK nearly doubled in the last year, with 55m mobile users accessing Facebook, Twitter, etc., in September alone.</li> <li>26% of mobile social networking users reported receiving coupons, offers, or deals on their phones.</li> <li>Growth in the number of mobile users accessing social networks on a daily basis has surpassed the growth of total mobile social networking adoption</li> <li>71% of the European mobile social networking audience, accessed Facebook via a mobile device in September—the largest mobile audience of any social network—and an increase of 54% in the past year.</li> <li> 47% of UK mobile users are using smartphones (European average is 40%)</li> <li>45% of the UK mobile users are using apps, (European average 35%).</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> <li>There was a lot of interest in “Big Data” (part of the New Frontiers in Information Management Track). I moderated a number of these sessions, and came away with the impression that there is a lot of ‘activity at the coal-face’ in this field, but still relatively few examples of how business or user value is being created or delivered. For me, still on the hype curve, but some promising developments on the horizon.</li> </ul> <ul style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> <li>Digital content (presentations, video, audio) from the conference is gradually being uploaded to the <a href="http://www.online-information.co.uk/">Online Information website</a> and a live stream at <a href="http://events.wavecastpro.com/onlineinformation2011">Wavecastpro</a> – so keep an eye out for new content appearing.</li> </ul> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">I’ll just round this off by mentioning that next year Online Information will be moving to a new venue at <a href="http://www.excel-london.co.uk/icc">ICC London at ExceL</a>, scheduled for 4-6 December 2012. This offers state of the art conferencing facilities, a much improved delegate experience, and better integration between the conference and exhibition elements. Something to look forward to in 2012.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">I hope those who that attended the conference found it as informative and exhilarating as I did – I await to see the feedback with some anticipation.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">For anyone else, I hope this brief summary might give a taster of what it was all about, and perhaps you might be tempted to attend next year’s event.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Until next year – have a great Christmas and a happy New Year!</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Stephen Dale</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"><em>Chairman, Online Information Conference 2011.</em></p> <p> </p></div>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-44633758869009719522012-04-08T05:47:00.001-07:002012-04-08T05:47:17.027-07:00Loved this Carling Ad<div class='posterous_autopost'><div>The producers of this beer commercial borrowed a small 150 seat cinema playing a popular film, and filled 148 of its seats with rough-looking tattooed bikers, leaving only two free seats in the middle of the theatre. They then allowed theatre management to sell tickets for the last pair of seats to several young couples.</div> <p /><div>What would you do? Watch till the end ........</div><p /><div><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/g6OaSzoSpHE?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://dissident.posterous.com/loved-this-carling-ad">Life's Like That</a> </p> </div>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-77458106643754002762012-03-20T01:03:00.001-07:002012-03-20T01:03:04.297-07:00Multiculturism or Assimilation? Australia goes for the latter. Are they right?<div class='posterous_autopost'><table border="0" style=""><tr><td valign="top" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; padding-top: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt;"> <table border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.75pt; padding-right: 0.75pt; padding-bottom: 0.75pt; padding-left: 0.75pt;"><p style="text-align: left; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> <b><i>CAN YOU IMAGINE A UK POLITICIAN SAYING THIS? BUT IT'S (PROBABLY) WHAT MOST PEOPLE THINK. </i></b></p><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><p> <br /> <b><i>Australia says NO - Second time she has done this!</i></b><br /> <i><b><br /></b></i></p></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image001" height="267" src="http://getfile3.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/dissident/DUEavdG3btlm0eBpn5n7dz7P5JQJIRQWnyJFbXuSI5RXbqFP68F2nkK01Ofe/image001.jpg" width="400" /> </div> </span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt;"><br /> </span><b style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><i><b style="font-size: 13px;"><i>Prime Minister Julia Gillard- </i></b></i></b></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><i><b style="font-size: 13px;"><i>Australia</i></b><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><b style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px;" /></i></b><div style="text-align: left; display: inline!important;"> <b><i>Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks..</i></b></div></div> <b /><p /><i /><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: 13px;"><i>Separately, Gillard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying she supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. Quote:</i></b></div> </div><b><i><br /></i></b><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT.. Take It Or Leave It.</i></b></div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"> <b style="font-size: 13px;"><i>I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians. '</i></b></div> </div><p /><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: 13px;"><i>'This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom'</i></b></div> </div><p /><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: 13px;"><i>'We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society ... Learn the language!'</i></b></div> </div><p /><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: 13px;"><i>'Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.'</i></b></div> </div><p /><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: 13px;"><i>'We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.'</i></b></div> <p /><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: 13px;"><i>'This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, 'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'.'</i></b></div> </div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><p /><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: 13px;"><i>'If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.'</i></b></div> </div><b /><p /><i style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" /><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: 13px;"><i><span style="color: red;">So - do you agree with Prime Minister Julia Gillard? I do!</span></i></b></div> <b style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></b><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></span><p></p></td></tr></table><div><div><p> </p></div></div> <p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image001" height="267" src="http://getfile3.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/dissident/DUEavdG3btlm0eBpn5n7dz7P5JQJIRQWnyJFbXuSI5RXbqFP68F2nkK01Ofe/image001.jpg" width="400" /> </div> </p><div><div><p> </p></div> </div></td></tr></table> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://dissident.posterous.com/multiculturism-or-assimilation-australia-goes">Life's Like That</a> </p> </div>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-68262818779647527552012-02-27T01:24:00.001-08:002012-02-27T01:24:47.665-08:00Cow Based Economics<div class='posterous_autopost'><div>SOCIALISM</div><div>You have 2 cows.</div><div>You give one to your neighbour.</div><p /><div>COMMUNISM</div><div>You have 2 cows.</div><div>The State takes both and gives you some milk.</div><p /> <div>FASCISM</div><div>You have 2 cows.</div><div>The State takes both and sells you some milk.</div><p /><div>NAZISM</div><div>You have 2 cows.</div><div>The State takes both and shoots you.</div><p /> <div>BUREAUCRATISM</div><div>You have 2 cows.</div><div>The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away.</div><p /><div>TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM</div><div>You have two cows.</div><div> You sell one and buy a bull.</div><div>Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.</div><div>You sell them and retire on the income.</div><p /><div>ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND (VENTURE) CAPITALISM</div><div>You have two cows.</div> <div>You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.</div> <div>The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.</div><div> The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.</div><div>You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States , leaving you with nine cows.</div><div>No balance sheet provided with the release.</div> <div>The public then buys your bull.</div><p /><div>SURREALISM</div><div>You have two giraffes.</div><div>The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.</div><p /><div>AN AMERICAN CORPORATION</div> <div>You have two cows.</div><div>You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.</div><div>Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.</div><p /><p /><div> A GREEK CORPORATION</div><div>You have two cows. </div><div>You borrow lots of euros to build barns, milking sheds, hay stores, feed sheds, dairies, cold stores, abattoir, cheese unit and packing sheds. You still only have two cows.</div> <p /><p /><div>A FRENCH CORPORATION</div><div>You have two cows.</div><div>You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.</div><p /><div>A JAPANESE CORPORATION</div> <div>You have two cows.</div><div>You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.</div><div>You then create a clever cow cartoon image called a Cowkimona and market it worldwide.</div> <p /><div>AN ITALIAN CORPORATION</div><div>You have two cows, but you don't know where they are.</div><div>You decide to have lunch.</div><p /><div>A SWISS CORPORATION</div><div>You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.</div> <div>You charge the owners for storing them.</div><p /><div>A CHINESE CORPORATION</div><div>You have two cows.</div><div>You have 300 people milking them.</div><div>You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.</div> <div>You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.</div><p /><div>AN INDIAN CORPORATION</div><div>You have two cows.</div><div>You worship them.</div><p /><div>A BRITISH CORPORATION</div><div> You have two cows.</div><div>Both are mad.</div><p /><div>AN IRAQI CORPORATION</div><div>Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.</div><div>You tell them that you have none.</div><div>No-one believes you, so they bomb the ** out of you and invade your country.</div> <div>You still have no cows, but at least you are now a Democracy.</div><p /><div>AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION</div><div>You have two cows.</div><div>Business seems pretty good.</div><div>You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.</div> <p /><div>A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION</div><div>You have two cows.</div><div>The one on the left looks very attractive...</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://dissident.posterous.com/cow-based-economics">Life's Like That</a> </p> </div>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-7017480061858789952012-02-27T01:14:00.001-08:002012-02-27T01:14:34.405-08:00Morals Test<div class='posterous_autopost'><div>Morals test</div><p /><div>What would you do?</div><p /><div>This test only has one question, but it's a very important one.</div><p /><div>By giving an honest answer, you will discover whereyou stand morally.</div> <p /><div>The test features an unlikely, completely fictionalsituation in which you will have to make a decision.</div><p /><div>Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous.</div><p /><div>Please scroll down slowly and give due considerationto each line.</div><p /><div>THE SITUATION:</div><p /><div>You are in London.</div><p /><div>There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe Flooding.</div> <p /><div>This is a flood of biblical proportions.</div><p /><div>You are a photo-journalist working for a major newspaper, and you're caught in the middle of this epic disaster.</div><p /> <div>The situation is nearly hopeless.</div><p /><div>You're trying to shoot career-making photos.</div><p /><div>There are houses and people swirling around you, some disappearing into the water.</div> <p /><div>Nature is unleashing all of its destructive fury.</div><p /><div>THE TEST:</div><p /><div>Suddenly, you see a man in the water.</div><p /><div>He is fighting for his life, trying not to be taken down with the debris</div> <p /><div>You move closer... Somehow, the man looks familiar....</div><p /><div>You suddenly realize who it is.... It's the Muslim Cleric, Abu Hamza,</div><p /><div>The one-eyed, hook handed bastard who hates non-Muslims and wants the UK to become an Islamic state!!</div> <p /><div>You notice that the raging waters are about to take him under forever.</div><p /><div>You have two options:</div><p /><div>You can save the life of Abu or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzerm Prize winning photo, documenting the death of one of the country's most despised, evil and powerful men!</div> <p /><div>NOW THE QUESTION:</div><p /><div>Here's the question, and please give an honest answer...</div><p /><p /><p /><div>Would you select high contrast colour film, or would you go with the classic simplicity of black and white?