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How Micro-Blogging Came To Be. This was the beginning of a new term; micro-blogging. PC Magazine defines micro-blogging as follows: A blog that contains brief entries about the activities of an individual or company. MORE
The crux of that argument is whether you believe micro-blogging is an active behavior or whether you treat it as passive oversight. Micro-blogging — to truly become effective whether personally or organizationally — ought to become both a personal and an organizational habit. MORE
Blogging Broadcasting infrastructure Journalism News Places weather 11:31pm — Nobody is saying it, but so far the #BlizzardOf2015 in #NYC is a dud. I mean, yeah there’s snow. But it’s not a real blizzard yet. At least not here, and not in Boston, where it’s supposed to be far worse. “A little bit more than a dusting” says the CNN reporter on the street in Boston, sweeping a thin layer of snow off some pavement. MORE
By David Gurteen I am experimenting with a potential Virtual Knowledge Cafe platform - Zoom Meetings. The experiment is confined to my local time zone right now but if all goes well I will open it up globally. Download Zoom and connect with me if you wish to play with it.). If you don't want to read too much - just watch these two videos and you will see why I think it will make a viable platform for Virtual Knowledge Cafes. Ignore the content - just see the format :-). Large Group Conversation. MORE
By David Gurteen I am often asked how to turn conversation into action. It's a crazy question as conversation is action. Let me justify that. It is evident that conversation does not change the physical world. Conversation, however, changes the wiring of our brains. It transforms our minds. It changes what we think about, and it shapes how we think. Conversation creates the conditions, in which actions and changes we would like to see in the world become possible. MORE
” Denise and I, as parents of the three goats (now aged, 10, 7 and 6) happily encourage them to publicly blog at their own domains: www.clairepontefract.com. Blogging inspires creativity. We’re proud they love writing on their blogs. MORE
For a blog that’s not bad — and I’m beginning to think that, in a way, a blog is what Flickr is for me. Journalism is a form of documentation, and what I provide the world through my photo blog is fodder for that. Hardly a week goes by that a shot of mine doesn’t find its way from Flickr or Wikimedia Commons into a newspaper, a magazine or a blog post somewhere. Here’s one that ran in the NYTimes Bits blog on the 19th. MORE
By David Gurteen This last week or so I have read two disturbing articles. Obama's secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin's election assault. How An Entire Nation Became Russia's Test Lab For Cyberwar. What concerns me is not the politics, but the increasing ability for anyone to conduct cyberwarfare. It could be a nation-state, a terrorist organization, or a 13 year old from their bedroom. MORE
By David Gurteen. Here are some of the major KM events taking place around the world in the coming months and ones in which I am actively involved. MORE
By David Gurteen Nancy Dixon , John Hovell and I are running a 3-day residential workshop on Conversational Leadership in the UK this autumn. You will find full details here. We have an amazing venue - the Elevetham - a Victorian Gothic Mansion set in an estate of 4,000 acres in the Hampshire countryside and a history dating back to the 11th century. We are also very excited about the content as John, Nancy and I bring diverse perspectives and skills to the 3-days. MORE
By David Gurteen I was talking with a client the other day who was helping to plan an internal conference for employees from all over the world, many of whom would not know each other, and we were brainstorming how she might get them to connect and talk with each other more. I suggested stammtisch tables at the conference but that was not viable but then the idea came to mind of "stammtisch seats" on the coaches that were going to ferry them from their hotels to dinner in the evenings. MORE
By David Gurteen These two short videos get to the heart of Conversational Leadership. Leadership is a practice not a position of authority by Ronald Heifetz. What is the work of leadership? by Patricia Shaw. In summary using Ron's and Patricia's words: What is leadership? : "If we understand leadership as a practice, as an activity, then it becomes available to anybody, high or low, any place or position.". What is the work of leadership?: MORE
Earlier on this month, my good friend, Euan Semple wrote a short blog post on the topic of how tough it is to put together that initial first blog entry, if you are new to blogging, and even more so if you are an executive. MORE
Since the form of a WordPress blog (which this is) favors writing long pieces over short ones, that’s mostly what I’ve written here, since I started in August 2007. blog is writing pieces of any length, and posting them easily from a WYSIWYG editor, I’ve been blogging there instead of here. The Best Way to Blog. It’s even easier than it was on my original blog , where I posted from 1999 to 2007. BloggingFunction follows form. MORE
