Archive for Social Media

May/18/11//Curtis Ogden//Featured, Social Media

Infectious Action

I’ve really been enjoying reading The Dragonfly Effect, by husband and wife team Andy Smith and Jennifer Aaker. Having just recently shared the opening powerful story about Teams Vinay and Sameer with my wife, I was delighted to see this slide show come up via Twitter (how appropriate). Take a look (don’t be intimidated by the number of slides, you can move through them very quickly). It’s also a great example of how to tell a story with PowerPoint. Curious to know what thoughts and possibilities this inspires in you.

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Feb/02/11//Curtis Ogden//Social Media

The Engagement Shift

I’ve been working with a couple of organizations and initiatives lately as they discuss enhancing their strategies for stakeholder engagement.  Throughout all of this work is the emerging awareness that we are in the midst of a paradigm shift in our field with respect to what engagement means and looks like.  This, of course, has been captured by many writers and thinkers who have been looking closely at what social media is enabling (see, for example, Clay Shirky’s work, the Working Wikkily blog, or the writings of Beth Kanter and Allison Fine).  And at the same time there is a realization that this is not just about technology, but a return to some of what we’ve forgotten as well as a step towards something new. Read the rest of this entry »

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Nov/19/10//Gibrán Rivera//Social Media

Web of Change – the Movie

Web of Change from Web of Change on Vimeo.

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Oct/19/10//Gibrán Rivera//Social Media

Movement is Not Hierarchical

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Part Three of a Response to Malcolm’s Missive

See Part One and Part Two

I’ve said a word about my point of agreement with Gladwell, and then a word about my first point of disagreement, I will wrap up this series with my second point of contention – Gladwell’s apology for centralized hierarchy.  The popularized story of a civil rights movement “run” by a few male leaders and a few national organizations is actually offensive to the rich history of a diverse and decentralized movement that provided an ecology through which the notion of civil rights could thrive. Read the rest of this entry »

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Oct/18/10//Gibrán Rivera//Featured, Social Media

Tweeting Up a Revolution

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Part Two of a Response to Malcolm’s Missive

See Part One

Gladwell misses the mark with two key parts of his argument.  First is his misunderstanding of how weak-ties and strong-ties play play out in social media networks.  Second is his defense of hierarchical, centralized structures, which is based on a clear (and popular) misreading of how the civil rights movement actually happened. Read the rest of this entry »


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