</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://dissident.posterous.com/morals-test">Pot Pouri</a> </p> </div>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-85418808358810665842011-12-11T05:37:00.001-08:002011-12-11T05:37:14.785-08:00Reflections: Online Information Conference 2011<div class='posterous_autopost'><p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://steve-dale.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Online_Info_Conf_logo_2011-reflect.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1991" title="Online_Info_Conf_logo_2011 reflect" src="http://steve-dale.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Online_Info_Conf_logo_2011-reflect-300x112.png" height="112" alt="" style="border-color: initial;" width="300" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Pretty exhausting, incredibly insightful and hugely enjoyable: that would sum up my three days as Chairman of this year’s <a href="http://www.online-information.co.uk/">Online Information Conference 2011</a>, held at the Olympia Conference Centre between 29<sup>th</sup> November and 1<sup>st</sup> December. The last time the event will be run at this venue, but more about that later.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">It was impossible to be everywhere and hear all of the presentations, so my reflections are by necessity limited to what I personally heard, saw or facilitated. To provide some overall context, the conference provided a forum dedicated to learning, debate, professional development, technology reviews and assessments, expert discussion and case-study presentations on what I would broadly describe as the ‘Information Professions”. There were four themed tracks:</p> <ul style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> <li>Going mobile: Information and Knowledge on the move</li> <li>Social Media: Exploiting knowledge in networks</li> <li>Building a framework for the future of the information profession</li> <li>New frontiers in information management</li> <li>Search and Information Discovery</li> </ul> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">The conference opened with a keynote presentation from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/craignewmark">Craig Newmark</a> on the topic “<strong><em>Effective Social Media: Past, Present and Future</em></strong>”.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Craig is possibly best known as the founder and inspiration behind <a href="http://www.craigslist.com/">Craigslist</a>, the largest online local classifieds and community moderated forum service in the world. He modestly refers to himself as a “Customer Service Manager’ for Craigslist, which he himself describes as diminishing role. His time is increasingly devoted to his philanthropic efforts, as defined by the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://craigslistfoundation.org/">Craigslist Foundation</a></span> <em>(“….a connector to bring together nonprofit leaders, business, government, philanthropy and craigslist community members to take greater responsibility for where they live, play and work</em>”), and the recently launched <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://craigconnects.org/">Craigconnects</a></span> (“<em>Using technology to give the voiceless a real voice, and the powerless real power</em>”).</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Craig covered quite a lot of ground in his presentation, from the earliest examples of “social media” as defined by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg">Gutenberg</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther">Luther</a> and the role of the printing press in achieving massive social change, to today’s use of social media and the internet to engage with and connect people and groups with similar interests.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">His focus is now very much on the nonprofits sector, where he spends about 60 hours of his working week. He referred to the scope and depth of the nonprofits sector as a “sea of help”, but pointed out that many of these people and organisations need help themselves in making more effective use of social media. He identifies Craigconnects as being a “hub”, helping nonprofit organisations that have similar aims and objectives to connect and collaborate together. He also sees social media as a way of getting more people involved in legitimate nonprofits, and to maybe identify the fake nonprofits, i.e. those that spend most or all of their income on themselves.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Another key theme to emerge from Craig’s keynote was the issue of fact-checking in the news business. Craig was keen to emphasise that he was not a journalist or an expert in the news industry, but felt that the disinvestment in investigative reporting and fact-checking had eroded the trust in news media. Craig was no doubt referring to the US press, but it seems to me there is some resonance on the issue of trust with the UK press, as reported via the <a href="http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/">Leveson inquiry</a> . In fact, “trust” was a recurrent theme in both Craig’s keynote, and the keynote for the second day of the conference by Rachel Botsman (see later reference), and as Craig noted: “<strong><em>Trust was the new black</em></strong>”.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">The key elements of the fact-checking debate is described in more detail in <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-newmark/restoring-factchecking_b_1117069.html">this article</a> by Craig, recently published in the Huffington Post. However, perhaps more memorable and particularly poignant is one of Craig’s remarks I noted from his keynote: “<strong><em>The press should be the immune system of democracy</em></strong>”.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">A pre-conference podcast by Craig is available from the <a href="http://www.online-information.co.uk/online2011/conference/podcasts.html">Online Information website</a>.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.rachelbotsman.com/">Rachel Botsman</a> was the keynote speaker on the second day of the conference. Rachel is a social innovator who writes, consults and speaks on the power of collaboration and sharing through current and emerging network technologies, including how it will transform business, consumerism and the way we live. She is the co-author with Roo Rogers of: <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whats-Mine-Yours-Collaborative-Consumption/dp/0007395914/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323167638&sr=8-1">What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption</a></strong>. TIME magazine recently called Collaborative Consumption “One of the top 10 ideas that will change the world.”</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Rachel is based in Australia and couldn’t be with us in London, so we had a 35-minute video that Rachel had produced especially for the conference, followed by 20 minutes of questions and answers via a live link-up with Rachel in Australia.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">The keynote was broadly based on the <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whats-Mine-Yours-Collaborative-Consumption/dp/0007395914/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323167638&sr=8-1">book</a> (a highly recommended read). It gives a stark perspective of western societies’ 40-year addiction to hyper-consumerism, and the impact this is having on people, society and the planet’s resources. The key question is whether we can continue as we are for the next 40 years or more, or whether we have to consider other economic models. I’m guessing that the broad vote is for the latter, which is why we’re witnessing the explosive growth of what Rachel refers to as “Collaborative Consumption”</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com//the-movement/cc-pioneers-and-protagonists_archive.php">Collaborative Consumption</a> is the process of sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting and swapping, reinvented and massively scaled using internet and social network technologies. Rachel described three main systems:</p> <h3 style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Product Service Systems</h3> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Based on the idea of paying for usage of a product without needing to own the product outright. Car sharing or bike sharing are typical examples. Witness the huge success of bike sharing schemes such as London’s <a href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/14808.aspx">Barclays Bike Hire</a>.</p> <h3 style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Redistribution Markets</h3> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Redistribute used or pre-owned goods from where they are not needed to someone or somewhere where they are. Examples of this type of market include <a href="http://www.uk.freecycle.org/">Freecycle</a> and <a href="http://london.craigslist.co.uk/">Craigslist</a> .</p> <h3 style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Collaborative Lifestyles</h3> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">It's not just physical goods that can be shared, swapped and bartered. People with similar interests are forming groups to share and exchange assets such as time, space, skills and money. Examples include <a href="http://tuttleclub.wordpress.com/">The Tuttle Club</a> , <a href="http://thecubelondon.com/">The Cube</a> and <a href="http://www.landshare.net/">Landshare</a>.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Rachel was keen to emphasise that these new and emerging peer to peer (P2P) models, utilising the power and reach of the internet and social networks to massively scale, can and will co-exist with the traditional business to consumer (B2C) services. Though there is evidence that some B2C corporates are adapting their services to deliver the same sort of flexibility offered by the P2P market. For example BMW’s recently announced <a href="http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/265954/bmw_drivenow_car_sharing_scheme.html">car sharing scheme</a>.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Rachel’s video included a few case studies of how “micro-entrepreneurs” are creating products and services by renting selling or trading “idling time” – i.e. the time that a product or service is not being used. This could be the car that sits on the driveway for 22 hours out of every 24, the spare room that only gets used when there are visitors, or that power-drill in the tool cupboard that has only been used for 3 minutes. Services such <a href="http://www.airbnb.com/">Airbnp</a> (room renting), <a href="http://www.zipcar.com/">Zipcar</a> (car renting) or <a href="http://www.taskrabbit.com/">TaskRabbit</a> (paying for someone to do a chore) were all mentioned. Rachel had asked the founders of TaskRabbit what was the most requested task. The answer – perhaps unsurprisingly – was assembling IKEA furniture! So, if there are any budding IKEA experts reading this – get yourselves registered on TaskRabbit and start earning some extra money!</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Inevitably the issue of “trust” came up, as in who would we trust to drive our car, or stay in our house? Evidence from the many P2P services that have sprung up over the past two years would indicate that broadly speaking, people are good and considerate and that there have been very few instances of theft or vandalism (though not to trivialise the impact this may have had on the victims). Rachel went on to say that we will increasingly come to rely on our “<strong>Reputation Capital</strong>”, as an indicator of trust when transacting products and services in this emerging (and potentially huge) P2P market.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Reputational Capital might typically be defined or influenced by our engagement with online and offline communities and marketplaces. As such (and as I noted in my closing remarks), we’re increasingly familiar with “social media”, “social networks” and “social business”, we now need to seriously consider “<strong>social reputation</strong>”, i.e. how we act and behave online. Our own <strong>Reputational Capital</strong> will be a valuable commodity that we all need to nurture and protect as we become increasingly reliant on the internet as a marketplace.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">I’m not sure if Craig or Rachel will be reading this blog, but if they are, grateful thanks from me, the organising committee and the delegates for your excellent and inspiring keynotes.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">In the interest of brevity, I will limit the remainder of my reflections on the overall three days of the conference to a few bullet points. These are based on my personal observations or comments from the delegates.</p> <ul style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> <li>There was a huge volume of “tweets” on Twitter – more than I’ve seen at any previous conference. The conference hashtag was #online11. Twitter was used by the conference delegates to share what they were hearing and seeing, and as a channel for raising questions to the presenter (there was a Twitter Moderator at all of the sessions to ensure any questions were picked up and answered).</li> </ul> <ul style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> <li>We wanted to encourage more interaction with and between delegates at this conference. There was a “speed networking” event, facilitated by <a href="http://wearefuturegov.com/">FutureGov Consulting</a> and utilising the <a href="http://www.simpl.co/">Simpl.co</a> website for submitting new ideas or offers of help. This didn’t quite go as planned, mainly because it was scheduled against too many other events. A lesson learnt for next time.</li> </ul> <ul style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> <li>Some great audience participation at the “Essential Competence – Demonstrating Value” session facilitated by <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/ianwooler">Ian Wooler</a>and <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sandra-ward/0/4bb/83b">Sandra Ward</a>, where delegates were given real coins of the realm (pennies) to vote on a range of options for measuring the value of information and knowledge services. All of the coins were returned afterwards (clearly an honest crowd!).