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Engaged, Connected and Grateful...
- providing a platform for connecting
- abilities to establish meaningful, relevant relationships
- establishing conversations directly with brands and businesses, whether they like it not
- reshaping traditional media
In addition to the above, I am also grateful to Engaged Media for*:
- granting people and communities the opportunity to become content creators in their own right (although quality assessment and regulation is another issue all together) and being able to create a voice that has the potential to be heard, e.g. blogs, mash-ups, video and audio, and ebooks
- providing networks and a means to share content over bounders, boundaries and through brick-walls, and breaking down any barriers to communication that previously existed in hindering these attempts to send these message out, e.g. blogs (such as Wordpress, Typepad, LiveJournal and Blogger), social networking services (such as LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, FriendFeed), video sharing (such as YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Hulu, and Ustream), photo sharing (such as Flickr, Picasa, Panoramio, Snapfish, and Shutterfly), location-based and geo-social networking services (such as Brightkite, Foursquare, Google Maps), microblogging and life-streams (such as Twitter, Posterous, Tumblr, Plurk, Jaiku), and social bookmarking and search (such as Newsvine, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Technorati, Afrigator, Diigo, Digg, and Muti)
- reshaping how people, businesses and brands connect, communicate, interact, and collaborate together making our global community local, e.g. real-time communication and collaboration (such as wikis, Wikipedia, Skype and Google Wave), Enterprise 2.0 collaboration (such as Microsoft SharePoint, Socialtext, Oracle Beehive, and Lotus Connections), community-based reviews (such as Yelp and Top Ten Reviews), web-based community group and social network creation (such as Big Tent, Ning and Google Groups), virtual worlds (such as Second Life, Kaneva and Active Worlds), and MMORPGs (such as World of Warcraft, Perfect World and Evony)
There are so many other reasons that can be highlighted to why Engaged Media is such a great tool - not too mention the impact and enrichment it brings to our daily lives.
What would be some of your contributing reasons to be thankful for Engaged Media?
*Examples used are by no means exhaustive
14 Bus Reflections: Thankful for Twitter
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
This year one of my top thanks goes to Twitter. I am more connected to the world than I was last year, and I owe much of that to Twitter. If you know me on Twitter (@tweric), you may have seen my desperate tweets about watching a wretched PowerPoint presentation last night. It was good to vent in 140 character bursts. It helped. But where Twitter really helped was with that connectedness. A few people retweeted my presentation angst and offered kind words. I felt so much better, lighter, calm, and probably becuase of the thankful vibes in the air, I felt humble gratitude for the personal connections--with people I wouldn't know except for Twitter. Thank you for being there. I am glad you are alive and tweeting. Eric MatasBlogger-at-large, Blah Blah Bleric
Comeback of the Knowledge Worker? | Collaboration 2.0 | ZDNet.com
Peter Drucker, the brilliant management guru who defined the term ‘knowledge worker’, was clear these employees or partners couldn’t be controlled but must instead be motivated and given integrative collaboration environments to excel. Common goals, values and sense of purpose empower them to succeed on their own terms.
As an advocate of decentralization and against ‘command and control’ management, Drucker was clear knowledge workers would collaborate effectively as a community if driving to specified business objectives. While the new 2.0 technologies realize this and facilitate execution, strategic planning in many cases lags behind broadband application development and are not aligned with Drucker’s clarity of thought.
via blogs.zdnet.com
Very interesting take after the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Frankfurt. Interesting enough we were discussing it in a Lotus Marketing workshop a few days earlier. Lotus was with Lotus Notes the company with the tool most efficiently supporting Knowledge Workers. In the last years this focus and the awareness of Lotus as the (meanwhile IBM brand) delivering the environment for Knowledge Workers seems to got lost a bit. We do need to re-iterate this fact. Meanwhile we do have Lotus Notes "as the E-Mail client of the future" and much more to offer, e.g. with Lotus Connections as the integrated Social platform for the Enterprise 2.0.
Lotus knows we should stress and emphasize this message again - clear and loud.
(Personal opinion. No official IBM statement :-)
It's the newness from Tay Zonday
via youtube.com
Been a while since I've caught a new track from Tay, but he's back. And, seems his production budget has been upped since his days of Chocolate Rain. Guess that Cherry Dr Pepper deal didn't hurt too much.
Will be curious to see if the latest gains the same traction as his others. Or if the star has started to fade on Tay (which I hope it hasn't).
