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Passing time online

jim wilde — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:48:34 +0000

What do you do online?

Who would have guessed that we, yeah, me and you, go online to pass time. Huh. I always thought I went online because of the business I was in - internet consulting - business development - web content management - social media.

"According to Ruder Finn, 100% of US Internet users surveyed in Q2 2009 went online to pass the time." Read the rest on emaketer, "Why People Go Online".

Man, that does not sound very productive.

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Community Development and Management

jim wilde — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:30:54 +0000

Community sites are simply not appropriate for some businesses.

If you are unable to attend this conference, check out our blog to learn more about social network software and community 2.0 for the enterprise. Here's a good blog post to start with, Community software and better tacit interactions.

Here's a podcast about community 2.0. Of course, most of the podcast is old news if you've been keeping up with our blog over the last three years.

From Community 2.0 Conference.

Learn how leading companies are building communities to improve their business.

Community 2.0 is the inaugural event for forward-thinking organizations that recognize the need of harnessing the network effect of community to make smarter, faster, and better business decisions.

This conference will offer an illuminating look at how community and social networks radically change the performance of companies in the areas of:

Marketing- Find out how companies are harnessing the power of community to create two-way dialogues with their customers that ultimately deepen relationships and improve their bottom line.
Product Innovation- Share ideas with industry thought leaders on how community interaction is shortening product development cycles and creating new product opportunities.
Customer Service- Learn how best practice companies are leveraging their customers to - self-service and respond faster and more intelligently to company questions.

What's your purpose for setting up a community driven system? Identity creation? Content creation? To learn? To collaborate? Knowing the answer determines how the system is configured, how it flows, and how well it succeeds.

Community Driven Sites Are Unpredictable.

How important is it to know what employees, customers, suppliers, stakeholders, et al., have to say? Do you really want all of these people connecting and sharing ideas, information, knowledge?

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"Information Anxiety" and Keeping Up

jim wilde — Mon, 08 May 2006 12:31:05 +0000

The myth of "keeping up" by Kathy Sierra from headrush.

Kathy offers her tips on keeping up with information anxiety.

"Find the best aggregators

Aggregators become increasingly more important. Finding the right person, business, web site, etc. who does the best job of filtering (attenuating) in a specific area adds time to your life.

Get summaries

Cut the redundancy!

Do you really need three news magazines?

Unsubscribe to as many things as possible

Recognize that gossip and celebrity entertainment are black holes

Pick the categories you want for a balanced perspective, and include some from OUTSIDE your main field of interest

Be a LOT more realistic about what you're likely to get to, and throw the rest out.

In any thing you need to learn, find a person who can tell you what is:

* Need to know
* Should know
* Nice to know
* Edge case, only if it applies to you specifically
* Useless

Too many product manuals, tech docs, books, etc. include everything without necessarily giving you the "weighting" for how imporant each thing is.

Finally, are WE part of the problem?"

With each passing day we're helping more people and orgainzations get better control over information using Ideascape (social network software).

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Einstein's Dreams, 14 MAY 1905

jim wilde — Mon, 09 May 2005 11:05:53 +0000

"There is a place where time stands still. Raindrops hang motionless in air. Pendulums of clocks float mid-swing. ...As a traveler approaches this place from any direction, he moves more and more slowly. His heartbeats grow farther apart, his breathing slackens, his temperature drops, his thoughts diminish, until he reaches dead center and stops. For this is the center of time. From this place, time travels outward in concentric circles-at rest at the center, slowly picking up speed at greater diameters. ...And those who return to the outer world . . . Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents... Children curse their parents for trying to hold them forever, curse time for their own wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. ...They move in a world they do not recognize. ...Soon they forget the centuries-long promises, which to them lasted only seconds. They become jealous even among strangers, say hateful things to each other, lose passion, drift apart, grow old and alone in a world they do not know..." From Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lughtman Who among us does not want to maintain the sweet spot? That perfect moment when everything clicks. We want it to last forever even though the rest of society moves forward in the outer circles at various speeds. At what point in time do we decide to move from the center of time to the outer circles? I have only two questions: What time is it? Where am I? As we move to the outer circles, the center of time has less influence, but time moves fast. Much like our society today, the The New Digital Divide Seth talks about was at the outer limits, but is now slowly drifting to the center while those in the center move to the outer circles. At some point the groups will merge to form new relationships and new organizations. The patterns change and repeat themselves, but they are never the same. *Graphic from The Future of Work, Thomas W. Malone

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Einstein's Dreams, 14 APRIL 1905.

jim wilde — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 01:31:46 +0000

What about time...

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly. For the most part, people do not know they will live their lives over. Traders do not know that they will make the same bargain again and again. Politicians do not know that they will shout from the same lectern an infinite number of times in the cycles of time.

Some few people in every town, in their dreams, are vaguely aware that all has occurred in the past. These are the people with unhappy lives, and they sense that their misjudgments and wrong deeds and bad luck have all taken place in the previous loop of time.

In the dead of night these cursed citizens wrestle with their bedsheets, unable to rest, stricken with the knowledge that they cannot change a single action, a single gesture. Their mistakes will be repeated precisely in this life as in the life before. And it is these double unfortunates who give the only sign that time is a circle. For in each town, late at night, the vacant streets and balconies fill up with their moans." From "Einstein's Dreams" a novel by Alan Lightman.

Time does not repeat itself, but what about history?

"This time, it's different" says Seth Godin. "History goes in cycles, over and over, to the point where it's sort of boring. One of the cycles is the way governments and long-lived organizations unite to fight change. I'm in the middle of Seize the Daylight : The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time."

..."Just something to think about the next time an emergency takes over our culture... something that threatens the status quo that must be vanquished before it ends in disaster."

I sometimes think in terms of scarcity instead of abundance. I become filled with fear over losing what I have or not getting what I want - do you? I need to lighten up. I need to take time to practice, time to experiment - time to learn.

I was reading a post, "Throw More Pots" on Crossroads Dispatches by Evelyn Rodriguez about doing things over and over to create something new. I am not the best learner and usually repeat my mistakes without learning much because of my biases; this idea of scarcity gets in the way of learning, which in turn limits creativity and the idea of abundance. How do we overcome our fears, our biases, so we can grow and learn? I've read a lot on that subject too; but that is for another post.

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