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The document discusses how social media has changed communication and how organizations need to adapt. It emphasizes the importance of failing fast and learning from failures in order to improve over time. Several examples are provided of how social platforms have enabled previously impossible things like Wikipedia and crowdfunding. While these trends are powerful, issues around authenticity, privacy, and information overload still need to be addressed.
Failing in the right direction notes
- 1. Failing in the right direction. Kate Carruthers Reorganising work in regards to social media. Social media changes everything. Underlying most if not all of how we communicate. 1: Focus 2: Operational tempo 3: Skills 4: Resources 5: Trust Social Tempo: continuous engagement. Shifitng resources. “What’s the ROI of your mother?” Manifesto for agile software. Learning doesn’t happen from failure itself but rather from analysing the failure, making a change, and then trying again. Over time this gives you a deep understanding of the problem domain. – Michael Hunter – Fail Fast 2005 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michael/archive/2005/08/17/failfast.aspx http://www.slideshare.net/carruthk/failing-in-the-right-direction Slideshare.net/carruthk Making the impossible, possible. Nic Hodges Failing often, failing fast. Social media does not mean just facebook. Social means connection.
- 2. Mirroring our online and offline connections. Out of social networks came the WWW. (IRC, ICQ, BBS boards) Online projection of our offline self. Social media returning to a collective mindset. Things that were impossible that are becoming possible. Social creation platforms: Wikipedia, soundcloud, quora Social curation: Pinterest, tumblr, svpply Social funding: Kickstarter, pozible,bandcamp Social Data: data.gov.au, kaggle (making data science a sport), digital public library of americ, havard library motivation lab. A powerful and important trend. Issues: Authenticity, too much information, sea of content, rights of use, trust, privacy. *labs.mediacom.com*