</li> </ul> <ul style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> <li>David Gurteen ran one of his eponymous <a href="http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/kcafe">Knowledge Café’s</a>. It was well attended and we received some good feedback. Speaking to a few delegates afterwards I was just slightly surprised that none of them had previously attended a Knowledge Café – which is a fairly well-established process for encouraging conversations and networking. At least they will now be able to take this process back to their respective organisations. Some <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gurteen/sets/72157628295067933/">photos</a> from the Knowledge Café.</li> </ul> <ul style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> <li>The was a lot of interest in the “Going Mobile” track. Maybe these statistics from a recent article in <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://wallblog.co.uk/2011/11/23/uk-leading-the-way-as-mobile-social-networking-use-skyrockets-across-europe/">The Wall</a></span> go some way to explaining this: <ul> <li>35% of UK mobile users access social networking sites on their phones (European average is 23%)</li> <li>Mobile social networking use in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK nearly doubled in the last year, with 55m mobile users accessing Facebook, Twitter, etc., in September alone.</li> <li>26% of mobile social networking users reported receiving coupons, offers, or deals on their phones.</li> <li>Growth in the number of mobile users accessing social networks on a daily basis has surpassed the growth of total mobile social networking adoption</li> <li>71% of the European mobile social networking audience, accessed Facebook via a mobile device in September—the largest mobile audience of any social network—and an increase of 54% in the past year.</li> <li> 47% of UK mobile users are using smartphones (European average is 40%)</li> <li>45% of the UK mobile users are using apps, (European average 35%).</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> <li>There was a lot of interest in “Big Data” (part of the New Frontiers in Information Management Track). I moderated a number of these sessions, and came away with the impression that there is a lot of ‘activity at the coal-face’ in this field, but still relatively few examples of how business or user value is being created or delivered. For me, still on the hype curve, but some promising developments on the horizon.</li> </ul> <ul style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> <li>Digital content (presentations, video, audio) from the conference is gradually being uploaded to the <a href="http://www.online-information.co.uk/">Online Information website</a> and a live stream at <a href="http://events.wavecastpro.com/onlineinformation2011">Wavecastpro</a> – so keep an eye out for new content appearing.</li> </ul> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">I’ll just round this off by mentioning that next year Online Information will be moving to a new venue at <a href="http://www.excel-london.co.uk/icc">ICC London at ExceL</a>, scheduled for 4-6 December 2012. This offers state of the art conferencing facilities, a much improved delegate experience, and better integration between the conference and exhibition elements. Something to look forward to in 2012.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">I hope those who that attended the conference found it as informative and exhilarating as I did – I await to see the feedback with some anticipation.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">For anyone else, I hope this brief summary might give a taster of what it was all about, and perhaps you might be tempted to attend next year’s event.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Until next year – have a great Christmas and a happy New Year!</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">Stephen Dale</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"><em>Chairman, Online Information Conference 2011.</em></p> <p> </p></div>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-78879088417868339242011-12-11T05:23:00.001-08:002011-12-11T05:35:14.816-08:00Nobel Peace Prize Winners - Three Incredible Women<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="posterous_autopost"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"><b>Nobel Peace Prize Winners - Three Incredible Women</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;">I was privileged to be in the audience yesterday at the Oslo City Hall for the CNN interview with the three Nobel Peace Prize Winner Laureates; Yemen's Tawakku Karman, Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and her compatriot Leymah Gbowee. The first time the prize has been awarded to three women. </span> <br><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;">Well worth watching the interview, not only to get a true sense of the incredible achievements of these three ladies in making a stand against oppression, corruption and terrorism, but also the robust response to some slightly naive (condescending?) questioning from the interviewer, Jonathan Mann. You do not tangle with these three ladies! I personally felt very humbled by what they have individually achieved - well deserved winners of this prestigious award. #ciscopss #nobel #oslo</span><br />
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href="http://dissident.posterous.com/proof-they-actually-exist">Pot Pouri</a> </p> </div>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-65323355516906168082011-09-29T00:55:00.001-07:002011-09-29T00:55:36.735-07:00Social Media: Exploiting Knowledge in Networks<div class='posterous_autopost'><div style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p>There are still some places available on the "<a href="http://www.tfpl.com/training/courses/coursedesc.cfm?id=TR1575&cid=km" target="_blank">Exploiting Knowledge in Networks</a>" training event next week, Tuesday 4th October.</p> <p>The training focuses on use of Social Media tools to support <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_knowledge_management">Personal Knowledge Management </a>(PKM) and self development. The following is brief synopsis of the training and what will be covered:</p> <blockquote><h3 style="font-size: 14px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(33, 54, 139); font-weight: bold; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"> Introduction:</h3><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">There is a desire to develop more effective knowledge sharing and a culture of collaboration in most organisations, but little recognition of what this means in terms of staff development and overcoming barriers to change. The enormous growth of social media tools and social/professional networks over the past few years has created new opportunities and new challenges for people and organisations who want to embrace this dynamic world of social interaction and fluid knowledge flows. However, It is not widely recognised that collaboration and knowledge sharing are skills and practices that rarely get taught. It's something we may learn on the job in a hit or miss fashion. Some people are natural at it. Others struggle to understand it. <p /> This one day course provides a practical and detailed introduction to social media and social/professional networks that will enable delegates to have a greater understanding of their context for use and deployment within their organisation and for personal and professional development.</p> <h3 style="font-size: 14px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(33, 54, 139); font-weight: bold; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"> Outcomes:</h3><ul style="margin-top: 0.8em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0.3em; line-height: 19px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"> <li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; background-image: ; background-color: initial; background-position: 0px 3px;"> An understanding of social media tools and social networks, and their context for engagement and knowledge sharing</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; background-image: ; background-color: initial; background-position: 0px 3px;"> An understanding of on-line privacy, reputational risk, and the dichotomy of personal and professional identities</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; background-image: ; background-color: initial; background-position: 0px 3px;"> An understanding of the barriers to knowledge sharing and collaboration and how these can be overcome</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; background-image: ; background-color: initial; background-position: 0px 3px;"> An understanding of the principles for creating a personalised social media toolkit to support on-going learning and collaboration</li></ul><h3 style="font-size: 14px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(33, 54, 139); font-weight: bold; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"> Programme:</h3><ul style="margin-top: 0.8em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0.3em; line-height: 19px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"> <li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; background-image: ; background-color: initial; background-position: 0px 3px;"> Overview of the social web</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; background-image: ; background-color: initial; background-position: 0px 3px;"> Risks and rewards in the use of social media</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; background-image: ; background-color: initial; background-position: 0px 3px;"> Creating and maintaining your personal profile</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; background-image: ; background-color: initial; background-position: 0px 3px;"> Social media tools and their context for knowledge sharing</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; background-image: ; background-color: initial; background-position: 0px 3px;"> Listening and observing; an introduction to aggregation, sentiment and tracking tools</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; background-image: ; background-color: initial; background-position: 0px 3px;"> Developing your social network and making connections (includes Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+)</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; background-image: ; background-color: initial; background-position: 0px 3px;"> Communities of Interest/Practice for personal and professional development</li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; background-image: ; background-color: initial; background-position: 0px 3px;"> Practical exercises and examples of Social Media in action</li></ul></blockquote><p>If you'd like to book a place on this training course, go to the <a href="http://www.tfpl.com/training/courses/coursedesc.cfm?id=TR1575&cid=km" target="_blank">TFPL website</a> and click on the "book" link. If you'd like more information about the course then please contact me (e.g. use the comments facility in this blog).</p> <p>If you can't make the 4th October event, the course will be repeated on 6th March 2012 and 2nd October 2012.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephendale.net/social-media-exploiting-knowledge-in-networks">stephendale's posterous</a> </p> </div>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-45416944051656145632011-08-20T10:58:00.001-07:002011-08-20T10:58:01.472-07:00A letter to Mr Cameron<div class='posterous_autopost'><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="line-height: normal;"><b /></p><div style="font-family: CG Times, serif;">Dear Mr. Cameron</div> <p style="line-height: normal;" /><div style="font-family: CG Times, serif;">May I suggest that as a punishment for all these hooligans on our streets you put all the criminals into nursing homes and allow the nursing home residents to go into prison.</div> <p style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times, serif;">This way us pensioners would be able to make ends meet,<span> </span></span></p></div>have free unlimited access to central heating and hot water, medical requirements and hobbies.<span> </span>Each of us could<span> </span>have secure furnished rooms equipped with our computer, TV and radio and be allowed free daily phone calls and all this with the benefit of constant video monitoring so we could be helped instantly should we fall or need assistance. <p style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times, serif;">Our bedding would be washed twice a week and all clothing ironed and returned to our rooms. We would not have to shop for food as all our meals would be in house, delivered to our cells.<span> </span>We would be relieved of finding the money to pay for all the increases in our bills.</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times, serif;">We know we would be allowed family visits in a suite built for that purpose.<span> </span>In addition<span> </span>have access to a library, gym, swimming pool, gardens education and spiritual counselling, should we need it.</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times, serif;">Sadly this enormous change would result in the criminals getting inferior food, being left alone all day unsupervised with no computers and internet access or free phone calls.<span> </span>However, they would get a weekly bath and hardest of all they would have to pay the enormous sum of between £700-£900 a week<span> </span>for these privileges – but no doubt you would find a way to subsidise this for them.</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times, serif;">Also on another subject Mr Cameron, whilst writing I would like to know the real reason why we can no longer have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse or in Parliament.