No, I have not stopped blogging, though my lack of recent posts may have given that impression. Following this break and with my upcoming travel I am sure I will have many new ideas to discuss here on this blog. MORE
<Note: I call this a ‘popcorn’ post> If you’re on the ole Twitter , or even better, if your organization has implemented a micro-blogging application of some sort, you get it. That is, you probably have a semi-coherent idea of what micro-blogging actually is. MORE
Well, writing equals thinking. I can't remember who it was that said "I don't know what I think until I start writing " but certainly for me it has always rung true. I've not been writing much for a while, and it feels like I've not been thinking. Sure, ideas flit through my head and I can ruminate endlessly as we all do, but by not writing I've not focussed my thinking. MORE
Following a number of requests from readers, I’ve updated my popular page on Workplace Learning Professionals on Twitter to include links to their blogs. Workplace Learning Professionals who blog and are on Twitter. BlogsTweet. MORE
At a recent Fellows Hour at the Berkman Center the topic was something like “Whatever happened to blogging?,” ” with the aim of thinking about how Berkman can take better advantage of blogging as a platform for public discussion. They asked me to begin with some reflections on what blogging once was, because I am old. I understand that I’m reporting on how blogging looked to someone in a highly privileged position. My blog was me. MORE
It’s hard to believe, even for myself, how the last time I wrote a blog post over here was a bit over two months ago. However, it doesn’t even feel totally awkward, as it used to be in the past, whenever I embarked on a longish blogging hiatus of sorts. MORE
In November of 2008, Andrew Sullivan published an excellent article in The Atlantic , - Why I Blog , - in which he discussed the unique characteristics of a blog by reminding us what a web log shares in common with its namesake, the ship log. “In Anyone who has blogged his thoughts for an extended time will recognize this world. We blog now - as news reaches us, as facts emerge. I have now been blogging since May of 2005. MORE
By David Gurteen There are only a handful of people whose blog posts I never wish to miss. You will find Nancy's main blog Conversation Matters here but she is also blogging on Linkedin now. Dave Snowden is one and Nancy Dixon is another. Nancy produces so much good practical material, for example, see her latest post 4 Great Ways to Conduct Peer Assists: Transferring Knowledge Effectively MORE
By David Gurteen We are becoming more connected with each other and less connected with each other at the same time. How do we turn this trend around? This is what John Hagel has to say about the paradox. We have the ability to connect with more and more people around the world, but our emotions are undermining our ability to make deeper and more fulfilling connections that can help all of us to achieve more of our potential. MORE
By David Gurteen Just a reminder about the Henley Forum 2020 Awards. The awards recognise those who are advancing organisational practice. The Henley Forum would like to hear from people who are working to develop dynamic capability though knowledge, learning, change and innovation work. For example, by: enabling knowledge to flow. fostering organisational learning. facilitating organisational change and development. cultivating innovation. and collaborating across boundaries. MORE
By David Gurteen Stan Garfield has put together a truly comprehensive list of Knowledge Management Communities MORE
By David Gurteen Thaler Pekar recently interviewed me about my work on Conversational Leadership. She summed it up like this: "What do good leaders do in terms of influencing the world or people around them? They do it fundamentally through conversation. Hence this term Conversational Leadership.". MORE
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By David Gurteen. My blook on Conversational Leadership continues to grow and take shape. MORE
Micro-blogging is starting to become a very effective way in which organizations can mitigate some of the aforementioned points. My main point is that micro-blogging will become a way in which we can flatten the organization. MORE
I have long thought that good blogging is somewhere between poetry and essays. The activity of blogging calls on the writer to develop a heightened awareness of their surroundings and to work out their reactions to those surroundings. This is why I still believe that blogging has enormous potential to help us sort our most significant challenges MORE
