social media « Signal/Noise

Extended rant: Mark Helprin is not a crowdsourcing/social tech fan

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Bill Petti

McKinsey’s Mary Kunz interviewed Mark Helprin and discussed various issues connected to his view that the “‘all free, all the time ethos’ of the Internet threatens to erode the creation of new knowledge and new art”. Helprin is a staunch skeptic of the creative and innovative potential of the Internet. In fact, he stakes out [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: crowdsourcing, Innovation, social media, social networks | 2 Comments »

Look at me! Look at me!

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Bill Petti

Noah Brier notes that there is still a long way to go when it comes to enlightened communication on the Internet: Rob Walker is great at finding pithy ways to sum up problems. In this edition he ruminates on the state of “online dialogue” (which I copy in full because it’s such a short post, [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Blogs, social media | Leave a Comment »

Who never know who you’ll bump into around here…

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Bill Petti

…as Charles Cameron over at Smart Mobs reminds us: Something very interesting is happening blogwise. An Australian intel analyst blogger, Leah Farrall, and an insurgent strategist blogger, Abu Walid, are now holding a debate in public across the blogs. It began a day or three ago. And they’re not the only ones. [T]wo other somewhat [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Blogs, social media | Leave a Comment »

The Firm, Transaction Costs, and Organizing for Innovation

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Bill Petti

Ana Anjdelic responded to my latest post with some very interesting points. She commented that some of my suggestions would significantly increase transaction costs, specifically information search costs incurred by firm. Ana notes that increasing transaction costs in this way contradicts (or runs logically counter to) Coase’s view of the firm. She writes: It’s true [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Business, crowdsourcing, Innovation, Organizations, social media, social networks, transaction costs | 2 Comments »

Organizing for Innovation: A conversation with Ana Andjelic

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Bill Petti

Ana Andjelic and I have just started a discussion around how to best organize for innovation. (BTW, if you aren’t already a reader you should really check out Ana’s blog, i [love] marketing.) Rather than continue the conversation in the comments thread I thought it might be good to bring it over to the blog. [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: crowdsourcing, Innovation, Organization, social bumping, social media, social networks | 10 Comments »

We are all creatives now (or, at least, will be by 2013)

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Bill Petti

SEED published an article the other day that discussed the coming impact of near total authorship. The gist of the article is that at some point, nearly everyone will be able to publish content and that this will have profound implications for society in much the same way that near universal literacy has. So what [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Big Data, creatives, data, Nate Silver, noise, signals, social media, sophisticated aggregation | Leave a Comment »

You don’t always know what you want

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Bill Petti

Christopher Penn discusses an interesting notion–the idea that people don’t actually know what their ideal world looks like. When we try to solve a problem, or consult with others to help them solve their problems, often time we are told to start by answering this question: In a perfect world, what would this process look [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Innovation, social media, social networks | 7 Comments »

Measuring Happiness via the Social Web

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Bill Petti

Nathan at FlowingData points to an application on Facebook that aims to measures happiness. The application seeks to calculate the “Gross National Happiness” (GNH) of the United States by analyzing the ratio of positive to negative words found in users’ status updates on a daily basis. It is an interesting project and certainly relates to [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: data, data visualization, facebook, sentiment analysis, social media, social networks, User-generated content | Leave a Comment »

The ‘Soft Sciences’ to get their Day?

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Bill Petti

In a recent report, Garnter proposes that as corporations try to benefit from the growth of social media they will come to rely more and more on employees with formal, advanced training in the social sciences. Gartner Vice President Kathy Harris discusses in some detail four areas of jobs needed in the near future. Though [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Big Data, social media, social networks, social science | 2 Comments »

Follow

Follow on Facebook

About S/N

Frequently Viewed Posts

Google Reader Feed: My Shared Items

My del.icio.us links

View Posts by Tag

View Posts by Month

Subscribe by Email

Currently Reading

Recently Read

Business, Innovation, & Technology

crowdsourcing

Data/Analytics

Economics

Marketing & Media

Media

Politics & International Relations

Copyright Notice