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There have been a lot of comments about Facebook in the blogosphere, and I think some people are missing the point.  For some reason, all the talk is about the applications. It’s not about the applications. It’s about the people. Facebook is first and foremost a collection of people, a community. Many communities. Yet one … Continue reading “All dressed up with everywhere to go: More musings about Facebook in the enterprise”

One of the commonest criticisms levelled at social software is that of wasting time. Wikis were whined at, blogs were barracked and now we have social networking sites (particularly Facebook) getting slammed. Now I can understand the arguments about “too closed”. I can even understand the arguments about “too open”. What fascinates me is the … Continue reading “On Facebook and wasting time”

Something David N Wallace said in his recent post triggered this train of thought. There are people who think that Facebook is too open. And there are people who think that Facebook is too closed. The Too Open crew tend to take a risk-averse enterprise view, and concern themselves with archival and retrieval and regulation and … Continue reading “Facebook: Open or closed?”

A little while ago, I had the opportunity to talk to some people about multi-sided open platforms and their threat to traditional companies; the “traditional companies” I chose to speak about were eBay and Amazon, just to make a point; and I characterised the emergent competitor as follows: 25m participants, already an eighth the size … Continue reading “Freewheeling on organisations and platforms and Facebook”

My thanks to Dominik Hofer for the wonderful photograph shown above Did you ever get the chance to read Blink? In that book,  Malcolm Gladwell said something like the following: We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. Now this is something I’ve believed … Continue reading “Musing about learning by doing”