Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Other 2009 summary posts. Top blog posts of 2009: 6 on Twitter and the media. Top blog posts of 2009: Enterprise 2.0 Top blog posts of 2009: The future. Fourth in my series of summary blog posts from 2009 is selected presentations and videos from keynote speeches I've delivered this year (plus, at the end, my list of speaking topics for 2010). Profiting from Technology Trends: Growth Summit 2009 View more presentations from rossdawson.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 28, 2009

A syndrome to help understand society in 2009. Third in my series of my blog posts that have attracted the most interest this year, on the general topic of the future. (I I haven't included any of my presentations - I'll select some of these to put in another post.). Wealth Adaptation Syndrome (WAS): a defining malaise of our times and the opportunities that stem from it. Why traditional conferences are dying and how unconferences and audience participation are the future of events.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Continuing my series of my blog posts that have attracted the most interest in 2009, here is my selection of 10 posts on Enterprise 2.0 and organizational effectiveness. Why ‘critical mass’ is intensely relevant to Enterprise 2.0 user adoption. What the diffusion curve means for Enterprise 2.0 adoption initiatives. Enterprise 2.0: Competitive differentiation occurs at the intersection of technology and culture. The harder it is to implement Enterprise 2.0,

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Other 2009 summary posts. Top blog posts of 2009: 6 on Twitter and the media. Top blog posts of 2009: Enterprise 2.0 Top blog posts of 2009: The future. Top keynote speech presentations/ videos of 2009. and organizational effectiveness. And one more summary of my blog posts that have attracted the most interest this year, this time on the topic of influence, which has become very central to my interests and research.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

At this time of year it's good to look back at the blog posts I've written and see what is most interesting. Some have got quite a lot of attention, other posts I liked got passed over. Having looked through my blog posts, the most useful approach seems to be by topics. I'll start with a list of six posts on Twitter and the media , including some embeds. Twitter on ABC TV - the impact on politics, media and socializing.

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SPF13

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Mon Dec 21, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Top Sites Running Drupal. Image via Wikipedia. Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 5, 2009

Monday, January 05, 2009. Agile in 2008 to Twitter, Cloud Computing and Publishing in 2009. In 2009, I will continue writing on agile but will largely focus on roles, responsibilities, and processes on the periphery. So on to 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation.

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CIO Musings

MARCH 12, 2009

Thursday, March 12, 2009. is very happy to announce the creation of MuniGovCon09 - a virtual conference to be held April 10, 2009 from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM PST. April 5, 2009 at 11:03 PM. April 5, 2009 at 11:34 PM. CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

MAY 22, 2009

In addition to the data stream of 140-character bons mots, I feel inspired to write in more depth on some of the themes we explored at yesterday's MIT CIO Symposium , perhaps due to a great article by Adam Singer entitled "19 Reasons You Should Blog And Not Just Tweet.".

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 24, 2009

Using the same methodology as my At current growth rates everyone in the US will have a Twitter account by August 22 2009! Everyone in the world will have a Twitter account by December 21 2009! ComScore has just released global Twitter usage figures for March, showing a 95% growth in the month to 19.1 million visitors. blog post from last week (extrapolating current exponential growth rates). which will be a nice Christmas present for the Twitter founders).

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 10, 2009

This is the year influence shifts to center stage. Wherever I go people are talking about influence. Meanwhile companies are rapidly shifting their marketing resources to tap the power of influence. There are several primary drivers for the rise of influence: * The democratization of media , which gives everyone a channel to propagate theirs or others’ opinions. Peer trust , which places far greater faith in individuals than corporate advertising and marketing. *

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 15, 2009

ComScore has just announced that the number of Twitter users in the US went up by 131% in March. At this rate, everyone in the US will have a Twitter account by August 22 of this year. In other news, CNN (which just acquired CNNbrk ) and Ashton Kutcher are battling it out to be the first to reach one million followers. With many million of synapses now firing frantically, the global brain is finally awakening …. Social trends Technology trends Web 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Many companies and workers are now daring to be optimistic as they put 2009 behind them, look forward to opportunities, and worry about getting left behind if things improve rapidly. While many lost their jobs in 2009, sparking a rise in home-based work such as direct selling, many others gave up self-employment to return to the workforce. Literally hundreds of newspapers around the world have shut their doors in 2009.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 30, 2009

The very challenging year of 2009 that we are preparing to bid farewell to helped to tear up the fairly linear progress of the first decade of the century. In his excellent book The Meaning of the 21st Century , James Martin asks when in human history you would most like to be alive. For me there is no question that it is now. The coming decade will be the most exciting in human history.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Last week I gave the opening keynote at IPZ2009 Interactive Marketing Summit in Istanbul. Here are my slides for my keynote on the Future of Interactive Marketing. It was a fantastic event, the fourth annual IPZ conference organized by Günseli Özen Ocako?lu lu and Hakan Senbir of Marketing & Management Institute, which publishes a range of leading magazines including Marketing Türkiye.