Moment of inspiration: Charter for Compassion
Once in a while something comes along that really moves you, not necessarily because it is entirely new but sometimes because it is a reminder of something very old- and something very true. The Charter for Compassion is one such piece of inspiration. The origins of the charter started last year during an impassioned acceptance speech for the TED Prize: "On February 28, 2008 Karen Armstrong won the TED Prize and made a wish: for help creating, launching and propagating a Charter for Compassion. Since that day, thousands of people have contributed to the process so that on November 12, 2009 the Charter was unveiled to the world."
The result of the collective efforts from some great thinkers and icons in our global culture is captured in this 2 minute video of the Charter:Newsweek Counts Down the Past 10 Years in 7 Minutes
via citizentube.com
Just caught this over on Citizentube (which incidentally is another great source I just started keeping regular tabs on). Nice cultural roundup of the last 9 years. Particularly like that they close the piece with an admission that they couldn't have covered everything they wanted to in such a condensed time, and instead they invite people to comment on what defining moments may have been missed. 100K+ views so far and almost 1,000 comments and counting suggests lots of opinions on what should've have made it in.
Good for what it is, and the picture it paints of the journey we've taken over the past few years, as well as hinting at where we are headed. Worth 7 minutes.
Promoting Skillsharing | Learn Skills, share tools, save money and make great new friends
emma, @zerocredit_uk mentioned this site to me on which of course i have advertised the http://conkertu.com event on the 28th. as a side to this i have also asked for help regarding my frontroom fireplace.
since living in the house in the last two years i have always had visions of me using the fireplace, currently it is blocked off at the bottom and i'm wondering if that is the case for it all the way to the top. I put a message out on justfortheloveofit about maybe someone that 'does' these kind of things in exchange for website/design/socialmedia work and it looks like i might have come across someone.
What is brilliant about this is this might be the first time i have done a proper skills/barter swap using technology. i have a feeling it will not be my last. exciting.
(Blog) Helping change lives with horse therapy...:...
If you could only see the light of hope shining from the eyes of adults who have not only never ridden a horse, but are so physically challenged that they never in their wildest dreams thought it possible in the first place! If you could only see the light of hope shining from the eyes of children who, for the first time, groom a therapy horse from a wheelchair and find a lifelong friend! If you could only see the light of hope shining from the eyes of young and old, dealing with addictions, learning how to handle and care for a therapy horse and, in the process, learning about themselves!
Best of breed versus Plattform - Social Messaging im Unternehmen. Panel auf der Enterprise 2.0 Conference. | Von Dirk Röhrborn
Hersteller von Plattformen, wie z.B. IBM argumentieren natürlich den Vorteil der eigenen Produkte, die eine solche Integration natürlich bereits anbieten. Die Toolanbieter heben auf der anderen Seite die bessere Nutzerakzeptanz von best-of-breed Tools hervor, die auf eine bestimmte Aufgabe fokussieren und die Freiheit der Anwender (und -firmen), das für Sie beste Tool auszuwählen.
Die alte Diskussion, die ich auch aus anderen Software-Zusammenhängen (ECM) kenne. Ich denke, eine integrierte Plattform mit allen relevanten Modulen hat im Unternehmen einfach Riesenvorteile, da Anwender an einer Stelle voll integriert alles finden. Ich persönlich merke das jeden Tag als Nutzer von externen Tools wie Twitter, Delicious, Posterous, Blogger, Facebook, Xing usw. auf der einen Seite und Lotus Connections mit Microblogging, Blogging, Wiki, File Sharing, Aktivitätenmanagement, Profilen, Lesezeichen intern auf der anderen Seite. In Connections logge ich mich einmal ein und finde alles. Bei den externen Tools muss - trotz aller Verdrahtung, die ich schon vorgenommen habe - mich doch immer wieder separat einloggen und mit anderer Oberfläche und Benutzerführung arbeiten.
Mein einziger Wermutstropfen ist, dass ich mehrere Lotus Connections-Instanzen "fahre":
- die IBM-interne
- extern EULUC (die Plattform der deutschen Lotus Anwendervereinigung)
- extern den BlueBlog auf ibm.com (das auch auf Connections läuft)
Daneben nutze ich noch LotusLive, aber das ist dann eher für die Arbeit und Koordination mit Non-IBM'ern in Projekten. A bisserl ein anderes Einsatzgebiet.
