Some stuff I’m reading this week…
ABC News: Forget Phones: Companies Turn to Twitter
Tweet.
That’s right, tweet. Twitter is the newest social networking Internet site that asks its 50,000 users only one question when they log on: “What are you doing? The trick is to respond in 140 characters or less, which keeps posts short and pithy.
Superstruct! Play the game, invent the future. | The Institute For The Future
Super-threats are massively disrupting global society as we know it. There’s an entire generation of homeless people worldwide, as the number of climate refugees tops 250 million. Entrepreneurial chaos and “the axis of biofuel” wreak havoc in the alternative fuel industry. Carbon quotas plummet as food shortages mount. The existing structures of human civilization—from families and language to corporate society and technological infrastructures—just aren’t enough. We need a new set of superstructures to rise above, to take humans to the next stage.
You can help. Tell us your story. Strategize out loud. Superstruct now.
It’s your legacy to the human race.
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Social Networking Stats: Facebook and LinkedIn Surging in US
LinkedIn Wants You to Learn Social Capital Theory : aha-moments
washingtonpost.com: Creative Commons Is Rewriting Rules of Copyright
So far, more than 10 million other creations — ranging from the movie “Outfoxed” and songs by the Beastie Boys to the British Broadcasting Corp.’s news footage and the tech support books published under the O’Reilly label — have been distributed using these licenses. The idea has even won the support of Hilary Rosen, formerly of the Recording Industry Association of America, and Jack Valenti, the past head of the Motion Picture Association of America, who became known for their aggressive pursuit of people who share free, unauthorized copies via the Internet.
Interest in Creative Commons licenses comes as artists, authors and traditional media companies begin to warm to the idea of the Internet as friend instead of foe and race to capitalize on technologies such as file-sharing and digital copying.




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Hi Tara,
James McNally and a bunch of other social media folks in Toronto have suggested that I should connect with you.
Thanks for the link above to aha-moments. I have based Social Capital Value Add upon Nan Lin’s network theory of social capital.
I see that you have quite a travel schedule planned and are going to be in Europe mid-sept. You might consider adding ASNA 2008 in Zurich on for sept 12 & 13. http://www.asna.ch/asna/index.php
I have been invited to present “Introducing Social Capital Value Add” there.
In any event, “Introducing Social Capital Value Add” will be released as a http://www.changethis.com manifesto in September. I would be grateful if you would consider giving me feedback on the draft?
Drop by http://www.socialcapitalvalueadd.com, http://www.memeticbrand.com sometime, I would appreciate your input.
Cheers,
Michael