Soldiers Now Allowed To Tweet

CNN.com: U.S. military personnel are officially allowed to tweet. That’s the upshot of the Pentagon’s long-awaited policy on rank and file personnel using online social media, unveiled Friday. The new rules authorize access to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media Web sites from nonclassified government computers — as long as such activity doesn’t compromise operational [...]

Are You An Indispensable Person?

God knows, if you’re a Minnesotan you certainly wouldn’t say so! Seth Godin recorded this interview with Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, and asked her what she thought were the traits of an indispensable person. Found at Vimeo from Seth Godin.

Brainstorming

Photo courtesy of alex92287 I was at a party not long ago when the topic of brainstorming came up and I said how much I loved the exercise, to which one guy responded with a dismissive wave of the hand. “Brainstorming,” he intoned, “is a waste of time.” His contention was that most of the time devoted to [...]

Salesforce’s “Facebooked” Product, Chatter

Robert Scoble interviews Senior VP of Product Marketing Kraig Swensrud about Salesforce.com’s new social release, Chatter.

Dancing Guy = Leadership

Interesting observations of a dancing guy who attracts a crowd. Found at YouTube from dereksivers.

What Is Google Wave?

Plenty of people have asked me what is Google Wave? This video is about the best explanation I’ve seen thus far to enlighten ordinary people who aren’t soaking in social media all day long. Found at YouTube via Doug Pollei from epipheo.

Book Review: Tribes – By Seth Godin

Maybe it’s just because I’m immersed in this stuff but I found Tribes by Seth Godin to be….obvious. The book is an easy read once you get used to Godin’s scattershot prose. It is also a good primer on the idea of tribes: A group of people who connect with one another based on a [...]

Social Media, Neuroscience & The Trust Molecule

I happened to catch a rebroadcast of the NPR program Speaking of Faith this weekend, a show I never listen to. I need to introduce more serendipity into my life because the show is not in my pre-programmed media diet and were it not for dumb chance, I would have missed the episode on The [...]

Email: The Black Hole

I have a love/hate relationship with email. I love it because it’s so easy to use but I hate it because all the insight that comes in and the wisdom I send out evaporates the next day when my attention is focused on that day’s email. I know I can search my email but that’s not [...]

Fortune 100 CEOs Are Bravely Leading Their Companies Into The Past

Dan Haugen’s excellent piece at MinnPost about Best Buy’s new social media savvy CEO Brian Dunn, points out just what an anomaly Dunn is, based on a report by the UberCEO blog. In the last section of his article, Haugen warns that “By avoiding them, these leaders could be putting their own image and their company’s [...]

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