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SPF13

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Fri Dec 11, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Checking Vendor References. One task that should be part of every IT managers is performing reference checks on potential vendors. A vendor reference check goes beyond the sales pitch to reveal the true nature of a product or company. If youâ??re

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 15, 2009

For many years I have believed that our everyday interfaces with computers are deeply limited, and that creating more effective interfaces is central to our future. In my 2002 book Living Networks I selected Interfaces as one of the three key enablers that would bring the networks to life. Pranav Mistry of MIT Media Lab's SixthSense has made his mission integrating our gestures in the physical world with the digital world.

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

Dell has released a security patch that fixes a security vulnerability affecting many Dell computers going back to 2009, along with instructions on how to install it if your computer is affected ( via threatpost ). Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge.

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SPF13

MARCH 27, 2009

Fri Mar 27, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed. Image via CrunchBase. For the past few months Facebook has been obsessed with Twitter. s easy to see why. Twitter is addicitve. Many twitter users are constantly on twitter.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 2, 2009

Tomorrow morning I'm doing a presentation to the top executive team of a very large organization on the next 20 years. Most of what I will cover will be general societal, business and technological drivers as well as specific strategic issues driving their business. However as part of stretching their thinking I'll also speak a about the Singularity.

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Hardware Strategy 128

SPF13

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

The NERD Commenter is an indispensable tool when programming in VIM. It understands like a zillion different file types and properly comments each. It can handle single line, multi line, partial line commenting as well as nesting. If you’re programming in VIM you really should be using it. It is simple enough to use. Most commands are mapped to ,c[character]. The command you are probably going to use the most is ,c which intelligently toggles a comment on or off

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 20, 2009

Today we launch our Social Media Strategy Framework. This provides guidance and a frame on how organizations can approach engaging with social media, following in the tradition of our highly popular frameworks such as Web 2.0 Framework , Future of the Media Lifecycle , and Influence Landscape. Click on the image to download pdf. This is a Beta version, pulled together to release before The Insight Exchange’s Social Media Strategy event today.

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SPF13

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution. Many other organizations both large and small have found it to be a perfect platform for managing their website including some Fortune 100 companies. I decided to compile a list of some of the more notable organizations running drupal. This list is not exhaustive, but intended to demonstrate top site powered by drupal. If you know other top sites also powered by drupal, please list them in the comments below

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 3, 2009

This morning I did the opening keynote to the top executive team of a major organization.at their strategy offsite. It's not appropriate to share the full presentation, however I can share the rough scenarios I presented for the world to 2030. The scenarios were presented after having examined the driving forces and critical uncertainties for the company. See also my post on The best visuals to explain the Singularity to senior executives).

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 24, 2009

I was just asked "what is a social media expert"? Marshall McLuhan is still the oracle. Here is one of my favorite quotes from the master. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose. The professional tends to classify and specialise, to accept uncritically the groundrules of the environment.

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Media Social Oracle Development 121

Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

One of the most interesting topics at the recent Future of Influence Summit was the emergence of business models for influence. Some particularly intriguing issues were raised in the Business Models for Influence and Reputation panel , suggesting that one of the key currencies of the future will be influence. The panellists generally agreed that total revenue in the influence sector, including the companies represented on the panel ( Rapleaf , Buzzlogic , Klout ) is around US$100 million.

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SPF13

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Fri Oct 16, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. 54% US Companies Ban Social Media. and That's Fine. According to a study commissioned by Robert Half Technology , an IT staffing company, 54 percent of U.S. companies say theyâ??ve

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SPF13

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Wed Sep 30, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Ranking Social Media. In business itâ??s s common to use sales as a metric to determine success. Songs, albums, books and movies are all ranked on â??best best sellerâ?? charts. While this isnâ??t

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 17, 2009

I very rarely find the time to write magazine articles, but I was delighted to write the opening feature article for MediaTitles 2010, an annual publication which covers the media and magazine industry. To see the article in the full splendor of the print version, go to the MediaTitles website , which has the full publication viewable using Realview Technologies (with the article reformatted to take out the lists of four, which I think is a pity). My article is on pages 7-10.

