February 2011
61 posts
“Don’t let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
– Steve Jobs
January 2011
65 posts
Government Social Media: Five Questions For 2011 →
Not sure if I agree with Dr. Drapeau about the way to go at gov social media.
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No Ghost In The Machine: The Case For a Social... →
t’s time for us to imagine a revolution in which we don’t just obliterate the institutions of yesterday and rewire our world today, but instead affirm what is real and true and then use it to build a truly new and better future. Imagining what those changes might be in our lives would be a lot more interesting and productive than spinning “how to” lists for our new...
No Ghost In The Machine: The Case For a Social... →
Our machines are but ways to experience this mental, ethereal entity of our invention and, even if we can sometimes legitimately claim that brands are co-created with our consumers, they’re still not much different than those that marketers created via older media…we just can do a better job of sensing and tracking them.
“It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than...”
– Clay Shirky, from this month’s Fast Company (via christinebeardsell)
Inside the State Department’s Arab Twitter... →
Great work done by the folks at State.
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Police: Mother kills her 2 ‘mouthy’ teens - U.S. news - Crime & courts http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41319561/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/Holy smokes!
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source...”
– Albert Einstein
Ohio State, USC were best college football teams... →
Numbers don’t lie…
The 3 Identifying Elements of a Social Media...
The 3 Identifying Elements of a Social Media Crisis http://www.brasstackthinking.com/2011/01/the-3-identifying-elements-of-a-social-media-crisis/
The Where's Waldo? Guide To Site Design (or: How...
The Where’s Waldo? Guide To Site Design (or: How to Have the Crappiest, Most Unusable Site Ever) http://barroncuadro.com/the-wheres-waldo-guide-to-site-design-or-how-to-have-the-crappiest-most-unusable-site-ever/
Picture: Melbourne by night
Melbourne by night http://buytaert.net/melbourne-by-night
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Lessons for Every Gov Communicator in Obama’s State of the Union - GovLoop - Social Network for Government http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/lessons-for-every-gov
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stanley McChrystal’s Call to National Service -...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-23/stanley-mcchrystals…
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time...”
– Jim Henson
Government agencies not fully leveraging social... →
Some well-founded as well as some ill-informed criticisms.
Measuring Perceptions « EUCOMversations →
Interesting thoughts from one of the Defense Department’s best thinkers IMHO.
The Price of Power →
Kagan saying the benefits of U.S. defense spending far outweighs the cost. Worth reading and considering.
Article: Chris Brogan to share insights on...
http://www.examiner.com/public-relations-in-national/chris-brogan-to-share-insights-on-becoming-a-trust-agent-with-public-relations-s
Lego Ohio Stadium Made With A Million Pieces →
O-H!
Army Social Media Handbook 2011 →
Fine work from the Army.
“Data is among the most potent weapons of the 21st century. Unprecedented amounts...”
– Military Struggles to Harness a Flood of Data - NYTimes.com (via rubenfeld)
Partnership for the Americas →
A new book by ADM Stavridis.
From the NDU site…
Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN, reflects on his tenure as Commander of United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM). The first Admiral to command Southern Command, Admiral Stavridis broke with tradition from day one, discarding the customary military staff model and creating an innovative organization designed not solely to subdue...
“America, however, had a different idea. In the wake of the shootings, a...”
– Leadership After Tucson: Will Anything Change? - Sarah Green - Our Editors - Harvard Business Review
“We often do not realize that history is perishable. It depends on evidence....”
– Errol Morris, filmmaker (Thin Blue Line, Fog of War.), author and New York Times blogger (The Opinionator), from a 2010 commencement address to the Berkeley School of Journalism
How to: Build an Awesome Government Facebook Page...
http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/how-to-build-an-awesome
“The thing that really gets me riled up about people questioning the ROI of...”
– Scott Stratten
“If you find a job you really love, you’ll never work again.”
– Winston Churchill
US military and Facebook are now friends →
“US military finds social media sites like Facebook help control its message.” Maybe yes, maybe no. It’s all in the execution.
For Gervais, Another Trip To The Globes, Sans...
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/16/132937255/for-gervais-another-trip-to-the-globes-sans-script?sc=17&f=1001 For Gervais, Another Trip To The Globes, Sans Script by NPR Staff - January 16, 2011 Ricky Gervais can’t believe his luck. Even after creating a few beloved award-winning TV shows, writing and directing films and cracking people up with his popular standup specials, the host of this...
“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life,...”
– Benjamin Franklin
: The Fallacy of Social Media Reciprocation
http://www.brasstackthinking.com/2011/01/the-fallacy-of-social-media-reciprocation/
What's the future of the social media strategist... →
Thread on Quora that I think we should all be considering as we try to more closely integrate traditional and emerging communicate methods.
“Meanwhile, the dead are dead, the wounded are wounded, and except for twenty...”
– American Tragedy by Larry McMurtry
The battle over the Constitution →
Have a read. The numbers are scary on what people do and don’t know.
“Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the...”
– Aaron Sorkin
Corporate Social Strategists on Twitter →
Marshall Kirkpatrick has down a great job developing a list of social media people to follow on Twitter.
“We’ve all grown so used to it over the past couple of years that it took the...”
– Interesting Times: It Doesn’t Matter Why He Did It : The New Yorker
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
– George Orwell
“Conventional marketing wisdom long held that a dissatisfied customer tells ten...”
– Paul Gillin, author of The New Influencers (via prbriefs)
Eyewitness report of Gifford assassination →
soupsoup:
Adrian Chen at Gawker:
The event was very informal: Gifford had set up a table outside the Safeway and about 20-30 people were gathered to talk to her. The gunman, who may have come from inside the Safeway, walked up and shot Gifford in the head first. According to Rayle, who is a former ER doctor, Gifford was able to move her hands after being shot.
After shooting Gifford, the...
“Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were...”
– James Joyce
“In my White House days, I was known for tormenting the speechwriters by...”
– Gene Sperling lays out his economic manifesto in a 2007 edition of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. (via theatlantic)