<span> </span>Is this because you cannot possibly allow commands such as ‘Thou shalt not Steal’, ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery’ and ‘Thou shalt not bear false witness’ to be visible in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians in case someone is offended!<span> </span></span></p> <p style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times, serif;">May I suggest Mr. Cameron that as a starting point to correcting all that is wrong in our society, you pass a law that all schools teach the ten commandments in an effort to re-educate our society in the basics of<span> </span>respect, discipline and morality, and that you stop worrying about offending people of other faiths or no faith.</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times, serif;">I feel sure Mr. Cameron, that<span> </span>if you could see your way to implementing some of these changes, you would be assured of the grey vote at the next election.</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times, serif;">Yours respectfully.</span></p><p style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times, serif;"> S Dale</span></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://dissident.posterous.com/a-letter-to-mr-cameron">Pot Pouri</a> </p> </div>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-66579026264165945182011-08-20T10:53:00.001-07:002011-08-20T10:53:48.979-07:00A letter to Mr Cameron<div class='posterous_autopost'><p class="MsoBodyText3" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: CG Times,serif;">Dear Mr. Cameron</span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText3" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times,serif;">May I suggest that as a punishment for all these hooligans on our streets you put all the criminals into nursing homes and allow the nursing home residents to go into prison.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText3" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times,serif;">This way us pensioners would be able to make ends meet,<span> </span>have free unlimited access to central heating and hot water, medical requirements and hobbies.<span> </span>Each of us could<span> </span>have secure furnished rooms equipped with our computer, TV and radio and be allowed free daily phone calls and all this with the benefit of constant video monitoring so we could be helped instantly should we fall or need assistance.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText3" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times,serif;">Our bedding would be washed twice a week and all clothing ironed and returned to our rooms. We would not have to shop for food as all our meals would be in house, delivered to our cells.<span> </span>We would be relieved of finding the money to pay for all the increases in our bills.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText3" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times,serif;">We know we would be allowed family visits in a suite built for that purpose.<span> </span>In addition<span> </span>have access to a library, gym, swimming pool, gardens education and spiritual counselling, should we need it.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText3" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times,serif;">Sadly this enormous change would result in the criminals getting inferior food, being left alone all day unsupervised with no computers and internet access or free phone calls.<span> </span>However, they would get a weekly bath and hardest of all they would have to pay the enormous sum of between £700-£900 a week<span> </span>for these privileges – but no doubt you would find a way to subsidize this for them.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText3" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times,serif;">Also on another subject Mr Cameron, whilst writing I would like to know the real reason why we can no longer have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse or in Parliament.<span> </span>Is this because you cannot possibly allow commands such as ‘Thou shalt not Steal’, ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery’ and ‘Thou shalt not bear false witness’ to be visible in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians in case someone is offended!<span> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText3" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times,serif;">May I suggest Mr. Cameron that as a starting point to correcting all that is wrong in our society, you pass a law that all schools teach the ten commandments in an effort to re-educate our society in the basics of<span> </span>respect, discipline and morality, and that you stop worrying about offending people of other faiths or no faith.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText3" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times,serif;">I feel sure Mr. Cameron, that<span> </span>if you could see your way to implementing some of these changes, you would be assured of the grey vote at the next election.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText3" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times,serif;">Yours respectfully.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText3" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: CG Times,serif;"> S Dale</span></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephendale.net/a-letter-to-mr-cameron">stephendale's posterous</a> </p> </div>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-55811090217659946612011-08-02T10:12:00.001-07:002011-08-02T10:12:32.865-07:00Think differently about the world and you will always do well<div class='posterous_autopost'>Loved this from Toby Moores, (now <a href="http://www.hcs.dmu.ac.uk/news_events/news/homepage/2011/11-07-19-toby-moores-visiting-professor-at-the-ioct-honoured-by-dmu.jsp">DR Toby Moores</a>) - which I'll add to my list of favourite quotes:<p /><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"> <span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">There is no point in being in a straight foot race with people who are faster than you. But if you fire the gun you will always have a job and if you hand out trophies you will always be on the podium.</span> </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"> <span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">If you are prepared to think differently about the world you will always do well.</span></blockquote> <p /><p /><p /><p />There's hope for me yet then!</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephendale.net/think-differently-about-the-world-and-you-wil">stephendale's posterous</a> </p> </div>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-84756433529796392672011-07-21T00:27:00.001-07:002011-07-21T00:27:41.914-07:00Call for input on 'Apps' for Online Information Conference 2011<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><img src="http://www.online-information.co.uk/online2011/template/2011-v2/img/header.png" alt="Online Information 2011 Logo" /></div><p />We are finalising the programme for this year's <a href="http://www.online-information.co.uk/online2011/conference/conference-themes.html">Online Information Conference</a> (29 Nov to 1 Dec). We have lined up a number of internationally recognised keynote speakers for the five main themes for the conference:<div> <ul type="disc"> <li style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial;">Going mobile: Information and knowledge on the move</span></li> <li style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial;">Social media: Exploiting knowledge in social networks</span></li> <li style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial;">Building a framework for the future of the information profession</span></li> <li style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial;">New frontiers in information management</span></li> <li style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial;">Search and information discovery</span></li> </ul> <p /><div>Details about the programme and speakers will be announced shortly on the <a href="http://www.online-information.co.uk/online2011/index.html">conference website</a>.</div><p /><div>We are still seeking some input to the 'Going Mobile' track, and specifically on the creative use of Apps for mobile devices (e.g. smart phones or tablets). If you have delivered an app that can demonstrate value to the user or more effective and efficient services for the provider, and you'd like the opportunity to showcase the app (or apps) to our global audience of information professionals, then we'd like to hear from you. Typically the app might be:</div> <div><ul><li>an e-book lending service</li><li>a location-based app for reporting problems</li><li>an app for paying for a council service, e.g. parking.</li><li>an app for health</li><li>....or something that no-one else has thought of!</li> </ul></div><p /><div>Please respond to this post if you have a story to tell and would like a featured spot in the conference.</div><p /><div>Many thanks.</div><p /><div>Stephen Dale</div><div> Conference Chairman</div><p /><p /><p /><p /></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephendale.net/call-for-input-on-apps-for-online-information">stephendale's posterous</a> </p> </div>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-12935029845458217152011-06-29T03:00:00.001-07:002011-06-29T03:00:41.262-07:00Google+ the Facebook killer?<div class="Amp_Commentary_Wrap"><div class="Amp_Post_Text"><p>Google has announced details of it's latest foray into social networking with Google+. The core components appear to consist of :<br /><br /><br /><br />o Circles (equivalent to groups) - where information can be shared privately. With Circles you can put your friends from Saturday night in one circle, your parents in another and your boss in a circle all on his own!<br /><br />o Hangouts - lets friends know that you're free for a video chat or impromptu virtual meet-up.<br /><br />o Sparks - a sort of activity stream subscription feature, It looks for videos and articles that it thinks you'll like, based on what your interests.<br /><br /><br /><br />There's also a Google+ mobile app available in the Android Market, which will no doubt soon come to Apple’s App Store.<br /><br /><br /><br />It seems that Google have put a lot of thought into making all of this hang together in a seamless and natural way, and this is clearly laying the foundations for Google's future presence in the social web. It will certainly make Facebook sit up and take notice, but I'm not sure whether it will pull many users away from Facebook. However, I do believe there is room for more than one social media behemoth in the market, and for the significant many who dislike Facebook or find it overly complex, Google+ offers a compelling alternative. <br /><br /><br /><br />Google+ is currently in an invitation- only “Field Trial” period, so only a select few can access the service at this time. Google+ will be going live to the general public soon, the company says.</p></div></div><div class=""><div class="Amp_Content_Outer"><div class="Amp_Top_Wrap"><div class="Amp_Source_First"><span>Amplify’d from <a rel="clipsource" target="_blank" title="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/" href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/">www.digitaltrends.com</a></span></div></div><div class="Amp_Middle_Wrap"><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div align="center" class="Amp_Content_Item_Image"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/clog_clip_cache/amplify.com/88FF8141-953A-429E-B148-068E1D9EFF87/0F39549A-A581-43C9-B234-25184089E76B" alt="Google-plus" width="384" height="210"/></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><strong id="AutoGeneratedID-1">At long last, Google has announced its newest foray into the world of social media with a new service called Google+. But this time, Google could have a winner.</strong></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-2">Google turned the world of social media on its head today with the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-google-project-real-life.html">much-anticipated unveiling</a> of the “top-secret” <a rel="nofollow" href="https://plus.google.com/up/start/?sw=1&type=st">Google+ project</a>, a massive new type of service that essentially turns all of Google into one giant social network.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-3">While Facebook, with its 700 million users, is a vast social network, made for connecting with as many people as you can get to accept a friend request, Google+  aims to redefine the way people connect online by letting users create a variety of smaller groups, called “Circles,” which allows people to share information and content with only the friends or colleagues they choose.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div align="center" class="Amp_Content_Item_Image"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/clog_clip_cache/amplify.com/88FF8141-953A-429E-B148-068E1D9EFF87/C7E6A762-78DA-4371-94BE-7B512B33D1C1" alt="gplus_circle editor" width="384" height="287"/></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-5">“We believe online sharing is broken. And even awkward,” said Google’s President of Social Vic Gandora in an interview with <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/28/google-plus/"><em>TechCrunch</em></a>. “We think connecting with other people is a basic human need. We do it all the time in real life, but our online tools are rigid. They force us into buckets — or into being completely public.” By comparison, he says, “[r]eal life sharing is nuanced and rich.” With Google+, Google has tried to adapt the richness of real life interactions into an online software.