Video flagging the new paperback book of “Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet”. Co-authors Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams present groundbreaking innovations from around the world and how businesses, organisations and individuals are using social media and mass collaboration to revolutionise the way we work, live, learn, create and care for each other.
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The arguments around social media and business value have rumbled on for long enough. There are those businesses that have embraced it and those that still hold out, chanting the ROI mantra and saying while it’s all very pretty, it’s not for them.
Let’s ignore those that don’t get it. Either they are so incredibly successful with their high-value niche services that they feel supremely smug and comfortable in their complacency (they’d better watch out!), or they just don’t get it.
For others who have been racing to adopt and experiment, many are still in the discovery phase and the activities are not seen as being core to the business.
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Lovely little toy being pushed out there by TweepsMap. Now you can map where you twitter followers are in the world by country or city. The results are shown on a map or broken down as a list or pie chart
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Tweet Pierre Omidyar, Image via CrunchBase Billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar has announced that he’s abandoning Ginx, his Twitter client project, in favour of developing a new online local news service in Hawaii where he lives. Peer News, founded by Omidyar and fellow eBay stalwart Randy Ching in 2008, has advertised via Twitter for an [...]
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Tweet Paywallman flies to newspaper rescue And the drum keeps playing. It’s almost as if Rupert Murdoch believes that if the News Corp digital tribe keeps chanting the mantra that Google will be blocked from indexing their sites, the future of publishing and the wealth of publishers will be preserved. On Friday, the Telegraph reported [...]
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Tweet Twitter how fat you are Sometimes there is just too much information. I’m not talking about too much information and the challenge to filter, sift and consume, but about too much information, ie that information that we really do not need (or want) to know. French company Withings, not satisfied with a WiFi-enabled bathroom [...]
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Tweet Professional networking site LinkedIn and micro-blogging service Twitter have joined forces to enable cross posting of LinkedIn status updates or Tweets to ensure they reach the widest possible audience. The service is not yet available to all LinkedIn users (myself included) but is promised to be rolled out over the next few days. Twitter [...]
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Tweet Want to know what people are saying on Twitter around the world, or even in your local town? Trendsmap offers a really simple and intuitive (yet effective) interface where trending topics are overlaid across Google maps to give you the ability to zoom in and track tweets as they happen. Brilliant. Love it. Trendsmap [...]
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Tweet Reports that a number of top Hollywoord stars, including Shrek voice stars Cameron Diaz and Mike Myers, have been banned from Twitter and other social media sites can only provoke derision. It appears executives at Disney and DreamWorks — where Diaz and Myers are lined up for next year’s Shrek squel — are paranoid [...]
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Tweet US space agency NASA is inviting 100 of its top @nasa followers on Twitter to a two-day Tweetup at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that will culminate in front row seats for the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on 12 November. While this is NASA’s fifth hosted Tweetup, it is the first that [...]
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