By David Gurteen Here are some of my more popular recent tweets. Take a look, if you are not a Tweeter, you will get a good idea of how I use it by browsing the list of micro-posts. Without conversation, work stops [link] #KM #KMers #KnowledgeManagement #ConversationalLeadership #KnowledgeCafe #ConversationalWisdom. Adaptive Leadership, What Is It Really? The adaptive leader is one who faces complex challenges for which there are no easy answers. MORE
By David Gurteen Calling all Oracy advocates in the UK, if you have any evidence as to the impact of oracy in your setting - written or video - please submit it to the Oracy APPG (Oracy All-Party Parliamentary Group). The deadline for written evidence is 9th August 2019. Numeracy: the ability to understand and work with numbers. Literacy: the ability to read and write. Oracy: the ability to express oneself in and understand spoken language. MORE
Friedman’s words came to mind as I was reflecting on the evolution of blogging since I posted my first blog in May of 2005. The advent of easy-to-use tools and platforms brought blogging to a much larger, non-technical population. MORE
You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: As I’ve said before , micro-blogging inside an organization could be coined the ‘ liquid knowledge network ‘ There is so much to like about it. micro-blogging. MORE
My friend Dave Tebbutt is wondering whether to give up his blog or not. Many of us over the years go through periods of questioning why we blog and if it is worth it. For me the biggest reason to blog is personal. If I don’t blog I don’t think as much, or at least not with as much focus. I don’t think it even matters where you blog these days. This is because just linking to my blog posts seemed unreasonable. MORE
It’s been a little while since the last time that I had a chance to write another post over here in this blog, so I guess it’s now time for another experiment then. No, I know what you may be thinking, but I am not going to stop blogging nor give up on writing for that matter. MORE
By David Gurteen. I ran another Zoom virtual Knowledge Café a few days ago. Yet again it went exceptionally well and I had some great feedback. MORE
At around the same time as this interest in Buddhism and meditation was beginning I was also getting into blogging. Although blogging had been going about a year when I started I was still part of a very small group of early bloggers working out what it was and what we could do with it. In order to blog you have to become more aware. You then publish these words on your blog which hopefully reaches into the minds of your readers in a very direct and immediate way. MORE
By David Gurteen Here are some of my more popular recent tweets. Take a look, if you are not a Tweeter, you will get a good idea of how I use it by browsing the list of micro-posts. The 20th World Knowledge Forum in Seoul in September this year has an interesting theme: Knowledge Revolution 5.0: Perspicacity Towards Prosperity for All. wkforum [link]. Sustainability is not enough: we need regenerative cultures by @DrDCWahl [link]. MORE
One reason is that I’ve been traveling almost constantly, and not always in the best position to blog (or even tweet). I’ll get back to more regular blogging here, while still liveblogging, after I get back in the States from Australia, where I am now. Blogging LinksPerhaps you’ve noticed that I’ve been quiet here for a bit. Another is that I’ve been liveblogging instead. MORE
This has been one of the longest stretches of non-blogging for me since I stopped blogging every freaking day in around 2010. In part it’s because I’ve been traveling — to Mexico City for a library conference I blogged about, to Penn State for a talk at the new and really interesting Center for Humanities and Information , to Atlanta to talk at a Deloitte internal Knowledge Management get-together. (I’ve MORE
How Micro-Blogging Came To Be. This was the beginning of a new term; micro-blogging. PC Magazine defines micro-blogging as follows: A blog that contains brief entries about the activities of an individual or company. MORE
So it was fascinating to see this article he recently posted on his blog titled Feynman's Breakthrough about Richard Feynman - the well known American theoretical physicist. By David Gurteen My good friend David Pottinger and I both started our career's as physicists but I am sure he was a far better physicist than I ever was. I could never really handle the maths. MORE
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Blogging Related Topics Irving Wladawsky-Berger
MAY 26, 2015
Friedman’s words came to mind as I was reflecting on the evolution of blogging since I posted my first blog in May of 2005. The advent of easy-to-use tools and platforms brought blogging to a much larger, non-technical population.
Doc Searls
MAY 22, 2015
One reason is that I’ve been traveling almost constantly, and not always in the best position to blog (or even tweet). I’ll get back to more regular blogging here, while still liveblogging, after I get back in the States from Australia, where I am now. Blogging LinksPerhaps you’ve noticed that I’ve been quiet here for a bit. Another is that I’ve been liveblogging instead.
