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HAROLD JARCHE MAY 16, 2012  A new view on lurkers Jacob Nielsen’s 2006 post on Participation Inequality provides a good overview of this phenomenon. Often, they simply lurk in the background. | DOC SEARLS MAY 16, 2012  Won and done Okay, my foursquare experiment is over. So now I’m done playing the leaderboard game. Hey, there’s a little hamster in all of us. | IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER MAY 16, 2012 Complex Sociotechnical Systems: the Case for a New Field of Study Digital technologies are enabling us to develop systems with huge numbers of interconnected components and sophisticated software that infuses them with seemingly unlimited capabilities. They are penetrating just about every nook and cranny of the economy and of society in general. We are not just passive observers. Let me discuss a few. . | DAVID WEINBERGER MAY 16, 2012 [2b2k] Peter Galison on The Collective Author Harvard professor Peter Galison (he’s actually one of only 24 University Professors, a special honor) is opening a conference on author attribution in the digital age. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. | | | | | | | |
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DAN PINK | WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012  3 more emotionally intelligent ways to keep streets safe
As always, the mailbag of emotionally intelligent signage is brimming with examples sent by readers around the world. And as always, the most prevalent target of this new approach to sign and symbol is dangerous driving. Speed driving is a sign of stupidity.” HT: Jeremy Epstein , R. Ganesh , and Chris Nute ). Emotionally intelligent signage MORE >> -
DION HINCHCLIFFE | WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012 Social business in Australia
Social business adoption is growing around the world as organizations continue to apply social media to the way they work. I’ve spent the week in Australia learning about the challenges and opportunities of applying social strategically to businesses here MORE >> -
NINE SHIFT | WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012  New Non-Political Progressive Organization Created
Here in River Falls, Wisc., my brilliant co-author Julie Coates has started a new grassroots organization, progressive but not partisan politically. Check out their web site. Below, poster party for the rally for women's rights MORE >> -
TED | WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012  TEDxMogadishu report: A rebirth of hope
From the TEDx Tumblr, this inspiring story: TEDxMogadishu — the first TEDx event in Somalia — will happen tomorrow, May 17, and livestreamed around the world. Between 50 and 100 people from diverse backgrounds will attend the event to listen to Somalis discuss the rebirth of Mogadishu. Who are the locals you’re working with? MORE >> -
BETH KANTER | WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012  Akilah Institute for Women: Social Media Workshop
Akilah workshop. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. After the ACE leadership training, I had the opportunity to spend a day in Kigali. I volunteered to do a Social Media and Professional Networking workshop for second year students at the Akilah Institute for Women. The organization was founded by Elizabeth Dearborn Davis and Dave Hughes. MORE >>
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