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Monkeys, Rules and Insurgents
There was this forward that did the rounds about 8 years back, about how businesses are run. It involved 8 monkeys, bananas and a ladder. I’m going to repeat it here for the benefit of those not familiar with it. … Continue reading
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Tagged 8 Monkeys, incumbents, insurgents, organisational culture, social business
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Social + Scale = #fail ?
Remember the post on Social Media Explorer titled ‘Is Content Marketing the new Advertising?’ I had linked to earlier, while on the subject of content, media and distribution? To me, content marketing will indeed be a key player in a … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, marketing, networks, organisational culture, scale, social business
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Social Induction
‘Disparate’ perhaps wouldn’t describe it best, but definitely 3 different posts in terms of scope and point of focus, but which I thought were in their own way, circling one of this blog’s favourite topics – how organisations can fundamentally … Continue reading
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Tagged Holmes, interactions, Kenneth Boulding, organisational culture, people, purpose, social business, social software, tom fishburne, tools, umair haque, Wiki Wall
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A social culture?
Even as I write this, Titan is looming on the horizon – not Saturn’s moon, but Facebook’s purported mail service, which can (potentially) stake claim on another front that Google has made much advances in, though its still only #3. … Continue reading
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Tagged belong, Facebook, Facebook Titan, Gaping Void, Gautam Ghosh, Google, organisational culture, purpose, Robert Scoble, social business, tom fishburne
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The path to transparency
Google Me is already showing great results, even before its launch. Maybe its the fear of whatever-it-is-going-to-be that has made Facebook release a couple of tools a few days back. Facebook Live (via), a live video streaming facility, with features … Continue reading
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Tagged Facebook, Facebook Live, Facebook Notes, Justin.tv, organisational culture, organisations, social business, transparency, Ustream
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Wide Labels
I ended last week’s post with the view that removal of labels and building in the intent and components of these labels into an organisation’s processes might result in structure better than one obtained by a piecemeal approach. I’m still … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, organisational culture, organisations, platform organisation, social business, society
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Social Scalability
When I see brands and organisations take a piecemeal approach towards social media – either the token presence or the department focus-based approach, I sense that the need for a cultural shift is ignored by many. Cultural shifts are a difficult proposition … Continue reading
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Tagged cultural shift, disloyalty card, organisational culture, scale, social business, social scalability
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People, Organisations, Media
Shashi Tharoor. Sachin Tendulkar. The connection is not just the initials, but also VISA. Get it? So, anyway, Tharoor’s tweets (again) created a minor ‘controversy’ and I observed a few interesting tangential stories. Tharoor’s boss commented that such issues ” … Continue reading
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Tagged Media, organisational culture, organisations, Prem Panicker, shashi tharoor, SM Krishna, social business, TMZ, Vir Sanghvi, Visa
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Social Inside
There’s quite a funny video that has got almost 50,000 views by now on YouTube. It is titled ‘The Social Media Guru’, and in case you haven’t seen it by now, you should take a look, though you might want … Continue reading
Social Office
A couple of days back, I happened to read this report by Jakob Nielsen (via RWW) on social networking on intranets, that throws light on the enterprise use of 2.0 tools. From the RWW article Neilsen’s 168-page report includes case … Continue reading
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Tagged enterprise, Jakob Nielsen, organisational culture, organisations, social business
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