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Category Archives: Social

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Enthusiasm for #SocialEra

September 22, 2012September 23, 2012

FastCompany.com will feature an excerpt from the #SocialEra book on Monday. But Forbes Women beat ‘em to the punch in a piece on Thursday saying, “This is one of best …

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Traditional Strategy Is Dead. Welcome to the #SocialEra

September 12, 2012October 23, 2013

When I say, “Social is and can be more than media,” people resist. It’s as if the two words (social and media) are now permanently fused together. But they shouldn’t …

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TedGlobal Talk: Banking on Openness

September 5, 2012December 13, 2012

As you might have noticed, I took the summer off. Well, not quite off.  More like away.  I went to Scotland, and gave a talk at TEDGlobal on the topic …

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Anyone Can, and This One Does

May 24, 2012September 1, 2012

Jack Andraka a 15-year-old student from Maryland, came up with a paper sensor that detects pancreatic cancer 168 times faster than current tests. It’s also 90% accurate, 400 times more …

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Resilient Organizations & Open Networks

April 23, 2012April 20, 2012

In Philip Auserwald’s recent book, The Coming Prosperity, he mentioned that open networks beat closed networks and larger networks beat smaller networks. As regular readers know, I’ve been talking about …

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Stop Talking About Social and Do It

March 16, 2012March 16, 2012

“Leadership” has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. “The Value Chain” has changed when the customer is no longer just the “buyer” but also …

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Why Social Marketing Is So Hard

March 9, 2012March 9, 2012

Brands are spending a great deal of time and energy investing in platforms to get likes or pluses, and not really being social at all. It’s been well over 15 …

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Why Porter’s Model No Longer Works

March 6, 2012March 6, 2012

This post went live mid-week last week, on HBR. It is the 3rd installment on a series of why fast / fluid / flexible is crucial for the social era. …

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Social Means Freedom, For Better or Worse

February 23, 2012February 23, 2012

This is part II of a series on how the social era affects every business model, from how we organize, what we produce, and what we sell.  (Part I, the …

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