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Archived Posts from January 2008
WebGuild Web 2.0 Conference Panel: Understanding the Social Graph
1/28/2008 | posted by
astrout
This Tuesday, January 29, I'm speaking on two panels at WebGuild's Web 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, CA. I blogged about the first panel, The Power of Crowdsourcing last week. So that nobody gets jealous, I'd like to talk a little bit about the second panel: Understanding the Social Graph.
My guess is that our panel will target the importance of finding a solution to our current lack of a centralized social graph." Yes, social graphs currenetly exist in a number of places like LinkedIn, ...
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Next Tuesday, I have the pleasure of speaking on a panel titled, The Power of Crowdsourcing, at WebGuild's Web 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara. Not only am I excited about the topic but I'm thrilled at the prospect of co-presenting with some pretty smart people including:
Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research (moderator)
Michael Sikorsky of Cambrian House
Anil Rathi of Idea Crossing
Jeremiah's already taken the bull by the horns and spelled out our agenda:
Identify cro ...
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In preparation for a "crowdsourcing" panel I'm participating in at WebGuild's upcoming Web 2.0 Conference on January 29, I'm on the alert for stories/case studies about companies -- big and small -- that are using their "crowds" to outsource some of their day-to-day activities. To that end, I'm fortunate because we've covered a number of great crowdsourcing companies in our recent We Are Smarter Than Me book but new examples are cropping up literally every day.
One such exam ...
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Like Jake Mckee aka "The Community Guy, I too got tagged with a cool meme by my good friend, Mukund. As a result of being tagged, I'm now on the hook to share my life's three biggest influencers. Not an easy excercise by any stretch but I'm going to take a shot. Here goes:
My Parents - I would be an ungrateful child if I didn't include my parents in this list. I know, this list is supposed to be thought provoking and impart all sorts of wisdom to the people reading this blog po ...
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Over the last two and a half years, I've undertaken a most amazing "community" journey. It started with my dipping a toe into the world of social media while I was still at Fidelity Investments and has now migrated into my full immersion in the world of community and social networks in my current job at Mzinga.
As someone that has always worked hard at staying ahead of the technology curve, I've always loved figuring out "what's next." What I didn't anticipate in my new worl ...
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As promised, you will find answers to questions (20 of them) from our most recent "Building a Business Case for Community" webinar (archive is available for stream/download here.)
As for the answers, we welcome additional feedback. I'll consider incorporating any of your answers into this post so comment away:
QUESTION 1: Can we hear examples of how companies deal with the new internal business processes that must be developed due to these Communities new needs and directions
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