Archive for the ‘Social Networks’ Category

Facebook dominates UK mobile usage

Saturday, February 6th, 2010 Facebook accounts for nearly half of all the time people in the UK spend going online using their phones. This is really quite extraordinary which I picked up from the BBC via a hat tip from Tim Harrap (thank you Tim). People ...

The story of txtEagle and the networked organisation

Sunday, January 31st, 2010 We posted about txtEagle recently here Nathan Eagle, explains his extraordinary story, and, the extraordinary story of how our world is being transformed by mobile communications. Nathan's personal fascination is the African continent he talks about how Mpesa and SMS ...

The future of work=TxtEagle

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 By the end of the month, a company called txteagle will be the largest employer in Kenya. The firm, started in its original form in 2008 by a young computer engineer named Nathan Eagle and, as of this coming June, ...

Its not online or offline, it’s blended reality

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 We acknowledge that digital communication tools, fixed broadband, mobile, convergence, open source, cheap production tools have changed our world. And we have shown that we are reluctantly accepting that by using the word digital ever more frequently. Digital natives vs. digital ...

Journalism looks like this in the networked society

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 Fascinating piece on the reinvention of journalism. A blended reality approach is absolutely necessary Of course, developing an active social media presence through Twitter and a Facebook Fan Page is critical to developing a readership. But for hyper-local journalists, face-to-face community ...

Facebook manners

Thursday, December 10th, 2009 'Nuff said

Transparency and the web a rolling debate

Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Lawrence Lessig raises what will be a increasingly intense debate, and the perils of openness in government If health care reform ever emerges from Congress, it is certain to spread nationally a project to require doctors to reveal to an Internet-linked ...

Networked organisations: the starfish revolution

Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Samples from Smartmobs and orginated by Michael Leeden Several thoughtful people have commented on an unusual element in the Iranian revolutionary movement, aka “The Green Path of Hope.”  Although there is a troika (Mousavi, Karroubi and Khatami) that inspires many of ...

Lessons for brands and media of the 21st Century

Friday, November 6th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4654" align="aligncenter" width="454" caption="FantaLife Beach"][/caption] Getting out of the ad spot into the fabric of peoples lives, requires some rethinking on communication, and the panacea is not "social media". Henry Jenkins in his 8 part investigation into what he and ...

Communication power, who has it?

Thursday, November 5th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4642" align="aligncenter" width="379" caption="Paris riots"][/caption] Well we did say Communities Dominate Brands! In an interview with Henry Jenkins he of Participatory Culture and Convergence Culture and even Transmedia storytelling fame, Maxime Cervulle for Poli, a French magazine of media ...