Selection of Media Influencer posts that keep coming back like bad curry. I am also hoping that creating this page will marginally reduce my frustration based on the feeling “I have said it all before” and maybe, just maybe, gets me write more again.

The web & the internet

• The social impact of the web
  A short talk delivered on the panel at RSA about the impact of the web on three levels, touching on democracy, authority, the individual, technology.
• Disintermediation of minds?
  About information overload, aggregation and filtering and how does that work in a network, which is what internet is
• Open as in…
  What open means on the internet.
• Who’s building the barricades
  The internet is a place where we can create viable alternatives without having to blow up the existing ways.
• On cock-eyed web optimists, chaos and other miscellanea
  Why the internet is not a wild-eyed visionary’s wet dream but an absolute necessity
• How to build strawmen
  My defence of Everything’s Miscellaneous against Nick Carr
• Three Laws of information, power of knowledge and peasant revolt
  Blogging and social web is like printing press. We’ve got the Bible printing out of the way, we are now printing everything, including junk. I am just waiting for Reformation & the Peasant Revolt.
• Two-tales of user-centricities
  User-centric is not what it’s cracked up to be. Give me user-driven any day.
• Content is for container cargo business
  Doc Searls against content, me against platforms and silos.
• Confusing Free with free
  Some basic things about Free/Open source software.
• Anniversary lessons from… the internet
  Commentary on the Economist special section on Empowered Consumer

Systems, organisations and processes

(part of Disruption Management)

• Autonomy is the only metrics
  Why people with ‘innovation’ or ‘change’ in their titles or job descriptions are the last one to innovate or change anything…
• Change typology
  My attempt at describing various types of people I have encountered within organisations in my disruptive capacity. Meant to be only half-funny…
• OFM or the “oh fuck it moment”
  The joyful journey of someone wanting to change a system from within.
• Musings on social media, enterprise, wine-making and terroir
  The natural habitat of social media is not the same as business terroir. What to do about it?
• All in one place
  ‘Constructive’ frustration with corporations and their way of ‘adapting’ to the internet’s disruptive impact on their business and communication. Some practical tips about what to avoid.
• What is Rome for?
  Power, rules and resulting hierarchies create environments where individuals have no real autonomy by default. A rant against systems and hierarchies with a sprinkling of historical perspective.
• Master slave relationship
  About companies’ dysfunctional master-slave worldview they bring with them to the online world.
• Work – play, play – work, even for CEOs
  Applauding Tom Glocer, a CEO who doesn’t see time spent on social media as wasted… and knows that innovation is non-linear.
• Hydra of web 2.0 adoption
  Stages of introducing Web 2.0 in an enterprise. Yawn.
• A corporate blogging method
  Why corporate blogging is an oxymoron…
• What’s the real value of social software in enterprise
  It’s not metrics that will reflect the real value of social media tools in a company
• Who’s building the barricades
  The internet is a place where we can create viable alternatives without having to blow up the existing ways.

Social networks and social media

• Musings on social media, enterprise, wine-making and terroir
  The natural habitat of social media is not the same as business terroir. What to do about it?
• Too much talking
  Summary from the panel at Online Information conference with a framework for where to find the value social media and social software
• You let the enemy in..
  Sermo, an online community for doctors, did a deal with Pfizer. Who is more important now – the users or the company that pays? Three lessons in network and community management.
• What’s in a social network? A Facebook by any other name would be as useless… discuss
  Is Facebook a waste of time, a fad, undermining ‘real’ social interactions with your friends? No, it’s a learning wheel for driving our own identity, though far from perfect.
• Social web & tools
  Presentation at Online Marketing and Media Show
• Enabling vs providing
  How about instead of ‘providing for’ users, enable them instead?
• Truly social software
  how social software and social networking platforms actually limits my ability to be social…
• Where does the Twitter love come from?
  How different Twitter felt in the early (adopter) days
• OpenSocial – more social than open
  Taking a look at OpenSocial and what open means
• Social cloud and the blue pill
  My take on Kevin Marks’ talk, the social in social software and relationships
• Open is still better
  What social networks really and why we should not get carried away too much
• The creepiness factor
  On Twitter, privacy and autonomy
• Identity online: implications for healthcare
  Presentation at the Future of Healthcare technology summit at the MIT Faculty Club.
• Models of data imprisonment
  How does your data live on the web
• What’s the real value of social software in enterprise
  It’s not metrics that will reflect the real value of social media tools in a company
• Unmediated interview
  Some comments on ‘coverage’ of Kathy Sierra affairs and David Weinberger’s doing his own unmediated communication about it

