Good Reading Today

As we reported last week, groups of hackers from all around the world got together this weekend to find ways to help Haiti and to create tools that can be used in future disasters. One of these groups, in colla…

In the past, we’ve seen time and time again how copyright has been used to lock up culture and make it inaccessible. At times this is literally destroying culture, as content is left on degrading media, and th…

In February 2006, Chris Shipley, then executive producer of the DEMO conferences delivered an important keynote address. In it, she defined the term social media. At the time there was conclusion between it and…

Lafley Successor Says World’s Biggest Spender Under-Leverages Its Scale
Advertising Age, January 18, 2010 — The last decade at the worlds biggest marketing spender belonged to A.G. Lafley, but this one bel…

The perception that good management is closely linked to good measurement runs deep. How often do you hear these old saws repeated: “If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t count”; “If you can’t measure it, you c…

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Facebook Commands 70% Market Share Of All S…

Tumblr and Posterous are the two most prominent “tumblogging” sites, i.e. sites that make blogging more straightforward by making it easier to post media. Both were launched within six months.
But now T…

In the research I’ve been doing over the past few years into why ideas spread, I’ve found a few common characteristics of contagious ideas across mediums and centuries. The list below contains those charact…

Have you been ignoring your followers?
Your followers took the time to check out your profile and thought you were cool enough to follow, but how are you treating them in return? Have you allowed your large nu…

Risk aversion is the number one reason that people and organizations fail to tap the full power of social media. People often tell me that they can’t afford to make a mistake online, because any error will be j…

Blue Ocean Strategy

Some business books you read once and set aside or pass on. Some stay with you like a friend because from the first word you read, they made sense … almost as if you knew what they were…

One of the most popular articles on SEJ is about using social media profiles for Online Reputation Management (ORM), which is a great starting point for ORM, however, there are some problems whose solutions a…

Research firm Outsell has published its third annual News Users’ report, which is based on a survey about the online and offline news preferences of 2,787 US news consumers.
The Outsell report unsurprisingly…

Do generalist doctors refer to specialists too much?
Jeffrey Parks, otherwise known as the Buckeye Surgeon, has written numerous times on the issue, and his feeling is, yes, they do.
And he’s right. There ar…

Look these teabaggers are just like actual Republicans, what with drawing up contracts and the young black (or navy blue) people dancing, for hipness and hopness! Here we have the “Contract From America,”…

Although we’re bombarded with information about social media from all sides, and we do hear about successful programs, it seems that in too many cases we’re still stumbling in the dark. Almost half of t…

Get ready, citizens, because in about two to three weeks, you are going to have an unprecedented opportunity to dialogue with the U.S. government about the future of transparency, collaboration, and participati…

This is a guest post from Michael Robertson, a 12-year veteran of the digital music business. He is the founder and former CEO of digital music pioneer MP3.com. He is currently the CEO of music locker company M…

By now, rumors of an Apple Tablet have generated literally millions of words of wild speculation, but its still frustrating that going into CES last week, the most-anticipated gadget of 2010 was a still-unrelea…