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SPF13

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Why use it It’s super easy to use It has tons of snippets It’s pretty well compatible with TextMate snippets for easy portability Dynamic variables, for all the times you use the same string multiple times It’s really easy to define your own snippets It’s better than anything else out there, trust me I’ve tried them all Sometimes a video works better to explain things. check out this video snipMate

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Friday, February 13, 2009. Yours-truly will be one of the speakers at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in NY March 30-April 1, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Join me at NYCs cloud computing expo. They have a very awesome agenda , including a keynote from Werner Vogels, Amazons CTO.

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Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

Tuesday, May 12, 2009. May 15, 2009 at 7:24 AM. May 16, 2009 at 9:23 PM. May 27, 2009 at 2:09 AM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Profiling questions nobodys asking re: cloud applications. I find it odd that so much is being written about defining cloud terminology, cloud operation, and cloud construction.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Given the extreme popularity of our Social Media Strategy Framework , we decided to translate it into other languages. The translations have been serialized on my blog over the last couple of weeks, and here they are compiled into a single post. Social Media Strategy Framework in 11 languages. scroll down for frameworks and links to the full post). English - Social Media Strategy Framework. Chinese - ???????? Dutch - Sociale Media Strategie Kader. French - Plan Stratégique des médias sociaux.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 14, 2009

While online technologies have transformed the media along many dimensions, one of the most important ways of understanding this is in how the news cycle has changed. In the old days news was broken on real-time channels such as radio and TV, reinforced and pushed out to a broader audience through newspapers, discussed again in chat shows, and sometimes had life added to the news with updates or responses. Today, while elements of that cycle remain, much of it has changed.

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SPF13

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Thu Nov 12, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Apple's iconic presentations. Image via CrunchBase. Recently a book came out The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience. Jobs has mastered the art of presenting.

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SPF13

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

If you use *nix, no doubt you’ve spent some time on the command line. Here are a few of the most helpful tricks you can use in the bash shell to really optimize your time, impress your friends, and make everyone else feel inferior… not to mention become more productive. People familar with the command line can usually work considerably faster (for most tasks) than you can through a gui

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Our Social Media Strategy Framework released a few months ago has been getting a lot of attention and downloads. Based on the feedback we've been getting, one of the things that was missing in the first Beta version was a clearer explanation of the structure of the diagram, which has two simultaneous flows down the left and right sides of the circle.

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SPF13

APRIL 14, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Luckily it’s 2009 and there have been a bunch of successful websites that have had to deal with large scalability challenges. Many have been kind enough to share their knowledge with the world. Here is a list of the best books, articles, presentations and practices from the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and more. Books Building Scalable Web Sites Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications by Cal Henderson

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SPF13

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Tue Nov 24, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Does Seth Godin Get It? Earlier this week Seth Godin. announced his first presence on twitter with the post Delivering blogs via Twitter. You can receive instant daily updates of this blog by following @thisissethsblog.

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Media Google Social Course 100

SPF13

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Wed Dec 2, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Engaging Employees. There is one trait that if possessed can virtually ensure success, the ability to nurture a culture of engaged workers. Engaged workers do work harder or longer, but thatâ??s

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SPF13

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Mon Sep 28, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. My Own Private Blogathon. Someone once said a goal is a dream until you write it down â?¦ in your blog and tell the world about it. In an effort to focus on blogging a bit more frequently IÂ have decided to start a blogathon beginning today.Â

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 11, 2009

This morning Future Exploration Network issued this press release (excuse the hyperbole :-) ) I have already done several radio interviews on the forecasts in the release with quite a few more radio, newspaper and TV interviews lined up for the next days - the ideas seem to have struck a chord. Futurist proved correct! and today describes the extraordinary social technologies of 2016.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 16, 2009

We continue our Influence research series, paving the way for in-depth insights and breaking new ground on the topic at Future of Influence Summit 2009 in San Francisco and Sydney. Duncan Watts is one of a handful of scientists instrumental in developing the study of networks as a key scientific discipline. He tells his story in his book Six Degrees , which begins by recounting how he found a subject for his Ph.D

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