Euen Semple
OCTOBER 7, 2018
Well, writing equals thinking. I can't remember who it was that said "I don't know what I think until I start writing " but certainly for me it has always rung true. I've not been writing much for a while, and it feels like I've not been thinking. Sure, ideas flit through my head and I can ruminate endlessly as we all do, but by not writing I've not focussed my thinking.
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 22, 2017
No, I have not stopped blogging, though my lack of recent posts may have given that impression. Following this break and with my upcoming travel I am sure I will have many new ideas to discuss here on this blog.
David Weinberger
JANUARY 8, 2014
At a recent Fellows Hour at the Berkman Center the topic was something like “Whatever happened to blogging?,” ” with the aim of thinking about how Berkman can take better advantage of blogging as a platform for public discussion. They asked me to begin with some reflections on what blogging once was, because I am old. I understand that I’m reporting on how blogging looked to someone in a highly privileged position. My blog was me.
David Weinberger
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
This has been one of the longest stretches of non-blogging for me since I stopped blogging every freaking day in around 2010. In part it’s because I’ve been traveling — to Mexico City for a library conference I blogged about, to Penn State for a talk at the new and really interesting Center for Humanities and Information , to Atlanta to talk at a Deloitte internal Knowledge Management get-together. (I’ve
Nigel Paine
APRIL 17, 2018
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Dan Pontefract
APRIL 12, 2011
<Note: I call this a ‘popcorn’ post> If you’re on the ole Twitter , or even better, if your organization has implemented a micro-blogging application of some sort, you get it. That is, you probably have a semi-coherent idea of what micro-blogging actually is.
Dan Pontefract
MAY 7, 2013
” Denise and I, as parents of the three goats (now aged, 10, 7 and 6) happily encourage them to publicly blog at their own domains: www.clairepontefract.com. Blogging inspires creativity. We’re proud they love writing on their blogs.
David Gurteen
JULY 27, 2017
By David Gurteen. I ran another Zoom virtual Knowledge Café a few days ago. Yet again it went exceptionally well and I had some great feedback.
Luis Suarez
AUGUST 27, 2013
Earlier on this month, my good friend, Euan Semple wrote a short blog post on the topic of how tough it is to put together that initial first blog entry, if you are new to blogging, and even more so if you are an executive.
David Weinberger
JUNE 26, 2015
The post Too happy to blog appeared first on Joho the Blog That is all.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
MARCH 8, 2012
In November of 2008, Andrew Sullivan published an excellent article in The Atlantic , - Why I Blog , - in which he discussed the unique characteristics of a blog by reminding us what a web log shares in common with its namesake, the ship log. “In Anyone who has blogged his thoughts for an extended time will recognize this world. We blog now - as news reaches us, as facts emerge. I have now been blogging since May of 2005.
David Gurteen
JULY 29, 2017
By David Gurteen. My blook on Conversational Leadership continues to grow and take shape.
Euen Semple
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
My friend Dave Tebbutt is wondering whether to give up his blog or not. Many of us over the years go through periods of questioning why we blog and if it is worth it. For me the biggest reason to blog is personal. If I don’t blog I don’t think as much, or at least not with as much focus. I don’t think it even matters where you blog these days. This is because just linking to my blog posts seemed unreasonable.
David Gurteen
OCTOBER 26, 2017
So it was fascinating to see this article he recently posted on his blog titled Feynman's Breakthrough about Richard Feynman - the well known American theoretical physicist. By David Gurteen My good friend David Pottinger and I both started our career's as physicists but I am sure he was a far better physicist than I ever was. I could never really handle the maths.
David Gurteen
APRIL 26, 2018
By David Gurteen I am often asked how to turn conversation into action. It's a crazy question as conversation is action. Let me justify that. It is evident that conversation does not change the physical world. Conversation, however, changes the wiring of our brains. It transforms our minds. It changes what we think about, and it shapes how we think. Conversation creates the conditions, in which actions and changes we would like to see in the world become possible.
Doc Searls
AUGUST 1, 2016
Since the form of a WordPress blog (which this is) favors writing long pieces over short ones, that’s mostly what I’ve written here, since I started in August 2007. blog is writing pieces of any length, and posting them easily from a WYSIWYG editor, I’ve been blogging there instead of here. The Best Way to Blog. It’s even easier than it was on my original blog , where I posted from 1999 to 2007. BloggingFunction follows form.