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div align="center" class="Amp_Content_Item_Image"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/clog_clip_cache/amplify.com/88FF8141-953A-429E-B148-068E1D9EFF87/BA38B90E-A213-4D78-90AE-BF9E45CE9752" alt="gplus_stream" width="384" height="222"/></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-7">Like Facebook’s News Feed, Google+ gives users a dashboard with a flow of updates from their friends. Shared content, comments, photos etc are divided into “Streams,” one for each Circle of friends. Users can customize their security settings to allow some contacts to view personal information while hiding it from others.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-8">Google+ can also be controlled through a newly redesigned navigation bar, which will appear at the top of the page of any Google product. Through this, Google+ users can access their profile, check notifications, and instantly share content to their various Circles.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div align="center" class="Amp_Content_Item_Image"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/clog_clip_cache/amplify.com/88FF8141-953A-429E-B148-068E1D9EFF87/C940E1D7-C8A9-421B-BDC1-D2F0EFCD4407" alt="gplus_sparks" width="384" height="273"/></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-10">Google has also built in a friend-finding feature called “Sparks,” which acts as a kind of search engine for hobbies. So if, say, you’re interested in single malt Scotch whisky, simply enter in “single malt Scotch” into the Sparks search bar, and Google will deliver content it thinks you might enjoy. (Google’s <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-1-makes-its-official-debut/">recently-launched +1 Button</a> plays a role in what makes it to the top of these lists.) Find something you like, and simply click on it to add it to your list of interests. You can also connect with fellow enthusiasts in the “featured interests” area, and see what they are chatting about.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-11">Next on the staggering list of Google+ features is what Google calls “Hangouts,” which is a group video chat feature. A Google+ user can simply launch a new Hangout session. Friends are alerted, and are free to join in. Up to 10 users can be in a single Hangout at a time. Any more, and they’re placed on the waiting list.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-12">The final major feature to Google+ is its mobile functionality. The Google+ mobile app is currently available in the Android Market, and will soon come to Apple’s App Store. The Google+ mobile features include “Huddle” for group messaging, as well as an auto-upload feature that automatically adds any photo or video taken on your smartphone through Google+ to a private folder in the cloud. These files are then accessible the next time you log on to Google+ on a computer, and can be shared for up to eight hours after upload.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-13">Google is currently in an invite-only “Field Trial” period, so only a select lucky few can access the service at this time. Google+ will be going live to the general public soon, the company says.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-14">From what we’ve seen so far, Google+ seems like a giant leap in the right direction for Google — and far more robust than <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/tag/google-buzz/">Buzz</a> or <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/tag/orkut/">Orkut</a>. Obviously, there’s a lot here to sort through, so check back soon for more on Google+</p></div><span class="Amp_Source_Button"><a rel="clipsource" target="_blank" title="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/" href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-takes-direct-aim-at-facebook-with-google-plus-social-network/">Read more at www.digitaltrends.com</a></span></td></tr></table></blockquote></div><div class="Amp_Bottom_Wrap"> </div></div></div><div class="Amp_Link">See this Amp at <a href="http://amplify.com/u/a1693q">http://amplify.com/u/a1693q</a></div><br/>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-70661786928126920562011-06-20T05:46:00.001-07:002011-06-20T05:46:24.737-07:00Social Graph and Open APIs<div class="Amp_Commentary_Wrap"><div class="Amp_Post_Text"><p>Apple seems to be doing alright with it's proprietary and closed social graph; the rest of the pack continue to add value to their networks using open APIs to share social network data. So it appears there really is room for two quite different business models. However, as many social networkers have found out, there's no harm in having a foot in both camps!</p></div></div><div class=""><div class="Amp_Content_Outer"><div class="Amp_Top_Wrap"><div class="Amp_Source_First"><span>Amplify’d from <a rel="clipsource" target="_blank" title="http://www.businessinsider.com/social-graph--35m-members-2011-6?utm_source=feedburner" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/social-graph--35m-members-2011-6?utm_source=feedburner">www.businessinsider.com</a></span></div></div><div class="Amp_Middle_Wrap"><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.businessinsider.com/social-graph--35m-members-2011-6?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-0"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.viadeo.com">Viadeo</a>, the European counterpart of LinkedIn operating a professional social <a rel="nofollow" href="#" id="itxthook0"><span id="itxthook0w0">network</span></a> of 35m members, is about to release its public API by the end of this month.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.businessinsider.com/social-graph--35m-members-2011-6?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-1">Most of analysts or observers just do not care, considering open APIs as hacking news. They are wrong : open APIs are questions of <em>survival</em> for social <a rel="nofollow" href="#" id="itxthook1"><span id="itxthook1w0">web</span><span id="itxthook1w1"> </span><span id="itxthook1w2">services</span></a>.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.businessinsider.com/social-graph--35m-members-2011-6?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><h2 id="AutoGeneratedID-2">The war of social APIs</h2></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.businessinsider.com/social-graph--35m-members-2011-6?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-3">Facebook paved the way of releasing open APIs to provide third parties access to its sensitive data. The open APIs have now become the standard for all social web apps : LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter, Orkut, Plaxo… Twitter would have been a completely different company without its open API which drove the emergence of multiple clients and the integration of tweet functions in almost every web service.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.businessinsider.com/social-graph--35m-members-2011-6?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-4">At that time, the Facebook open API was the pillar of a risky strategy.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.businessinsider.com/social-graph--35m-members-2011-6?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-5">Let’s get back to the original sin. In early 2007, Facebook adopted this <em>anti-Apple</em> strategy of not keeping the core of its value (people’s networks) in house. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jason-calacanis-facebook-is-sandbagging-everyone-revenue-could-be-12-billion-this-year-not-4-billion-2011-4">Several millions of websites</a> now interface with Facebook to personalize and socialize their web experience. This deep ecosystem is probably what strengthens Facebook the most and what makes the company a long-term leader. To go further (and a little provocative) I would even say that Facebook has a strongest long-term position than Google, because of its social graph.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.businessinsider.com/social-graph--35m-members-2011-6?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-6">There are not so many visionaries like Zuck to bet this way. In Facebook’s situation, the obvious by-the-book mainstream strategy (by that time) would have been to keep its zillions of users captive and feed them up with ads.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.businessinsider.com/social-graph--35m-members-2011-6?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-7">If you allow your users to go away with their network, you take the huge risk of easing your competitors : someone builds a better platform than yours and siphons your users and their friends.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.businessinsider.com/social-graph--35m-members-2011-6?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-8">Another risk is to be accused of privacy breaches. Think about this : when you share your pictures, posts and personal profile with some friend on Facebook, you do not imagine that your friend can give all your data to another web service. This is the principle of social APIs : bring your friends with you anywhere.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.businessinsider.com/social-graph--35m-members-2011-6?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-9">Fortunately for Facebook, the privacy debate is close to be over now and the generation Y has no concern for this matter.</p></div><span class="Amp_Source_Button"><a rel="clipsource" target="_blank" title="http://www.businessinsider.com/social-graph--35m-members-2011-6?utm_source=feedburner" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/social-graph--35m-members-2011-6?utm_source=feedburner">Read more at www.businessinsider.com</a></span></td></tr></table></blockquote></div><div class="Amp_Bottom_Wrap"> </div></div></div><div class="Amp_Link">See this Amp at <a href="http://amplify.com/u/a15kea">http://amplify.com/u/a15kea</a></div><br/>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-57090475853067599982011-06-16T04:06:00.001-07:002011-06-16T04:06:21.334-07:001000 Social Media Statistics<div class="Amp_Commentary_Wrap"><div class="Amp_Post_Text"><p>One of many websites and services offering social media statistics. Add this one to your bookmarks!</p></div></div><div class=""><div class="Amp_Content_Outer"><div class="Amp_Top_Wrap"><div class="Amp_Source_First"><span>Amplify’d from <a rel="clipsource" target="_blank" title="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/2011/06/15/we-now-have-1000-social-media-statistics/" href="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/2011/06/15/we-now-have-1000-social-media-statistics/">www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com</a></span></div></div><div class="Amp_Middle_Wrap"><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/2011/06/15/we-now-have-1000-social-media-statistics/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-0">In March this year, we launched our social statistics pages, offering all the statistics we can find on the web relating to social media, neatly categorised with their source and date.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/2011/06/15/we-now-have-1000-social-media-statistics/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-1">And as promised, we have been updating these every Friday since then and we have now collected 1,000 social media statistics. We’re pretty chuffed with ourselves actually.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/2011/06/15/we-now-have-1000-social-media-statistics/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-2">The stats can be found below:</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/2011/06/15/we-now-have-1000-social-media-statistics/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><ul id="AutoGeneratedID-3"><br /><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/?cat=85">Blogging statistics</a></li><br /><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/?cat=83">Facebook statistics</a></li><br /><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/?cat=91">Groupon statistics</a></li><br /><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/?cat=90">LinkedIn statistics</a></li><br /><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/?cat=93">Myspace statistics</a></li><br /><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/?cat=87">Social photo statistics</a></li><br /><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/?p=504">Social media usage statistics</a></li><br /><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/?cat=84">Social gaming statistics</a></li><br /><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/?cat=82">Twitter statistics</a></li><br /><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/?cat=86">Social video statistics</a></li><br /><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/?cat=88">Wikipedia statistics</a></li><br /><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/category/social-stats/advertising/">Social advertising statistics</a></li><br /><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/category/social-stats/tibbr/">Tibbr statistics</a></li><br /></ul></div><span class="Amp_Source_Button"><a rel="clipsource" target="_blank" title="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/2011/06/15/we-now-have-1000-social-media-statistics/" href="http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/2011/06/15/we-now-have-1000-social-media-statistics/">Read more at www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com</a></span></td></tr></table></blockquote></div><div class="Amp_Bottom_Wrap"> </div></div></div><div class="Amp_Link">See this Amp at <a href="http://amplify.com/u/a15cra">http://amplify.com/u/a15cra</a></div><br/>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-48809463575218263402011-06-02T09:39:00.001-07:002011-06-02T09:39:33.037-07:00What is Web 3.0?<div class="Amp_Commentary_Wrap"><div class="Amp_Post_Text"><p>A good - if slightly over-simplified - introduction to the semantic web (though personally I dislike thinking of it as a chronological sequence that started with 'Web 1.0'). Also beware this selling services from EPN (Dutch company).