“Networks are voluntary connections between autonomous peers.” Organizations are autonomous when they have final say over their own future. People are autonomous when they have final say over their lives. I might be autonomous at home but not at work, by the way, just as I’m free to decide who I vote for in an election [...]
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Networks and Autonomy
Posted in Networks on September 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Platforms, Trust and Open Cloud Computing
Posted in Innovation, Networks on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
JP Rangaswami’s post on platforms is worth reading. Rather than try to summarize it myself, I’ll just excerpt a few highlights: His definition of platforms: something that is a foundation, an enabling environment, upon which others can build things, make things something that exists for a specific purpose (or set of purposes), and which invests [...]
Defining Social CRM: Networking Business Processes
Posted in Engagement, Networks on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Paul Greenberg has an interesting post in which he puts a stake in the ground in defining Social CRM (sCRM). There’s a lot to take in from that post, but here’s his relatively compact definition: “CRM is a philosophy & a business strategy, supported by a technology platform, business rules, workflow, processes & social characteristics, [...]
Uber Organizers = Coordinators?
Posted in Engagement, Networks on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Silberman has a really interesting summary of how things came together recently for the 350 Global Day of Action. The whole piece is worth reading and if you haven’t looked at the amazing array of images gathered from around the world as part of this organizing effort, it really is worth spending some time [...]
