httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwbX4HUOdE8&feature=related I wanted to share with you this video of a speech by Nicolas Christakis from the Harvard Dept. of Sociology, on the shaping powers of social networks. He does a wonderful job of explaining stastically the forces and dynamics that drive social networks. In this case he uses the case of obesity to demonstrate […]
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Today Mark Zuckerberg travels to D.C. for a Congressional Briefing on privacy. While this will probably bring the privacy debate to a boil, I wanted to return to a Zuckerberg statement revealed last week that was largely overlooked in the emotion of privacy pushback. The statement was extracted from David Kirkpatrick’s upcoming book, The Facebook Effect by Michael Zimmer […]
Read MoreJeff Jarvis wrote a great post yesterday about Facebook, privacy and the theme of his upcoming book – publicness. I can’t wait to read it – seriously, Jeff, write fast – as it provides much-needed clarity around the web’s hottest issue: privacy. Critical to his post was the distinction between the ‘private’ public (that’s the one […]
Read MoreOne of the remarkable ideas at SXSW this year was the cause lab organized by wecanendthis.com This is a model for idea generation whether you’re a for-profit brand, a non-profit or a foundation. Here’s how it worked. A whole bunch of people who didn’t know each other got in a room and literally brain stormed […]
Read MoreThis week I had the great pleasure of speaking at the Gucci Group Conference in Miami. Not only were they the best dressed group of attendees I have ever seen – no surprises there – which was thoroughly intimidating – still no surprises – but their conference was a wonderful example of how a brand […]
Read Morehttpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDxwkjbdE0U I recently had the pleasure of chatting to Amra Tareen, CEO and founder of the world’s largest citizen journalism platform, allvoices.com She is deeply committed to making sure all people have a voice and to shine a spotlight on those areas that can help the lives of others the most. Amra commands 300,000 citizen […]
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