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Now, Twitter is no Ferrari, but early – and pervasive – geek culture stereotypes tend to perpetuate this narrative of the hard-on for the thing in itself rather than what it affords. And those of us who don’t self-identify as geeks – I’m one, for all my immersion in the digitally networked sphere – are trained to recognize this narrative as Other and thus reject it. - Sahana Chattopadhyay

You cannot undo thousands of years of planned cognitive damage by being nice for 30 years...Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. - Sahana Chattopadhyay

In order to create a real community you have to first bind people together by a shared interest, then you have to bond them together through interaction and then you have to build/engage them into joint action. This philosophy of binding-bonding-building is a basic principle for all that we are doing. - Sahana Chattopadhyay

In order to create a real community you have to first bind people together by a shared interest, then you have to bond them together through interaction and then you have to build/engage them into joint action. This philosophy of binding-bonding-building is a basic principle for all that we are doing. - Sahana Chattopadhyay

As content becomes more fragmented, you could try and compete with that by doing more and more, by curating other people’s content, by then running your content through Twylah, by having that “twitter magazine” come out which puts all your tweets and links in one place so that people can catch it if they missed each particular one. Or you could do the opposite. You could go deep. You could be that voice that everyone listens to because when it speaks, it is so deep and rich that it’s worth slowing down to listen to. Or, perhaps more importantly, you could chose to follow others who you think have gone deep. As I said yesterday: Choosing who to follow is the single most important act in a connected world. - Sahana Chattopadhyay

As content becomes more fragmented, you could try and compete with that by doing more and more, by curating other people’s content, by then running your content through Twylah, by having that “twitter magazine” come out which puts all your tweets and links in one place so that people can catch it if they missed each particular one. Or you could do the opposite. You could go deep. You could be that voice that everyone listens to because when it speaks, it is so deep and rich that it’s worth slowing down to listen to. Or, perhaps more importantly, you could chose to follow others who you think have gone deep. As I said yesterday: Choosing who to follow is the single most important act in a connected world. - Sahana Chattopadhyay

Communicating information and designing training are two different things Mobile devices are perhaps better suited for the former. However, both provide performance support and used judiciously, can help create a rich learning experience. - Sahana Chattopadhyay

Trust-builders open personal profiles (self-declaration) shared conversation, activity stream, searchable (enabling independent verification) recommendations, awards, certifications (independent third-party opinion) co-action, collaboration (co-creating work products) success , and sharing it (experiencing demand for work products, or admiration) - Sahana Chattopadhyay

Siemens recommends that a practical discussion of knowledge can be held if it is seen as “something that a) describes some aspect of the world, and b) something on which we can act” (2006b, p. 150). - Sahana Chattopadhyay

Infotention is a word I came up with to describe the psycho-social-techno skill/tools we all need to find our way online today, a mind-machine combination of brain-powered attention skills with computer-powered information filters. ~ Howard Rheingold - Sahana Chattopadhyay

"Curation comes up when search stops working…[and] when people realize that it isn't just about information seeking, it's also about synchronizing a community." - Sahana Chattopadhyay

The value of real-time content can be short-term, but high-yield. When a window of opportunity presents itself — say, due to a breaking news item or a special event —relevant content has tremendous potential to be viewed (and appreciated) by a large audience. Once that window closes, however, the content’s value and potential drops sharply. It’s a tricky proposition that requires being in the right place at the right time, ready to turn around and execute on short notice. - Sahana Chattopadhyay

The important nuance lies in layering the technology with a highly personalized interface that is easy, comfortable and even familiar for everyone who uses it, from a CEO to the entry-level employee. - Sahana Chattopadhyay

As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, "information overload" is something we all seem to suffer. It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the "stuff" out there and pluck out the best, mo?log=out - Sahana Chattopadhyay

We’re returning to a time when self initiative, the ability to collaborate with your peers, and a focus on bringing whatever skills and tools you can to bear on the problem in front of you, is more important than deep specialisation and formal communication and career structures. - Sahana Chattopadhyay

The first is a loss of leverage from the overall strength of the enterprise in terms of experience and knowledge. A successful move in one area won’t be recognized and rapidly implemented in other areas to multiply the benefits, or worse unsuccessful ideas will get repeated adding to the cost and time wasted. That’s where the need to really address the combination of social networking, collaboration, knowledge management and business information is required, and yes, it is a radical task, and yes, currently it is a battle between centralized traditional management and new younger business managers, but it’s key!” - Sahana Chattopadhyay

...social business has become a very broad topic indeed, covering a wide range of topics that ranges from social marketing and Social CRM to collaborative product development and Enterprise 2.0, with a good number of specialty niches in between them for good measure. This includes social HR and talent management to social business intelligence and social business applications, to list just some of them. It’s fair to say that in 2011, social pervaded a truly wide swath of territory in terms of business capabilities. - Sahana Chattopadhyay

The true value of enterprise social computing will come from bringing data, content, and people together in the context of business activities. Context is not just a general-purpose content management effort or a knowledge management effort. Online collaboration needs to be embedded in the flow of work to get you to the end goal more effectively, as opposed to yet another place for workers to remember to go to. - Sahana Chattopadhyay

…instead of describing how systems should behave, complexity science focuses the analysis on the interdependencies and interrelationships among their elements to describe how systems actually behave. - Sahana Chattopadhyay

We also should not forget that the shift to social business is far more than just a channel switch for the world population. Along with it comes a global behavior change in how the people engage with each other. - Sahana Chattopadhyay

Social platforms that started off as an explicit destination site (mimicking the model made popular in the consumer market) are now becoming an integration hub that enables a distributed social experience across devices, content, and applications as well as a centralized store of people’s social data. - Sahana Chattopadhyay

Conference proposals and papers from Pat Kua. - Sahana Chattopadhyay

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. ~ Buckminster Fuller - Sahana Chattopadhyay

Conclusion - Sahana Chattopadhyay

What does the L folks need to do... - Sahana Chattopadhyay

Why graphic facilitation works... - Sahana Chattopadhyay

Media: Brand pages, mobile, web, social applications, and private communities.  Search Visibility - Sahana Chattopadhyay

List of guides and websites for bird lovers... - Sahana Chattopadhyay

Emergence: The Connected lives of Ants, Brians, Cities and Software - Sahana Chattopadhyay

Companies that have stood the test of time are very good adapters. They listen to their market, watch it closely and match it move for move. They are also open to new ideas and willing to experiment. There are plenty of successful companies that don't have these traits, but they often come to unfortunately rapid "transition" (being acquired, going out of business, etc.). - Sahana Chattopadhyay