After watching the latest TED Talk by Derek Sivers on “how movements really get started“, I recalled how I understood how to leverage Twitter. Derek talks about how movements start not with a leader but with its first follower. For what is a leader but a nut case until he is followed?
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I’ve seen a lot of comments on “what is next for Web 2.0” in the past few months, but most of those jump ahead to the “Web 3.0” stage of Cyberdyne’s Skynet artificial intelligence stage. I wanted to bring the discussion back to a less scary (well, at least not “end of the world” scary)
I have been doing social media for a very long time. I and my fellow 3Geeks, @gnawledge and @glambert, were talking about this after our Twitterview with @AlinWagnerLahmy. We all three realized that we had been engaging in social networking for nearly 20 years. In fact, I distinctly remember back in 1992 spending
It’s been a busy week around the three geekdom. Although I couldn’t attend the ILTA 09 meeting in Washington DC, I monitored it religiously (via the #ILTA09 tag) and helped my boss prep for her back-to-back presentations on Records Management and Library Services contract negotiations. We had a Westlaw blowup mid-week, and I
Jordan Furlong’s question on The Future of CLE posted on LinkedIn got me thinking. The question leveraged my prior 3 Geeks post on the Googlization of CLE and included his comments about how CLE’s role could shift towards professional development. So what if we take a step beyond Googlization (which is so “3 months
[Note: Another brilliant Guest Post from our unofficial 4th Geek, Laura Walters] LinkedIn has become the most popular of the professionally focused social media sites, and therefore a goldmine for various competitive intelligence tidbits, sometimes disclosed inadvertently. What I particularly love about LinkedIn is the web you begin to detect between contacts and their
I got the idea for this multi-part post because Melissa Sachs has taken on the project of trying to find as many people as she can that work in AmLaw law firms that have Twitter accounts (#AMLAWTweeple). It’s a great work in progress, and you should go check out the list (and contribute
Here is an insight to the Web 2.0 World:
While monitoring Canada’s LegalIT 3.0 conference, I noticed something — I’ve seen all of this before.
I am in awe of Ashton Kutcher.
Ok, yeah, he’s cute. I admit it; I was charmed by his dopey good looks in That ’70s Show.
But after watching the 31-year old Ashton Kutcher on Twitter and the sway he has, I now believe that man is a marketing genius.
Yet another very