Dan Pontefract
JUNE 4, 2012
How Micro-Blogging Came To Be. This was the beginning of a new term; micro-blogging. PC Magazine defines micro-blogging as follows: A blog that contains brief entries about the activities of an individual or company.
Luis Suarez
JUNE 27, 2013
It’s been a little while since the last time that I had a chance to write another post over here in this blog, so I guess it’s now time for another experiment then. No, I know what you may be thinking, but I am not going to stop blogging nor give up on writing for that matter.
Euen Semple
MAY 10, 2015
I have long thought that good blogging is somewhere between poetry and essays. The activity of blogging calls on the writer to develop a heightened awareness of their surroundings and to work out their reactions to those surroundings. This is why I still believe that blogging has enormous potential to help us sort our most significant challenges
Luis Suarez
AUGUST 18, 2014
It’s hard to believe, even for myself, how the last time I wrote a blog post over here was a bit over two months ago. However, it doesn’t even feel totally awkward, as it used to be in the past, whenever I embarked on a longish blogging hiatus of sorts.
Dan Pontefract
MARCH 5, 2012
The crux of that argument is whether you believe micro-blogging is an active behavior or whether you treat it as passive oversight. Micro-blogging — to truly become effective whether personally or organizationally — ought to become both a personal and an organizational habit.
David Gurteen
MARCH 29, 2019
By David Gurteen I was talking with a client the other day who was helping to plan an internal conference for employees from all over the world, many of whom would not know each other, and we were brainstorming how she might get them to connect and talk with each other more. I suggested stammtisch tables at the conference but that was not viable but then the idea came to mind of "stammtisch seats" on the coaches that were going to ferry them from their hotels to dinner in the evenings.
David Gurteen
MARCH 29, 2019
By David Gurteen Nancy Dixon , John Hovell and I are running a 3-day residential workshop on Conversational Leadership in the UK this autumn. You will find full details here. We have an amazing venue - the Elevetham - a Victorian Gothic Mansion set in an estate of 4,000 acres in the Hampshire countryside and a history dating back to the 11th century. We are also very excited about the content as John, Nancy and I bring diverse perspectives and skills to the 3-days.
Euen Semple
JUNE 5, 2015
At around the same time as this interest in Buddhism and meditation was beginning I was also getting into blogging. Although blogging had been going about a year when I started I was still part of a very small group of early bloggers working out what it was and what we could do with it. In order to blog you have to become more aware. You then publish these words on your blog which hopefully reaches into the minds of your readers in a very direct and immediate way.
Jane Hart
JUNE 3, 2011
Following a number of requests from readers, I’ve updated my popular page on Workplace Learning Professionals on Twitter to include links to their blogs. Workplace Learning Professionals who blog and are on Twitter. BlogsTweet.
Doc Searls
JANUARY 26, 2015
Blogging Broadcasting infrastructure Journalism News Places weather 11:31pm — Nobody is saying it, but so far the #BlizzardOf2015 in #NYC is a dud. I mean, yeah there’s snow. But it’s not a real blizzard yet. At least not here, and not in Boston, where it’s supposed to be far worse. “A little bit more than a dusting” says the CNN reporter on the street in Boston, sweeping a thin layer of snow off some pavement.
David Gurteen
JULY 22, 2019
By David Gurteen Here are some of my more popular recent tweets. Take a look, if you are not a Tweeter, you will get a good idea of how I use it by browsing the list of micro-posts. Without conversation, work stops [link] #KM #KMers #KnowledgeManagement #ConversationalLeadership #KnowledgeCafe #ConversationalWisdom. Adaptive Leadership, What Is It Really? The adaptive leader is one who faces complex challenges for which there are no easy answers.
David Gurteen
JULY 22, 2019
By David Gurteen These two short videos get to the heart of Conversational Leadership. Leadership is a practice not a position of authority by Ronald Heifetz. What is the work of leadership? by Patricia Shaw. In summary using Ron's and Patricia's words: What is leadership? : "If we understand leadership as a practice, as an activity, then it becomes available to anybody, high or low, any place or position.". What is the work of leadership?:
David Gurteen
JUNE 28, 2017
By David Gurteen This last week or so I have read two disturbing articles. Obama's secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin's election assault. How An Entire Nation Became Russia's Test Lab For Cyberwar. What concerns me is not the politics, but the increasing ability for anyone to conduct cyberwarfare. It could be a nation-state, a terrorist organization, or a 13 year old from their bedroom.