</p></div></div><div class=""><div class="Amp_Content_Outer"><div class="Amp_Top_Wrap"><div class="Amp_Source_First"><span>Amplify’d from <a rel="clipsource" target="_blank" title="http://www.neowin.net/news/what-exactly-is-web-30?utm_source=feedburner" href="http://www.neowin.net/news/what-exactly-is-web-30?utm_source=feedburner">www.neowin.net</a></span></div></div><div class="Amp_Middle_Wrap"><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.neowin.net/news/what-exactly-is-web-30?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-0"><br /> Some could argue that the concept of Web 3.0 has been around for quite some time although in truth, no one can really pinpoint the exact evolution the World Wide Web will take. We saw Web 1.0 in which simple HTML pages were put together to display information that was primarily meant for academics at first before moving onto the general public and the internet became a 1990s and indeed 2000s phenomenon.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.neowin.net/news/what-exactly-is-web-30?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-1"><br /> Web 2.0 was a concept that many could both see and not see coming. Advances in website design primarily by those that pushed the boundaries and the introduction of techniques being used such as XHTML and CSS made sure that webpages were becoming more complex. But that alone was not the only factor; the use of Flash on the internet as well as AJAX made webpages alive with interactive information. They were more accessible to the user, displayed information in a more understandable way and most importantly changed the way we look at the internet. What we didn’t necessarily expect however was the growth of <a rel="nofollow" href="#" id="itxthook0"><span id="itxthook0w0">social</span><span id="itxthook0w1"> </span><span id="itxthook0w2">networking</span></a>. Having online friendships, connecting with people on Facebook including old friends and perusing Twitter for the latest real time news is a totally different world from the 1990s. The recent case of a resident living near Osama Bin Laden’s compound reporting what was happening before the story broke around the world is a testament to how our views have changed. The world is connected.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.neowin.net/news/what-exactly-is-web-30?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-2"><br /> But Web 3.0 is different. The idea behind it puts webpages in the spotlight of being clever. At the moment a <a rel="nofollow" href="#" id="itxthook1"><span id="itxthook1w0">webpage</span></a> does what its coding tells it to do and nothing more but as Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web puts it, Web 3.0 will be a collection of changes with one aspect being a Semantic web. This is where more information is available to be read by machines of that specific webpage therefore resulting in a better browsing experience and even being able to perform particular tasks on the user’s behalf. In other words, it’s a web which can bring numerous answers together into one understandable reasoning. Try for yourself and compare the results that you get, there are several semantic search engines around, the one I used was <a rel="nofollow" href="http://duckduckgo.com/">DuckDuckGo</a>. Do a search for Wikipedia and notice the difference in results. While the search engines still have a way to go, it highlights the change of focus on information.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.neowin.net/news/what-exactly-is-web-30?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div align="center" class="Amp_Content_Item_Emb"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bsNcjya56v8?rel=1&fs=1" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" ></embed></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.neowin.net/news/what-exactly-is-web-30?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-4"><br /> An example of this could be that someone wishes to get opinions of a movie that they’re thinking of going to see. A webpage could be able to intelligently search, similar in a sense to how a search engine works at the moment, to look for the same type of metadata to provide an overview. At the moment, many movie <a rel="nofollow" href="#" id="itxthook2"><span id="itxthook2w0">review</span></a> sites use different rating mechanisms that make it difficult to truly compare properly.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.neowin.net/news/what-exactly-is-web-30?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-5"><br /> Could this be practical though? People have a tendency to lie in the real world and very often over the internet. People have in the past placed misinformation on webpages and its coding. In a system which tries to make sense and even compute some data, it would be very difficult to weed out. Think of GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out), a thought process often used with data programs such as Excel, what you put in is what you get out.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.neowin.net/news/what-exactly-is-web-30?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-6"><br /> How much can we protect personal data? A lot of news stories in the past few years have focused on the lack of privacy people have on Facebook or at least the difficulty in understanding it. Using that as an example, imagine semantic search engines being able to look into this information and use it in a general pool. To what extent can we use that information?</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.neowin.net/news/what-exactly-is-web-30?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-7"><br /> Web 3.0 isn’t just about intelligent data though, it’s about emphasising that <a rel="nofollow" href="#" id="itxthook3"><span id="itxthook3w0">computers</span></a> could become personalised to the user’s needs. An internet that is focussed on the individual and can deliver results relevant to them in a much more efficient way are both features some expect to see. On close inspection, you realise that we already have technologies which are beginning to step into these ideas, such as behavioural advertisements and personalised homepages. But it’s a question of having that implemented across a large extent of the internet, not just on certain webpages.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.neowin.net/news/what-exactly-is-web-30?utm_source=feedburner"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-8"><br /> How Web 3.0 ends up in practice may be somewhat different from the theories that currently exist to try and predict how the use of the internet will change. Some argue that Web 3.0 is an unrealised idea and that we’re comfortable living in a Web 2.0 world. However things take time to change and it may be years yet before we see another monumental shift in the way we use the world’s <a rel="nofollow" href="#" id="itxthook4"><span id="itxthook4w0">network</span></a>.</p></div><span class="Amp_Source_Button"><a rel="clipsource" target="_blank" title="http://www.neowin.net/news/what-exactly-is-web-30?utm_source=feedburner" href="http://www.neowin.net/news/what-exactly-is-web-30?utm_source=feedburner">Read more at www.neowin.net</a></span></td></tr></table></blockquote></div><div class="Amp_Bottom_Wrap"> </div></div></div><div class="Amp_Link">See this Amp at <a href="http://amplify.com/u/a14dlw">http://amplify.com/u/a14dlw</a></div><br/>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-24026050937602263182011-05-16T11:33:00.001-07:002011-05-16T11:33:15.194-07:00Who Will Win the Facebook and Google War?<div class="Amp_Commentary_Wrap"><div class="Amp_Post_Text"><p>Like two sumo wrestlers srtruggling to get the first fall! I have to laugh about Google's corporate motto "Don't be evil" - maybe this needs to be amended to ...."except to Facebook". <br /><br /><br /><br />And Facebook are just as bad - pretending to care about their user's privacy when their previous track records shows blatant disregard for it.<br /><br /><br /><br />As for us users, the best thing to realise is that there is no such thing as privacy on the Internet. If you want privacy cancel your internet contract and throw away your mobile phone. In the mean time, stand back and watch the wrestling!</p></div></div><div class=""><div class="Amp_Content_Outer"><div class="Amp_Top_Wrap"><div class="Amp_Source_First"><span>Amplify’d from <a rel="clipsource" target="_blank" title="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/" href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/">latino.foxnews.com</a></span></div></div><div class="Amp_Middle_Wrap"><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div align="center" class="Amp_Content_Item_Image"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/clog_clip_cache/amplify.com/14B0E5B1-D33E-4580-A6B0-94D867220B42/6B5EA82C-A7BF-41DF-A6E4-D5C91093B4DA" alt="In this May, 26, 2010 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the social network site's new privacy settings in Palo Alto, Calif. Schools in New Jersey's largest city are poised to receive $100 million Friday, Sept. 24, 2010, from the founder of Facebook." width="384" height="216"/></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-1">Ali-Frazier. Yankees-Red Sox. Celtics-Lakers. The sports world has often seen knock-down, drag-out battles between titans. But seldom do massive companies zero in on each other.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-2">In the latest salvo of an increasingly nasty war, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://mashable.com/2011/05/12/facebook-smear-campaign-google/">Facebook </a>hired public relations firm, Burson-Marsteller to try to covertly get journalists and bloggers to write negative articles about Google's privacy practices relating to its new social media feature. </p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-3">The feature in question, Social Circle, allows Facebook user information to show up via a Google search.. While Facebook says Google is infringing on its users privacy, some say, Facebook railing on about the abuse of its users privacy is like the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://mashable.com/2011/05/12/facebook-google-smear-campaign/">pot calling the kettle black.</a></p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-4">"The competition is between the new and the old -- between Facebook as the early leader in the social Web, and Google as the dominant player in the content Web. Everyone else, such as Microsoft, Yahoo and Twitter, will play a secondary role," adds Valdes, "and will start lining up on one side or the other."</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-6"><b>Lance Rios, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/Being.Latino">Founder of Being Latino</a>: </b>As stated in the movie 'The Social Network', "the internet isn't written in pencil, it's written in ink". As so, we can never expect for anything to be fully private in any capacity, ESPECIALLY when it comes to social networking sites. What Google is doing is wrong and intrusive and I see it to be a direct violation of our rights and believe that they will soon be reprimanded. </p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-7">While this specific incident will not be the last of companies trying to invade our personal lives, I do think that it will set off a red flag, leading many companies to be a little more conservative about how to approach people and their privacy.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-8"><b>Louis Pagan,<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hispanicize.com/"> Content Director for Hispanicize</a>: </b>This is not shocking to me. Google is making use of already public data...the big 'problem' with social media is just that - the media that you put out there is public. If that's a 'bug' in social media that needs to be fixed is another conversation. Unfortunately, the public is slow in learning this.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-5">What I find disturbing about this story is the sneaky tactic that Facebook used to bring this to the public's attention. Back door deals, and back door conversations are suspicious in their very nature and should be taken with a grain of salt. It seems that Facebook wanted this story to go viral and wipe their hands clean from it.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-9">It's like a cold war between the two companies, and the coveted prize is user data.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-10"><b>Julio Ricardo Varela, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/LatinoRebels">Founder of Latino Rebels</a>: </b>As a prophet of social media, Facebook made a huge error by turning this over to a PR company. It surprised me, since they are all about transparency, but in this case, they acted just like any other technology corporation.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-11">The Google tactics don't bother me at all. My profile is protected on Facebook but I also allow some of my information to go out into cyberspace. From a marketing perspective, being linked to Google creates a greater opportunity for someone new to click on your profile. Makes sense to me.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-12">In the end, this is moot, since Facebook will buy out Google in three years.</p></div><span class="Amp_Source_Button"><a rel="clipsource" target="_blank" title="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/" href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/05/13/facebook-google-war-social-media-smackdown-ages/">Read more at latino.foxnews.com</a></span></td></tr></table></blockquote></div><div class="Amp_Bottom_Wrap"> </div></div></div><div class="Amp_Link">See this Amp at <a href="http://amplify.com/u/a1349r">http://amplify.com/u/a1349r</a></div><br/>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-81136626622534046572011-05-02T11:07:00.001-07:002011-05-02T11:07:58.807-07:00Happy memories of Punch and Judy<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">Had a great Bank Holiday weekend watching a show about a dysfunctional family, complete with husband and wife battering, child cruelty, and assault on a police officer. We had such fun, and everyone laughed when the baby was thrown out of the window. Ah yes, good ol' Punch and Judy. It's somehow comforting to know that the story hasn't yet been 'sanitised' by the politically correct lobby (also known as the British Taliban), and is much the same as when I first saw it as a toddler - all those hundreds of years ago!