Posts tagged tidbits
Tidbits – Social tools
Feb 23rd
With the rise of social tools, we’ve been publicly reclaiming ourselves – publishing blogs, joining social networks, and connecting and sharing information with each other on a global scale. As a result, a shift in values is underway, where privacy, gatekeeping, and the preference for information silos is being replaced with new expectations of publicy, openness and transparency. We’re still exploring the implications of this transition both for our personal identities and for the role of the business organization, but there’s the potential to redesign the system in a way that’s fair, participatory, and human.
But how?
A part of it is in understanding the composition of our social networks, and the skills, strengths, and relationships that are embedded within them. At the organizational level, knowledge is often separated by department, and at a larger scale it’s separated by the notions of producer verse consumer. These barriers no longer make sense. In order to take advantage of hidden insights and innovative ideas, there needs to be a way to understand who’s who and how to get the information flowing through the proper channels.
A tool that would map the connections within a network combined with a ‘human capital’ assessment could aid in this process.
Venessa Miemis, Tapping the network to facilitate innovation
Tidbits – Reader’s entitlement
Feb 17th
Seriously, is it ever a good idea to disparage your customers? To treat them like they are annoyances? To suggest that they simply don’t understand how things work, when, really, why should they? Especially when, in at least one instance, the publishers were the ones who changed (or attempted to change) the rules?
So, as a person who happily pays for books, this is what I feel entitled to: the book in the format I prefer at the time my awareness in said book is sufficient that I go to make the purchase at the price I deem reasonable based on my extensive experience as a book consumer.
The truth is, I don’t care about ebook windowing (except that it’s, as far as I know, a relatively new idea, and to take readers to task for expecting simultaneous releases is a bit much, no?). I don’t care about ebook pricing games. I don’t even care how long it took the author to write the book, the amount of research that went into it, and that it was handwritten in blue ink on yellow paper. None of these things are indicators of whether or not I’m going to have an awesome reading experience.
Kassia Krozser, My sense of entitlement (in fact, it should be quoted in its entirety)
Tidbits – Writers and readers
Feb 16th
I’m really excited to start seeing people take a glass-half-full approach to what’s going on. I’m looking forward to people saying the risk of not changing is now greater than the risk of changing. I recognize the very large companies are not going to be able to blow themselves up and start over again, but I would like to see the smaller companies really grab the bull by the horns and start to reinvent themselves. It’s obviously hard for a 1,000-person organization to reinvent itself, but a five-person organization should be able to reinvent itself, because ultimately you don’t have to change that much.
It’s still about the writers and readers. And if you remember it’s about the writers and readers, then the changes you have to do, as the people in between, aren’t nearly as great as it sometimes looks.
Richard Nash, What does publishing 2.0 looks like? Richard Nash knows
Tidbits – Changing paradigms
Feb 11th
There are better ways than advertising for demand and supply to find each other (including search, which is free), and more will be found. Google will be in the middle of that discovery process, no doubt. But it’s an open question whether Google will make the same kind of money in a post-advertising marketplace. I’m betting they won’t.
EOF – The Google Exposure, Doc Searls
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