Dan Pontefract
JUNE 4, 2012
How Micro-Blogging Came To Be. This was the beginning of a new term; micro-blogging. PC Magazine defines micro-blogging as follows: A blog that contains brief entries about the activities of an individual or company.
Doc Searls
MARCH 22, 2014
For a blog that’s not bad — and I’m beginning to think that, in a way, a blog is what Flickr is for me. Journalism is a form of documentation, and what I provide the world through my photo blog is fodder for that. Hardly a week goes by that a shot of mine doesn’t find its way from Flickr or Wikimedia Commons into a newspaper, a magazine or a blog post somewhere. Here’s one that ran in the NYTimes Bits blog on the 19th.
David Gurteen
JUNE 26, 2019
By David Gurteen Here are some of my more popular recent tweets. Take a look, if you are not a Tweeter, you will get a good idea of how I use it by browsing the list of micro-posts. The 20th World Knowledge Forum in Seoul in September this year has an interesting theme: Knowledge Revolution 5.0: Perspicacity Towards Prosperity for All. wkforum [link]. Sustainability is not enough: we need regenerative cultures by @DrDCWahl [link].
David Gurteen
JUNE 26, 2019
By David Gurteen Just a reminder about the Henley Forum 2020 Awards. The awards recognise those who are advancing organisational practice. The Henley Forum would like to hear from people who are working to develop dynamic capability though knowledge, learning, change and innovation work. For example, by: enabling knowledge to flow. fostering organisational learning. facilitating organisational change and development. cultivating innovation. and collaborating across boundaries.
David Gurteen
JUNE 26, 2019
By David Gurteen Calling all Oracy advocates in the UK, if you have any evidence as to the impact of oracy in your setting - written or video - please submit it to the Oracy APPG (Oracy All-Party Parliamentary Group). The deadline for written evidence is 9th August 2019. Numeracy: the ability to understand and work with numbers. Literacy: the ability to read and write. Oracy: the ability to express oneself in and understand spoken language.
David Gurteen
JUNE 26, 2019
By David Gurteen We are becoming more connected with each other and less connected with each other at the same time. How do we turn this trend around? This is what John Hagel has to say about the paradox. We have the ability to connect with more and more people around the world, but our emotions are undermining our ability to make deeper and more fulfilling connections that can help all of us to achieve more of our potential.
David Gurteen
JULY 22, 2019
By David Gurteen Thaler Pekar recently interviewed me about my work on Conversational Leadership. She summed it up like this: "What do good leaders do in terms of influencing the world or people around them? They do it fundamentally through conversation. Hence this term Conversational Leadership.".
David Gurteen
JANUARY 27, 2017
By David Gurteen I am experimenting with a potential Virtual Knowledge Cafe platform - Zoom Meetings. The experiment is confined to my local time zone right now but if all goes well I will open it up globally. Download Zoom and connect with me if you wish to play with it.). If you don't want to read too much - just watch these two videos and you will see why I think it will make a viable platform for Virtual Knowledge Cafes. Ignore the content - just see the format :-). Large Group Conversation.
David Gurteen
JANUARY 29, 2018
By David Gurteen Stan Garfield has put together a truly comprehensive list of Knowledge Management Communities
David Gurteen
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
By David Gurteen. Here are some of the major KM events taking place around the world in the coming months and ones in which I am actively involved.
David Gurteen
DECEMBER 28, 2016
By David Gurteen There are only a handful of people whose blog posts I never wish to miss. You will find Nancy's main blog Conversation Matters here but she is also blogging on Linkedin now. Dave Snowden is one and Nancy Dixon is another. Nancy produces so much good practical material, for example, see her latest post 4 Great Ways to Conduct Peer Assists: Transferring Knowledge Effectively
Dan Pontefract
FEBRUARY 6, 2010
Micro-blogging is starting to become a very effective way in which organizations can mitigate some of the aforementioned points. My main point is that micro-blogging will become a way in which we can flatten the organization.
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