Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford Law Professor who created Creative Commons, talks about the terror of control of creativity. In his opinion, it’s a battle between read-write culture (meaning consumers could also create) vs. read only culture (meaning consumers could only consume while those who OWN culture could be the only creators). Not only is this [...]
I’m working on creating training content for online delivery, but I need a system that will deliver the content created for me. I would like your help by having you do one of the following: email the attached form to people who would be interested in creating the sytem or might know someone who could [...]
Today I felt as if I was driving down a road, filled with citizen police officers who are driving in the far left lane, trying to keep me from speeding. At the end of my day, I’ve learned some things: that water damage unseen is usually of the flood plane type, but once seen is [...]
The metaphor for BufWiki is a snowball pushed from a mountain. See I made a teeny tiny snowball at the top, pushed, and clasped my hands over my mouth as I watched what happened. Here are some stories from watching the chaos. In Toronto, they have a cool wiki about their city and the guy [...]
So, there I was, at a conference, when I says to Kari Dunn Saratovsky, “Hey, wanna be my friend on Facebook cuz you are pretty smart and cool.” She eyes me warily, but does the professional thing and friends me. So, laters I’m browsing Facebook when I see she posted about TweetsGiving. I’m shocked, stunned, [...]
I believe this is a great image of a consequence of the social web. It’s a picture of a prison that was created based on the ideas of a Panopticon: Wikipedia: The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design [...]
I FINALLY decided to join Wikipedia because of two books I’ve read: Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies and Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. They talk about ways that individuals can affect organizations and how organizations can participate in collaborative, social media. I follow the author of the [...]
So I felt it was time to stop talking about creating communities and create one. When I lived in Rochester (way back in June), I really appreciated RocWiki. It provided an insiders look at places that I hadn’t even know and gave historical context to what I did know about the place I’ve lived for [...]
Yes, Facebook, Twitter and other social media can get you a job. IF and only if, you use it properly. Here’s how it worked for me. by alex.ragone I have a lot of faith in people’s desire to help others; so, I posted my resume, changed my status, and added a box about my desire [...]
I believe that any job has a community: a community of investors, users, participants, etc. I also think that Seth Godin knows about communities, about marketing, and customer service. Now he’s got a new book, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, and he has a great list to help us remember how to build [...]
Now we can finally understand them Web 2.0 thingys. Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.
So I’ve been Rest of Lifeing a lot lately – medical issues, blah blah blah. Anyway, I got this notecard and thought I’d share: 1. Organizing without organizations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgeYWY09LE8 Author Clay Shirky on his book “Here comes everybody: the power of organizing without organizations”: (video about 45 minutes; a short intro to the book is [...]
