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Looking back at what Living Networks got right 20 years ago

Trends in the Living Networks

For many years my reputation and credibility as a futurist has been significantly supported by my 2002 book Living Networks , which anticipated many developments of the last two decades, including pointing to the rise of social networks and micro-messaging before any of today’s social platforms existed.

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Flipboard and Paper.li: Social news curation hits the tipping point

Trends in the Living Networks

Over the last six weeks they have taken social news curation to a new level. For several weeks it was ranked one of the top few free iPad apps in the News category in US, UK, and Australia, attracting massive interest for what it calls a “social magazine”. Flipboard and Paper.li are two of the hottest properties in media today.

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Meet 6 women of color-led startups that pitched their businesses in Seattle

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. “Unfortunately, too many people have just not had exposure, or any reason to meet people outside of their network,” said Johnson, who began her career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs before founding IFEL with her father in 2002. Reetu Gupta.

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Celebrating and reflecting on 10 years of blogging

Trends in the Living Networks

My first post on the Trends in Living Networks blog was on October 5, 2002, beginning: The emergence of the “living web”: In just the same way as the networks are coming to life, the language that we use to describe this new world is emerging and evolving. I just realized I missed my 10th anniversary of blogging.

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Lloyds TSB pilots social media - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

» Lloyds TSB pilots social media Ross Dawson, February 26, 2008 7:30 PM US PT James Gardner, head of innovation at Lloyds TSB, writes consistently on his blog Bankervision , disclosing some of the key issues involved in innovating in a major bank. Some excerpts from his below show how blogging can change how corporations work.

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Seattle investor who worked — and rocked — with Paul Allen goes viral with his cover of a grunge hit

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During the pandemic, he has gotten more comfortable exercising that voice, singing songs during socially distanced backyard gatherings and in a few videos posted to his personal social channels. Hall, who moved west in 2002, wasn’t even in Seattle during the grunge hype that changed the city’s musical trajectory.

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The role of specialist social networks for professionals: opening out communities of practice - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

It’s another issue to uncover which are the most relevant social networks for your professional life, and to use these effectively. As such, it often makes sense to belong to specialist social networks. There is no doubt that more, and more effective, social networks for specific groups are going to flourish.

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