Communication

• Learning to speak human
  My talk to a roomful of corporate communications professionals. I start with saying that communication is not a skill… and still escape unscathed.
• Power equation
  Another attempt to explain to communicators is that communication is now the default, not a skill. Tricky…
• Toyota tailGate
  Customers are revolting, an example of their power that the web made possible. Plus the hard way and the easy way for businesses to deal with the ‘empowered consumer’.
• Disintermediation of minds?
  About information overload, aggregation and filtering and how does that work in a network, which is what internet is
• Bloomberg’s headline economy
  How news organisation use big names in headlines to grab audience. Shock, horror!
• You let the enemy in..
  Sermo, an online community for doctors, did a deal with Pfizer. Who is more important now – the users or the company that pays? Three lessons in network and community management.
• JNJ bypass
  How to put forward your side of the story in the middle of bad coverage
• Communications propaganda
  The dire state of internal communications
• Words that PR killed
  No more words needed…
• Unmediated interview
  Some comments on ‘coverage’ of Kathy Sierra affairs and David Weinberger’s doing his own unmediated communication about it
• All in one place
  ‘Constructive’ frustration with corporations and their way of ‘adapting’ to the internet’s disruptive impact on their business and communication. Some practical tips about what to avoid.
• Social media is a buzzword – reason #148. Oh and press release is dead
• Good manners will get your far… or calm, patient and good humored still works
  When PR ‘disaster’ strikes ‘doing nothing’ is not an option

Branding & advertising

• Brand as identity and branding as behaviour
  What does ‘brand’ means and what it doesn’t. And if you agree with my distinction, what are the implication for branding.
• Brands are for cattle
  A tad snarky answer to the question posed to my panel at Marketing Society annual conference: “Can social networking be harnessed by brands?” Some great comments on this post.
• Nightmare on Madison Avenue
  Taking a potshot at Andrew Grill review of the biography on David Ogilvy The King of Madison Avenue and pontificating on the difference between Advertising and advertising. And about statues as branding.
• Brands are not good for your health
  No, I don’t want to ‘engage with brands’, I want to engage with people working for companies I buy products and services from
• The wrong end of the stick
  What powers the brand? Customers or employees? The internet’s impact on businesses is like to removing a roof from a house so the interior might be more important than a facade…
• Musings on meaning of brand
  Jonathan Schwartz’s wedding night and brand as what employees do. Some good comments on this post.
• Relevant vs useful
  Words can mean different attitudes to audiences and markets
• The curse of the platform or advertising is not a business model
  In the ‘channel world’ scale is in aggregation. In the networked world, scale is in distribution.
• Noli turbare circulos meos
  We take our attention away from those who have commanded it for decades.
• The fog of advertising
  Fear Of Google, tracking, metrics trap and fleeing eyeballs

VRM

• A VRM Journey
  My rather comprehensive position on VRM and related topics
• Social cloud and the blue pill
  My take on Kevin Marks’ talk, the social in social software and relationships

Miscellaneous

• It’s the context, stupid
  With information and data becoming ubiquitous, context is the added value. But who is better at providing it – a machine or a human mind?
• Cognitive surplus
  Clay Shirky on TV as a cognitive surplus heatsink. Indeed. It all makes sense if you listen to his talk.