Saturday, 7 May 2011

Perfect business cases for Social Business


Thanks to Oscar Berg for writing his No business case for Social Business

It's a good post and all true, although very few social media fans agreed with it - probably because it doesn't give them what they want.
As dark is the opposite of light, bad the opposite of good, and so on, I decided to write an opposite post, reversing all of Oscar's well made points. In theory, that should to perfect business cases for Social Business, shouldn't it?
Off we go - and thank you, Oscar

Friday, 6 May 2011

The apprentice- master model


Jon Reed made the following statement on Twitter:

Marin accused Deloitte of using project as "a trial-and-error training ground" for junior consultants. Panelists: please react

My answer: very common

Growth. How do you grow people from skill A to skill B? The eternal question. For we are struggling with that question in our personal lives as well: how do I grow myself from this stage onto the next? How do I become a superstar?
I'll leave the obvious pointers to those answers for now, if you're a regular visitor to this blog then you know where it's at

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Too much Social Me-dia going on


Hat tip to Sameer Patel for the tweet that led me to this:

@lehawes Folks taking the Me in Social Me-dia too literally :)

I've noticed quite a bit of this lately. A few weeks ago, I unfollowed 20% of my follows because they either RT'ed themselves or their friends, and vice versa. Seeing a mediocre blog post being RT'ed 10 times makes me think - and weary. Seeing any blog post RT-ed by the same persons and vice versa makes me want to unfollow - so I did. Regardless of "who they were"