</span></div> <p /><div><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">For those ignorant of such quaint customs, the story is roughly as follows:</span></div> <p /><div><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">The show starts with the arrival of Mr. Punch followed by the introduction of Judy. They kiss and dance before Judy requests Mr. Punch to look after the baby. Punch fails to carry this task out appropriately, sitting on the baby in a failed attempt to "babysit", and even putting it through the sausage machine. He then drops it out of the window onto the floor. Cue little child who rushes to pick it up and on tippy-toes tries to hand it back to Punch - but can't quite reach. Cue slightly taller child who similarly fails. This sequence continues until finally one of the older children in the audience finally has sufficient height to hand the baby back to Mr Punch. Judy returns, is outraged, fetch's a stick and the knockabout commences. A policeman arrives in response to the mayhem and is himself felled by Punch's slapstick. All this is carried out at breakneck and farcical speed with much involvement from the gleefully shouting children in the audience. Enter Joey the Clown who suggests it's dinner time. This leads to the production of a string of sausages which Mr Punch has to look after. Cue even greater audience participation with the arrival of the crocodile, which Mr. Punch does not see until the children shout out and lets him know. Punch's subsequent struggle with the crocodile leaves him in need of a Doctor who arrives and attempts to treat Punch by walloping him with a stick until Punch reciprocates. Punch then counts his "victims" by laying puppets on the stage only for Joey the Clown to move them about behind his back in order to frustrate him. A ghost appears and gives Mr. Punch a fright before it too is chased off with a slapstick. </span></div> <p /><div><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">In the version I remember, a hangman would arrive to punish Mr. Punch, only to himself be tricked into sticking his head in the noose. This seems to have been expunged from this most recent performance, so I guess we have moved on with the times. Maybe later versions will include an ASBO or community service!. Anyway, great fun was had by all, and I'm so pleased I haven't succeeded in growing up yet!</span></div> <p /><div><span style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephendale/5657966193/"><img class="posterous_download_image" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5106/5657966193_0d6dd2dc84.jpg" border="0" height="500" width="375" /></a></span></div> <p /><div><span style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephendale/5657968793/"><img class="posterous_download_image" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5068/5657968793_e867f953da.jpg" border="0" height="375" width="500" /></a></span></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephendale.net/happy-memories-of-punch-and-judy">stephendale's posterous</a> </p> </div>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-47774369127328353512011-04-26T09:00:00.001-07:002011-04-26T09:00:05.141-07:00Data is the new oil<div class='posterous_autopost'><div style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><div><div style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Loved this abstract <a href="http://www.ddb.com/ddblogs/strategy/the-future-of-marketing-media.html">from a blog</a> by 'media futurist' Gerd Leonard:</div></div> <p /></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"> <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Getting too little or bad data -- or not understanding it-- will literally mean running out of gas in the middle of the desert. Therefore, the mission is to keep it all fueled up. And just like oil, there will be a myriad of issues (hopefully, not wars) that will arise with the responsible and fair practices of drilling, pumping, shipping, refining and dispensing of data.</span></blockquote> <p /><div><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">An excellent metaphor for the crazy world of data!</span></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephendale.net/data-is-the-new-oil">stephendale's posterous</a> </p> </div>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-71173916579549179682011-04-23T23:19:00.001-07:002011-04-23T23:19:06.769-07:00Cascade data visualisation<div class='posterous_autopost'><div>Cascade - data visualisation of the impact of a single Tweet; shows <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;">sharing activity to construct a detailed picture of how information propagates through the social media space. Cool!</span></div> <p /><a href="http://nytlabs.com/projects/movies/projectcascade.mov">http://nytlabs.com/projects/movies/projectcascade.mov</a><p /><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">Cascade was developed by R&D using open source tools including</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://processing.org/">Processing</a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">and</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://mongodb.org/">MongoDB</a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">.</span><p /> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephendale.net/cascade-data-visualisation">stephendale's posterous</a> </p> </div>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-53241524204710264052011-04-17T23:48:00.001-07:002011-04-17T23:48:17.423-07:00Online Information Conference 2011 - Call For Papers<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><h3 style="text-align: center; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px;">ONLINE INFORMATION CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PAPERS</h3><h3 style="text-align: center; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px;"> Have you submitted a proposal yet? The deadline of May 6th is approaching fast.</h3><p style="text-align: left; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px;">Here's why you should submit a proposal:</p> <ul style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px;"><li value="0" style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>Show case your work with 700 delegates from over 40 countries and be seen as a pioneer and leader in what you do<br /> </strong>If you have been part of a successful (or unsuccessful) project with innovative best practices, lessons learned, hints and tips, then we want to hear from you<p /></li><li value="0" style="margin-left: 15px;"> <strong>Benefit from the extensive marketing campaign and promotional exposure/recognition you will receive from being part of one of the largest conferences serving the information industry.</strong><br />You and your organisation will be listed in the printed brochure (sent to 22,000) and on the website (emails to 24,000).<p /> </li><li value="0" style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>Join a roster of industry authorities</strong> <strong>and use this opportunity to raise your profile.</strong> Previous keynote speakers to the programme include: <p /> </li><li value="0" style="margin-left: 15px;">Dion Hinchcliffe, Co-Author of '<i>Web 2.0 Architectures</i>'</li><li value="0" style="margin-left: 15px;">Charlene Li, Co-Author of '<i>Groundswel</i>l'</li> <li value="0" style="margin-left: 15px;"><em></em>Dame Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton</li><li value="0" style="margin-left: 15px;">Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Deputy Head Research, University of Southampton<em></em></li> <li value="0" style="margin-left: 15px;">Blaise Cronin, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology</li><li value="0" style="margin-left: 15px;">Clay Shirky, Author of '<em>Here Comes Everybody'</em></li> <li value="0" style="margin-left: 15px;"><em></em>Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia</li><li value="0" style="margin-left: 15px;">Dr David Weinberger, Co-author of '<em>The Cluetrain Manifesto'</em></li><li value="0" style="margin-left: 15px;"> <em></em>Dr Jakob Nielsen, described as 'The king of usability'</li><li value="0" style="margin-left: 15px;">Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive, The British Library<p /></li><li value="0" style="margin-left: 15px;"> <strong>Selected speakers receive a FREE place to the 3 day conference</strong> <strong>and co-located exhibition, worth over £900</strong></li></ul><p style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px;"> For information on conference themes, making your submission and review criteria please click on the links below</p><p style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px;"> I look forward to receiving your proposal</p><p style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px;">Stephen Dale<br />Chairman<br />Online Information Conference 2011</p> <p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"> </p><ol><li style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Verdana; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.3em;"><a href="http://www.online-information.co.uk/online2010/conference/conf_submission.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(32, 42, 101);">Making your submission </a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.online-information.co.uk/online2010/conference/guidelines.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(32, 42, 101); border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Verdana; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.3em;">Review criteria</a></li> <li><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Verdana; font-size: 17px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://www.online-information.co.uk/cgi-events/call_for_papers.pl?exhibition_id=220" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(32, 42, 101);">SUBMIT YOUR PAPER HERE</a></span></li> </ol></div><strong style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px;">Please note: Deadline for submissions is Monday 6 May</strong> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephendale.net/online-information-conference-2011-call-for-p">stephendale's posterous</a> </p> </div>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-65849289758174934502011-04-13T10:20:00.001-07:002011-04-13T10:20:45.131-07:00Nobodies are the new Somebodies<div class="Amp_Commentary_Wrap"><div class="Amp_Post_Text"><p>I loved this post from Josh McHugh which I've 'clipped' in its entirety. I think that many of us who have lived through the frenzied first years of the social media revolution can empathise with the message here. Yes, we all want to be influencers, but for the majority (including me), we have to be content with being 'Nobodies'. But, taking the concept of the 'long tail', there are many millions of nobodies out there, which collectively can have as much (if not more) influence than the 'names'. (Stephen Fry eat your heart out!). You just need to find and nurture them.<br /><br /><br /><br />Apart from which, Kawasaki's new book (Enchantment) is now top of my reading list!<br /><br /><br /><br />Yours,<br /><br /><br /><br />A. Nobody.</p></div></div><div class=""><div class="Amp_Content_Outer"><div class="Amp_Top_Wrap"><div class="Amp_Source_First"><span>Amplify’d from <a rel="clipsource" target="_blank" title="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/" href="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/">blogs.forbes.com</a></span></div></div><div class="Amp_Middle_Wrap"><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-1">I recently interviewed Guy Kawasaki at an event hosted by <a rel="nofollow" title="INFORUM's Facebook Page" href="http://asm.ly/inforumFBPage">INFORUM</a> at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-3">I’d heard from an entrepreneur the previous week at South by Southwest that Kawasaki is an absolute terror when you’re pitching him, so I was pleasantly surprised when he turned out to be as genial a guy as you could hope to interview.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-4">Kawasaki’s new book, <em><a rel="nofollow" title="Enchantment website" href="http://asm.ly/enchantsite">Enchantment</a>,</em> contains a lot of wonderfully anti-Machiavellian advice not just for entrepreneurs, but for nonprofits and pretty much anyone hoping to get the kinds of things done in life that require the cooperation of others. The pearl of wisdom underlying the entire book: “<strong>Be a mensch</strong>.”</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-5">But the section of the book that had me underlining, circling, and festooning its margins with post-it notes comes where Kawasaki deftly unhorses a marketing orthodoxy that has launched a million PowerPoint decks, a thousand marketing plans, and scores of recent startups: “<strong>Engage the Influencers.</strong>”</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-6">Kawasaki’s counterpunch: <strong>“Nobodies Are The New Somebodies.</strong>”</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><div id="AutoGeneratedID-7"><br /><p>This is not likely to be a welcome message to the marketers and would-be audience-builders currently scrambling to throw enticements at <a rel="nofollow" title="Mashable: influence scores not enough" href="http://mashable.com/2011/02/01/influencer-marketing/">Twitter users with high influence scores</a>.</p><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><strong id="AutoGeneratedID-8">Social Media Influence Scores: Return of the Velvet Rope</strong></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-9">One big problem with an approach that focuses disproportionately on established online influencers: there may have been 5 minutes at the dawn of Web 2.0 when you stood a solid chance of <a rel="nofollow" title="Scoble" href="http://twitter.com/#!