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Open beats Closed: Tapping the Informal Organization
January 13, 2009 – 8:47 pm | View Comments
Open beats Closed:  Tapping the Informal Organization

I have made a few changes to my Open beats Closed diagram (thanks to Hastings who commented on the original post ).   Making these changes led me to realize I needed to speak about the …

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Open Beats Closed : Four Principles for Doing Business in the Network Economy
January 2, 2009 – 2:49 pm | View Comments
Open Beats Closed : Four Principles for Doing Business in the Network Economy

Here are four key principles for creating a stronger business in the network economy:

Listening beats Talking
Open beats Closed
Relationships Beat Transactions
Questions beat Answers

Over the course of the next few posts I will be going into details …

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Listening Beats Talking: Four Principles for Doing Business in the Network Economy
December 27, 2008 – 12:58 pm | View Comments
Listening Beats Talking: Four Principles for Doing Business in the Network Economy

Here are four key principles for creating a stronger business in the network economy:

Listening beats Talking
Open beats Closed
Relationships Beat Transactions
Questions beat Answers

Over the course of the next few posts I will …

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If You Are Great At Something – Let it Go (Or Resell It)
December 22, 2008 – 4:01 pm | View Comments
If You Are Great At Something – Let it Go (Or Resell It)

This is a cross-post from Radar

I am fascinated by what I see as Zappos’ ongoing evolution from a simple, online retailer to a leading online innovator. A few months back I wrote about Zappos pioneering …

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Finding The Emotional Transaction Delivers Customer Engagement, Loyalty and Community
December 5, 2008 – 6:49 pm | View Comments
Finding The Emotional Transaction Delivers Customer Engagement, Loyalty and Community

During a client meeting this week on creating an online community I was trying to understand what might motivate their customer to participate.  (Principle: think of your user first when getting into any social technology …

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Online Communities – An Interview with Francois Gossieaux
November 14, 2008 – 12:32 pm | View Comments
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This is a cross-post from Radar:
Recently I spoke with Francois Gossieaux of Beeline Labs about the role of online communities in the enterprise.   Francois has been evangelizing the learning gained from his recent study, The …

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Moment of Truth: We are all Marketers Now
October 22, 2008 – 10:19 pm | View Comments

Attending the recent Forrestor Roundtable on the future of the Social Web I made an offhand comment that we are all in the business of marketing now – whether we like it or not.   Here …

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Networked Democracy: Video Interview with Jascha Franklin-Hodge
October 21, 2008 – 12:10 pm | View Comments
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Blue State Digital was born out of Jascha’s experience helping Howard Dean’s seminal run for the White House in ’04. and is the technology and strategic services company powering Barack Obama (and many other Democratic leaders and social justice causes like Save Darfur and We Can Solve It).

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Pirates and Poohbahs Unite!
October 15, 2008 – 9:14 pm | View Comments
Pirates and Poohbahs Unite!

Yesterday I was lucky enough to attend a Forrester round table on the future of the Social Web put together by Jeremiah Owyang and hosted by SAP (thanks to both for an incredible job).  It …

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Evangelist’s Toolkit: Facilitating the Conversation
October 9, 2008 – 7:18 am | View Comments
Evangelist’s Toolkit: Facilitating the Conversation

Here is one of the  tools that I use to help mobilize energy and stay on a productive path during an engagement:

Divergent thinking describes a mindset where anything is possible, new ideas are welcome from …

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