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True Empowerment: How Social Learning and Healthcare Go Hand In Hand

January 31, 2012 by Brian S. McGowan PhD.
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Photo by Michael Dorausch via Flickr, Creative Commons

In today’s information age, a vast number of new online resources are available to patients. They come with varying levels of interactivity, functionality, and credibility. Some resources serve to curate cutting-edge, evidence-based data that is readily searchable. Other resources serve to create a community where patients can track and... [read more]

Putting Personal Choice into Enterprise IT

April 10, 2011 by Michael Fauscette
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Both the bottom up employee grassroots efforts and the new top down CIO policy shift signal a change for IT in a much broader sense. Web 2.0 taught us that software and tech tools can be simple, elegant and mask complexity while increasing productivity and functionality. The IT shop of the future is one that continues to effectively manage risk and security but also empowers employees by enabling personal choice that will increase productivity and satisfaction. [read more]

Tip: Empower Someone Else to Build Your Personal Brand

August 2, 2010 by Daniel Schawbel
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Before my book came out, I was managing my own public relations department (Me Inc.). I would read articles by journalists that covered marketing, careers, and technology, and respond to them. I would also pitch the media on relevant topics around personal branding and constantly network. Looking back at my efforts, I must have... [read more]

Tips for Scaling Social Media

January 21, 2010 by ChrisBoudreaux
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Your social media policies should help you to scale your social media operations and differentiate your organization in the market, but most organizations are still missing the point. Scaling social media often requires mobilizing and empowering lots of people. Policies help to empower those people while also creating appropriate... [read more]

Zappos is Powered by The Empowerment of Employees

July 17, 2009 by Brian Solis
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Yesterday I spoke at Zappos Insights Live, an inaugural conference that offered a unique opportunity to learn about the spirit and culture of Zappos through a two-day immersion program. To say it was brilliant would be an understatement. And, I believe this is just the beginning. It's incredibly clear that Tony Hsieh doesn't just... [read more]

The 75% Social Media Bottle Neck... Sales Channels Need Roto-Rooter

February 6, 2009 by AxelSchultze
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Just a thought: 75% of the world trade goes through trade channels (WTO). 84% of purchase decisions are influenced by reading blogs, participating in online discussions, online communities, social networking... If producers of goods and services don't empower their trade partners to participate in the online discussions and networking... [read more]

Bottom-up revolution

April 30, 2008 by Cliff Figallo
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Lead from the bottom You've probably noticed that there have been a lot of abject failures at the top, where the big bosses operate, where the impacts of stupid, hubristic and greedy decisions cascade down to affect all of us. From the U.S. presidency to the leadership of our banking and investment systems to our short-sighted managers... [read more]

acidlabs On The Pod

December 11, 2007 by Stephen Collins
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Last night, I spoke with blogger, TechCrunch writer and podcaster Duncan Riley from On The Pod. We chatted about: the opportunities (mostly yet to be realised) that the Australian Federal government (and governments everywhere by association) have in leveraging the power of the Internet to connect with and enable their constituents -... [read more]

links for 12-05-07 (Facebook falling from grace)

December 5, 2007 by Paul Chaney
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It seems everyone is taking "pokes" at Facebook nowadays, including me. Not that it's undeserved considering the panoply of missteps lately. In case you're interested in following the meme, here are some links to leading voices: More Facebook Advertisers Bail from Beacon... (TechCrunch) Where the hell is Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook?... [read more]

What Are You Going To Do About Your Own Web Data?

December 4, 2007 by Dennis McDonald
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By Dennis D. McDonald One of the benefits of the Facebook Beacon affair is that it has made many more people aware of the open nature with which so much data is exchanged on the Internet and the World Wide Web.  I'm not excusing Facebook; companies need to be honest with their customers. But I do think that many of the comments I... [read more]

Why Buy the Cow? — New Web 2.0 Book from WebEx

November 28, 2007 by Bill Ives
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Here is a new book Why Buy the Cow? on “how the revolution in on-demand software applications - available over the Web - is powering the new knowledge economy.” It is by Subrah S. Iyar, co-Founder and General Manager of WebEx (now part of Cisco) with my friend Cindy Gordon. Several of the chapters are written by others. Here... [read more]

Seth Godin chooses blogs over social networks [podcast]

November 26, 2007 by Daniel Schawbel
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There are many influencer's on the web, but few stand out as much as brand Godin (Seth Godin). In this video Seth speaks about web 2.0, social networking and blogging. He also talks about permission marketing and his purple cow theory, both of which I strongly believe in. He always says “good ideas spread” and they... [read more]

Twitter's growing business use

November 6, 2007 by dahowlett
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The other day I mentioned that Twitter has the potential to be a press agent's worst nightmare. How do you control the random Twitterings of people at press conferences or other events? For me, it is opening up a whole new world of communication. Brandon thinks the same and is using it as a way of working more effectively with his... [read more]

Somtimes Inspiration can come from Odd Places

November 4, 2007 by Paul Dunay
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Meet Blake Comeau. He's now playing right wing for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, a AAA hockey team, but he recently played with the New York Islanders of the NHL. As those of you who know me well are aware, I do have some post-college-graduation hockey experience. But it's nothing like these guys.I'm a Sound Tigers season ticket holder,... [read more]

SAP Community Day London

November 2, 2007 by Craig Cmehil
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"SAP Community Day London - April 2008The Community Day at TechEd Munich was transformational for me in one major respect - it turned my perception of the SAP Community Network from a really useful website and bunch of forums into a genuine community of really talented people" (Via Forty Beans » SAP Community Day London - April... [read more]

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