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Comment on MINIFESTO – Easter note to myself by nukem777

nukem777 — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:00:25 +0000

No:) #2 let’s me keep them on a leash….for now.

Comment on MINIFESTO – Easter note to myself by rolandlegrand

rolandlegrand — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:09:46 +0000

OMG you’re not going to leave Facebook and/or Google+ I hope?

Comment on Personal Branding: How Not to Become a Box of Soap by Dealing with Austerity – Commodity or Individual: Personal Branding: the Next Frontier? – Part 2 « Dr Alf's Blog

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Comment on Personal Branding: How Not to Become a Box of Soap by nukem777

nukem777 — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:31:51 +0000

You are right about commodification, as well as the silos and walled gardens. Part of our digital literacy and understanding of Doug Rushkoff’s Program or Be Programmed is to understand the forces at work. We are certainly much more that a marketable data point. We must see ourselves as a “point of presence” as well as we find our places in the digital landscape.

As to Klout, it was very easy to game their algorithm – I increased my score by 20 points in one month. Their new algorithm is much better, in that in has corrected my score down by about 13 points; but that can be “gamed” as well. What’s interesting to me is that my PeerIndex score has remained high and constant. I think they are a much better measurement of true Net activity. Klout is very much tied in to marketing and reinforcing the “data point” model. PeerIndex is much better at reading the “point of presence” model.

In the end, it all comes down to trust within networks, not scores.

Comment on Personal Branding: How Not to Become a Box of Soap by Roland Legrand

Roland Legrand — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:43:25 +0000

Thank you for this analysis – I guess what is at stake here is ‘commodification’ – how we are turned from human beings into commodities and how we turn ourselves into marketable goods.
There is of course another take on this, a more conformist one I guess: thie reason we can use platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter is that somehow someone is paying the bill. To be honest: if I can get these services for free, and if those services have such a following because (among other reasons) they are free, I’m happy to be targeted by marketeers – especially if their knowledge about my interests makes their offerings more relevant.

About marketing ourselves: I think their are several ways to deal with
metrics such as Klout. The better way to deal with them is to consider them as one feedback system among others. A low Klout can be indicative of a lack of conversations (and too much pointless broadcasting). What would definitively be ridiculous is gaming the system to get a high Klout – because it’s not by manipulating the feedback that you’re helping yourself.

What worries me more however is the fact that Google and Facebook are nudging us to stay within their very own environment. They also impose their rules (identity) – even though we still have some choice (Twitter rules about identity differ from Google and Facebook). So maybe open source efforts for building a truly open social network would be interesting – for those who want to escape commodification and for those who want to promote openess and a Commons of online conversations.

Comment on OCCUPY WALL STREET: THE EVOLUTION OF SMART MOB REVOLUTION by ponderingtechnology

ponderingtechnology — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:13:42 +0000

Excellent post, Ted. I agree that most people in establishment as well as the media underestimate the power of digital media in this context. I am convinced that — as David Kirkpatrick had written in Forbes — we will see a ‘Corporate Spring’ follow the ‘Arabian Spring.”
I was at a workshop in Southern France with 30 CIO’s last week where this issue was discussed and where the participants agreed in the end that it is not any longer a question *if* or *when* but just *how* to embrace Social Media in the enterprise.

Comment on OCCUPY WALL STREET: THE EVOLUTION OF SMART MOB REVOLUTION by nukem777

nukem777 — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:09:17 +0000

And so you have

Comment on OCCUPY WALL STREET: THE EVOLUTION OF SMART MOB REVOLUTION by david wilson

david wilson — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:03:08 +0000

Good explanation of how digital tools work in a modern communication environment. I would have linked to the article by the Tea Party advocate who wrote an advisory piece to the Occupy Wall Street movement cautioning them on how not to get co-opted by the plutocracy the way they were.
I would also include the following Occupy Wall Street goals in everything I write:
- Prosecute Wall Street criminals.
- Overturn ‘Citizens United’.
- Re-enact Glass-Steagall.
- Pass the “Buffett Rule’.
- Revamp and expand the SEC.