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enough of fear and greed

December 27th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Books

A few days ago, I saw this story about people being advised to return their library books on time in order to avoid their credit ratings being affected.

I think this is wrong. It’s like telling people not to do stupid things and stick them into Facebook in case their job prospects are affected. I [...]

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Tweitgeist

December 27th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Four pillars

Couldn’t resist this. Tweitgeist. A word cloud formed from scraping the words off the last 250 Twitter “tweets”.  Again, something I can see as having real value in the enterprise, especially if I can have multiple clouds, each showing a different population of tweets. Thanks to Pistachio for the tip-off.

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Harold Leavitt RIP

December 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Books

It must be all of thirty years since I first read one of Harold Leavitt’s books, Managerial Psychology; since then, I’ve dipped into the book a number of times. But not as often as I’ve dipped into a more recent book of his, Hot Groups. Or, to use its more formal title, Hot Groups: Seeding [...]

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Thinking about Push and Pull and Twitter in the Enterprise

December 27th, 2007 · 18 Comments · Twitter

There have been a number of comments on my recent posts re Twitter and the Enterprise; I thought it would be worth while spending a little time answering them in some detail. First, let’s take a look at the questions:

How can a system that uses messages restricted to no more than 140 characters be useful?
What’s [...]

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