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elsua says...

For a good number of weeks, if not months, I have been thinking what I would be doing for my first post over here in Posterous as a way to introduce a new stream of content coming from yours truly, Luis Suarez. Over at my personal business blog, I have been talking a few times already about the huge potential that I see with this offering in helping knowledge workers share their knowledge and collaborate with their peers perhaps with the lowest barrier of entry there may well be to social software and social software adoption in general: email!

So, here I am, I hardly ever use email anymore, yet this will be my first (Out of plenty more, I'm sure!) Posterous entries and I would think that from here onwards I am going to make it a little bit of a habit to post content on a more or less regular basis: perhaps every day, maybe every other day. We will see how it goes over the next few days...

One thing for sure is that I plan to continue talking over here about the same kinds of topics as in all of my blogs from over the last few years. To name, Knowledge Management (or Knowledge Sharing, whichever term you would prefer to use), communities (And community building), collaboration (Including remote and virtual collaboration), learning and social computing (Enterprise 2.0 and social software, mainly).

At the same time, I'm thinking this new venue I'm about to kick off today would probably accommodate, and quite nicely, some other stuff that may well be in my head and which I would think would be worth while sharing across with a much more personal touch (Although within limits). We will have to wait and see how that goes...

For now though I think I just have got the perfect follow-up entry to post over here to give you a sense of what else you will be able to find in this site I am starting to contribute content to from here onwards.

I hope it will be an interesting journey for you folks out there, just as much as I think it will be for me. In fact, I am planning to use this Web site as that venue that would allow me to explore various other different areas of interest from yours truly that perhaps didn't find their own space in some of the other social software tools that I have been using for a while, including my blogs. 

Thus we shall see how this new adventure goes further. Let the exploring begin and thanks for reading!

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emmamolloy says...

So I've been toying with the idea of setting up a blog for some time now. What has stopped me was where do I start. Then I came across this blog http://bit.ly/cbbio by Chris Brogan re: Using your blog for stock answers. Which seemed like a great place to start.

So who am I? Well I guess that depends on where you look. My linkedin www.linkedin.com/in/emmamolloy will tell you that I am:

  • An Account Manager at DigforfireDMG www.digforfireDMG.co.uk
  • A Diploma Graduate of the IDM
  • A former Fine Art Student
  • A Digital Marketing Professional

It will also tell you that I:

  • Have 10 years experience in Marketing (8 in Digital Marketing, 2 in Online Research)
  • Have a thirst for knowledge in my field
  • Take courses to keep me up to date
  • Consume books on Marketing and Social Media for breakfast

Facebook will tell you that:

What I am actually doing is covering these books 'IN' my breakfast and once I've wiped off the jam maybe i'll make some sense of it all.

Twitter will probably tell you something in-between:

You'll get the censored Facebook version of events without the corporate sheen of Linkedin, coupled with anything I think might be interesting.

What will this blog tell you?

Here, well I'll try and tell the truth... but I am in marketing after all so we'll see what sounds the most interesting, useful and entertaining...(how honest of me)

What interests me?

Everything exciting, what's exciting? Anything clever, unusual, anything that helps me make sense of the world in which I live and work. Currently, the new age of digital connected communities and anything a little bit tech and geeky.

How do I see myself?

I am naturally passionate about a lot of things. I sleep as much as possible and like to live life at warp speed when awake. I am a member of a small collective of Intentional Idiots...(accidental angels) AKA my friends. I am a bad rollerskater, a good jewellery maker, an ok scarf knitter, a great jam maker, and a most excellent and accomplished dirty stop out.

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Neilfuture says...

I've been looking at brands with an umbrella style architecture for a client of mine. O2 use their singular brand across all of their products and services. From O2 pay as you go services, O2 Academies, O2 Money, the O2 Arena and that O2 Family Joggler thing all full under the O2 branding. Similarly Tesco, Apple, Sony, great car brands like Audi, BMW work well. Its all basic stuff I know, but it occurred to me that the better you can build a community around your brand name, creating trust and loyalty, a sense of belonging the better this stature an umbrella brand can have. Business wise you can sell different products and services on a long term basis. This led me to think that instead of writing a business plan that starts out with building products or service, it instead should start out with building communities. I guess thats why Twitter and Facebook are worth billions when all they have is people. Seems obvious when its framed this way.

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Carol says...

Everyone has dreams. Stuff we wanna learn. Things we want to do. People we wanna become. We spend a lot of time thinking about this but often don't know where to start. Dorthy.com is a new way to discover and achieve whatever you dream.

