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New Years Resolution For The “Over-Thinker”

My personal strategy is doing lots of evaluation on important things throughout the year to gauge what’s working and not working. These regular progress and results checks suggest a range of adjustments to make (along with their potential impacts). Afterward, I decide what to change. Given this ongoing process, I’ve never been big on New [...]

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2010, We Hardly Knew Ye. My Culture of Talent Musings.

It’s tempting, in an end-of-year post, to mourn and dwell what didn’t happen in the year past, to give cheery career tips for the new year, or to speculate on emerging innovation trends. I thought about it briefly and then simply decided not to. It’s likely already been done. I’d like to take a different [...]

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Taking over the world with social, mobile and video rock stars

Yes, we want to take over the world.  Our monster end-of-year #TChat show about how social, mobile and video as rock stars impact workplace culture and predictions for 2011 was a rousing success. Over 1,500 smarty pants tweets in the hour alone.  A hat tip and a thank you to all of you who did. [...]

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The Impact of Social, Mobile & Video on Workplace Culture: #TChat Recommended Reading

I thought it would be useful to our readers to include weekly recommended readings in preparation for #TChat. We will give this format a whirl from now into 2011. Wow, did I just say that? 2010 has been such an interesting year for workplace culture innovation. As you may know, I’m in love with ideas. [...]

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A Method to the Twitter Chat Madness

I’ve recently gotten into the practice of managing, organizing and consulting for Twitter chats including #LBSchat, #TChat and others. Bear with me in this very straightforward methodology for creating a chat on Twitter. A Definition: What’s a Twitter chat? A Twitter chat is a scheduled group orchestrated around a hashtag. Chats usually last about an [...]

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Communities Go Mobile With Real World Exploration Apps

Communities Go Mobile With Real World Exploration Apps

Thanks to a new set of location-based mobile applications that have cropped up over the past year, our social interactions online are beginning to impact our real world lives in very real ways. Here’s how they work now:

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Research: Collaboration in the 2.0 Enterprise.

Today’s post is by our guest blogger, and friend, Jeff Wilfong.  Jeff has assisted with web 2.0 and business strategy for a number of large-scale organizations like Conoco-Phillips, the City of Sacramento and a multinational conglomerate based in India.  Jeff is currently earning his PhD in Organization Development with emphasis in Web 2.0 management. Learn [...]

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Virtual Networks, Real People: Unlocking the Value of Web 2.0

Originally posted by Chris Jones, a TalentCulture contributing writer. He is an IT Strategy & Change Management consultant, with a passion for driving new levels of engagement and learning in the modern organization. His research areas include the dynamics of organization culture, and more recently, the importance and implications of critical thinking. Check out his [...]

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Crowdsourcing for your Business or Community

Crowdsourcing is using an open call for tasks, information or data collection mostly through new media technology. Many times, a passionate crowd is much more powerful than an individual, business or closed community.

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Boston: The City of Innovation

Today’s guest post is by our friend Parna Sarkar-Basu. Parna is a communications and innovation marketing professional as well as a ghostwriter. Parna designs award winning programs for small and medium businesses and global companies, from enterprise software and robots to retail and consumer products.  She is passionate about technology and is familiar with the [...]

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