/scobleizer">Robert Scoble</a> or <a rel="nofollow" title="Ashton on Twitter " href="http://asm.ly/aplusk">Ashton Kutcher</a> replying to one of your tweets. But that moment has passed. <a rel="nofollow" title="Video: Stiller asks Seacrest for Twitter shout-out" href="http://asm.ly/StillerSeacrest">You can ask Ben Stiller.</a> Just don’t bother asking him over Twitter.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-10">Want to know how to engage an “influencer” who has a <a rel="nofollow" title="PeerIndex" href="http://asm.ly/peerindex">PeerIndex</a> or <a rel="nofollow" title="Klout: influence scoring" href="http://asm.ly/kloutsite">Klout</a> score of <a rel="nofollow" title="Chad Ochocinco" href="http://asm.ly/Ochocinco">85</a>? Have your manager call his agent. Don’t have a manager? Child, please.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-11">Hanging your marketing strategy on getting retweeted by the likes of Kanye and Rainn Wilson is like pasting a <a rel="nofollow" title="Powerball" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerball">Powerball ticket</a> to the first page of your business plan. Because guess what? Those influencers are busy – converting the hard-earned attention of their thousands or <a rel="nofollow" title="Twitter-as-broadcast-ad-network" href="http://adly.com/celebrities/celebrities-on-ad-ly/">millions of followers into cold hard cash</a>.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><h3 id="AutoGeneratedID-12"><strong>Egalitarianism Pays</strong></h3></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-13">“You still have to pay someone to suck up to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal,” Kawasaki said. “But you should also be sucking up to Lonelyguy15.” That’s because you never know who will end up becoming your project’s most impassioned and effective cheerleaders. Indeed – to cover his bases, Kawasaki sent advance copies of his book not just to the 100 or so usual traditional media gatekeepers, but also to 1,500 bloggers, Tweeters, and other assorted “nobodies.”</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-14">Heresy, perhaps, to a generation of marketers steeped in the sociological topology frequently ascribed to Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point.It may be unfair to Gladwell, but for better or worse his book popularized the notion that success in marketing depends on identifying a relatively tiny group of key influencers in any given sphere and winning them over.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><strong id="AutoGeneratedID-15">Past Results Do Not Guarantee Future Performance</strong></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-16">For theoretical validation, Kawasaki looks to sociologist <a rel="nofollow" title="Duncan Watts' homepage" href="http://asm.ly/DWatts">Duncan Watts</a>, author of <a rel="nofollow" title="Everything is Obvious: buy on Amazon" href="http://asm.ly/DWattsBook">“Everything Is Obvious”</a> and, recently, co-author of a wonky, mythbusting research paper titled “<a rel="nofollow" title="Everyone's an Influencer" href="http://asm.ly/evryinfluencer">Everyone’s An Influencer</a>.” The gist of that paper: a person’s past success in causing actions on Twitter is a bad predictor of future success, and it’s probably not worth your time and effort to try to court the historically influential users.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><div id="AutoGeneratedID-17"><br /><p>The alternative approach that Kawasaki embraces: spend your time reaching out to a larger number of <em><a rel="nofollow" href="http://asm.ly/hoipolloi">hoi polloi</a></em> – those “nobodies,” and identify and nurture the most valuable members of your audience as they emerge. They will love you for it.</p><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><h3 id="AutoGeneratedID-18"><strong>No Shortcuts</strong></h3></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-19">Where Watts’ paper leaves off, a recent post by Altimeter Group’s Brian Solis, author of the definitive social media tome <a rel="nofollow" title="Book: Engage, by Brian Solis" href="http://asm.ly/bsEngage"><em>Engage</em></a>, picks up the thread in his blog post <a rel="nofollow" title="Don't Think About the Score" href="http://asm.ly/SolisNoScore">“Don’t think About The Score”</a></p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><div id="AutoGeneratedID-20"><span>…focusing efforts to boost scores is as shallow as it is restricted. If you invest in the value of the community and seek to improve the experiences of those to whom you’re connected, your influence and presence is in turn symbolic of something that escapes a number.</span></div></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-21">As Kawasaki puts it, “enchantment is a process, not an event.”</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-22">Solis’ prescription: listen well, be consistent and generous with attention and recognition, connect people with content that interests them, and you will gradually create a thriving fanbase around your cause or project. Trying to game someone’s influence-scoring system or to use it as a shortcut is simply short-sighted, because influence scores, while instructive, are trailing indicators, not predictors.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><strong id="AutoGeneratedID-23">Create Your Own Influencers</strong></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-24">This process-heavy reality may seem like bad news for those who hoped influence scores would be their social media silver bullet. But there is a silver lining. It turns out that celebrating your project’s most enthusiastic fans regardless of their influence scores and making them the stars of the community has the flattering (though ancillary) side effect of – you guessed it – eventually raising the influence scores of everyone involved.</p></div><span class="Amp_Source_Button"><a rel="clipsource" target="_blank" title="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/" href="http://blogs.forbes.com/joshmchugh/2011/04/12/nobodies-are-the-new-somebodies/">Read more at blogs.forbes.com</a></span></td></tr></table></blockquote></div><div class="Amp_Bottom_Wrap"> </div></div></div><div class="Amp_Link">See this Amp at <a href="http://amplify.com/u/byxyc">http://amplify.com/u/byxyc</a></div><br/>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-42645163008482064822011-04-13T04:18:00.001-07:002011-04-13T04:18:01.555-07:00Infograph on Open Government Projects<div class="Amp_Commentary_Wrap"><div class="Amp_Post_Text"><p>Govloop (a US-based community for public sector staff) had produced a useful Infograph showing all the 350+ open government projects, clustered according to the sponsoring agency. Something that could be adopted maybe for UK open government projects (or has this been done? Show me!)</p></div></div><div class=""><div class="Amp_Content_Outer"><div class="Amp_Top_Wrap"><div class="Amp_Source_First"><span>Amplify’d from <a rel="clipsource" target="_blank" title="http://semanticweb.com/infograph-open-government-projects_b19036" href="http://semanticweb.com/infograph-open-government-projects_b19036">semanticweb.com</a></span></div></div><div class="Amp_Middle_Wrap"><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://semanticweb.com/infograph-open-government-projects_b19036"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-0"><img title="home-feature-apps" src="https://semanticweb.com/files/2011/04/home-feature-apps.png" />GovLoop.com has shared a great <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/how-many-open-gov-projects-are">infograph</a> that answers the question, “How Many <a rel="nofollow" href="http://semanticweb.com/?cx=014154320031312368439%3Aroum4ta8hle&cof=FORID%3A11&s=1&q=open+government#1317">Open Gov</a> Projects Are There (and How Do You Find Them Fast)?” According to the post, “Last year, former Deputy CTO for Open Government Beth Noveck reached out to GovLoop Founder Steve Ressler about leveraging the energy of community members to complete a gargantuan task: read through all of the Open Government Plans and compile a list of the hundreds of projects named within them. We had already created a dataset with all the Open Government Plans (which happens to be our 3rd most popular dataset, by the way), so we felt up to the challenge.”<span id="more-19036"></span></p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://semanticweb.com/infograph-open-government-projects_b19036"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-1">The story continues, “Fast forward to a month ago. By now, Beth had departed the White House…and Angie finalized the dataset with all 350+ open government projects. So Beth connected us with the GOOD guys (and I mean that literally – special shout out to Casey Caplowe and Oliver Munday). Our goal was to create a useful visualization that made it easy to find the data and they’re kinda known for their great infographics.”</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://semanticweb.com/infograph-open-government-projects_b19036"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-2">The final result: “an infographic that helps you find all 350+ open government projects by agency with a few quick clicks. The circles/numbers represent the numbers of projects at an agency – click on them to see a list of the projects. You can also find projects according to the three open government pillars: collaboration, transparency and participation by clicking on those words in the vault.”</p></div><span class="Amp_Source_Button"><a rel="clipsource" target="_blank" title="http://semanticweb.com/infograph-open-government-projects_b19036" href="http://semanticweb.com/infograph-open-government-projects_b19036">Read more at semanticweb.com</a></span></td></tr></table></blockquote></div><div class="Amp_Bottom_Wrap"> </div></div></div><div class="Amp_Link">See this Amp at <a href="http://amplify.com/u/byx4h">http://amplify.com/u/byx4h</a></div><br/>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154071624404192849.post-91567417316774711572011-04-07T23:44:00.001-07:002011-04-07T23:44:24.946-07:00Google bonus linked to +1 success<div class="Amp_Commentary_Wrap"><div class="Amp_Post_Text"><p>I've never been quite clear why Google thinks it has to be a social network. Let Facebook and Twitter get on with doing that - after all they're never going to be able to deliver anything that can dislodge users from those networks - both of which have a critical mass. I assume that they're not foolish enough to think that the +1 thing (similar to Facebook's Like) is going to pull people into the Google network.<br /><br /><br /><br />It would be far better (IMHO) if they concentrated on building some cohesion between all of their excellent (and mainly free) products, (Google Apps, Picassa, YouTube, Reader, Blogger, Sites, Groups etc.) in order to create a compelling (and simple to implement) Enterprise 2.0 offer for business.<br /><br /><br /><br />I just hope none of their employees are banking on getting a bonus this year (or next)!</p></div></div><div class=""><div class="Amp_Content_Outer"><div class="Amp_Top_Wrap"><div class="Amp_Source_First"><span>Amplify’d from <a rel="clipsource" target="_blank" title="http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-just-tied-employee-bonuses-to-the-success-of-the-googles-social-strategy-2011-4" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-just-tied-employee-bonuses-to-the-success-of-the-googles-social-strategy-2011-4">www.businessinsider.com</a></span></div></div><div class="Amp_Middle_Wrap"><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-just-tied-employee-bonuses-to-the-success-of-the-googles-social-strategy-2011-4"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-0">Google's +1 social search service has a couple of legs up on these other social initiatives. First, it's <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/plus-one-2011-3">refreshingly simple</a> -- unlike Wave, for example. Second, it's an add-on to Google's core business of search, so it probably won't be allowed to wither and die quietly.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-just-tied-employee-bonuses-to-the-success-of-the-googles-social-strategy-2011-4"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-1">But it probably won't be enough to stop Facebook and other social services like Twitter from grabbing an increasing share of attention and time from users. And where the users go, eventually the ad dollars follow.</p></div></td></tr></table></blockquote><div class="Amp_Content_Hr"></div><blockquote class="Amp_Content_Item" cite="http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-just-tied-employee-bonuses-to-the-success-of-the-googles-social-strategy-2011-4"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="TxtCntnt"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-2">Google is still a great place to find general information, and adding a social element will make that information better. But it won't replace the interactions between friends, colleagues, and respected strangers that take place every day on Facebook, Twitter, and other rising social sites like LinkedIn.</p></div><span class="Amp_Source_Button"><a rel="clipsource" target="_blank" title="http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-just-tied-employee-bonuses-to-the-success-of-the-googles-social-strategy-2011-4" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-just-tied-employee-bonuses-to-the-success-of-the-googles-social-strategy-2011-4">Read more at www.businessinsider.com</a></span></td></tr></table></blockquote></div><div class="Amp_Bottom_Wrap"> </div></div></div><div class="Amp_Link">See this Amp at <a href="http://amplify.com/u/bybw0">http://amplify.com/u/bybw0</a></div><br/>Stephen Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678309839438088456noreply@blogger.com0