I´m very curious about this community and what people are posting. I tried to create a profile but they are still running on alpha , so Im on the waiting list.

If you are interested , you can read their blog or visit the community site 

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Burberry Art of the Trench

Social media is about conversations, about consumers, but mostly about communities. It’s no longer enough for brands to communicate, people have to communicate with each other about your brand.

All of our current work is focused on communities, understanding the connective tissues that joins people together, and how to involve brands in their conversations – and in particular we focus on cults as an extreme version of communities – ones with the most to teach luxury brands. That’s the real future of social media

 

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Tracey says...

One of the reasons I've been too busy to post on my own blog recently is that I've been to busy contributing to everyone elses. This piece was written for a series of "Shout outs for social enterprise" and is well worth looking out .

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robdyson says...

So Whizz-Kidz shared a new events fundraising poster to our online communities to poll opinion - with mixed results. A cautionary tale? What do you think? Hit or miss?

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sophie says...

The third edition of Nokia’s The Way We Live Next conference took place yesterday in Espoo, Finland.

Nokia’s blog, Nokia Conversations, reports on a few of the keynote presentations:

Nokia’s vision of the future
by Heikki Norta, Nokia’s Head of Corporate Strategy
Smart ecosystems sits at the centre of our mobile life five years from now. That’s what Nokia’s head of corporate strategy Heikki Norta outlined this morning when he talked about what life will be like in 2015. During a short video, we saw how a combination of devices and services worked together to de-clutter life. This comes from a background that’s seeing the relationship between consumers and brands evolve from a monologue right now through a conversation and into a continuos relationship. The idea is simply to help users manage their lives better and enable them to create, share and get the most out of life.
- Read more
- Download presentation

The opportunities for the future
by Oskar Korkman, Nokia’s Head of Opportunity Identification in Consumer & Customer Insights
Trend research plays a key role in understanding what’s going to happen in the future. Creating an understanding of how people’s needs are changing and evolving helps create a clearer idea of where the opportunity for next generation products and services. Oskar Korkman is head of opportunity identification in consumer insights at Nokia and today he shared some of his thoughts for how we’re going to evolve. For Oskar, it’s all about relationships, with everything from strangers to plants firmly in his sights.
- Read more

Some other presentation downloads:
- Multiplying our efforts by Henry Tirri, SVP, Head of Nokia Research Center
- Communities creating Computers – Computers connecting Communities by Peter Schneider, Head of Technology Marketing, Maemo Devices, Nokia
- Communities of the Future by Purnima Kochikar, VP, Head of Forum Nokia & Developer Community
- Go mobile with cash by Teppo Paavola, VP, General Manager of Mobile Financial Services, Nokia

See also this

article in Wired UK.




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dragswolf says...

Obama: Tribal Nations Conference Just a Start

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fulfilling a campaign pledge, President Obama welcomed nearly 400 tribal leaders to his White House Tribal Nations Conference on Thursday and assured them that his support of Native issues is genuine and his historic summit is no mere "lip service" to Indian Country.

 

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Terr says...

In a recent debate, David Hunter’s article on the nonprofit sector has taken heat for its assertion that “While nonprofits work incredibly hard, with passion and dedication, and often in incredibly difficult circumstances to solve society’s most intractable problems, there is virtually no credible evidence that most nonprofit organizations actually produce any social value.”

We agree with the claim for the sectors we’ve examined, which we believe are similar to the sectors Mr. Hunter has examined: particularly thorny areas such as charities working to improve education and international charities addressing extreme poverty overseas. These are problems on which experts have struggled for decades to make any progress, and while we don’t necessarily agree that most charities are failing to produce value, we agree that most charities cannot produce any credible evidence that they are. This is different from the claim that Sean Stannard-Stockton attributes to Mr. Hunter (”most nonprofits and the social sector as a whole is not currently producing social value”), but it still means that it’s very hard for a donor to give with confidence.

The information we have

Our belief is based on two years of looking for this evidence; we’ve published the full details of our findings online, and you can see our summary of international charities (only 19 out of 320 examined publish any impact-related evaluation reports) and U.S. equality of opportunity charities (only 6 of 83 examined provide credible impact-related reports, and 2 of these show negative or no impact).

In addition, in a guest post on the GiveWell Blog, David Anderson of the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy estimates that 75% of rigorous evaluations show weak effects, no effects, or negative effects.

 

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